BDD Contracts in Berkshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 115 88
Rank change year-on-year +28 -27 +27
Contract jobs citing BDD 6 9 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.45% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.51% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £529 -
25th Percentile - £536 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £460
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +23.64% -4.91%
75th Percentile - £598 £477
90th Percentile - £603 £500
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +29 5 £500 - 6
Bracknell - 1 - -
BDD
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 1 (16.67%) jMock
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) JSON
4 2 (33.33%) Playwright
4 2 (33.33%) WireMock
4 2 (33.33%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
5 1 (16.67%) MACH
5 1 (16.67%) SOAP
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Process Management
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Open Source
5 1 (16.67%) OWASP
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft