BDD Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BDD 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 4.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - £525 £825
% change year-on-year - -36.36% +91.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 10 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 96.00% 100.00% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 35
10th Percentile £346 £333 £450
25th Percentile £364 £382 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -27.28% +13.64%
75th Percentile £536 £532 £720
90th Percentile £605 £588 -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £22.12 - -
25th Percentile £24.07 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +150.00% -
75th Percentile - £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +14.63%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

BDD job vacancy trend in Blackpool

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk