BDD Contracts in the City of London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 102 124
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 -24
Contract jobs citing BDD 20 24 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.15% 1.10% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.21% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 39
10th Percentile - £400 £463
25th Percentile £413 £455 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £563 £675
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £580 £694 £775
90th Percentile £795 £725 £815
Central London median daily rate £425 £563 £675
% change year-on-year -24.44% -16.67% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,628 1,982 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.30% 90.59% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,403 2,228
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Git
2 10 (50.00%) Selenium
3 9 (45.00%) Postman
4 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (40.00%) JIRA
5 7 (35.00%) REST Assured
6 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (10.00%) JUnit
8 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (5.00%) Gatling
8 1 (5.00%) GitLab
8 1 (5.00%) Hamcrest
8 1 (5.00%) JBehave
8 1 (5.00%) JMeter
8 1 (5.00%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Python Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Test Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) OpenLink Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Automation Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Developer in Test
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Power Apps Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) REST
2 8 (40.00%) pytest
3 7 (35.00%) .NET
4 3 (15.00%) Web Services
5 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.00%) Kafka
5 2 (10.00%) Spring
5 2 (10.00%) ZK
6 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.00%) CSS
6 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (5.00%) JSON
6 1 (5.00%) Pandas
6 1 (5.00%) PySpark
6 1 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 9 (45.00%) Test Scripting
5 8 (40.00%) API Testing
5 8 (40.00%) Test Strategy
6 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 7 (35.00%) Open Source
6 7 (35.00%) TDD
7 6 (30.00%) Kanban
7 6 (30.00%) Microservices
8 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (20.00%) Scrum
10 3 (15.00%) Exploratory Testing
10 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
11 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 6 (30.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) OpenLink
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk