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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 108 120
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing BDD 17 27 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.89% 1.15% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.24% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 27
10th Percentile £398 £475 £443
25th Percentile £413 £555 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £694
90th Percentile £838 £878 £730
London median daily rate £540 £550 £574
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.14% -8.20%

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 1,791 2,172 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.92% 92.15% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,382 1,916
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £780 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 17
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.54 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.05%
75th Percentile £35.63 £70.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £122.20 £59.30
London median hourly rate £30.50 £37.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% -7.13% +4.25%

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 15 October 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 October 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 -10 16 £533 -11.25% 26
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) dbt
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Cucumber
3 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
4 3 (17.65%) Selenium
5 2 (11.76%) JMeter
5 2 (11.76%) Postman
5 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
6 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.88%) JIRA
6 1 (5.88%) JUnit
6 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
6 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
6 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Java Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Angular Developer
4 4 (23.53%) OpenLink Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Developer in Test
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) REST
2 6 (35.29%) Web Services
3 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
4 4 (23.53%) .NET
4 4 (23.53%) React
4 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 4 (23.53%) ZK
5 3 (17.65%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) CSS
6 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
6 2 (11.76%) HTML
6 2 (11.76%) Playwright
7 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
7 1 (5.88%) Spring
7 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) Kanban
3 10 (58.82%) TDD
3 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
4 9 (52.94%) Scrum
5 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
5 8 (47.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (47.06%) Microservices
6 5 (29.41%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) SDET
8 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
9 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
9 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 2 (11.76%) Exploratory Testing
9 2 (11.76%) Migration
9 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) Python
3 9 (52.94%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) C#
4 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) OpenLink
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks