BDD Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 58 61
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +21
Contract jobs citing BDD 3 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.51% 0.88% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.95% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - - £396
25th Percentile - £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% - -6.85%
75th Percentile - £438 £450
90th Percentile - £472 £460
Scotland median daily rate £545 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +28.24% - -8.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 528 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.20% 92.47% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 276 483
10th Percentile £230 £216 £212
25th Percentile £406 £398 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £638 £630
Scotland median daily rate £468 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.89% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 30 13
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.23 £12.14
25th Percentile - £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +34.80% -17.69%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £28.97 £59.94
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.21
% change year-on-year -15.22% +29.58% -1.59%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) LangChain
1 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Equities
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) ModelOps
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) Reuters