BDD Contracts in the North West

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 116 84
Rank change year-on-year -9 -32 +7
Contract jobs citing BDD 12 37 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.43% 1.15% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.27% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 59
10th Percentile £413 £285 £410
25th Percentile £444 £379 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -3.18% +20.88%
75th Percentile - £625 £659
90th Percentile £534 £685 £675
England median daily rate £540 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.73% +5.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +1 12 £500 -7.41% 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) BrowserStack
4 2 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) Figma
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Selenium
2 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) JMeter
4 3 (25.00%) Postman
5 2 (16.67%) Appium
5 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 2 (16.67%) Gatling
5 2 (16.67%) GitLab
5 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
5 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
6 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (8.33%) Gradle
6 1 (8.33%) Maven
6 1 (8.33%) Mercurial
6 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (8.33%) TestCafe
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) Jest
3 1 (8.33%) Next.js
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) API Testing
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 2 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Operational Stability
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (8.33%) Confluent
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic