SDET Contracts in the North of England

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring SDET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDET over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 184 235
Rank change year-on-year +26 +51 -4
Contract jobs citing SDET 4 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.16% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.18% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile £517 £383 -
25th Percentile £570 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £438 £375
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% +16.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile - £572 £438
90th Percentile - £688 £468
England median daily rate £535 £531 £550
% change year-on-year +0.71% -3.41% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

SDET falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,355 4,341 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.49% 88.25% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 2,925 4,672
10th Percentile £294 £275 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £590
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 213 212
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.75 £10.20
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +40.35% +22.14%
75th Percentile £49.69 £46.18 £45.05
90th Percentile £69.93 £62.00 £70.68
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Yorkshire +17 4 £600 +6.67%
SDET
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP