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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 402 465
Rank change year-on-year +36 +63 -51
Contract jobs citing SDET 25 34 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 28
10th Percentile £416 £320 £375
25th Percentile £444 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +5.21%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £541
90th Percentile £596 £545 £586
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 17,598 20,227 27,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 89.09% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 13,876 18,976
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,188 1,246 1,331
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.40 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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
North of England +38 12 £500 +29.03% 3
South East +23 8 £450 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire - 8 £585 - 1
North West +15 4 £500 +29.03% 1
Scotland +18 3 £498 +4.84% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Selenium
2 6 (24.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) JMeter
4 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (16.00%) Git
4 4 (16.00%) JIRA
4 4 (16.00%) JUnit
5 3 (12.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
5 3 (12.00%) WebDriver
6 2 (8.00%) Maven
7 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.00%) Gatling
7 1 (4.00%) GitLab
7 1 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
7 1 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
1 5 (20.00%) Developer in Test
1 5 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Development Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Test Development Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Tester
4 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.00%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Gherkin
1 6 (24.00%) RESTful
2 4 (16.00%) SOAP
2 4 (16.00%) XML
3 2 (8.00%) REST
3 2 (8.00%) Software Packaging
3 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) Playwright
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Test Automation
2 18 (72.00%) Software Testing
3 16 (64.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) Test Scripting
6 6 (24.00%) BDD
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (20.00%) API Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (20.00%) DevOps
8 4 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Manual Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Open Source
8 4 (16.00%) Performance Management
8 4 (16.00%) Scrum
8 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) TDD
9 3 (12.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (12.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) C++
4 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) Python
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.00%) WCAG
3 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (16.00%) VirtualBox
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft