SDET Job Trends in Kidlington

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Oxfordshire > Kidlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kidlington requiring SDET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kidlington 2.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kidlington

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 Kidlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31 4 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kidlington 79.49% 80.00% 93.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24 1 24
10th Percentile £24,000 - £38,000
25th Percentile £33,500 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,000 £47,441
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% +22.26% +12.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile £82,000 - £80,200
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,004 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.52% +14.01% -

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kidlington 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior 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%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA