BDD Contract Job Trends in East London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing BDD 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in East London 2.86% 2.65% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.97% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £468 £549 £513
25th Percentile £495 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.80%
75th Percentile - £608 £594
90th Percentile - £621 £725
London median daily rate £513 £568 £540
% change year-on-year -9.69% +5.09% -15.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 101 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 91.43% 89.38% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 83 212
10th Percentile £190 £390 £353
25th Percentile £430 £400 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £821 £650 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 14
10th Percentile £21.67 £25.05 £11.95
25th Percentile £23.33 £25.65 £14.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.63 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +40.68% -15.81%
75th Percentile £45.20 £27.62 £25.66
90th Percentile £75.86 £28.21 £38.28
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.08
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.36% -15.86%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

BDD job vacancy trend in East London

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 24 January 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets -3 3 £540 -7.69%
BDD
London

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Backend Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) OSGi
2 1 (33.33%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Marketo
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle