SDET Jobs in England

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 651 562 571
Rank change year-on-year -89 +9 -130
Permanent jobs citing SDET 185 384 767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.44% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.46% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 146 324 411
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £46,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £63,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +5.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SDET is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in England

SDET
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDET in England.

Salary trend for SDET in England

SDET
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in England

SDET
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -18 122 £95,000 +18.75% 10
South East +29 53 £47,500 -28.30% 7
Yorkshire +77 9 £55,000 -15.38% 3
North of England +33 9 £55,000 -15.38% 5
East of England -3 4 £78,750 +36.96%
South West -37 1 £67,500 +50.00% 6
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (6.49%) Apache
2 6 (3.24%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.54%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.08%) SaaS
2 33 (17.84%) Azure
3 21 (11.35%) GitHub
4 17 (9.19%) AWS
5 15 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.24%) IaaS
7 2 (1.08%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.54%) GCP
8 1 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) RTP
2 1 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 92 (49.73%) Selenium
2 74 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 70 (37.84%) Jenkins
4 55 (29.73%) Postman
5 37 (20.00%) JUnit
6 36 (19.46%) Cypress.io
7 31 (16.76%) WebDriver
8 29 (15.68%) JMeter
9 25 (13.51%) REST Assured
10 13 (7.03%) TestNG
11 10 (5.41%) Git
11 10 (5.41%) JIRA
12 9 (4.86%) Appium
13 8 (4.32%) NUnit
13 8 (4.32%) Visual Studio
14 7 (3.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (3.78%) Maven
14 7 (3.78%) SoapUI
14 7 (3.78%) SpecFlow
15 6 (3.24%) Newman
General
1 13 (7.03%) Finance
2 7 (3.78%) Financial Institution
3 6 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.16%) Electronics
5 4 (2.16%) Tech for Good
6 3 (1.62%) Banking
6 3 (1.62%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.62%) Marketing
6 3 (1.62%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Games
7 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 80 (43.24%) Lead
2 30 (16.22%) Senior
3 19 (10.27%) Tester
4 18 (9.73%) Automation Tester
5 16 (8.65%) QA Engineer
6 15 (8.11%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.57%) Developer
8 13 (7.03%) Developer in Test
9 12 (6.49%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.95%) Development Engineer
10 11 (5.95%) Software Development Engineer
10 11 (5.95%) Test Development Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) JavaScript Developer
13 4 (2.16%) Analyst
13 4 (2.16%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.16%) QA Leader
13 4 (2.16%) Systems Engineer
13 4 (2.16%) Systems Test Engineer
13 4 (2.16%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (36.76%) REST
2 19 (10.27%) Playwright
2 19 (10.27%) Web Services
3 17 (9.19%) JSON
4 16 (8.65%) .NET
4 16 (8.65%) WireMock
5 13 (7.03%) React
6 12 (6.49%) Apache Commons
6 12 (6.49%) Guava
6 12 (6.49%) Java Concurrency
7 10 (5.41%) Kafka
8 9 (4.86%) .NET Core
9 8 (4.32%) Spring
9 8 (4.32%) Spring Boot
9 8 (4.32%) WebdriverIO
9 8 (4.32%) XML
10 7 (3.78%) Apache Thrift
11 6 (3.24%) RESTful
11 6 (3.24%) Swagger
12 5 (2.70%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.24%) Client/Server
1 6 (3.24%) Life Science
2 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.08%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.54%) Bitcoin
6 1 (0.54%) Derivative
6 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.16%) Android
3 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (56.22%) Test Automation
2 94 (50.81%) Software Testing
3 77 (41.62%) Agile
3 77 (41.62%) API Testing
4 74 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 62 (33.51%) BDD
6 60 (32.43%) Test Strategy
7 47 (25.41%) Clean Code
8 34 (18.38%) Fintech
9 28 (15.14%) DevOps
10 26 (14.05%) Code Quality
10 26 (14.05%) OO
10 26 (14.05%) Test Planning
10 26 (14.05%) Unit Testing
11 25 (13.51%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.97%) Microservices
13 22 (11.89%) Line Management
14 20 (10.81%) Scrum
15 19 (10.27%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (9.73%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 108 (58.38%) Java
2 46 (24.86%) JavaScript
3 27 (14.59%) SQL
4 25 (13.51%) C#
5 15 (8.11%) Python
6 12 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.24%) Bash
7 6 (3.24%) Ruby
8 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.62%) PHP
9 2 (1.08%) Go
9 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.54%) C++
10 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (7.57%) Degree
2 13 (7.03%) SC Cleared
2 13 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (37.84%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (9.73%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.70%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (2.16%) Terraform
4 1 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.70%) HP
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle
4 1 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.54%) Splunk