BDD Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 80 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing BDD 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.38% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,651 838 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.40% 88.58% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 436 731
10th Percentile £200 £237 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 178 589
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.66 £15.13
Median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.74% +26.58% +54.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the East of England

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Essex - 8 £510 -
BDD
England

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) JUnit
1 8 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 6 (75.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) GCP Software Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (25.00%) GCP Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Open Source
2 6 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Application Security
3 5 (62.50%) Architectural Design
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 8 (100.00%) Google