SDET Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.15% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £500
75th Percentile £438 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £425 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% +11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 527 393 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 80.95% 87.72% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 261 470
10th Percentile £400 £313 £300
25th Percentile £511 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £712 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 3 17
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £15.31 £36.40 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.00 £60.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -63.33% +36.67% -32.98%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile £25.15 - £75.20
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year -38.46% +8.91% -2.96%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

SDET job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

SDET
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SDET

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JBehave
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle