BDD Contracts in the Thames Valley

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 -30
Contract jobs citing BDD 11 37 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 1.27% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 1.39% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 24
10th Percentile £481 - £369
25th Percentile £509 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £583 £500 £500
90th Percentile £597 - £534
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,335 2,654 3,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.45% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,309 1,852 2,114
10th Percentile £213 £323 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year - +3.31% +7.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 62 87
10th Percentile £14.42 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.38
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire -30 9 £569 +23.64% 2
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £513 -2.38%
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (36.36%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
1 5 (45.45%) JUnit
2 4 (36.36%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) Android Studio
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) Selenium
4 1 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) Xcode
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Tester
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Applications Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) REST
2 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
2 5 (45.45%) RESTful
2 5 (45.45%) Spring
2 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 5 (45.45%) Web Services
3 4 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
3 4 (36.36%) SOAP
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) J2EE
5 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
6 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
6 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
6 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (9.09%) CSS3
6 1 (9.09%) Playwright
6 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
6 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) TDD
2 8 (72.73%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Scrum
4 5 (45.45%) Kanban
5 4 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
7 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
7 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (18.18%) High Availability
7 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
8 1 (9.09%) Information Security
8 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
8 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
8 1 (9.09%) Refactoring
8 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk