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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 669 563 572
Rank change year-on-year -106 +9 -127
Permanent jobs citing SDET 184 354 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.45% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 138 309 422
10th Percentile £40,125 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £98,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,500 £101,125
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +8.00%

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 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
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 £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -79 115 £95,000 +18.75% 14
South East +26 55 £47,500 -26.92% 7
Yorkshire +65 12 £48,750 -25.00% 1
North of England +13 12 £48,750 -25.00% 4
East of England -10 4 £78,750 +36.96%
South West -39 2 £66,250 +47.22% 5
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 (6.52%) Apache
2 6 (3.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.54%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.48%) Azure
1 34 (18.48%) SaaS
2 20 (10.87%) GitHub
3 17 (9.24%) AWS
4 16 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.26%) IaaS
6 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.09%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.54%) GCP
7 1 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) RTP
2 1 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 89 (48.37%) Selenium
2 66 (35.87%) Cucumber
3 61 (33.15%) Jenkins
4 48 (26.09%) Postman
5 38 (20.65%) JUnit
6 36 (19.57%) Cypress.io
7 33 (17.93%) WebDriver
8 28 (15.22%) JMeter
9 25 (13.59%) REST Assured
10 13 (7.07%) TestNG
11 10 (5.43%) Git
12 9 (4.89%) Appium
12 9 (4.89%) JIRA
13 8 (4.35%) NUnit
13 8 (4.35%) Visual Studio
14 7 (3.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (3.80%) Maven
14 7 (3.80%) SpecFlow
15 6 (3.26%) Newman
15 6 (3.26%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (7.07%) Finance
2 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (3.80%) Financial Institution
3 7 (3.80%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (2.72%) Social Skills
5 4 (2.17%) Electronics
5 4 (2.17%) Tech for Good
6 3 (1.63%) Banking
6 3 (1.63%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.63%) Marketing
7 1 (0.54%) Games
7 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (40.76%) Lead
2 29 (15.76%) Senior
3 20 (10.87%) QA Engineer
4 18 (9.78%) Tester
5 17 (9.24%) Automation Tester
5 17 (9.24%) Software Engineer
6 14 (7.61%) Developer
7 13 (7.07%) Developer in Test
7 13 (7.07%) Development Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Software Development Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Test Development Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.35%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (2.17%) Analyst
11 4 (2.17%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.17%) QA Leader
11 4 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (2.17%) Systems Test Engineer
11 4 (2.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (32.61%) REST
2 22 (11.96%) Playwright
3 18 (9.78%) Web Services
4 16 (8.70%) .NET
4 16 (8.70%) JSON
4 16 (8.70%) WireMock
5 13 (7.07%) React
6 12 (6.52%) Apache Commons
6 12 (6.52%) Guava
6 12 (6.52%) Java Concurrency
6 12 (6.52%) Kafka
7 9 (4.89%) .NET Core
7 9 (4.89%) Spring
7 9 (4.89%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.35%) XML
9 7 (3.80%) Apache Thrift
9 7 (3.80%) Gherkin
10 6 (3.26%) Swagger
10 6 (3.26%) WebdriverIO
11 5 (2.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.26%) Client/Server
1 6 (3.26%) Life Science
1 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.09%) Hackathon
5 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
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%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.80%) Linux
2 5 (2.72%) Android
3 3 (1.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (58.70%) Test Automation
2 97 (52.72%) Software Testing
3 81 (44.02%) Agile
4 73 (39.67%) API Testing
5 64 (34.78%) CI/CD
6 57 (30.98%) Test Strategy
7 56 (30.43%) BDD
8 39 (21.20%) Clean Code
9 33 (17.93%) Fintech
10 29 (15.76%) DevOps
10 29 (15.76%) Unit Testing
11 27 (14.67%) OO
11 27 (14.67%) Test Planning
12 26 (14.13%) Code Quality
12 26 (14.13%) Microservices
13 25 (13.59%) Mentoring
14 20 (10.87%) Containerisation
14 20 (10.87%) Line Management
15 19 (10.33%) Scrum
15 19 (10.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (58.70%) Java
2 43 (23.37%) JavaScript
3 30 (16.30%) C#
4 28 (15.22%) SQL
5 16 (8.70%) Python
6 14 (7.61%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.26%) Bash
7 6 (3.26%) Ruby
8 3 (1.63%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.09%) Go
9 2 (1.09%) PHP
9 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (8.70%) Degree
2 14 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (38.59%) QA
2 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (10.87%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.72%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.72%) HP
3 2 (1.09%) Oracle
4 1 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.54%) Splunk