SDET Jobs in the East of England

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 170 166
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +106
Permanent jobs citing SDET 3 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.078% 0.043% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.057% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - - £51,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,500 - £64,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +29.17% -25.00% +15.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,445 3,480 3,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 89.04% 74.01% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,683 2,214 1,554
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £82,350 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the East of England

SDET
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDET in the East of England.

Salary trend for SDET in the East of England

SDET
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Salary histogram for SDET in the East of England

SDET
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 August 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 3 £60,000 - 3
SDET
England

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Insurtech
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes