BDD Contracts in London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 152 113
Rank change year-on-year -52 -39 -30
Contract jobs citing BDD 207 438 956
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.18% 1.70% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.87% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 317 753
10th Percentile £350 £463 £425
25th Percentile £450 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
England median daily rate £550 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.21% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - £55.65 £62.40
25th Percentile - £68.63 £71.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.60% -
75th Percentile - £78.75 £79.50
90th Percentile - £90.00 £80.10
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +0.06%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in London

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for BDD in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +32 23 £563 -16.67% 29
South London -5 7 £395 -21.00%
West London +18 6 £350 -53.33% 4
East London 0 5 £540 +20.00% 4
BDD
England

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (5.31%) Confluence
2 3 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.97%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Mingle
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.90%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.45%) Endur
2 3 (1.45%) RMDS
3 2 (0.97%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.48%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.48%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.48%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 50 (24.15%) AWS
2 47 (22.71%) Azure
3 24 (11.59%) Serverless
4 21 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (6.76%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (5.80%) GCP
7 12 (5.80%) GitHub
8 10 (4.83%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (4.83%) PowerApps
9 9 (4.35%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.86%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.38%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (2.90%) Azure Storage
12 6 (2.90%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.86%) HTTP
2 7 (3.38%) SSH
3 5 (2.42%) Internet
4 2 (0.97%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.48%) Intranet
5 1 (0.48%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.18%) MongoDB
2 18 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.83%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.38%) Big Data
6 7 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.38%) Power BI
6 7 (3.38%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.90%) KDB
7 6 (2.90%) OLTP
8 4 (1.93%) Redis
9 3 (1.45%) Tableau
10 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.97%) Parquet
10 2 (0.97%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 51 (24.64%) Cucumber
2 43 (20.77%) Git
3 42 (20.29%) JIRA
4 36 (17.39%) Selenium
5 28 (13.53%) JUnit
6 25 (12.08%) SpecFlow
7 22 (10.63%) Postman
8 21 (10.14%) Jenkins
8 21 (10.14%) Mockito
9 16 (7.73%) REST Assured
9 16 (7.73%) WebDriver
10 15 (7.25%) JMeter
10 15 (7.25%) TestNG
11 14 (6.76%) SoapUI
12 11 (5.31%) Appium
12 11 (5.31%) Visual Studio
13 9 (4.35%) eggPlant
13 9 (4.35%) SOAtest
14 8 (3.86%) Cypress.io
14 8 (3.86%) GitLab
General
1 56 (27.05%) Finance
2 46 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 40 (19.32%) Banking
4 26 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.25%) Investment Banking
7 13 (6.28%) Front Office
8 10 (4.83%) Back Office
9 6 (2.90%) Retail
10 3 (1.45%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.45%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.97%) Electronics
11 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.97%) Games
11 2 (0.97%) Law
11 2 (0.97%) Legal
11 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.97%) Marketing
11 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (47.83%) Developer
2 51 (24.64%) Senior
3 39 (18.84%) Java Developer
4 32 (15.46%) Senior Developer
5 23 (11.11%) Tester
6 18 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
7 16 (7.73%) Lead
7 16 (7.73%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) Analyst
9 12 (5.80%) Scala Developer
10 11 (5.31%) Full Stack Developer
10 11 (5.31%) QA Tester
11 10 (4.83%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.83%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.83%) QA Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) Automation Tester
12 9 (4.35%) Test Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.90%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (25.60%) .NET
2 37 (17.87%) REST
3 32 (15.46%) React
4 29 (14.01%) Spring
5 28 (13.53%) Kafka
5 28 (13.53%) Web Services
6 27 (13.04%) .NET Framework
7 23 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.63%) JSON
8 22 (10.63%) XML
9 20 (9.66%) RESTful
10 18 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (8.21%) Hibernate
11 17 (8.21%) HTML
11 17 (8.21%) SOAP
11 17 (8.21%) Spring Boot
12 16 (7.73%) JAX-RS
12 16 (7.73%) JPA
13 14 (6.76%) Node.js
14 13 (6.28%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.73%) Derivative
2 12 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.93%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.93%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 4 (1.93%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.97%) Replication
9 2 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.46%) Unix
2 30 (14.49%) Linux
3 16 (7.73%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (70.05%) TDD
2 124 (59.90%) Agile
3 94 (45.41%) Test Automation
4 75 (36.23%) Microservices
5 68 (32.85%) DevOps
6 65 (31.40%) CI/CD
7 53 (25.60%) Scrum
8 49 (23.67%) Continuous Integration
9 38 (18.36%) Pair Programming
10 30 (14.49%) Continuous Deployment
11 29 (14.01%) Kanban
11 29 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (14.01%) Software Engineering
12 27 (13.04%) SDLC
13 25 (12.08%) User Stories
14 23 (11.11%) Unit Testing
15 22 (10.63%) Test Strategy
16 21 (10.14%) Acceptance Criteria
16 21 (10.14%) Full Stack Development
17 19 (9.18%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (49.76%) Java
2 47 (22.71%) C#
3 46 (22.22%) SQL
4 34 (16.43%) Python
5 31 (14.98%) TypeScript
6 29 (14.01%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.70%) Scala
8 13 (6.28%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.42%) Perl
10 4 (1.93%) Bash
10 4 (1.93%) Bicep
10 4 (1.93%) Go
11 2 (0.97%) Dart
11 2 (0.97%) Haskell
11 2 (0.97%) Ruby
11 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 45 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) Degree
4 7 (3.38%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) ISEB
8 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (19.32%) QA
2 14 (6.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.93%) WCAG
4 2 (0.97%) HL7
5 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (12.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (14.49%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.11%) Terraform
3 7 (3.38%) Grafana
4 5 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.93%) Kibana
6 3 (1.45%) Ansible
7 2 (0.97%) logstash
8 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.76%) Oracle
3 6 (2.90%) NEC
3 6 (2.90%) Typelevel
4 4 (1.93%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.45%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.45%) Solace
5 3 (1.45%) Splunk
6 2 (0.97%) Murex
6 2 (0.97%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (0.97%) Planview
6 2 (0.97%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Aareon
7 1 (0.48%) Capita
7 1 (0.48%) Civica
7 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.48%) Google
7 1 (0.48%) HP
7 1 (0.48%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.48%) Spotify