SDET Contracts in London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 380 400
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing SDET 45 97 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.38% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.42% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 75 150
10th Percentile £413 - £406
25th Percentile £450 £500 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% +12.63%
75th Percentile £625 £695 £659
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
England median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +14.94% +5.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in London

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in London

SDET
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in London

SDET
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Central London +41 16 £500 -23.08% 1
SDET
England

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) GitHub
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.44%) Serverless
4 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) 5G
1 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) MQTT
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (53.33%) Selenium
2 18 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 10 (22.22%) SpecFlow
4 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 8 (17.78%) REST Assured
6 5 (11.11%) Git
7 4 (8.89%) JIRA
7 4 (8.89%) JUnit
8 3 (6.67%) Cypress.io
8 3 (6.67%) TestNG
8 3 (6.67%) WebDriver
9 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
9 2 (4.44%) JMeter
9 2 (4.44%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
10 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
10 1 (2.22%) Maven
10 1 (2.22%) Postman
10 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (40.00%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Banking
3 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Aviation
6 1 (2.22%) Back Office
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Senior
2 6 (13.33%) Software Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Developer in Test
4 4 (8.89%) QA Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) QA Leader
4 4 (8.89%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Tester
5 3 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (4.44%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Java Automation Tester
7 1 (2.22%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) Playwright
2 5 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) .NET
3 2 (4.44%) SwiftUI
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.22%) CSS
4 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.22%) HTML
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (2.22%) Spring
4 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.22%) Web Services
4 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Derivative
4 1 (2.22%) Equities
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Android
1 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (84.44%) Test Automation
2 20 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 13 (28.89%) BDD
3 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.89%) Microservices
4 9 (20.00%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) DevOps
5 8 (17.78%) Test Scripting
6 7 (15.56%) API Testing
6 7 (15.56%) Performance Testing
7 6 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Manual Testing
8 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.89%) ATDD
9 4 (8.89%) Data Protection
9 4 (8.89%) Functional Testing
9 4 (8.89%) Migration
10 3 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (6.67%) Integration Testing
10 3 (6.67%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Java
2 11 (24.44%) C#
3 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.33%) Python
6 4 (8.89%) Swift
7 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) SQL
8 1 (2.22%) Bash
8 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
1 1 (2.22%) iptables
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft