BDD Contracts in the East Midlands

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 62 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing BDD 1 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.18% 0.13% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.17% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £219 £389 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £219 £398 £280
Median % change year-on-year -44.91% +41.96% -45.37%
75th Percentile £220 £406 £394
90th Percentile - - £556
England median daily rate £525 £543 £600
% change year-on-year -3.23% -9.58% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 483 604 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.25% 78.44% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 408 689
10th Percentile £212 £200 £206
25th Percentile £326 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £411 £455
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -9.78% +3.41%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £575
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 56 61
10th Percentile - £11.33 £11.80
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £24.18 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £32.56 £38.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.95% -0.85% +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Northamptonshire -3 1 £219 -44.91%
BDD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft