SDET Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.089% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £585
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £563 - £450

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 948 516 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 84.72% 91.65% 87.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 329 504
10th Percentile £310 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £579
90th Percentile £638 £638 £664
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 35
10th Percentile £14.10 £19.10 £11.91
25th Percentile £14.25 - £12.15
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.14 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% +76.70% -38.12%
75th Percentile £24.92 £65.55 £15.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.62 £41.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SDET job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SDET
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SDET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SDET

SDET
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Leeds - 1 £563 - 5
SDET
Yorkshire

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk