BDD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 165 127
Rank change year-on-year -68 -38 -23
Contract jobs citing BDD 108 384 924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 1.53% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.71% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 262 675
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £448 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £625
90th Percentile £788 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 11
10th Percentile - £61.25 £45.00
25th Percentile - £63.50 £48.13
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +10.62% +59.85%
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile - - £73.75
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

BDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BDD trend for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD.

BDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BDD over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

BDD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD.

BDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) RMDS
2 2 (1.85%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.93%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (36.11%) Azure
2 36 (33.33%) AWS
3 21 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.33%) Serverless
5 8 (7.41%) GitHub
5 8 (7.41%) PowerApps
6 6 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.70%) Azure API Management
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Batch
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 4 (3.70%) GCP
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) BGP
1 3 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (2.78%) IOS XR
2 1 (0.93%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.48%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.63%) KDB
4 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.70%) MySQL
5 4 (3.70%) OLTP
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.78%) Big Data
6 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.85%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.85%) Power BI
7 2 (1.85%) Redis
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) DB2
8 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (28.70%) Selenium
2 28 (25.93%) Git
3 26 (24.07%) Cucumber
4 21 (19.44%) Jenkins
5 15 (13.89%) JIRA
5 15 (13.89%) JMeter
6 14 (12.96%) SpecFlow
7 13 (12.04%) Postman
8 11 (10.19%) WebDriver
9 9 (8.33%) Visual Studio
10 8 (7.41%) Bitbucket
10 8 (7.41%) Cypress.io
10 8 (7.41%) TestNG
11 7 (6.48%) GitLab
11 7 (6.48%) JUnit
11 7 (6.48%) REST Assured
12 6 (5.56%) SoapUI
13 5 (4.63%) Appium
13 5 (4.63%) Mockito
14 4 (3.70%) Moq
General
1 23 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.37%) Finance
3 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Banking
6 5 (4.63%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.70%) Retail
8 3 (2.78%) Electronics
8 3 (2.78%) Front Office
8 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.78%) Marketing
9 2 (1.85%) Back Office
9 2 (1.85%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (37.96%) Developer
2 26 (24.07%) Senior
3 16 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 14 (12.96%) Analyst
4 14 (12.96%) Tester
5 13 (12.04%) Java Developer
6 11 (10.19%) Test Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Lead
7 9 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Automation Tester
9 7 (6.48%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.56%) C# Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Test Analyst
11 5 (4.63%) KDB Developer
11 5 (4.63%) Technical Analyst
12 4 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.07%) REST
2 25 (23.15%) .NET
3 14 (12.96%) Web Services
4 12 (11.11%) React
5 11 (10.19%) Spring
6 10 (9.26%) .NET Framework
6 10 (9.26%) Playwright
7 9 (8.33%) GraphQL
8 8 (7.41%) HTML
8 8 (7.41%) Kafka
8 8 (7.41%) RESTful
9 7 (6.48%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.48%) JSON
9 7 (6.48%) OAuth
9 7 (6.48%) Spring Boot
10 6 (5.56%) Node.js
10 6 (5.56%) OpenAPI
10 6 (5.56%) SOAP
10 6 (5.56%) Swagger
11 5 (4.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.63%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.70%) Derivative
3 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.70%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.93%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.93%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.26%) Linux
2 5 (4.63%) Unix
3 3 (2.78%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.26%) TDD
2 63 (58.33%) Agile
2 63 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 42 (38.89%) DevOps
4 38 (35.19%) CI/CD
5 26 (24.07%) Microservices
6 24 (22.22%) Scrum
7 20 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 17 (15.74%) SDLC
9 16 (14.81%) Software Testing
10 15 (13.89%) Kanban
10 15 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.04%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (12.04%) Manual Testing
11 13 (12.04%) Test Strategy
12 11 (10.19%) API Development
12 11 (10.19%) API Testing
12 11 (10.19%) Full Stack Development
13 10 (9.26%) SDET
13 10 (9.26%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 57 (52.78%) Java
2 26 (24.07%) JavaScript
3 24 (22.22%) C#
4 23 (21.30%) SQL
5 21 (19.44%) Python
6 17 (15.74%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.48%) Bash
8 7 (6.48%) Scala
9 5 (4.63%) C
10 4 (3.70%) C++
11 3 (2.78%) Perl
11 3 (2.78%) Ruby
11 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.85%) Groovy
12 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.93%) Go
13 1 (0.93%) VBA
13 1 (0.93%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (3.70%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.85%) ISEB
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.67%) QA
2 10 (9.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.81%) Terraform
3 9 (8.33%) Ansible
4 4 (3.70%) Grafana
4 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.70%) Puppet
5 3 (2.78%) Kibana
5 3 (2.78%) Nagios
6 2 (1.85%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.93%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.33%) Oracle
3 6 (5.56%) SAP
3 6 (5.56%) Splunk
4 5 (4.63%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.70%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.78%) Cisco
6 3 (2.78%) Google
6 3 (2.78%) HP
6 3 (2.78%) New Relic
6 3 (2.78%) Solace
6 3 (2.78%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.85%) NEC
7 2 (1.85%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.93%) IBM
8 1 (0.93%) OpenLink