BDD Contracts in Yorkshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 92 96 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 -20 -4
Contract jobs citing BDD 14 33 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.83% 1.43% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.58% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 46
10th Percentile £400 £500 £456
25th Percentile £425 £541 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £585 £664 £667
90th Percentile £635 £689 £681
England median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £74.75
% change year-on-year -22.41% -3.01% +28.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,450 2,095 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.46% 90.81% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,389 1,759
10th Percentile £263 £298 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 61 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.19 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £27.50
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +11 11 £500 -10.11% 5
South Yorkshire +1 3 £625 -1.96%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) CloudBees
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 3 (21.43%) JMeter
5 2 (14.29%) Gatling
5 2 (14.29%) Git
5 2 (14.29%) Mockito
5 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
6 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Scala Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) IAM Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) JAX-RS
3 2 (14.29%) React
4 1 (7.14%) ADO
4 1 (7.14%) Akka
4 1 (7.14%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) OpenID
4 1 (7.14%) Redux
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Mac OS X
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) TDD
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Web Development
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Pair Programming
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Scala
3 4 (28.57%) Groovy
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google