BDD Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.22% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £306 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
75th Percentile £313 - £488
90th Percentile £314 - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -14.58%

All Process & 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 784 476 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.22% 86.70% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 283 437
10th Percentile £190 £250 £200
25th Percentile £350 £341 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -5.50% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £634 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 21 48
10th Percentile £15.15 - £11.12
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £15.13
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +18.59% +12.73%
75th Percentile £24.36 £30.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.68 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing BDD

BDD
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 19 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £310 - 1
BDD
England

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft