SDET Job Trends in Wiltshire

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring SDET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 0.083% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £52,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £45,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 821 393 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 68.36% 82.74% 73.62%
Number of salaries quoted 495 198 567
10th Percentile £31,026 £28,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,125 £32,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £81,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

SDET job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

SDET
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SDET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SDET

SDET
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 2026. 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
Swindon - 1 £50,000 - 1
SDET
South West

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Moq
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) NSubstitute
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint