SDET Jobs in London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring SDET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SDET over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 342 462
Rank change year-on-year -55 +120 -139
Permanent jobs citing SDET 114 277 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.89% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.93% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 75 238 246
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £49,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +15.81% +2.34%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +6.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

SDET falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,142 29,692 72,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.35% 95.12% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16,050 21,866 34,403
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £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 12 June 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 12 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
Central London +6 64 £95,000 +5.56%
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 (5.26%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.18%) SaaS
2 7 (6.14%) AWS
3 6 (5.26%) GitHub
4 3 (2.63%) Azure
5 1 (0.88%) GCP
5 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (44.74%) Selenium
2 48 (42.11%) Cucumber
2 48 (42.11%) Jenkins
3 36 (31.58%) Postman
4 29 (25.44%) JUnit
5 25 (21.93%) Cypress.io
6 18 (15.79%) JMeter
7 17 (14.91%) WebDriver
8 12 (10.53%) REST Assured
9 7 (6.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (6.14%) Maven
9 7 (6.14%) TestNG
10 5 (4.39%) SoapUI
11 3 (2.63%) Appium
11 3 (2.63%) GitLab
12 2 (1.75%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.75%) Git
12 2 (1.75%) JIRA
12 2 (1.75%) SpecFlow
12 2 (1.75%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (10.53%) Finance
2 7 (6.14%) Financial Institution
2 7 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.63%) Banking
5 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.75%) Marketing
5 2 (1.75%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Games
6 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 71 (62.28%) Lead
2 25 (21.93%) Senior
3 11 (9.65%) QA Engineer
4 10 (8.77%) Tester
5 9 (7.89%) Automation Tester
6 4 (3.51%) Developer
6 4 (3.51%) Developer in Test
6 4 (3.51%) QA Leader
7 3 (2.63%) Software Developer
7 3 (2.63%) Technical Leader
8 2 (1.75%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Software Development Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Software Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Test Development Engineer
8 2 (1.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (45.61%) REST
2 12 (10.53%) React
3 9 (7.89%) Web Services
4 8 (7.02%) JSON
4 8 (7.02%) Kafka
4 8 (7.02%) WireMock
5 7 (6.14%) Apache Thrift
5 7 (6.14%) Playwright
6 6 (5.26%) Apache Commons
6 6 (5.26%) Guava
6 6 (5.26%) Java Concurrency
6 6 (5.26%) WebdriverIO
7 4 (3.51%) Spring
7 4 (3.51%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.75%) .NET
8 2 (1.75%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.75%) pytest
8 2 (1.75%) RESTful
9 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.75%) Hackathon
2 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.88%) Bitcoin
3 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.88%) Derivative
3 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (57.02%) Test Automation
2 56 (49.12%) Test Strategy
3 53 (46.49%) API Testing
4 51 (44.74%) Software Testing
5 50 (43.86%) Agile
6 49 (42.98%) CI/CD
7 46 (40.35%) BDD
8 36 (31.58%) Clean Code
9 28 (24.56%) Test Planning
10 23 (20.18%) Fintech
10 23 (20.18%) Unit Testing
11 21 (18.42%) OO
12 20 (17.54%) Line Management
13 19 (16.67%) Mentoring
14 12 (10.53%) Code Quality
14 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (10.53%) E-Discovery
15 11 (9.65%) Microservices
16 9 (7.89%) DevOps
16 9 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (77.19%) Java
2 29 (25.44%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.39%) SQL
4 4 (3.51%) C#
4 4 (3.51%) Python
4 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.88%) C++
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.75%) Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (32.46%) QA
2 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central