Serenity BDD Contract Job Trends in England

Serenity BDD
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Serenity BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 481 556
Rank change year-on-year -54 +75 +153
Contract jobs citing Serenity BDD 8 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.030% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £338 £472 £362
25th Percentile £375 £481 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £526 £419
Median % change year-on-year +14.01% +25.67% -12.76%
75th Percentile £613 £573 £513
90th Percentile £623 £576 £558
UK median daily rate £565 £526 £481
% change year-on-year +7.36% +9.35% -3.75%

All Development Application Skills
England

Serenity BDD falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,712 3,577 4,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.33% 13.50% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,208 3,178
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 61 200
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.00 £44.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Serenity BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serenity BDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Serenity BDD job vacancy trend in England

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serenity BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Serenity BDD

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serenity BDD in England over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serenity BDD in England

Serenity BDD
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
London -35 5 £488 -7.36%
North of England - 3 £620 - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £620 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Serenity BDD
UK

Serenity BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Selenium
2 6 (75.00%) Gatling
2 6 (75.00%) GitLab
2 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (50.00%) Postman
3 4 (50.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (25.00%) Hamcrest
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 4 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Tester
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
5 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) Playwright
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
4 5 (62.50%) BDD
4 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
5 4 (50.00%) Build Automation
5 4 (50.00%) Component Testing
5 4 (50.00%) Observability
5 4 (50.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) API Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (25.00%) SDET
6 2 (25.00%) TDD
7 1 (12.50%) Migration
7 1 (12.50%) OOP
7 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Splunk