SDET Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 314 425 435
Rank change year-on-year +111 +10 -35
Contract jobs citing SDET 32 40 188
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.17% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.18% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 133
10th Percentile £376 £398 £407
25th Percentile £422 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 £550 £638
90th Percentile £575 £650 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,655 40,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.61% 89.64% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 15,361 29,229
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 502 523
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.49 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

SDET
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDET trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDET.

SDET daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SDET over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

SDET daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) MariaDB
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (59.38%) Selenium
2 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 9 (28.13%) Cucumber
3 9 (28.13%) REST Assured
4 8 (25.00%) WebDriver
5 7 (21.88%) Git
5 7 (21.88%) JMeter
5 7 (21.88%) JUnit
6 6 (18.75%) Cypress.io
6 6 (18.75%) TestNG
7 4 (12.50%) JIRA
7 4 (12.50%) Maven
7 4 (12.50%) SoapUI
8 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
8 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
8 3 (9.38%) GitLab
9 2 (6.25%) Gradle
9 2 (6.25%) Mocha
10 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
10 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Aviation
3 1 (3.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Developer
1 8 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Developer in Test
2 7 (21.88%) Tester
3 5 (15.63%) Automation Tester
3 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Test Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Development Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) QA Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Java Automation Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Software QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) REST
1 5 (15.63%) RESTful
1 5 (15.63%) SOAP
2 4 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.50%) XML
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) Playwright
3 3 (9.38%) Spring
4 2 (6.25%) Chai
4 2 (6.25%) JAXB
4 2 (6.25%) JAX-RS
4 2 (6.25%) Middleware
4 2 (6.25%) Web Services
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Android
4 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 23 (71.88%) Software Testing
3 13 (40.63%) Agile
4 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 9 (28.13%) API Testing
5 9 (28.13%) Test Scripting
6 6 (18.75%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) BDD
7 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) CRM
8 4 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (9.38%) Acceptance Criteria
9 3 (9.38%) Manual Testing
9 3 (9.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Java
2 12 (37.50%) Python
3 9 (28.13%) JavaScript
4 8 (25.00%) C#
5 5 (15.63%) SQL
6 3 (9.38%) C++
6 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.25%) C
8 1 (3.13%) ABAP
8 1 (3.13%) Bash
8 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) ISTQB
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) WCAG
3 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) VirtualBox
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce