Serenity BDD Contracts

Serenity BDD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Serenity BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Serenity BDD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 576 707
Rank change year-on-year +63 +131 +121
Contract jobs citing Serenity BDD 7 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.014% 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile £434 £336 £374
25th Percentile £467 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +9.83% -13.50%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £469
90th Percentile - £545 £488
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £475 £433
% change year-on-year -13.16% +9.83% +8.13%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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

Serenity BDD
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

Serenity BDD
Top 6 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 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 +58 7 £488 +2.63% 1
Work from Home +46 6 £488 +30.00% 1
London +40 6 £488 +11.43%
UK excluding London +63 1 £413 -13.16% 1
Midlands - 1 £413 -
West Midlands - 1 £413 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JMeter
1 4 (57.14%) LoadRunner
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Appium
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Hamcrest
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Test Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Performance Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Test Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Defect Management
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) BDD
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) TDD
6 1 (14.29%) Test Assurance
6 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
1 4 (57.14%) New Relic
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk