SDET Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 705 667 708
Rank change year-on-year -38 +41 -199
Permanent jobs citing SDET 66 94 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 62 84 133
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £44,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £83,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,507 58,626 66,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 95.62% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,180 30,153 41,508
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
South East +43 53 £47,500 -32.14% 5
East of England +18 4 £78,750 +36.96% 1
Yorkshire +82 3 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North of England +28 3 £67,500 +3.85% 4
South West -40 3 £40,000 -11.11% 2
Scotland -61 3 £45,000 +73.08% 1
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (10.61%) Apache
2 6 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (45.45%) Azure
2 17 (25.76%) GitHub
3 15 (22.73%) SaaS
4 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (19.70%) AWS
6 6 (9.09%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (56.06%) Selenium
2 19 (28.79%) Cucumber
3 17 (25.76%) Jenkins
3 17 (25.76%) WebDriver
4 15 (22.73%) JMeter
5 14 (21.21%) REST Assured
6 12 (18.18%) Postman
7 11 (16.67%) JIRA
7 11 (16.67%) JUnit
8 10 (15.15%) Cypress.io
9 8 (12.12%) NUnit
9 8 (12.12%) TestNG
9 8 (12.12%) Visual Studio
10 7 (10.61%) Git
11 6 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (9.09%) Newman
11 6 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
12 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket
12 5 (7.58%) SoapUI
12 5 (7.58%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (7.58%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (6.06%) Electronics
3 3 (4.55%) Health Technology
3 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (19.70%) Developer
1 13 (19.70%) Developer in Test
1 13 (19.70%) Software Engineer
2 11 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 11 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 11 (16.67%) Tester
3 9 (13.64%) Development Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Software Development Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Test Development Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Senior
6 4 (6.06%) Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Systems Test Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Test Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Automation Test Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.21%) Web Services
2 13 (19.70%) .NET
3 12 (18.18%) Playwright
4 10 (15.15%) WireMock
5 9 (13.64%) .NET Core
6 8 (12.12%) JSON
6 8 (12.12%) REST
6 8 (12.12%) XML
7 7 (10.61%) Apache Commons
7 7 (10.61%) Guava
7 7 (10.61%) Java Concurrency
8 6 (9.09%) RESTful
8 6 (9.09%) Swagger
9 5 (7.58%) SOAP
10 4 (6.06%) Gherkin
10 4 (6.06%) Middleware
10 4 (6.06%) Spring
11 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
12 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
12 2 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Life Science
2 5 (7.58%) Client/Server
2 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (75.76%) Software Testing
2 45 (68.18%) Test Automation
3 35 (53.03%) Agile
4 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 16 (24.24%) DevOps
5 15 (22.73%) Code Quality
5 15 (22.73%) Scrum
6 14 (21.21%) Software Engineering
7 13 (19.70%) API Testing
7 13 (19.70%) Containerisation
7 13 (19.70%) Microservices
8 12 (18.18%) Design Patterns
8 12 (18.18%) Integration Testing
9 11 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (16.67%) Test Management
10 9 (13.64%) BDD
10 9 (13.64%) Manual Testing
11 8 (12.12%) Non-Functional Testing
11 8 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (39.39%) SQL
2 21 (31.82%) Java
3 19 (28.79%) C#
4 16 (24.24%) JavaScript
5 12 (18.18%) Python
6 9 (13.64%) TypeScript
7 6 (9.09%) Bash
7 6 (9.09%) Ruby
8 2 (3.03%) PHP
8 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) HP
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle