SDET Jobs in the City of London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SDET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SDET over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 100 126
Rank change year-on-year -32 +26 +76
Permanent jobs citing SDET 8 77 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.42% 2.31% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 2.51% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6 59 104
10th Percentile £63,125 £69,250 £62,875
25th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £100,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +14.29% +29.63%
75th Percentile £110,625 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £88,750 £100,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.25% +14.29% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,837 3,064 4,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.23% 91.74% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 2,398 3,612
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,250 £42,775
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDET in the City of London.

Salary trend for SDET in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SDET in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Appium
1 5 (62.50%) XCUITest
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Xcode
4 1 (12.50%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) iOS Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) JSON
2 4 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Thrift
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
4 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
5 4 (50.00%) iOS Development
5 4 (50.00%) Test Planning
6 3 (37.50%) OO
7 2 (25.00%) Agile Testing
7 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 2 (25.00%) Fintech
7 2 (25.00%) OOD
7 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (25.00%) SDLC
7 2 (25.00%) SOA
7 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Swift
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C++