SDET Contracts in the Thames Valley

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 149 161
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 -21
Contract jobs citing SDET 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.075% 0.034% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.038% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £434 £563 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £440
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +30.68% -16.19%
75th Percentile £484 £588 £543
90th Percentile £486 - £592
South East median daily rate £450 £563 £450
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

SDET is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,314 2,662 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.76% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,857 2,108
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDET in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SDET in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -1 1 £450 -21.74% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 -
SDET
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA