SDET Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 458 426
Rank change year-on-year +20 -32 +98
Permanent jobs citing SDET 25 120 254
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.35% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.39% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 21 119 217
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,956 30,887 39,758
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.19% 91.37% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,744 23,439 27,659
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

SDET
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDET trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SDET
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SDET.

SDET salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SDET over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

SDET salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (8.00%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
1 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (36.00%) JUnit
1 9 (36.00%) Selenium
2 7 (28.00%) Appium
2 7 (28.00%) TestNG
3 6 (24.00%) Git
4 4 (16.00%) JMeter
4 4 (16.00%) XCUITest
5 3 (12.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (8.00%) Gatling
6 2 (8.00%) GitLab
6 2 (8.00%) REST Assured
6 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (8.00%) Xcode
7 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Games
3 2 (8.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Lead
2 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Developer in Test
3 5 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Development Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) iOS Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Java Developer in Test
6 2 (8.00%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Software Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Tester
7 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) JSON
1 4 (16.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) OpenFin
2 3 (12.00%) Playwright
2 3 (12.00%) pytest
2 3 (12.00%) Web Services
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (12.00%) Android
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) VMS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) Test Automation
2 20 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 14 (56.00%) Agile
4 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
6 5 (20.00%) Fintech
6 5 (20.00%) SDLC
7 4 (16.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (16.00%) iOS Development
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) Test Planning
8 3 (12.00%) DevOps
8 3 (12.00%) Manual Testing
8 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.00%) OO
8 3 (12.00%) OOP
8 3 (12.00%) TDD
8 3 (12.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) Swift
5 3 (12.00%) C++
5 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.00%) Ruby
6 2 (8.00%) Scala
7 1 (4.00%) Go
7 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) SAP