BDD Contract Job Trends in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 300 278
Rank change year-on-year -48 -22 -81
Contract jobs citing BDD 266 205 302
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.82% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.90% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 138 242
10th Percentile £344 £371 £351
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -6.25% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £45.13 - -
25th Percentile £45.31 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £56.25
75th Percentile £47.81 - -
90th Percentile £48.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - -22.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,836 22,759 32,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.40% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,282 14,723 20,802
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,078 2,398
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

BDD job vacancy trend in England

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BDD

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in England

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
London -70 106 £500 -14.71% 19
North of England -43 80 £453 -0.44% 11
Midlands -32 43 £425 -11.69% 12
West Midlands -33 42 £425 -15.00% 11
North West -19 40 £438 +8.83% 5
Yorkshire -59 26 £620 +19.29% 3
South West -23 19 £525 +23.53% 1
North East -24 18 £450 +7.14% 3
South East -69 13 £359 -24.53% 17
East of England -26 8 £510 - 5
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 41 (15.41%) Confluence
2 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Notion
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Mingle
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.01%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.13%) Findur
3 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 95 (35.71%) AWS
2 80 (30.08%) Azure
3 64 (24.06%) GitHub
4 36 (13.53%) GCP
5 34 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (11.28%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (8.65%) Amazon SQS
8 21 (7.89%) Amazon S3
8 21 (7.89%) Serverless
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.51%) AWS KMS
10 12 (4.51%) BrowserStack
10 12 (4.51%) Route 53
11 7 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.50%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) 3GPP
1 6 (2.26%) RTP
1 6 (2.26%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.13%) WAN
3 2 (0.75%) DSL
3 2 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) Internet
3 2 (0.75%) NaaS
4 1 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 19 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.77%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.13%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.13%) MySQL
11 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.75%) Flink
11 2 (0.75%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.75%) Power BI
11 2 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 95 (35.71%) Cucumber
2 81 (30.45%) Git
3 71 (26.69%) Jenkins
3 71 (26.69%) Selenium
4 61 (22.93%) JUnit
5 57 (21.43%) JIRA
6 55 (20.68%) GitLab
7 38 (14.29%) REST Assured
8 36 (13.53%) Mockito
9 32 (12.03%) Postman
9 32 (12.03%) WebDriver
10 30 (11.28%) SonarQube
11 25 (9.40%) JMeter
12 18 (6.77%) Maven
13 15 (5.64%) SpecFlow
14 14 (5.26%) Cypress.io
14 14 (5.26%) Gatling
14 14 (5.26%) TeamCity
15 12 (4.51%) DbUnit
16 11 (4.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 72 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.68%) Finance
3 53 (19.92%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.77%) Banking
6 9 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.63%) Military
8 6 (2.26%) Retail
9 5 (1.88%) Aviation
9 5 (1.88%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.88%) Police
10 3 (1.13%) Billing
10 3 (1.13%) Front Office
10 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Automotive
11 2 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (28.57%) Developer
2 57 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 54 (20.30%) Senior
4 48 (18.05%) Test Engineer
5 39 (14.66%) Lead
6 31 (11.65%) Software Engineer
7 26 (9.77%) Test Automation Engineer
8 25 (9.40%) Tester
9 19 (7.14%) Automation Tester
9 19 (7.14%) Java Engineer
10 18 (6.77%) Test Leader
11 17 (6.39%) Senior Developer
11 17 (6.39%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.14%) Automation Test Lead
12 11 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (4.14%) Senior Tester
13 10 (3.76%) QA Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) Salesforce Engineer
14 9 (3.38%) Analyst
14 9 (3.38%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (29.32%) Spring
2 61 (22.93%) Spring Boot
3 51 (19.17%) Playwright
4 50 (18.80%) REST
5 47 (17.67%) Kafka
6 34 (12.78%) Gherkin
7 32 (12.03%) RESTful
8 29 (10.90%) AngularJS
9 27 (10.15%) .NET
9 27 (10.15%) WireMock
10 25 (9.40%) Node.js
11 22 (8.27%) ActiveMQ
11 22 (8.27%) React
12 19 (7.14%) SOAP
12 19 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
13 17 (6.39%) Web Services
14 16 (6.02%) JPA
15 15 (5.64%) Hibernate
16 14 (5.26%) Spring Batch
17 12 (4.51%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.78%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.77%) Product Ownership
4 16 (6.02%) Distributed Architecture
5 12 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.88%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.88%) Robotics
7 5 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.13%) Equities
8 3 (1.13%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.75%) PKI
9 2 (0.75%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) CMDB
10 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.79%) Linux
2 15 (5.64%) Unix
3 10 (3.76%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.88%) Android
4 5 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.75%) VMS
5 2 (0.75%) Windows
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (64.29%) Agile
2 164 (61.65%) TDD
3 154 (57.89%) Test Automation
4 151 (56.77%) CI/CD
5 111 (41.73%) Microservices
6 98 (36.84%) DevOps
7 57 (21.43%) Test Strategy
8 54 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (20.30%) Scrum
9 53 (19.92%) API Testing
9 53 (19.92%) Software Engineering
10 43 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (15.41%) Observability
12 38 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 36 (13.53%) Continuous Integration
14 35 (13.16%) SDLC
15 32 (12.03%) Kanban
16 30 (11.28%) AI
16 30 (11.28%) Containerisation
16 30 (11.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 159 (59.77%) Java
2 64 (24.06%) SQL
3 47 (17.67%) Python
4 43 (16.17%) C#
5 38 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 21 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.63%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.26%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.88%) C++
9 5 (1.88%) Groovy
10 4 (1.50%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) Bash
11 2 (0.75%) PromQL
11 2 (0.75%) Ruby
11 2 (0.75%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) Bicep
12 1 (0.38%) COBOL
12 1 (0.38%) Cypher
12 1 (0.38%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 72 (27.07%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.14%) Degree
4 11 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (19.17%) QA
2 30 (11.28%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.01%) WCAG
4 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 79 (29.70%) Docker
2 9 (3.38%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (22.18%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.79%) Grafana
3 35 (13.16%) Prometheus
4 23 (8.65%) Terraform
5 8 (3.01%) Ansible
6 3 (1.13%) Istio
6 3 (1.13%) Kibana
7 2 (0.75%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.75%) Consul
7 2 (0.75%) Rancher
7 2 (0.75%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.02%) Salesforce
2 15 (5.64%) Atlassian
3 13 (4.89%) Oracle
4 12 (4.51%) Google
5 11 (4.14%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.01%) Checkmarx
6 8 (3.01%) Splunk
7 7 (2.63%) Conga
7 7 (2.63%) GoCardless
8 5 (1.88%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.88%) Microsoft
9 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.50%) Veracode
10 3 (1.13%) OpenLink
10 3 (1.13%) Sybase
11 2 (0.75%) Amdocs
11 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.75%) SAP
11 2 (0.75%) Solace