Serenity BDD Contract Job Trends

Serenity BDD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Serenity BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 513 595
Rank change year-on-year -72 +82 +145
Contract jobs citing Serenity BDD 10 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.022% 0.023%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £344 £470 £362
25th Percentile £414 £481 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £565 £481
Median % change year-on-year - +17.40% -3.75%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £569
90th Percentile £621 £576 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -13.91%

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 5,540 4,266 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.33% 13.56% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,799 2,676 3,779
10th Percentile £349 £332 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.63%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 69 212
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.45 £40.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Serenity BDD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Serenity BDD job vacancy trend in the UK

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Serenity BDD over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Serenity BDD in the UK

Serenity BDD
Top 10 Contract Job 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 30 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
England -68 8 £600 +6.19% 1
London -29 5 £488 -13.72%
Work from Home -5 4 £530 +0.71% 1
UK excluding London - 3 £620 - 2
North of England - 3 £620 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £620 -
North West - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -

Serenity BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) BrowserStack
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Selenium
2 8 (80.00%) Gatling
2 8 (80.00%) GitLab
2 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (50.00%) Postman
3 5 (50.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (20.00%) Hamcrest
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) JUnit
4 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (10.00%) Git
5 1 (10.00%) JMeter
5 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
1 5 (50.00%) Playwright
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
1 5 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) WireMock
4 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Test Strategy
3 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) Microservices
4 6 (60.00%) BDD
5 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Build Automation
6 4 (40.00%) Component Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Observability
7 3 (30.00%) Agile
7 3 (30.00%) API Testing
7 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
8 2 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
8 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
8 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (20.00%) SDET
8 2 (20.00%) TDD
9 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Grafana
1 5 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Splunk