SDET Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 508 419 518
Rank change year-on-year -89 +99 -128
Permanent jobs citing SDET 94 221 419
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.61% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 91 196 249
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £98,000
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

SDET
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDET trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDET.

SDET salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SDET over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

SDET salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.38%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.91%) SaaS
2 23 (24.47%) Azure
3 17 (18.09%) GitHub
4 15 (15.96%) AWS
5 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.38%) IaaS
6 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (59.57%) Selenium
2 51 (54.26%) Jenkins
3 46 (48.94%) Cucumber
4 45 (47.87%) Postman
5 20 (21.28%) Cypress.io
6 16 (17.02%) REST Assured
7 11 (11.70%) JMeter
8 9 (9.57%) JUnit
9 8 (8.51%) Git
9 8 (8.51%) WebDriver
10 6 (6.38%) JIRA
10 6 (6.38%) Newman
10 6 (6.38%) SpecFlow
11 5 (5.32%) Bugzilla
11 5 (5.32%) SoapUI
11 5 (5.32%) TestNG
11 5 (5.32%) Zephyr
12 4 (4.26%) Appium
12 4 (4.26%) Mockito
13 3 (3.19%) GitLab
General
1 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
2 5 (5.32%) Finance
2 5 (5.32%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (5.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.26%) Health Technology
4 3 (3.19%) Banking
5 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Lead
2 19 (20.21%) Senior
3 15 (15.96%) Software Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Developer
4 11 (11.70%) Developer in Test
4 11 (11.70%) Development Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Software Development Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Test Development Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Tester
5 10 (10.64%) Automation Tester
5 10 (10.64%) Software Developer
6 9 (9.57%) QA Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (45.74%) REST
2 17 (18.09%) Playwright
3 10 (10.64%) Web Services
4 9 (9.57%) WireMock
5 8 (8.51%) .NET
5 8 (8.51%) Spring
6 7 (7.45%) Spring Boot
7 6 (6.38%) Kafka
7 6 (6.38%) Swagger
7 6 (6.38%) WebdriverIO
8 5 (5.32%) .NET Framework
8 5 (5.32%) Apache Commons
8 5 (5.32%) Guava
8 5 (5.32%) Java Concurrency
9 4 (4.26%) pytest
9 4 (4.26%) RESTful
10 3 (3.19%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.13%) React
12 1 (1.06%) .NET Core
12 1 (1.06%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Client/Server
1 6 (6.38%) Life Science
2 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (54.26%) CI/CD
2 50 (53.19%) API Testing
3 47 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 46 (48.94%) BDD
5 43 (45.74%) Software Testing
6 34 (36.17%) Clean Code
7 32 (34.04%) Agile
8 24 (25.53%) Test Strategy
9 20 (21.28%) Line Management
10 19 (20.21%) Fintech
11 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
12 15 (15.96%) DevOps
12 15 (15.96%) Microservices
12 15 (15.96%) Software Engineering
13 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (10.64%) Design Patterns
14 10 (10.64%) Scrum
15 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
15 9 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
16 8 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 49 (52.13%) Java
2 26 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.34%) C#
4 16 (17.02%) SQL
5 15 (15.96%) Python
6 11 (11.70%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.38%) Bash
7 6 (6.38%) Ruby
8 3 (3.19%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.13%) PHP
10 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Degree
2 8 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (40.43%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.32%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (5.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.32%) HP
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle