SDET Jobs in London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 353 452
Rank change year-on-year -34 +99 -149
Permanent jobs citing SDET 126 305 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.92% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.96% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 91 252 245
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £49,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,521 31,708 68,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.79% 95.34% 97.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15,862 22,848 34,120
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,162 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,183 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in London

SDET
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SDET in London

SDET
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in London

SDET
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Central London +26 77 £100,000 +14.29% 1
South London +5 6 £70,000 -
SDET
England

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (4.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.60%) SaaS
2 7 (5.56%) AWS
3 6 (4.76%) GitHub
4 5 (3.97%) Azure
5 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.79%) GCP
6 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 63 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 60 (47.62%) Cucumber
2 60 (47.62%) Selenium
3 49 (38.89%) Postman
4 28 (22.22%) Cypress.io
5 26 (20.63%) JUnit
6 17 (13.49%) JMeter
7 16 (12.70%) WebDriver
8 12 (9.52%) REST Assured
9 7 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (5.56%) Maven
9 7 (5.56%) TestNG
10 5 (3.97%) SoapUI
11 4 (3.17%) Appium
11 4 (3.17%) SpecFlow
12 3 (2.38%) GitLab
13 2 (1.59%) CircleCI
13 2 (1.59%) Gatling
13 2 (1.59%) JIRA
13 2 (1.59%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (9.52%) Finance
2 7 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.38%) Banking
6 2 (1.59%) Marketing
7 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Games
7 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 77 (61.11%) Lead
2 29 (23.02%) Senior
3 10 (7.94%) QA Engineer
3 10 (7.94%) Tester
4 9 (7.14%) Automation Tester
5 4 (3.17%) Developer
5 4 (3.17%) Developer in Test
5 4 (3.17%) QA Leader
6 3 (2.38%) Software Developer
6 3 (2.38%) Technical Leader
7 2 (1.59%) Development Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Python Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Senior Development Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Software Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Test Development Engineer
7 2 (1.59%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (53.17%) REST
2 12 (9.52%) React
3 10 (7.94%) JSON
4 9 (7.14%) Web Services
4 9 (7.14%) WebdriverIO
5 8 (6.35%) Kafka
5 8 (6.35%) Playwright
5 8 (6.35%) WireMock
6 7 (5.56%) Apache Thrift
7 6 (4.76%) Apache Commons
7 6 (4.76%) Guava
7 6 (4.76%) Java Concurrency
8 4 (3.17%) .NET
8 4 (3.17%) Spring
8 4 (3.17%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.38%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.38%) pytest
10 2 (1.59%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.59%) jQuery
10 2 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.59%) Hackathon
2 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.79%) Bitcoin
3 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.79%) Derivative
3 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (53.17%) API Testing
2 65 (51.59%) CI/CD
3 63 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 62 (49.21%) Test Strategy
5 57 (45.24%) BDD
6 50 (39.68%) Clean Code
6 50 (39.68%) Software Testing
7 46 (36.51%) Agile
8 28 (22.22%) Fintech
9 25 (19.84%) Test Planning
10 22 (17.46%) Line Management
11 20 (15.87%) Unit Testing
12 19 (15.08%) Mentoring
13 18 (14.29%) OO
14 12 (9.52%) Code Quality
14 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.52%) E-Discovery
15 11 (8.73%) DevOps
15 11 (8.73%) Microservices
16 9 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 92 (73.02%) Java
2 34 (26.98%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.97%) C#
3 5 (3.97%) Python
3 5 (3.97%) SQL
4 3 (2.38%) Kotlin
4 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.59%) PHP
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) Go
6 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (36.51%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.79%) CA Agile Central