SDET Job Trends in Telford

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Telford requiring SDET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Permanent jobs citing SDET 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 1.10% 1.67% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.13% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £36,000 - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £61,875 - -
90th Percentile £69,000 - -
Shropshire median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 -
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 47 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Telford 66.54% 78.33% 84.81%
Number of salaries quoted 127 35 99
10th Percentile £27,200 £38,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £46,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +37.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £60,625 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Shropshire median annual salary £45,000 £51,250 £41,500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +23.49% -26.22%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDET relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Telford.

SDET job vacancy trend in Telford

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Salary Trend in Telford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing SDET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing SDET

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Salary Histogram in Telford

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in Telford over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SDET in Telford

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Burp Suite
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) HP UFT
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Kali Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Veracode