BDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 209 177
Rank change year-on-year -83 -32 -36
Contract jobs citing BDD 93 276 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.17% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.31% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 195 287
10th Percentile £354 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £446 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £617
90th Percentile £678 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 7
10th Percentile - £61.75 £44.00
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +45.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.52
90th Percentile - - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +61.83%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -31 29 £500 -11.15% 27
South East -31 28 £550 +10.00% 29
South West -7 17 £590 +18.00% 25
Yorkshire -3 14 £550 -12.00% 7
North West +2 12 £500 -9.09% 18
Midlands +13 8 £425 +13.33% 28
West Midlands +20 7 £450 +10.77% 18
Scotland +13 7 £498 +4.84% 7
Wales +20 3 £363 -39.58% 4
North East +3 3 - - 2
East Midlands +8 1 £398 +41.96% 10
East of England -3 1 £500 -14.68% 16
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (5.38%) Drupal
2 4 (4.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.08%) Appian
4 1 (1.08%) IIS
4 1 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (37.63%) AWS
2 26 (27.96%) Azure
3 13 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.75%) GitHub
5 9 (9.68%) Serverless
6 6 (6.45%) BrowserStack
6 6 (6.45%) GCP
7 4 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.30%) Datadog
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.15%) CloudBees
9 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.15%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.15%) IaaS
9 2 (2.15%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) SaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) HTTP
2 3 (3.23%) BGP
2 3 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (3.23%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.90%) MySQL
3 11 (11.83%) MongoDB
3 11 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.23%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.15%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.08%) DB2
7 1 (1.08%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (31.18%) Git
1 29 (31.18%) Jenkins
2 28 (30.11%) Selenium
3 21 (22.58%) Cucumber
4 16 (17.20%) JIRA
5 12 (12.90%) Cypress.io
6 11 (11.83%) Postman
7 10 (10.75%) JMeter
7 10 (10.75%) WebDriver
8 7 (7.53%) Visual Studio
9 6 (6.45%) NUnit
10 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.38%) Gatling
10 5 (5.38%) GitLab
10 5 (5.38%) JUnit
10 5 (5.38%) SpecFlow
10 5 (5.38%) Subversion
11 4 (4.30%) Mockito
12 3 (3.23%) Maven
12 3 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.90%) Finance
3 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.23%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.08%) Electronics
7 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Law
7 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (32.26%) Developer
2 22 (23.66%) Senior
3 16 (17.20%) Test Engineer
4 14 (15.05%) Software Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Java Developer
6 11 (11.83%) Senior Test Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Drupal Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Lead
9 5 (5.38%) Scala Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Tester
10 4 (4.30%) Architect
10 4 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.35%) React
2 16 (17.20%) AngularJS
2 16 (17.20%) REST
3 15 (16.13%) .NET
4 14 (15.05%) RESTful
5 13 (13.98%) Web Services
6 12 (12.90%) Kafka
7 11 (11.83%) Spring
8 10 (10.75%) CSS
8 10 (10.75%) GraphQL
9 8 (8.60%) HTML
10 7 (7.53%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (7.53%) Node.js
10 7 (7.53%) Playwright
10 7 (7.53%) Spring Boot
11 5 (5.38%) Gherkin
11 5 (5.38%) Next.js
11 5 (5.38%) Sass
12 4 (4.30%) HTML5
12 4 (4.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.45%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Mac OS X
2 6 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Android
3 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (77.42%) Agile
2 65 (69.89%) TDD
3 48 (51.61%) Test Automation
4 46 (49.46%) CI/CD
5 32 (34.41%) DevOps
6 26 (27.96%) Microservices
7 25 (26.88%) Software Engineering
8 22 (23.66%) Full Stack Development
9 20 (21.51%) Scrum
10 17 (18.28%) Kanban
11 15 (16.13%) SDLC
11 15 (16.13%) Test Strategy
12 13 (13.98%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (12.90%) Manual Testing
13 12 (12.90%) Waterfall
14 10 (10.75%) Mentoring
15 8 (8.60%) Non-Functional Testing
15 8 (8.60%) Open Source
15 8 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (8.60%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 53 (56.99%) Java
2 36 (38.71%) JavaScript
3 28 (30.11%) SQL
4 18 (19.35%) Python
4 18 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 9 (9.68%) C#
5 9 (9.68%) Scala
6 7 (7.53%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.45%) Bash
7 6 (6.45%) Groovy
8 5 (5.38%) C++
8 5 (5.38%) Go
8 5 (5.38%) PHP
9 4 (4.30%) C
10 3 (3.23%) Perl
10 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.23%) Ruby
10 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.53%) Degree
4 5 (5.38%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.30%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.15%) ISEB
6 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) Accessibility
1 9 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (25.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.98%) Terraform
3 10 (10.75%) Ansible
4 5 (5.38%) Grafana
5 3 (3.23%) Nagios
5 3 (3.23%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.23%) Puppet
6 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
7 1 (1.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.30%) New Relic
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle
1 4 (4.30%) Splunk
2 3 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.23%) Cisco
2 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.23%) TOWER Software
3 2 (2.15%) Google
3 2 (2.15%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.08%) Confluent
4 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.08%) IBM
4 1 (1.08%) OpenText
4 1 (1.08%) Pega
4 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.08%) SAP
4 1 (1.08%) VMware