SDET Contract Job Trends in Telford

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £459 - -
90th Percentile £476 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £430 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

SDET falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 713 173 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 89.01% 95.58% 80.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 130 65
10th Percentile £366 £325 £298
25th Percentile £415 £406 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £512 £435
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +17.76% -13.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £515
90th Percentile £633 £542 £567
Shropshire median daily rate £473 £506 £435
% change year-on-year -6.52% +16.42% -9.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.25 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 £23.60
% change year-on-year +67.70% +32.65% -

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford.

SDET job vacancy trend in Telford

SDET
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing SDET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing SDET

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
1 3 (100.00%) WireMock
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) WCAG
3 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes