BDD Contracts in Berkshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 84 103
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 -21
Contract jobs citing BDD 6 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.31% 1.49% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.66% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 20
10th Percentile £529 - £404
25th Percentile £536 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £460 £489
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -5.88% +3.44%
75th Percentile £598 £484 £500
90th Percentile £603 £500 £540
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% +1.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,711 1,570 2,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.84% 90.07% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 1,009 1,348
10th Percentile £213 £348 £275
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 47 40
10th Percentile £18.55 £19.10 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.57 £58.75 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +179.43% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.80 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.61 £69.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -3.06% +127.90% -21.82%

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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 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -36 4 - - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
4 1 (16.67%) WireMock
4 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Process Management
5 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk