BDD Contracts in the City of London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 118 105
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 -51
Contract jobs citing BDD 24 56 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 1.53% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.67% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 43 77
10th Percentile £400 £463 £403
25th Percentile £455 £521 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £775 £719
90th Percentile £725 £808 £825
Central London median daily rate £544 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -19.44% +8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,999 3,351 3,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.37% 91.78% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,247 2,967
10th Percentile £356 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Angular Developer
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%) Node.js
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
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