SDET Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 696 654 674
Rank change year-on-year -42 +20 -137
Permanent jobs citing SDET 74 79 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.14% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 67 71 162
10th Percentile £33,250 £42,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +20 54 £47,500 -26.92% 8
Yorkshire +61 11 £48,750 -25.00%
North of England +20 11 £48,750 -25.00% 2
East of England -4 4 £78,750 +36.96% 1
Scotland -64 4 £55,000 +111.54%
South West -39 1 £67,500 +50.00% 6
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (9.46%) Apache
2 6 (8.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 32 (43.24%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) GitHub
3 15 (20.27%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (16.22%) AWS
4 12 (16.22%) SaaS
5 6 (8.11%) IaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) RTP
1 1 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.35%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (52.70%) Selenium
2 20 (27.03%) Cucumber
3 16 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 16 (21.62%) WebDriver
4 14 (18.92%) JMeter
4 14 (18.92%) REST Assured
5 13 (17.57%) JUnit
6 12 (16.22%) Postman
7 11 (14.86%) Cypress.io
8 9 (12.16%) Git
8 9 (12.16%) JIRA
9 8 (10.81%) Appium
9 8 (10.81%) NUnit
9 8 (10.81%) TestNG
9 8 (10.81%) Visual Studio
10 6 (8.11%) Newman
11 5 (6.76%) Bugzilla
11 5 (6.76%) SpecFlow
11 5 (6.76%) Zephyr
12 4 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (6.76%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (5.41%) Electronics
2 4 (5.41%) Tech for Good
3 3 (4.05%) Health Technology
3 3 (4.05%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.35%) Finance
4 1 (1.35%) Marketing
4 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Software Engineer
2 12 (16.22%) Developer
2 12 (16.22%) Development Engineer
2 12 (16.22%) Software Development Engineer
2 12 (16.22%) Test Development Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Developer in Test
4 10 (13.51%) Software Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Automation Tester
5 9 (12.16%) QA Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) Tester
6 7 (9.46%) Test Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Senior
9 4 (5.41%) Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Lead
9 4 (5.41%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.97%) .NET
2 15 (20.27%) Playwright
3 12 (16.22%) Web Services
4 10 (13.51%) WireMock
5 8 (10.81%) .NET Core
5 8 (10.81%) JSON
5 8 (10.81%) REST
5 8 (10.81%) XML
6 7 (9.46%) Apache Commons
6 7 (9.46%) Guava
6 7 (9.46%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (8.11%) Gherkin
7 6 (8.11%) Spring Boot
7 6 (8.11%) Swagger
8 5 (6.76%) RESTful
8 5 (6.76%) Spring
9 4 (5.41%) Kafka
9 4 (5.41%) Middleware
10 3 (4.05%) .NET Framework
10 3 (4.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Life Science
2 5 (6.76%) Client/Server
2 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Android
2 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (70.27%) Software Testing
2 48 (64.86%) Test Automation
3 37 (50.00%) Agile
4 20 (27.03%) DevOps
5 19 (25.68%) API Testing
6 18 (24.32%) CI/CD
7 17 (22.97%) Software Engineering
8 16 (21.62%) Code Quality
8 16 (21.62%) Microservices
9 14 (18.92%) Containerisation
10 13 (17.57%) Scrum
11 11 (14.86%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (14.86%) Design Patterns
11 11 (14.86%) Integration Testing
11 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (13.51%) BDD
13 9 (12.16%) Fintech
13 9 (12.16%) Manual Testing
13 9 (12.16%) Non-Functional Testing
13 9 (12.16%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.49%) SQL
2 26 (35.14%) C#
3 21 (28.38%) Java
4 16 (21.62%) JavaScript
5 15 (20.27%) Python
6 9 (12.16%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.11%) Bash
7 6 (8.11%) Ruby
8 2 (2.70%) PHP
8 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Degree
2 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
2 8 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (41.89%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (17.57%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (4.05%) Terraform
4 1 (1.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.35%) Grafana
4 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.76%) HP
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.35%) Splunk