BDD Contracts in Manchester

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 85 53
Rank change year-on-year +21 -32 +10
Contract jobs citing BDD 21 21 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.78% 1.24% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.40% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 66
10th Percentile £324 £285 £366
25th Percentile - £353 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £511 £625 £675
90th Percentile £570 - £700
North West median daily rate £400 £500 £544
% change year-on-year -20.00% -8.05% +26.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,033 1,497 2,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.39% 88.27% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 1,073 1,820
10th Percentile £313 £277 £288
25th Percentile £406 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 60 54
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.72 £9.90
25th Percentile £21.44 £16.79 £14.68
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.22% -1.25% +19.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £68.94
90th Percentile £87.45 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year +21.43% +57.30% +23.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) GitHub
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) BrowserStack
3 2 (9.52%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) Appium
2 5 (23.81%) Cucumber
3 4 (19.05%) GitLab
4 3 (14.29%) Bundler
5 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
5 2 (9.52%) Git
5 2 (9.52%) JIRA
5 2 (9.52%) Selenium
6 1 (4.76%) Mockito
6 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Games
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Automation Tester
2 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Tester
3 4 (19.05%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Java Automation Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
1 4 (19.05%) React
2 3 (14.29%) JSON
2 3 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) XML
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
3 2 (9.52%) pytest
3 2 (9.52%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.76%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) JAX-RS
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Android
1 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Agile
2 16 (76.19%) Test Automation
3 14 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 13 (61.90%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (47.62%) Integration Testing
5 10 (47.62%) TDD
6 9 (42.86%) Agile Testing
6 9 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
6 9 (42.86%) Functional Testing
6 9 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
6 9 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
6 9 (42.86%) Software Testing
6 9 (42.86%) Task Automation
6 9 (42.86%) Test Management
6 9 (42.86%) Test Planning
6 9 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
8 6 (28.57%) DevOps
9 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Ruby
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle