SDET Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 354 376 468
Rank change year-on-year +22 +92 -7
Contract jobs citing SDET 15 37 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 31
10th Percentile £425 £379 £363
25th Percentile £456 £411 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - -
75th Percentile £540 £506 £538
90th Percentile £600 £568 £575
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +10.00%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDET in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South West +27 4 £490 +3.16% 5
North of England +26 4 £600 +37.14% 3
Yorkshire +17 4 £600 +6.67%
South East +33 3 £450 -5.26% 1
Scotland +21 3 £495 +4.21%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) GitHub
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Cucumber
2 5 (33.33%) Selenium
3 4 (26.67%) Git
4 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) JUnit
4 3 (20.00%) Postman
4 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
5 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (6.67%) GitLab
6 1 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (6.67%) NUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Electronics
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Developer in Test
1 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
2 2 (13.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Defect Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Software Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Software Test Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Gherkin
2 4 (26.67%) Playwright
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (13.33%) SOAP
4 2 (13.33%) XML
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) Software Packaging
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 12 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Test Scripting
5 5 (33.33%) BDD
6 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
7 3 (20.00%) API Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Service Management
7 3 (20.00%) System Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (13.33%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft