Serenity BDD Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Serenity BDD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 298 344 467
Rank change year-on-year +46 +123 +153
Contract jobs citing Serenity BDD 6 1 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.007% 0.039%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 0.054% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £436 - £374
25th Percentile £481 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £433
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -13.29% -19.91%
75th Percentile £494 £388 £469
90th Percentile - - £488
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £433
% change year-on-year +2.63% +9.83% -13.50%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Serenity BDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Serenity BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Serenity BDD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Serenity BDD.

Serenity BDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Serenity BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JMeter
1 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) Appium
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Gatling
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Hamcrest
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Test Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Test Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Test Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Defect Management
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 4 (66.67%) New Relic
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk