SDET Jobs in London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 347 343 472
Rank change year-on-year -4 +129 -186
Permanent jobs citing SDET 161 334 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.93% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.98% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 122 275 237
10th Percentile £60,125 £56,250 £47,150
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,454 34,168 63,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.39% 95.40% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15,999 24,428 34,404
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in London

SDET
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SDET in London

SDET
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for SDET in London

SDET
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the London 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
Central London +36 109 £95,000 +11.76% 1
South London +6 7 £70,000 -
SDET
England

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.73%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.95%) SaaS
2 10 (6.21%) AWS
3 9 (5.59%) Azure
4 8 (4.97%) GitHub
5 6 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.62%) GCP
6 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 89 (55.28%) Jenkins
2 80 (49.69%) Cucumber
3 78 (48.45%) Selenium
4 68 (42.24%) Postman
5 39 (24.22%) Cypress.io
6 29 (18.01%) JUnit
7 23 (14.29%) JMeter
8 17 (10.56%) WebDriver
9 14 (8.70%) REST Assured
10 10 (6.21%) TestNG
11 9 (5.59%) Maven
12 8 (4.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (4.35%) Appium
13 7 (4.35%) SoapUI
13 7 (4.35%) SpecFlow
14 6 (3.73%) Gatling
14 6 (3.73%) TeamCity
15 4 (2.48%) JIRA
16 3 (1.86%) Bitbucket
16 3 (1.86%) Git
General
1 13 (8.07%) Finance
2 8 (4.97%) Financial Institution
3 6 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.11%) Tech for Good
5 3 (1.86%) Banking
6 2 (1.24%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Games
7 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.62%) Law
7 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (56.52%) Lead
2 36 (22.36%) Senior
3 12 (7.45%) Tester
4 11 (6.83%) Automation Tester
5 10 (6.21%) QA Engineer
6 4 (2.48%) Developer
6 4 (2.48%) Developer in Test
7 3 (1.86%) QA Leader
7 3 (1.86%) Technical Leader
7 3 (1.86%) Test Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Development Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Senior Development Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Software Developer
8 2 (1.24%) Software Development Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Software Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (1.24%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (57.14%) REST
2 15 (9.32%) JSON
3 14 (8.70%) Playwright
4 13 (8.07%) React
4 13 (8.07%) Web Services
4 13 (8.07%) WebdriverIO
5 10 (6.21%) Kafka
5 10 (6.21%) WireMock
6 9 (5.59%) .NET
7 8 (4.97%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.97%) Apache Thrift
7 8 (4.97%) jQuery
8 7 (4.35%) pytest
9 6 (3.73%) Apache Commons
9 6 (3.73%) Guava
9 6 (3.73%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (3.11%) React Native
11 4 (2.48%) Gherkin
11 4 (2.48%) Spring
11 4 (2.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.62%) Hackathon
3 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.24%) Android
2 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (58.39%) CI/CD
2 92 (57.14%) API Testing
3 77 (47.83%) Test Strategy
4 75 (46.58%) Clean Code
5 73 (45.34%) Test Automation
6 72 (44.72%) BDD
7 57 (35.40%) Software Testing
8 53 (32.92%) Agile
9 35 (21.74%) Fintech
10 30 (18.63%) Test Planning
11 25 (15.53%) Line Management
12 22 (13.66%) Unit Testing
13 21 (13.04%) OO
14 20 (12.42%) Mentoring
15 16 (9.94%) DevOps
16 15 (9.32%) Code Quality
17 13 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (8.07%) E-Discovery
17 13 (8.07%) Microservices
18 12 (7.45%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 108 (67.08%) Java
2 52 (32.30%) JavaScript
3 11 (6.83%) Python
4 10 (6.21%) C#
5 8 (4.97%) PHP
6 7 (4.35%) SQL
7 5 (3.11%) Swift
8 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.86%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (4.97%) SC Cleared
1 8 (4.97%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.62%) Degree
2 1 (0.62%) ISEB
2 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (38.51%) QA
2 8 (4.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (8.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.86%) Ansible
3 2 (1.24%) Consul
3 2 (1.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (1.24%) Oracle
2 1 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft