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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 122 104
Rank change year-on-year -5 -18 +29
Contract jobs citing BDD 17 16 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.67% 0.78% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.83% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 18
10th Percentile £313 £398 £451
25th Percentile £363 £469 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £720
90th Percentile - £838 £750
London median daily rate £494 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -16.31% +7.27% -11.29%

All Process & 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 2,247 1,921 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.33% 93.84% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,268 1,433
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £423 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.14 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.43
Median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%
75th Percentile £45.37 £49.22 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.88 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

BDD job vacancy trend 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 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 2026. 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 -10 17 £525 -12.13% 10
BDD
London

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 8 (47.06%) GitHub
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
2 8 (47.06%) GitLab
2 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
3 6 (35.29%) JUnit
4 5 (29.41%) Git
4 5 (29.41%) Mockito
4 5 (29.41%) Postman
5 4 (23.53%) JIRA
5 4 (23.53%) Selenium
6 2 (11.76%) Gatling
6 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
6 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
7 1 (5.88%) Appium
7 1 (5.88%) JMeter
7 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
7 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (47.06%) Banking
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Gherkin
2 6 (35.29%) Kafka
3 5 (29.41%) Spring
3 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) WireMock
4 4 (23.53%) Playwright
4 4 (23.53%) SOAP
4 4 (23.53%) YAML
5 3 (17.65%) REST
6 2 (11.76%) Django
6 2 (11.76%) HTML
6 2 (11.76%) Web Services
7 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.88%) CSS
7 1 (5.88%) Jakarta EE
7 1 (5.88%) Java EE
7 1 (5.88%) Middleware
7 1 (5.88%) RESTful
7 1 (5.88%) XBRL
7 1 (5.88%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
1 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) API Testing
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) TDD
6 5 (29.41%) OOP
6 5 (29.41%) Performance Testing
7 4 (23.53%) AI
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (23.53%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Issue Tracking
7 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Validation
7 4 (23.53%) Webhook
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
9 2 (11.76%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
6 2 (11.76%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Guidewire
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle