Hybrid/Remote Serenity BDD Contract Job Trends

Serenity BDD
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 318 315 373
Rank change year-on-year -3 +58 +119
Contract jobs citing Serenity BDD 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.038% 0.028% 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.25% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £356 - £560
25th Percentile £421 £481 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -18.75% +22.45%
75th Percentile £571 £529 -
90th Percentile £596 £551 -
UK median daily rate £565 £526 £481
% change year-on-year +7.36% +9.35% -3.75%

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 1,580 1,482 2,073
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.93% 13.66% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 987 1,540
10th Percentile £350 £330 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £623 £603
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 61
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.15 £40.00
25th Percentile - £45.31 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.27 £90.00
90th Percentile - £69.38 -
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Serenity BDD and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Serenity BDD job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serenity BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serenity BDD

Serenity BDD
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Serenity BDD over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Serenity BDD daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Serenity BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) Gatling
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
3 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Hamcrest
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Component Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk