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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 184 136
Rank change year-on-year -93 -48 -37
Contract jobs citing BDD 298 702 1,434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 1.43% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.58% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 511 1,069
10th Percentile £355 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £670
90th Percentile £750 £743 £732
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 13
10th Percentile - £61.50 £45.25
25th Percentile - £70.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £76.10
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% -4.72% +16.18%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £79.50
90th Percentile - - £84.10
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £69.02
% change year-on-year -22.41% +5.04% +67.32%

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 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in England

BDD
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 12 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
London -44 208 £550 -12.70% 114
South East -19 28 £550 +10.00% 29
North of England -39 28 £500 -11.11% 29
South West -14 17 £590 +18.00% 24
Yorkshire -8 14 £550 -12.00% 5
North West 0 11 £500 -4.31% 22
Midlands +12 8 £425 +13.33% 28
West Midlands +11 7 £450 +10.77% 21
North East +2 3 - - 2
East Midlands +11 1 £398 +41.96% 7
East of England -2 1 £500 -8.59% 16
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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 (6.04%) Confluence
2 5 (1.68%) Drupal
3 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) Apache
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Mingle
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.35%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.01%) Endur
3 3 (1.01%) RMDS
4 2 (0.67%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.34%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 84 (28.19%) AWS
2 76 (25.50%) Azure
3 33 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (11.07%) Serverless
4 21 (7.05%) GitHub
5 19 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (5.70%) GCP
6 17 (5.70%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.36%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (3.69%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.36%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.68%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.35%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.35%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.36%) HTTP
2 7 (2.35%) SSH
3 5 (1.68%) Internet
4 3 (1.01%) BGP
4 3 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.01%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.67%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.34%) Intranet
6 1 (0.34%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.74%) MongoDB
2 26 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (7.72%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.69%) MySQL
5 10 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.35%) Big Data
7 7 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.35%) OLTP
7 7 (2.35%) Power BI
8 6 (2.01%) Redis
9 5 (1.68%) KDB
10 4 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.01%) Tableau
12 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.67%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 70 (23.49%) Git
2 67 (22.48%) Cucumber
3 58 (19.46%) JIRA
3 58 (19.46%) Selenium
4 49 (16.44%) Jenkins
5 36 (12.08%) Postman
6 32 (10.74%) SpecFlow
7 29 (9.73%) JUnit
8 24 (8.05%) Mockito
9 23 (7.72%) JMeter
10 22 (7.38%) WebDriver
11 19 (6.38%) Visual Studio
12 18 (6.04%) REST Assured
13 17 (5.70%) Cypress.io
13 17 (5.70%) SoapUI
13 17 (5.70%) TestNG
14 14 (4.70%) Appium
14 14 (4.70%) GitLab
15 12 (4.03%) Bitbucket
16 10 (3.36%) NUnit
General
1 69 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.48%) Finance
3 39 (13.09%) Banking
4 28 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.70%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.03%) Front Office
8 10 (3.36%) Back Office
9 6 (2.01%) Retail
9 6 (2.01%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Electronics
12 3 (1.01%) Law
12 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.01%) Marketing
12 3 (1.01%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
13 2 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 126 (42.28%) Developer
2 73 (24.50%) Senior
3 50 (16.78%) Java Developer
4 37 (12.42%) Senior Developer
5 32 (10.74%) Software Engineer
6 30 (10.07%) Tester
7 23 (7.72%) Test Engineer
8 21 (7.05%) Lead
8 21 (7.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 17 (5.70%) Analyst
9 17 (5.70%) Full Stack Developer
9 17 (5.70%) Scala Developer
10 13 (4.36%) Automation Tester
10 13 (4.36%) QA Engineer
11 12 (4.03%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.03%) Senior Test Engineer
11 12 (4.03%) Test Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.69%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.69%) QA Tester
12 11 (3.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.48%) .NET
2 56 (18.79%) REST
3 50 (16.78%) React
4 43 (14.43%) Spring
5 42 (14.09%) Kafka
6 38 (12.75%) Web Services
7 37 (12.42%) AngularJS
8 31 (10.40%) RESTful
9 28 (9.40%) .NET Framework
10 27 (9.06%) JSON
11 25 (8.39%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (8.05%) Spring Boot
13 23 (7.72%) XML
14 22 (7.38%) HTML
15 20 (6.71%) SOAP
16 19 (6.38%) CSS
16 19 (6.38%) GraphQL
16 19 (6.38%) JAX-RS
16 19 (6.38%) Node.js
17 17 (5.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.37%) Derivative
2 12 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.34%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.34%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 4 (1.34%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.09%) Unix
2 37 (12.42%) Linux
3 23 (7.72%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.01%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (70.47%) TDD
2 192 (64.43%) Agile
3 142 (47.65%) Test Automation
4 103 (34.56%) CI/CD
5 99 (33.22%) DevOps
5 99 (33.22%) Microservices
6 73 (24.50%) Scrum
7 62 (20.81%) Continuous Integration
8 58 (19.46%) Software Engineering
9 42 (14.09%) Kanban
9 42 (14.09%) Pair Programming
10 41 (13.76%) Full Stack Development
10 41 (13.76%) SDLC
11 38 (12.75%) Continuous Deployment
12 37 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (12.42%) Test Strategy
13 30 (10.07%) User Stories
14 26 (8.72%) Acceptance Criteria
15 25 (8.39%) Manual Testing
15 25 (8.39%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 153 (51.34%) Java
2 70 (23.49%) SQL
3 56 (18.79%) JavaScript
4 54 (18.12%) C#
5 51 (17.11%) Python
6 47 (15.77%) TypeScript
7 27 (9.06%) Scala
8 18 (6.04%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.03%) Bash
10 9 (3.02%) Go
10 9 (3.02%) Perl
11 6 (2.01%) Groovy
11 6 (2.01%) Ruby
11 6 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.68%) C
12 5 (1.68%) PHP
13 4 (1.34%) Bicep
13 4 (1.34%) C++
14 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (22.48%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.45%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.72%) Degree
4 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.35%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) ISEB
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.45%) QA
2 24 (8.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) WCAG
4 2 (0.67%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (18.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
2 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (17.79%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.08%) Terraform
3 14 (4.70%) Grafana
4 13 (4.36%) Ansible
5 7 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.68%) Kibana
6 5 (1.68%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.68%) Puppet
7 4 (1.34%) Nagios
8 2 (0.67%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 32 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.37%) Oracle
3 7 (2.35%) NEC
3 7 (2.35%) Splunk
4 6 (2.01%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (2.01%) Typelevel
5 4 (1.34%) ION Trading
5 4 (1.34%) New Relic
5 4 (1.34%) Perfecto Mobile
6 3 (1.01%) Cisco
6 3 (1.01%) Google
6 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.01%) SAP
6 3 (1.01%) Solace
6 3 (1.01%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.67%) HP
7 2 (0.67%) IBM
7 2 (0.67%) Murex
7 2 (0.67%) Planview