BDD Contract Job Trends in Central London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring BDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 99 125
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing BDD 14 30 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.73% 1.31% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.42% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 31
10th Percentile £390 £451 £451
25th Percentile £413 £506 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% +11.11%
75th Percentile £838 £720 £725
90th Percentile - £750 £775
London median daily rate £552 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,811 2,116 2,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.83% 92.12% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,376 2,067
10th Percentile £316 £375 £358
25th Percentile £413 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £788 £816
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 16
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.28 £16.02
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +30.84% -37.06%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £60.88
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year -9.29% -12.31% +7.88%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Central London

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BDD

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Central London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Central London

BDD
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
City of London -4 13 £700 +14.29% 30
BDD
London

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
2 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) Postman
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) JMeter
4 1 (7.14%) JUnit
4 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
4 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.14%) TestNG
4 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Angular Developer
3 4 (28.57%) OpenLink Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Developer in Test
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (35.71%) Web Services
3 4 (28.57%) .NET
3 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 4 (28.57%) ZK
4 3 (21.43%) React
4 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
5 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 2 (14.29%) JSON
5 2 (14.29%) Spring
6 1 (7.14%) CSS
6 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
6 1 (7.14%) HTML
6 1 (7.14%) Playwright
6 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 11 (78.57%) Kanban
3 9 (64.29%) TDD
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (50.00%) Microservices
4 7 (50.00%) Scrum
4 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
8 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) SDET
8 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
9 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
9 1 (7.14%) Data Strategy
9 1 (7.14%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) Python
3 9 (64.29%) SQL
4 5 (35.71%) C#
5 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) OpenLink
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks