SDET Contracts in England

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 526 528
Rank change year-on-year +52 +2 -24
Contract jobs citing SDET 63 111 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 88 176
10th Percentile £413 £461 £400
25th Percentile £438 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £585 £675 £650
90th Percentile £638 £697 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SDET is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,578 42,765 64,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.86% 89.99% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,635 30,003 45,576
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,521 1,733
10th Percentile £12.84 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.81 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDET in England.

Daily rate trend for SDET in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDET in England.

Hourly rate trend for SDET in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +33 45 £500 -13.04% 11
North of England +37 10 £500 +29.03% 5
South East +12 8 £450 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire - 6 £518 - 3
North West +24 4 £500 +29.03% 1
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) AWS
3 4 (6.35%) GitHub
4 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.17%) Serverless
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.17%) 5G
2 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.59%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (47.62%) Selenium
2 19 (30.16%) Cucumber
3 14 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 11 (17.46%) SpecFlow
5 9 (14.29%) Git
6 8 (12.70%) JIRA
6 8 (12.70%) REST Assured
7 6 (9.52%) Bitbucket
7 6 (9.52%) JMeter
7 6 (9.52%) JUnit
8 4 (6.35%) Artifactory
8 4 (6.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (6.35%) TeamCity
8 4 (6.35%) TestNG
9 3 (4.76%) Cypress.io
9 3 (4.76%) WebDriver
10 2 (3.17%) GitLab
10 2 (3.17%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.59%) TestRail
General
1 18 (28.57%) Finance
2 14 (22.22%) Banking
3 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Aviation
6 1 (1.59%) Back Office
6 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Developer
2 9 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Developer in Test
3 7 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Tester
4 6 (9.52%) QA Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Development Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Lead
5 5 (7.94%) Software Development Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Test Development Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.35%) QA Leader
6 4 (6.35%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Automation Tester
7 3 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (3.17%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) Playwright
2 5 (7.94%) REST
2 5 (7.94%) RESTful
2 5 (7.94%) XML
3 4 (6.35%) SOAP
4 3 (4.76%) .NET
5 2 (3.17%) Gherkin
5 2 (3.17%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.59%) CSS
6 1 (1.59%) HTML
6 1 (1.59%) Middleware
6 1 (1.59%) Node.js
6 1 (1.59%) Spring
6 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.76%) Fixed Income
2 3 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Derivative
4 1 (1.59%) Equities
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (82.54%) Test Automation
2 31 (49.21%) Software Testing
3 22 (34.92%) Agile
4 19 (30.16%) CI/CD
5 16 (25.40%) BDD
6 14 (22.22%) Microservices
7 13 (20.63%) Test Scripting
8 12 (19.05%) API Testing
8 12 (19.05%) DevOps
9 10 (15.87%) End-to-End Testing
9 10 (15.87%) Manual Testing
10 9 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (12.70%) Performance Testing
12 6 (9.52%) Computer Science
12 6 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.52%) Software Engineering
12 6 (9.52%) TDD
13 5 (7.94%) Fintech
13 5 (7.94%) Functional Testing
13 5 (7.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (44.44%) Java
2 17 (26.98%) C#
3 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
3 10 (15.87%) Python
3 10 (15.87%) SQL
4 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.35%) C++
6 4 (6.35%) Swift
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) Degree
2 4 (6.35%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.98%) QA
2 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.76%) ISO 20022
3 3 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (6.35%) VirtualBox
3 2 (3.17%) Docker
4 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.59%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft