Serenity BDD Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Serenity BDD
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Serenity BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 - 412
Rank change year-on-year - - +64
Contract jobs citing Serenity BDD 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% - 0.019%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £361
25th Percentile £610 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.91%
75th Percentile £630 - £489
90th Percentile - - £526
UK median daily rate £565 £526 £481
% change year-on-year +7.36% +9.35% -3.75%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,646 1,838 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.69% 13.40% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 1,097 1,643
10th Percentile £325 £325 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £595
90th Percentile £651 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 58 188
10th Percentile £39.37 £45.83 £46.18
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.64 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.77
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.93 £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 the UK excluding London

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

Serenity BDD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Serenity BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Serenity BDD

Serenity BDD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 January 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
North of England - 3 £620 - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £620 -
Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Serenity BDD
UK

Serenity BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk