SDET Job Trends in Staines

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Surrey > Staines

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staines requiring SDET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staines 1.01% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
Surrey median annual salary £27,500 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -38.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staines

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 Staines.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 37 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staines 96.97% 94.87% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 70 32 26
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £48,000 £54,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +40.45% -11.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,250 £78,750
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -12.62% -10.43%

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines 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%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development 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%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA