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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 December 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) UK |
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6 months to
6 Dec 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
530 |
467 |
654 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-63 |
+187 |
+24 |
| Contract jobs citing SDET |
272 |
494 |
259 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
0.33% |
0.47% |
0.25% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
0.39% |
0.54% |
0.29% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
209 |
386 |
202 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£380 |
£363 |
£369 |
| 90th Percentile |
£569 |
£550 |
£550 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£453 |
£450 |
£450 |
| % change year-on-year |
+0.56% |
- |
+12.50% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£8.00 |
- |
- |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
- |
- |
- |
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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
| All Process and Methodology Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills |
69,868 |
91,278 |
89,590 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
85.72% |
87.06% |
86.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
45,681 |
60,484 |
59,693 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£463 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.70% |
+2.78% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£288 |
£300 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£638 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£433 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.76% |
+6.25% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,282 |
2,366 |
2,135 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£23.50 |
£22.10 |
£23.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.35% |
-3.92% |
+2.22% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.00 |
£11.18 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.00 |
£50.25 |
£49.30 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£22.50 |
£21.00 |
£23.14 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.14% |
-9.25% |
+2.84% |
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SDET
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing SDET as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SDET.
SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SDET over the 6 months to 6 December 2019.
SDET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET.
SDET
Top 14 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the UK over the 6 months to 6 December 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 6 December 2019, IT contractor jobs citing SDET also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for SDET.
SDET
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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