Serena Contracts

Serena
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Serena products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serena over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Serena Software, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 574 700
Rank change year-on-year +56 +126 +150
Contract jobs citing Serena 2 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.018% 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.014% 0.043% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile - - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.48%
75th Percentile - - £691
90th Percentile - - £738
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £650
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £39.02
25th Percentile - - £40.85
Median hourly rate - - £45.30
75th Percentile - - £48.35
90th Percentile - - £49.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.30
% change year-on-year - - +6.58%

All Vendors
UK

Serena falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Serena
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Serena in the UK

Serena
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Serena in the UK

Serena
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Serena.

Hourly rate trend for Serena in the UK

Serena
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Serena within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +51 2 - - 1
London +32 2 - - 1
Work from Home +35 1 - -

Serena
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Rubrik
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Serena SBM
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Measurement
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Control-M
2 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Netcool
2 1 (50.00%) QRadar
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) BMC
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Isilon
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) SAP