SDET Jobs in the South East

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 349 354 413
Rank change year-on-year +5 +59 -88
Permanent jobs citing SDET 55 23 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.18% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 47 19 91
10th Percentile £37,500 - £47,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -7.14% +30.23%
75th Percentile £64,375 £72,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £79,500 £81,250 £85,000
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
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,283 12,518 20,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.98% 94.30% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,406 7,566 11,829
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
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 the South East

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the South East

SDET
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDET in the South East.

Salary trend for SDET in the South East

SDET
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in the South East

SDET
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the South East 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
Thames Valley +25 38 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Berkshire +25 22 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Buckinghamshire - 10 £47,500 - 2
Surrey -11 8 £47,500 -38.71%
Oxfordshire -4 6 £40,000 - 1
Middlesex - 4 £100,000 -
Hampshire -35 3 £34,000 -47.69% 1
West Sussex +14 1 £70,000 +16.67%
Kent - 1 £100,000 -
SDET
England

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (12.73%) Apache
2 6 (10.91%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.82%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 29 (52.73%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) GitHub
3 14 (25.45%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (20.00%) AWS
4 11 (20.00%) SaaS
5 6 (10.91%) IaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) RTP
1 1 (1.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.82%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (56.36%) Selenium
2 17 (30.91%) Cucumber
2 17 (30.91%) WebDriver
3 14 (25.45%) REST Assured
4 12 (21.82%) Jenkins
4 12 (21.82%) JMeter
4 12 (21.82%) JUnit
5 11 (20.00%) Postman
6 9 (16.36%) Cypress.io
7 8 (14.55%) JIRA
7 8 (14.55%) NUnit
7 8 (14.55%) TestNG
7 8 (14.55%) Visual Studio
8 6 (10.91%) Git
8 6 (10.91%) Newman
9 5 (9.09%) Bugzilla
9 5 (9.09%) Zephyr
10 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (5.45%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (7.27%) Electronics
3 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Developer
2 9 (16.36%) Developer in Test
3 8 (14.55%) Automation Tester
3 8 (14.55%) Software Developer
3 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Tester
4 6 (10.91%) Development Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (10.91%) Software Development Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Test Development Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) QA Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Systems Test Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Automation Test Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
8 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) Web Services
2 9 (16.36%) Playwright
2 9 (16.36%) WireMock
3 8 (14.55%) .NET
3 8 (14.55%) .NET Core
3 8 (14.55%) JSON
3 8 (14.55%) REST
3 8 (14.55%) XML
4 7 (12.73%) Apache Commons
4 7 (12.73%) Guava
4 7 (12.73%) Java Concurrency
5 6 (10.91%) Swagger
6 5 (9.09%) Kafka
6 5 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.27%) Middleware
7 4 (7.27%) Spring
8 2 (3.64%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.64%) React
8 2 (3.64%) RESTful
8 2 (3.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Life Science
2 5 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) Software Testing
1 37 (67.27%) Test Automation
2 27 (49.09%) Agile
3 15 (27.27%) DevOps
3 15 (27.27%) Microservices
4 14 (25.45%) API Testing
4 14 (25.45%) Code Quality
5 13 (23.64%) CI/CD
5 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
6 11 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (18.18%) Integration Testing
7 10 (18.18%) Scrum
8 9 (16.36%) Design Patterns
8 9 (16.36%) Manual Testing
8 9 (16.36%) Non-Functional Testing
8 9 (16.36%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (14.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 8 (14.55%) Scenario Testing
9 8 (14.55%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Java
1 20 (36.36%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) C#
3 11 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.36%) Python
5 8 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 6 (10.91%) Bash
6 6 (10.91%) Ruby
7 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (43.64%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (3.64%) Terraform
4 1 (1.82%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) HP
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk