BDD Contracts in the Midlands

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 139 156
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -42
Contract jobs citing BDD 8 26 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.78% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.88% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 27
10th Percentile £379 £231 £285
25th Percentile £385 £280 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £495
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -24.24% +28.99%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £644
90th Percentile - £550 £711
England median daily rate £543 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.58% +9.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £74.30
% change year-on-year -22.41% -2.42% +13.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,230 2,945 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.11% 88.25% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,061 3,212
10th Percentile £235 £248 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +3.79% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £571
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 108 143
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +11.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands +10 7 £450 +10.77% 20
East Midlands +9 1 £398 +41.96% 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
3 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (25.00%) TestNG
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 4 (50.00%) React
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) SOA
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (25.00%) SDET
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Time Management
6 1 (12.50%) API Development
6 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce