BDD Contracts in Central London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 108 132
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 -23
Contract jobs citing BDD 14 28 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 1.18% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.30% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 34
10th Percentile £405 £405 £458
25th Percentile £413 £459 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -13.46% +9.70%
75th Percentile £580 £691 £734
90th Percentile £838 £735 £775
London median daily rate £588 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +6.82% -12.00% +4.17%

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 1,862 2,159 3,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.61% 91.17% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,511 2,267
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 27
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Central London

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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 3 July 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 -5 13 £488 -13.33% 53
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London

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
2 7 (50.00%) Selenium
3 6 (42.86%) Postman
4 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
5 4 (28.57%) JIRA
5 4 (28.57%) REST Assured
6 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
6 3 (21.43%) JUnit
7 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (14.29%) GitLab
8 1 (7.14%) Gatling
8 1 (7.14%) Hamcrest
8 1 (7.14%) JBehave
8 1 (7.14%) JMeter
8 1 (7.14%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
8 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (7.14%) TestNG
8 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) OpenLink Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Python Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer in Test
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) pytest
3 3 (21.43%) Web Services
4 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 2 (14.29%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) ZK
5 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.14%) CSS
5 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
5 1 (7.14%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) Kafka
5 1 (7.14%) Pandas
5 1 (7.14%) Playwright
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (42.86%) Kanban
4 6 (42.86%) TDD
4 6 (42.86%) Test Scripting
5 5 (35.71%) API Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Microservices
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 3 (21.43%) Open Source
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Scrum
8 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 2 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) SQL
4 6 (42.86%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) OpenLink
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk