Serenity BDD Contracts

Serenity BDD
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Serenity BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Serenity BDD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 707 822
Rank change year-on-year +115 +115 -162
Contract jobs citing Serenity BDD 6 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.020% 0.030%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.12% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 24
10th Percentile £336 £380 £375
25th Percentile £363 £415 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -10.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £492 £578
90th Percentile £545 £525 £609
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £466 £431
% change year-on-year +1.88% +8.12% -1.99%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Serenity BDD is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Serenity BDD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Serenity BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Serenity BDD in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Serenity BDD.

Daily rate trend for Serenity BDD in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serenity BDD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Serenity BDD in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serenity BDD within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +123 6 £475 +9.83%
London +99 4 £438 +25.00%
Work from Home +121 1 £375 -16.20%
UK excluding London +61 1 £475 +1.88%
South East +25 1 £475 +11.44%

Serenity BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) Gerrit
3 2 (33.33%) TestNG
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) Gradle
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) Mockito
4 1 (16.67%) Protractor
4 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Angular 2
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
2 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle