Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 261 109
Rank change year-on-year -22 -152 0
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,017 1,424 5,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.37% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.44% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 803 956 1,955
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,706 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.30% +9.05% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD.

Salary trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in the UK

BDD
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -11 823 £60,000 -17.24% 217
UK excluding London +78 735 £57,500 -8.30% 128
Work from Home +53 714 £60,000 -14.29% 255
London -90 258 £85,000 +3.03% 95
South East +124 243 £60,000 +4.35% 33
North of England +16 142 £57,500 -5.74% 25
Scotland -16 126 £60,000 -11.29% 5
North West +9 78 £55,000 -9.47% 19
Midlands -2 74 £52,500 -12.50% 25
East of England +38 68 £60,000 -17.24% 15
South West -14 60 £56,250 -10.00% 19
West Midlands -12 53 £52,500 -19.23% 17
Yorkshire +30 45 £65,465 +0.71% 3
East Midlands +7 21 £52,500 -12.50% 8
North East +5 19 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Wales +18 17 £45,000 -6.25% 6
Northern Ireland +10 5 £57,500 +35.29% 1

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 42 (4.13%) OpenStack
2 20 (1.97%) Apache
3 13 (1.28%) JBoss
4 12 (1.18%) CMS
4 12 (1.18%) Confluence
5 11 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.69%) EPiServer
6 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.59%) DNN
7 6 (0.59%) Immediacy CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Kentico
7 6 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Sitefinity
7 6 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.098%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 588 (57.82%) Azure
2 525 (51.62%) AWS
3 81 (7.96%) Serverless
4 59 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
6 54 (5.31%) SaaS
7 52 (5.11%) GCP
8 34 (3.34%) GitHub
9 30 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (2.65%) BlazeMeter
11 17 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (0.98%) PaaS
15 9 (0.88%) Azure Functions
16 8 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (0.79%) BrowserStack
16 8 (0.79%) Slack
17 7 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (0.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.80%) Internet
2 21 (2.06%) DNS
3 19 (1.87%) Firewall
4 16 (1.57%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.49%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.49%) RS-232
6 5 (0.49%) RS-485
6 5 (0.49%) VoIP
6 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.49%) Wireless
6 5 (0.49%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.39%) SSL
8 3 (0.29%) HTTP
9 2 (0.20%) Broadband
9 2 (0.20%) SSH
10 1 (0.098%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (39.72%) SQL Server
2 271 (26.65%) MongoDB
3 221 (21.73%) Elasticsearch
4 157 (15.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 109 (10.72%) NoSQL
6 103 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
7 77 (7.57%) Relational Database
8 45 (4.42%) MySQL
9 12 (1.18%) Big Data
9 12 (1.18%) Redis
10 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.39%) Power BI
15 3 (0.29%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 188 (18.49%) Selenium
2 183 (17.99%) Jenkins
3 162 (15.93%) Cucumber
4 131 (12.88%) Git
5 119 (11.70%) JUnit
6 108 (10.62%) Cypress.io
7 91 (8.95%) WebDriver
8 86 (8.46%) Postman
9 61 (6.00%) Jasmine
10 60 (5.90%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (5.90%) Protractor
11 58 (5.70%) JIRA
12 47 (4.62%) JMeter
13 30 (2.95%) Maven
14 29 (2.85%) REST Assured
15 27 (2.65%) SpecFlow
16 23 (2.26%) GitLab
17 18 (1.77%) TestNG
18 13 (1.28%) TeamCity
19 11 (1.08%) Appium
General
1 234 (23.01%) Finance
2 127 (12.49%) Social Skills
3 125 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 117 (11.50%) Banking
5 106 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 101 (9.93%) Law
7 79 (7.77%) Marketing
8 72 (7.08%) Investment Banking
9 44 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
10 43 (4.23%) Advertising
11 41 (4.03%) Retail
12 35 (3.44%) Games
13 22 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.08%) French Language
15 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.69%) Legal
17 6 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.49%) Electronics
18 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 550 (54.08%) Developer
2 390 (38.35%) .NET Developer
3 187 (18.39%) Software Engineer
4 155 (15.24%) Senior
5 150 (14.75%) Java Engineer
6 136 (13.37%) Java Software Engineer
7 119 (11.70%) C# Developer
8 113 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
9 109 (10.72%) Lead
10 83 (8.16%) Java Developer
11 58 (5.70%) Full Stack Developer
12 56 (5.51%) Senior Developer
13 53 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
14 50 (4.92%) QA Engineer
15 37 (3.64%) Internet Developer
16 35 (3.44%) Senior Java Engineer
16 35 (3.44%) Tester
17 33 (3.24%) Full Stack Engineer
17 33 (3.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 28 (2.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (44.84%) .NET
2 387 (38.05%) .NET Core
3 384 (37.76%) ASP.NET
4 377 (37.07%) Entity Framework
5 376 (36.97%) Node.js
6 373 (36.68%) ASP.NET MVC
7 366 (35.99%) React
8 347 (34.12%) AngularJS
9 265 (26.06%) HTML
10 259 (25.47%) CSS
11 237 (23.30%) .NET Framework
12 222 (21.83%) ASP.NET Web API
13 221 (21.73%) Vue
14 205 (20.16%) Spring
15 199 (19.57%) REST
16 161 (15.83%) HTML5
17 159 (15.63%) CSS3
18 157 (15.44%) Blazor
19 127 (12.49%) Spring Boot
20 112 (11.01%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.47%) Greenfield Project
2 64 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 53 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.75%) Market Risk
7 25 (2.46%) Digital TV
8 23 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 23 (2.26%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.79%) Derivative
15 7 (0.69%) Credit Derivative
15 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 7 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.33%) Linux
2 19 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.57%) Android
4 12 (1.18%) Unix
4 12 (1.18%) Windows
5 5 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.49%) ThreadX
6 4 (0.39%) DC/OS
6 4 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (82.89%) Agile
2 832 (81.81%) TDD
3 481 (47.30%) Full Stack Development
4 440 (43.26%) Microservices
5 392 (38.54%) Scrum
6 383 (37.66%) MVC
7 338 (33.24%) CI/CD
8 315 (30.97%) Kanban
9 262 (25.76%) Software Engineering
10 237 (23.30%) Test Automation
11 194 (19.08%) DevOps
12 177 (17.40%) SDLC
13 115 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
14 104 (10.23%) Artificial Intelligence
14 104 (10.23%) Software Testing
15 100 (9.83%) API Testing
16 96 (9.44%) Machine Learning
17 91 (8.95%) Operational Stability
18 89 (8.75%) Fintech
19 82 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 636 (62.54%) JavaScript
2 473 (46.51%) C#
3 456 (44.84%) Java
4 331 (32.55%) TypeScript
5 316 (31.07%) SQL
6 118 (11.60%) Python
7 35 (3.44%) Go
8 18 (1.77%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.08%) Bash
9 11 (1.08%) C
10 9 (0.88%) Ruby
11 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.59%) C++
12 6 (0.59%) PHP
13 5 (0.49%) Groovy
13 5 (0.49%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.49%) R
14 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.39%) Perl
14 4 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 117 (11.50%) Security Cleared
2 100 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 46 (4.52%) Degree
4 28 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (0.79%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.39%) CIPD
10 4 (0.39%) ISEB
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.29%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.098%) PhD
13 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (12.49%) QA
2 31 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 8 (0.79%) PSD2
4 4 (0.39%) NCSC
5 3 (0.29%) ISO 9000
5 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.20%) SEPA
7 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (12.98%) Docker
2 31 (3.05%) Hyper-V
3 19 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 65 (6.39%) Ansible
3 61 (6.00%) Terraform
4 13 (1.28%) Kibana
5 12 (1.18%) Grafana
6 10 (0.98%) Puppet
7 8 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.49%) Argo
9 4 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.29%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.20%) Istio
11 2 (0.20%) linkerd
11 2 (0.20%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Podman
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.098%) Consul
12 1 (0.098%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 417 (41.00%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.13%) WSO2
3 39 (3.83%) Google
4 26 (2.56%) Oracle
5 18 (1.77%) Facebook
6 13 (1.28%) Splunk
7 12 (1.18%) Databricks
8 9 (0.88%) TOWER Software
9 8 (0.79%) Duck Creek
10 6 (0.59%) Alterian
10 6 (0.59%) Confluent
10 6 (0.59%) IBM
10 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.59%) YouTube
11 5 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.39%) New Relic
12 4 (0.39%) VMware
13 3 (0.29%) Atlassian