BDD Contracts in Birmingham

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 59 75
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing BDD 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.92% 0.68% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.85% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £439 £390 -
25th Percentile £478 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -25.44%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £450 £406
% change year-on-year +2.78% +10.77% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £56.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 473 587 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.63% 79.86% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 401 508
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £315 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £625
90th Percentile £643 £711 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 26
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £14.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.65 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +0.61% +38.42%
75th Percentile £22.08 £50.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £75.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.97 £25.25
% change year-on-year +18.61% -24.87% +46.38%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Birmingham

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Birmingham

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS KMS
2 4 (80.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
2 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (80.00%) DbUnit
2 4 (80.00%) jMock
2 4 (80.00%) JUnit
2 4 (80.00%) Mockito
2 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) Bootstrap
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) JPA
2 4 (80.00%) PowerMock
2 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Batch
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (80.00%) Jaspersoft