BDD Contracts in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 175 134
Rank change year-on-year -107 -41 -37
Contract jobs citing BDD 283 753 1,435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.77% 1.49% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.65% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 542 1,071
10th Percentile £356 £417 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £667
90th Percentile £750 £749 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 14
10th Percentile - £61.50 £45.38
25th Percentile - £70.00 £53.88
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £74.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% -3.01% +28.88%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £79.88
90th Percentile - - £83.65
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +62.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in England

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in England

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London -60 195 £540 -14.79% 114
South East -19 30 £550 +10.00% 55
North of England -30 29 £500 -9.09% 32
South West -13 16 £590 +18.00% 22
Yorkshire +4 14 £550 -2.22% 6
North West -3 12 £500 -7.41% 23
Midlands +7 8 £425 +13.33% 29
West Midlands +26 7 £450 +5.88% 20
North East +2 3 - - 3
East Midlands +5 1 £398 +56.65% 9
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (6.36%) Confluence
2 5 (1.77%) Drupal
2 5 (1.77%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Mingle
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.12%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.06%) Endur
4 2 (0.71%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.35%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.35%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.35%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 84 (29.68%) AWS
2 72 (25.44%) Azure
3 33 (11.66%) Serverless
4 31 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.42%) GitHub
6 19 (6.71%) GCP
7 17 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.30%) Power Platform
9 13 (4.59%) PowerApps
10 11 (3.89%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (2.83%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.47%) Azure Storage
13 7 (2.47%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.24%) HTTP
2 5 (1.77%) Internet
2 5 (1.77%) SSH
3 3 (1.06%) BGP
3 3 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.06%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.71%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.35%) Intranet
5 1 (0.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.95%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.19%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (7.07%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.89%) MySQL
6 9 (3.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.47%) OLTP
9 6 (2.12%) Big Data
9 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.12%) Redis
10 5 (1.77%) Power BI
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.41%) KDB
12 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.71%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 68 (24.03%) Git
2 65 (22.97%) Cucumber
3 57 (20.14%) Selenium
4 53 (18.73%) JIRA
5 50 (17.67%) Jenkins
6 32 (11.31%) Postman
7 29 (10.25%) JUnit
7 29 (10.25%) SpecFlow
8 25 (8.83%) Mockito
9 22 (7.77%) JMeter
9 22 (7.77%) WebDriver
10 18 (6.36%) REST Assured
11 17 (6.01%) SoapUI
11 17 (6.01%) TestNG
11 17 (6.01%) Visual Studio
12 16 (5.65%) Cypress.io
13 14 (4.95%) Appium
14 13 (4.59%) GitLab
15 12 (4.24%) Bitbucket
16 9 (3.18%) eggPlant
General
1 64 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.14%) Finance
3 37 (13.07%) Banking
4 28 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.59%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.53%) Back Office
8 9 (3.18%) Front Office
9 6 (2.12%) Retail
9 6 (2.12%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Electronics
12 3 (1.06%) Law
12 3 (1.06%) Legal
12 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.06%) Marketing
12 3 (1.06%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (41.70%) Developer
2 68 (24.03%) Senior
3 48 (16.96%) Java Developer
4 34 (12.01%) Senior Developer
5 30 (10.60%) Software Engineer
6 29 (10.25%) Tester
7 21 (7.42%) Test Engineer
8 19 (6.71%) Full Stack Developer
8 19 (6.71%) Lead
8 19 (6.71%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (5.65%) Analyst
9 16 (5.65%) Scala Developer
10 13 (4.59%) QA Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Automation Tester
12 11 (3.89%) QA Tester
12 11 (3.89%) Senior Test Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.53%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.18%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.91%) .NET
2 54 (19.08%) REST
3 46 (16.25%) React
4 41 (14.49%) Spring
5 40 (14.13%) Kafka
6 35 (12.37%) Web Services
7 33 (11.66%) AngularJS
8 30 (10.60%) RESTful
9 28 (9.89%) .NET Framework
10 25 (8.83%) ActiveMQ
10 25 (8.83%) JSON
10 25 (8.83%) Spring Boot
11 21 (7.42%) Node.js
11 21 (7.42%) XML
12 20 (7.07%) HTML
13 19 (6.71%) JAX-RS
14 18 (6.36%) CSS
14 18 (6.36%) SOAP
15 16 (5.65%) GraphQL
16 15 (5.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.30%) Derivative
2 11 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.41%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 4 (1.41%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.72%) Unix
2 35 (12.37%) Linux
3 23 (8.13%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.06%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (71.02%) TDD
2 186 (65.72%) Agile
3 136 (48.06%) Test Automation
4 99 (34.98%) CI/CD
5 95 (33.57%) Microservices
6 94 (33.22%) DevOps
7 71 (25.09%) Scrum
8 58 (20.49%) Continuous Integration
9 55 (19.43%) Software Engineering
10 42 (14.84%) Full Stack Development
11 41 (14.49%) Kanban
12 39 (13.78%) Pair Programming
13 38 (13.43%) Continuous Deployment
14 37 (13.07%) SDLC
15 35 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (12.37%) Test Strategy
16 29 (10.25%) User Stories
17 24 (8.48%) Acceptance Criteria
17 24 (8.48%) Manual Testing
18 23 (8.13%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 146 (51.59%) Java
2 65 (22.97%) SQL
3 56 (19.79%) JavaScript
4 52 (18.37%) C#
5 49 (17.31%) Python
6 40 (14.13%) TypeScript
7 23 (8.13%) Scala
8 18 (6.36%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.53%) Bash
10 9 (3.18%) Go
10 9 (3.18%) Perl
11 6 (2.12%) Groovy
11 6 (2.12%) Ruby
11 6 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.77%) C
12 5 (1.77%) PHP
13 4 (1.41%) C++
14 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.71%) Dart
15 2 (0.71%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 70 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.42%) Degree
4 10 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.47%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) ISEB
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (17.31%) QA
2 23 (8.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.41%) WCAG
4 2 (0.71%) HL7
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (17.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
2 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (18.73%) Kubernetes
2 34 (12.01%) Terraform
3 15 (5.30%) Ansible
4 14 (4.95%) Grafana
5 8 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.77%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.77%) Puppet
7 4 (1.41%) Kibana
7 4 (1.41%) Nagios
8 2 (0.71%) logstash
9 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.65%) Oracle
3 7 (2.47%) Splunk
4 6 (2.12%) NEC
5 5 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (1.77%) New Relic
5 5 (1.77%) Typelevel
6 4 (1.41%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (1.06%) Cisco
7 3 (1.06%) Google
7 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.06%) SAP
7 3 (1.06%) TOWER Software
8 2 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.71%) HP
8 2 (0.71%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.71%) Murex
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.35%) VMware