BDD Contracts in Bristol

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South West > Bristol

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 92 83
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 -22
Contract jobs citing BDD 7 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.66% 0.72% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.81% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 18
10th Percentile £469 £491 £380
25th Percentile £481 £513 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £585 £675 £534
90th Percentile £590 £719 £584
South West median daily rate £590 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +18.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 874 1,117 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.92% 89.00% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 750 848
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £659
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 220 103
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +36.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.88 £66.95
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for BDD in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Postman
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) NUnit
2 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Tech for Good
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Developer
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
2 3 (42.86%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (42.86%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Load Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP