SDET Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 458 417 540
Rank change year-on-year -41 +123 -157
Permanent jobs citing SDET 125 265 327
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.65% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 124 228 226
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £92,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,014 40,730 66,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.60% 96.10% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23,557 28,305 41,490
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

SDET
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDET trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SDET over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.80%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 49 (39.20%) SaaS
2 28 (22.40%) Azure
3 21 (16.80%) GitHub
4 14 (11.20%) AWS
5 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.80%) IaaS
7 1 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.80%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 88 (70.40%) Jenkins
2 78 (62.40%) Selenium
3 76 (60.80%) Cucumber
4 73 (58.40%) Postman
5 27 (21.60%) Cypress.io
6 20 (16.00%) JMeter
7 17 (13.60%) REST Assured
8 10 (8.00%) JIRA
8 10 (8.00%) JUnit
9 9 (7.20%) SoapUI
10 8 (6.40%) Appium
10 8 (6.40%) SpecFlow
11 7 (5.60%) Git
11 7 (5.60%) TeamCity
12 6 (4.80%) Newman
12 6 (4.80%) TestNG
12 6 (4.80%) WebDriver
13 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (4.00%) Gatling
13 5 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 5 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (3.20%) Finance
2 4 (3.20%) Health Technology
2 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
2 4 (3.20%) Tech for Good
3 3 (2.40%) Banking
3 3 (2.40%) Social Skills
4 1 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (32.80%) Lead
2 26 (20.80%) Senior
3 15 (12.00%) Tester
4 14 (11.20%) Automation Tester
5 13 (10.40%) Software Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Developer in Test
7 10 (8.00%) Software Developer
8 9 (7.20%) Development Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) Software Development Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) Test Development Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (4.80%) QA Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) QA Automation Engineer
11 3 (2.40%) Python Engineer
11 3 (2.40%) Python Software Engineer
11 3 (2.40%) Technical Leader
12 2 (1.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (1.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (59.20%) REST
2 18 (14.40%) Playwright
3 14 (11.20%) Web Services
4 12 (9.60%) WebdriverIO
5 11 (8.80%) .NET
6 10 (8.00%) WireMock
7 8 (6.40%) Spring
8 7 (5.60%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.60%) Kafka
8 7 (5.60%) RESTful
8 7 (5.60%) Spring Boot
9 6 (4.80%) Swagger
10 5 (4.00%) Apache Commons
10 5 (4.00%) Guava
10 5 (4.00%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (4.00%) jQuery
10 5 (4.00%) JSON
10 5 (4.00%) pytest
10 5 (4.00%) SOAP
11 4 (3.20%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.80%) Client/Server
2 6 (4.80%) Life Science
3 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 81 (64.80%) API Testing
3 68 (54.40%) BDD
4 67 (53.60%) Clean Code
5 46 (36.80%) Test Automation
6 43 (34.40%) Software Testing
7 40 (32.00%) Test Strategy
8 27 (21.60%) Agile
8 27 (21.60%) Fintech
9 25 (20.00%) Line Management
10 19 (15.20%) DevOps
11 14 (11.20%) Microservices
11 14 (11.20%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.40%) Scrum
13 11 (8.80%) Containerisation
13 11 (8.80%) Design Patterns
13 11 (8.80%) Full Stack Development
14 10 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (8.00%) Test Management
15 9 (7.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (54.40%) Java
2 41 (32.80%) JavaScript
3 20 (16.00%) C#
4 19 (15.20%) SQL
5 16 (12.80%) Python
6 9 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.60%) PHP
8 6 (4.80%) Bash
8 6 (4.80%) Ruby
9 4 (3.20%) Swift
10 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.60%) Degree
3 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (44.80%) QA
2 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (8.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) Ansible
3 1 (0.80%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.00%) HP
3 2 (1.60%) Oracle