BDD Contracts in West Yorkshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 75 63
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 -11
Contract jobs citing BDD 11 30 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.11% 1.83% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.01% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 39
10th Percentile £400 £500 £451
25th Percentile £431 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +1.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £658 £675
90th Percentile £589 £691 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £66.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 871 1,495 1,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.80% 91.38% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 1,024 1,245
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 43
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.58 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £15.10 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.53 £25.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.38% +40.28% -22.40%
75th Percentile £15.24 £65.31 £22.58
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.45
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Leeds +9 9 £450 -20.00% 2
Bradford - 1 £550 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Gatling
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) JMeter
3 2 (18.18%) Mockito
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Scala Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (9.09%) IAM Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Scala Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Scala Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) JAX-RS
3 2 (18.18%) React
4 1 (9.09%) ADO
4 1 (9.09%) Akka
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (9.09%) OpenID
4 1 (9.09%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Mac OS X
1 4 (36.36%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (27.27%) Web Development
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (18.18%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
4 2 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (18.18%) SDET
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Web Design
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus