BDD Contracts in Bristol

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 53 66 92
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -9
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.37% 0.76% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.91% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £526 £472 £491
25th Percentile £545 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £553 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -15.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile £635 £590 £675
90th Percentile £655 - £719
South West median daily rate £525 £590 £500
% change year-on-year -11.02% +18.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft