BDD Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 95 111
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing BDD 16 33 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.89% 1.54% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.68% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 22
10th Percentile £414 £413 £464
25th Percentile £416 £425 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £571 £551
Median % change year-on-year -22.98% +3.77% -20.04%
75th Percentile £549 £634 £675
90th Percentile £602 £841 £694
Central London median daily rate £440 £571 £551
% change year-on-year -22.98% +3.77% -17.68%

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 1,655 1,969 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.74% 91.67% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,215 1,668
10th Percentile £332 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BDD

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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 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) GitHub
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) dbt
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Git
2 7 (43.75%) Bitbucket
3 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 2 (12.50%) SoapUI
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA
5 1 (6.25%) JMeter
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
1 11 (68.75%) Java Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Angular Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) REST
2 8 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 7 (43.75%) React
3 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
4 5 (31.25%) Web Services
5 4 (25.00%) ZK
6 2 (12.50%) JSON
6 2 (12.50%) SOAP
7 1 (6.25%) CSS
7 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
7 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
7 1 (6.25%) HTML
7 1 (6.25%) Playwright
7 1 (6.25%) Spring
7 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
1 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
3 12 (75.00%) Scrum
3 12 (75.00%) TDD
4 11 (68.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (68.75%) Kanban
5 7 (43.75%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Migration
8 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (31.25%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks