Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 284 104
Rank change year-on-year -4 -180 +16
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,016 1,245 5,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.28% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.34% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 805 840 1,942
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,318 £60,500 £55,687
% change year-on-year -6.91% +8.64% +1.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD.

Salary trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in the UK

BDD
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -12 816 £60,000 -14.29% 266
UK excluding London +83 743 £56,318 -6.91% 174
Work from Home +74 714 £60,000 -14.29% 308
London -97 240 £81,250 -1.52% 114
South East +108 236 £60,000 +4.35% 35
North of England +23 153 £55,000 -9.84% 44
Scotland 0 126 £60,000 -13.60% 17
North West +15 86 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Midlands -13 75 £52,500 -10.64% 30
East of England +24 69 £60,000 -17.24% 10
South West -4 62 £55,000 -12.00% 29
West Midlands -19 49 £53,750 -12.24% 23
Yorkshire +48 47 £61,482 -5.41% 8
East Midlands -3 26 £52,500 -10.64% 7
North East +8 20 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Wales +18 17 £45,000 -6.25% 5
Northern Ireland +5 5 £57,500 +15.00% 6

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 38 (3.74%) OpenStack
2 20 (1.97%) Apache
3 12 (1.18%) JBoss
4 11 (1.08%) Confluence
5 10 (0.98%) CMS
5 10 (0.98%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.59%) DNN
7 6 (0.59%) EPiServer
7 6 (0.59%) Immediacy CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Kentico
7 6 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Sitefinity
7 6 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.098%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 597 (58.76%) Azure
2 519 (51.08%) AWS
3 72 (7.09%) Serverless
4 54 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
5 51 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
5 51 (5.02%) GCP
6 48 (4.72%) SaaS
7 27 (2.66%) BlazeMeter
7 27 (2.66%) GitHub
8 25 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (0.98%) PaaS
12 8 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (0.79%) BrowserStack
12 8 (0.79%) Slack
13 6 (0.59%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.91%) Internet
2 22 (2.17%) DNS
3 20 (1.97%) Firewall
4 16 (1.57%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.49%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.49%) RS-232
6 5 (0.49%) RS-485
6 5 (0.49%) VoIP
6 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.49%) Wireless
6 5 (0.49%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.39%) SSL
8 3 (0.30%) HTTP
8 3 (0.30%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (41.24%) SQL Server
2 279 (27.46%) MongoDB
3 228 (22.44%) Elasticsearch
4 162 (15.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 107 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 97 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (7.87%) Relational Database
8 48 (4.72%) MySQL
9 12 (1.18%) Big Data
10 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.98%) Redis
11 7 (0.69%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.59%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.30%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
16 1 (0.098%) Event Store
16 1 (0.098%) LogicBlox
Development Applications
1 173 (17.03%) Selenium
2 157 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 143 (14.07%) Cucumber
4 124 (12.20%) Git
5 119 (11.71%) JUnit
6 105 (10.33%) Cypress.io
7 92 (9.06%) WebDriver
8 73 (7.19%) Postman
9 61 (6.00%) Jasmine
10 60 (5.91%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (5.91%) Protractor
11 53 (5.22%) JIRA
12 50 (4.92%) JMeter
13 31 (3.05%) SpecFlow
14 30 (2.95%) REST Assured
15 25 (2.46%) Maven
16 23 (2.26%) GitLab
17 16 (1.57%) TestNG
18 14 (1.38%) TeamCity
19 12 (1.18%) Gradle
General
1 225 (22.15%) Finance
2 127 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 126 (12.40%) Social Skills
4 114 (11.22%) Banking
5 105 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 101 (9.94%) Law
7 81 (7.97%) Marketing
8 73 (7.19%) Investment Banking
9 45 (4.43%) Advertising
10 44 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (3.94%) Retail
12 36 (3.54%) Games
13 21 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.08%) French Language
15 9 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.69%) Legal
17 6 (0.59%) Electronics
17 6 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.39%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 566 (55.71%) Developer
2 410 (40.35%) .NET Developer
3 189 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 150 (14.76%) Java Engineer
5 148 (14.57%) Senior
6 136 (13.39%) Java Software Engineer
7 128 (12.60%) C# Developer
8 121 (11.91%) C# .NET Developer
9 105 (10.33%) Lead
10 76 (7.48%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.00%) Full Stack Developer
12 57 (5.61%) Senior Developer
13 52 (5.12%) Senior Software Engineer
14 44 (4.33%) QA Engineer
15 37 (3.64%) Internet Developer
16 35 (3.44%) Senior Java Engineer
17 33 (3.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 32 (3.15%) Azure Developer
18 32 (3.15%) Full Stack Engineer
19 30 (2.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 478 (47.05%) .NET
2 402 (39.57%) .NET Core
2 402 (39.57%) ASP.NET
3 389 (38.29%) Entity Framework
4 388 (38.19%) ASP.NET MVC
5 380 (37.40%) Node.js
6 377 (37.11%) React
7 353 (34.74%) AngularJS
8 276 (27.17%) HTML
9 273 (26.87%) CSS
10 244 (24.02%) .NET Framework
11 230 (22.64%) ASP.NET Web API
11 230 (22.64%) Vue
12 194 (19.09%) Spring
13 172 (16.93%) REST
14 168 (16.54%) CSS3
15 165 (16.24%) HTML5
16 160 (15.75%) Blazor
17 123 (12.11%) RESTful
18 118 (11.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.68%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 48 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.76%) Market Risk
6 27 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.46%) Digital TV
8 24 (2.36%) Algorithms
9 22 (2.17%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 15 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.79%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.69%) Credit Derivative
14 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.69%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.63%) Linux
2 19 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.48%) Unix
3 15 (1.48%) Windows
4 14 (1.38%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.49%) ThreadX
6 4 (0.39%) DC/OS
6 4 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (83.46%) TDD
2 841 (82.78%) Agile
3 496 (48.82%) Full Stack Development
4 443 (43.60%) Microservices
5 404 (39.76%) MVC
6 392 (38.58%) Scrum
7 323 (31.79%) CI/CD
8 310 (30.51%) Kanban
9 265 (26.08%) Software Engineering
10 230 (22.64%) Test Automation
11 186 (18.31%) DevOps
12 184 (18.11%) SDLC
13 112 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
14 110 (10.83%) Software Testing
15 108 (10.63%) Artificial Intelligence
16 96 (9.45%) Machine Learning
17 91 (8.96%) Operational Stability
18 89 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
19 84 (8.27%) API Testing
19 84 (8.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 648 (63.78%) JavaScript
2 486 (47.83%) C#
3 437 (43.01%) Java
4 333 (32.78%) TypeScript
5 320 (31.50%) SQL
6 120 (11.81%) Python
7 35 (3.44%) Go
8 16 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.18%) C
10 11 (1.08%) Ruby
11 9 (0.89%) Bash
12 8 (0.79%) PHP
13 6 (0.59%) C++
13 6 (0.59%) Perl
14 5 (0.49%) Groovy
15 4 (0.39%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.39%) R
15 4 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 117 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 96 (9.45%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.04%) Degree
4 31 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.39%) CIPD
10 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.39%) ISEB
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.098%) PhD
12 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.12%) QA
2 33 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 8 (0.79%) PSD2
4 4 (0.39%) NCSC
5 2 (0.20%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.20%) SEPA
6 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 119 (11.71%) Docker
2 28 (2.76%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.97%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.39%) Firmware
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.71%) Ansible
3 54 (5.31%) Terraform
4 14 (1.38%) Kibana
5 12 (1.18%) Grafana
6 8 (0.79%) Puppet
7 6 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.30%) Argo
8 3 (0.30%) Nagios
8 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.20%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) linkerd
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
9 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.098%) Packer
Vendors
1 425 (41.83%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.74%) Google
2 38 (3.74%) WSO2
3 24 (2.36%) Oracle
4 18 (1.77%) Facebook
5 12 (1.18%) Splunk
6 11 (1.08%) Databricks
7 9 (0.89%) TOWER Software
8 8 (0.79%) Duck Creek
9 6 (0.59%) Alterian
9 6 (0.59%) Confluent
9 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.59%) YouTube
10 5 (0.49%) IBM
11 4 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.39%) VMware
12 3 (0.30%) New Relic
13 2 (0.20%) Brio
13 2 (0.20%) Spotify