BDD Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing BDD 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.88% 0.62% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £376 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - -
75th Percentile £610 - -
90th Percentile £681 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +37.50% -23.81% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 426 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.43% 88.38% 90.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 251 219
10th Percentile £268 £329 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £573 £558
90th Percentile £688 £650 £598
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 20
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.08 £17.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £17.44
Median hourly rate £22.85 £25.79 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -12.58% +88.38%
75th Percentile £40.75 £37.19 £35.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £67.38 £40.50
North West median hourly rate £29.80 £33.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -9.70% -7.04% +47.92%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Cheshire

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing BDD

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Cheshire

BDD
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Knutsford -27 2 £375 -
Wilmslow - 2 £663 -
Warrington - 1 £410 - 1
BDD
North West

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Datadog
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Gradle
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) Xcode
2 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) iOS Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 2 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (50.00%) Mobile Development
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) SOLID
4 3 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (50.00%) User Experience
4 3 (50.00%) UX Design
5 2 (33.33%) API Development
5 2 (33.33%) Coaching
5 2 (33.33%) iOS Development
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) C
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Ruby
2 3 (50.00%) Scala
2 3 (50.00%) Swift
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle