SDET Job Trends in Yorkshire

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SDET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Permanent jobs citing SDET 1 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.013% - 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% - 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £31,825
25th Percentile £55,000 - £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% +26.09% -28.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,066 2,893 3,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.92% 86.93% 78.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,739 1,469 2,164
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.27%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SDET job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SDET
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SDET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SDET

SDET
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
West Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
SDET
England

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker