SDET Jobs in England

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 623 571 601
Rank change year-on-year -52 +30 -167
Permanent jobs citing SDET 220 421 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.47% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 179 353 382
10th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £46,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £113,000 £107,250 £99,750
UK median annual salary £76,250 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% +15.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SDET is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in England

SDET
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SDET in England

SDET
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in England

SDET
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London -4 161 £95,000 +18.75% 7
South East +59 54 £47,500 -32.14% 4
East of England +15 4 £78,750 +26.00% 1
South West -8 3 £40,000 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire +77 2 £72,500 +11.54%
North of England +22 2 £72,500 +11.54% 1
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.45%) Apache
2 6 (2.73%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.27%) SaaS
2 37 (16.82%) Azure
3 25 (11.36%) GitHub
4 23 (10.45%) AWS
5 20 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.73%) IaaS
7 1 (0.45%) GCP
7 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 113 (51.36%) Selenium
2 103 (46.82%) Jenkins
3 97 (44.09%) Cucumber
4 78 (35.45%) Postman
5 48 (21.82%) Cypress.io
6 37 (16.82%) JMeter
6 37 (16.82%) JUnit
7 33 (15.00%) WebDriver
8 27 (12.27%) REST Assured
9 16 (7.27%) TestNG
10 15 (6.82%) JIRA
11 12 (5.45%) SoapUI
12 9 (4.09%) Appium
12 9 (4.09%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (4.09%) Maven
12 9 (4.09%) Serenity BDD
13 8 (3.64%) Bitbucket
13 8 (3.64%) Git
13 8 (3.64%) NUnit
13 8 (3.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (5.91%) Finance
2 8 (3.64%) Financial Institution
3 6 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (2.27%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.27%) Tech for Good
5 4 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.82%) Electronics
5 4 (1.82%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.36%) Banking
6 3 (1.36%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.45%) Games
7 1 (0.45%) Law
7 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (43.18%) Lead
2 39 (17.73%) Senior
3 24 (10.91%) Tester
4 23 (10.45%) Automation Tester
5 15 (6.82%) Developer
5 15 (6.82%) Developer in Test
6 12 (5.45%) QA Engineer
6 12 (5.45%) Software Developer
7 10 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 8 (3.64%) Development Engineer
8 8 (3.64%) Software Development Engineer
8 8 (3.64%) Test Development Engineer
8 8 (3.64%) Test Engineer
9 6 (2.73%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (1.82%) Analyst
10 4 (1.82%) Java Automation Tester
10 4 (1.82%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (1.82%) Systems Test Engineer
10 4 (1.82%) Test Analyst
11 3 (1.36%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (44.55%) REST
2 26 (11.82%) Web Services
3 25 (11.36%) Playwright
4 23 (10.45%) JSON
5 18 (8.18%) .NET
5 18 (8.18%) WireMock
6 14 (6.36%) React
7 13 (5.91%) WebdriverIO
8 12 (5.45%) Apache Commons
8 12 (5.45%) Guava
8 12 (5.45%) Java Concurrency
9 10 (4.55%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.55%) Kafka
10 9 (4.09%) RESTful
11 8 (3.64%) .NET Framework
11 8 (3.64%) Apache Thrift
11 8 (3.64%) jQuery
11 8 (3.64%) SOAP
11 8 (3.64%) XML
12 7 (3.18%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.73%) Client/Server
2 6 (2.73%) Life Science
3 5 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.45%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.18%) Linux
2 2 (0.91%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (51.82%) Test Automation
2 107 (48.64%) CI/CD
3 101 (45.91%) API Testing
4 100 (45.45%) Software Testing
5 82 (37.27%) Agile
6 79 (35.91%) BDD
7 77 (35.00%) Test Strategy
8 76 (34.55%) Clean Code
9 41 (18.64%) Fintech
10 30 (13.64%) DevOps
10 30 (13.64%) Test Planning
11 28 (12.73%) Code Quality
11 28 (12.73%) OO
12 26 (11.82%) Mentoring
13 25 (11.36%) Line Management
13 25 (11.36%) Scrum
14 24 (10.91%) Microservices
14 24 (10.91%) Unit Testing
15 21 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (8.18%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 127 (57.73%) Java
2 68 (30.91%) JavaScript
3 29 (13.18%) SQL
4 25 (11.36%) C#
5 19 (8.64%) Python
6 12 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.55%) PHP
8 6 (2.73%) Bash
8 6 (2.73%) Ruby
9 5 (2.27%) Swift
10 4 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (8.64%) SC Cleared
1 19 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.45%) Degree
3 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (38.64%) QA
2 8 (3.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (9.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.82%) Terraform
4 3 (1.36%) Ansible
5 2 (0.91%) Consul
Vendors
1 12 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.27%) HP
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle
4 1 (0.45%) CA Agile Central