SDET Jobs in England

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 680 573 568
Rank change year-on-year -107 -5 -116
Permanent jobs citing SDET 184 353 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.43% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.45% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 137 308 418
10th Percentile £39,750 £52,500 £47,425
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% +6.30%
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,938 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £100,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 12 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 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
London -55 114 £90,000 +12.50% 11
South East +5 55 £47,500 -26.92% 7
Yorkshire +67 12 £48,750 -25.00% 1
North of England -1 12 £48,750 -25.00% 3
East of England -9 4 £78,750 +36.96%
South West -50 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
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
2 33 (17.93%) SaaS
3 20 (10.87%) GitHub
4 17 (9.24%) AWS
5 16 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.26%) IaaS
7 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.09%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.54%) GCP
8 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 87 (47.28%) Selenium
2 64 (34.78%) Cucumber
3 59 (32.07%) Jenkins
4 46 (25.00%) Postman
5 39 (21.20%) JUnit
6 37 (20.11%) Cypress.io
7 33 (17.93%) WebDriver
8 29 (15.76%) 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 28 (15.22%) Senior
3 21 (11.41%) 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 9 (4.89%) 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 58 (31.52%) 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
4 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.09%) Hackathon
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
1 110 (59.78%) Test Automation
2 97 (52.72%) Software Testing
3 82 (44.57%) Agile
4 71 (38.59%) API Testing
5 62 (33.70%) CI/CD
6 56 (30.43%) Test Strategy
7 54 (29.35%) BDD
8 37 (20.11%) Clean Code
9 32 (17.39%) Fintech
10 30 (16.30%) Unit Testing
11 29 (15.76%) DevOps
12 28 (15.22%) OO
12 28 (15.22%) Test Planning
13 26 (14.13%) Code Quality
13 26 (14.13%) Microservices
14 25 (13.59%) Mentoring
15 20 (10.87%) Containerisation
15 20 (10.87%) Line Management
16 19 (10.33%) Scrum
16 19 (10.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (58.15%) Java
2 43 (23.37%) JavaScript
3 31 (16.85%) 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 70 (38.04%) 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