SDET Jobs in London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 369 351
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 +104
Permanent jobs citing SDET 30 146 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.62% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.68% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 18 110 259
10th Percentile £54,250 £59,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,813 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +18.75% +10.34%
75th Percentile £99,063 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £115,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £73,750 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.28% +1.67% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,437 21,544 32,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.15% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,360 15,990 23,508
10th Percentile £42,464 £37,519 £43,411
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,830 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 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
Central London -46 11 £87,500 -10.26%
South London -3 1 £55,000 -21.43%
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) BrowserStack
3 2 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (3.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Appium
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) JUnit
2 6 (20.00%) Selenium
3 5 (16.67%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) XCUITest
4 4 (13.33%) JMeter
4 4 (13.33%) TestNG
5 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.67%) Gatling
6 2 (6.67%) GitLab
6 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
6 2 (6.67%) Xcode
7 1 (3.33%) Postman
7 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Electronics
3 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Developer
1 5 (16.67%) Developer in Test
1 5 (16.67%) Development Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Lead
1 5 (16.67%) Software Developer
1 5 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Test Development Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (6.67%) iOS Software Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Java Developer in Test
3 2 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
3 2 (6.67%) Tester
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Web Services
2 6 (20.00%) pytest
3 5 (16.67%) JSON
4 4 (13.33%) REST
5 3 (10.00%) Playwright
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Thrift
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) Kafka
6 1 (3.33%) RESTful
6 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (13.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 24 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 22 (73.33%) Agile
4 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 10 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 9 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (23.33%) OO
6 7 (23.33%) Performance Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) Scrum
7 5 (16.67%) SDLC
7 5 (16.67%) Security Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Test Planning
7 5 (16.67%) Test Scripting
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (13.33%) Fintech
8 4 (13.33%) iOS Development
8 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 4 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Java
2 8 (26.67%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) C#
4 6 (20.00%) Swift
5 4 (13.33%) C++
6 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 2 (6.67%) Ruby
7 2 (6.67%) Scala
7 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.33%) Go
8 1 (3.33%) PHP
8 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Grafana
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) SAP