BDD Contracts in Central London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 127 95
Rank change year-on-year +18 -32 -36
Contract jobs citing BDD 24 47 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.99% 1.23% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.34% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 86
10th Percentile £400 £463 £403
25th Percentile £455 £521 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £630
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £694 £775 £713
90th Percentile £725 £815 £788
London median daily rate £550 £639 £600
% change year-on-year -13.89% +6.46% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +24 24 £563 -16.67% 17
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.17%) Figma
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Data Mart
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Selenium
2 6 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (20.83%) Cucumber
3 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
4 4 (16.67%) GitLab
4 4 (16.67%) JIRA
4 4 (16.67%) Mockito
4 4 (16.67%) Postman
4 4 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 3 (12.50%) Appium
5 3 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 3 (12.50%) JMeter
5 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
6 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 2 (8.33%) Gradle
6 2 (8.33%) JUnit
6 2 (8.33%) Maven
6 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
6 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
6 2 (8.33%) TestNG
General
1 6 (25.00%) Banking
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Java Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Market Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Tester
6 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 4 (16.67%) JAX-RS
2 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (12.50%) React
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) CSS
4 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (8.33%) Gherkin
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.17%) Chai
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Derivative
1 2 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Online Banking
2 1 (4.17%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) Test Automation
3 9 (37.50%) TDD
4 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Microservices
4 6 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) User Stories
7 3 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.50%) Data Mapping
7 3 (12.50%) Manual Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Mathematics
7 3 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Web Design
7 3 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.33%) Python
7 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Murex
3 2 (8.33%) Perfecto Mobile