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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 283 275
Rank change year-on-year -93 -8 0
Contract jobs citing BDD 273 257 286
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.93% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.02% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 180 195
10th Percentile £306 £356 £357
25th Percentile £400 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £739 £770
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.20% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.88 - -
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -47.06% - -

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -75 123 £500 -9.09% 69
North of England -84 67 £438 -16.67% 34
Midlands -8 48 £438 -5.41% 27
West Midlands -8 47 £438 -12.50% 16
Yorkshire -51 28 £411 -25.27% 9
North West -57 25 £441 +4.56% 16
North East -38 18 £450 -6.49% 9
South East -67 15 £275 -4.51% 16
South West -38 12 £500 +21.21% 13
East of England -19 4 £585 +56.00% 4
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 21 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.10%) CMS
2 3 (1.10%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Notion
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.93%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (34.43%) AWS
2 91 (33.33%) Azure
3 69 (25.27%) GitHub
4 39 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (9.16%) Serverless
7 21 (7.69%) GCP
8 15 (5.49%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (5.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.30%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.56%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.56%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.56%) RTP
1 7 (2.56%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.20%) 3GPP
3 5 (1.83%) Internet
4 2 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.73%) DSL
4 2 (0.73%) Firewall
4 2 (0.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 27 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.03%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.20%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.83%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.83%) MySQL
10 4 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.47%) Big Data
10 4 (1.47%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.10%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.10%) Power BI
11 3 (1.10%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.10%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 117 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 98 (35.90%) Git
3 90 (32.97%) Selenium
4 63 (23.08%) JUnit
5 60 (21.98%) Jenkins
6 56 (20.51%) GitLab
7 43 (15.75%) REST Assured
8 38 (13.92%) JIRA
8 38 (13.92%) Postman
9 32 (11.72%) SonarQube
10 31 (11.36%) Gatling
11 28 (10.26%) WebDriver
12 27 (9.89%) Mockito
13 25 (9.16%) Cypress.io
14 19 (6.96%) Maven
15 16 (5.86%) SpecFlow
16 12 (4.40%) Gradle
16 12 (4.40%) TeamCity
17 10 (3.66%) JMeter
18 9 (3.30%) TestNG
General
1 103 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.88%) Finance
3 53 (19.41%) Public Sector
4 47 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (14.29%) Banking
6 16 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.56%) Military
7 7 (2.56%) Retail
8 6 (2.20%) Front Office
9 5 (1.83%) Aviation
9 5 (1.83%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.83%) Police
10 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.10%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.73%) Law
12 2 (0.73%) Local Government
12 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Automotive
13 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (24.18%) Senior
2 63 (23.08%) Developer
3 49 (17.95%) Test Engineer
4 41 (15.02%) Java Developer
5 32 (11.72%) Software Engineer
6 27 (9.89%) Test Automation Engineer
7 26 (9.52%) Lead
8 23 (8.42%) Senior Developer
9 20 (7.33%) Analyst
9 20 (7.33%) Quality Engineer
10 19 (6.96%) Java Engineer
11 15 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (5.13%) QA Engineer
12 14 (5.13%) Test Leader
13 13 (4.76%) Test Analyst
14 12 (4.40%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (4.03%) Automation Engineer
16 10 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
17 9 (3.30%) Architect
17 9 (3.30%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (24.54%) Playwright
2 60 (21.98%) Spring
3 54 (19.78%) REST
4 52 (19.05%) Gherkin
4 52 (19.05%) Kafka
5 48 (17.58%) Spring Boot
6 31 (11.36%) RESTful
7 28 (10.26%) .NET
8 25 (9.16%) React
8 25 (9.16%) WireMock
9 24 (8.79%) Terraform
10 23 (8.42%) Node.js
11 19 (6.96%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.59%) SOAP
13 17 (6.23%) ActiveMQ
14 16 (5.86%) HTML
15 14 (5.13%) .NET Core
15 14 (5.13%) Swagger
16 13 (4.76%) pytest
16 13 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 26 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 25 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.56%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.83%) Robotics
9 5 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.83%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.47%) NHS
11 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.02%) Linux
2 20 (7.33%) Unix
3 6 (2.20%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.83%) Android
4 5 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (71.06%) Agile
2 183 (67.03%) CI/CD
3 175 (64.10%) TDD
3 175 (64.10%) Test Automation
4 100 (36.63%) DevOps
4 100 (36.63%) Microservices
5 69 (25.27%) Scrum
6 66 (24.18%) AI
7 63 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (22.34%) Test Strategy
9 59 (21.61%) Software Engineering
9 59 (21.61%) Software Testing
10 58 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (20.88%) API Testing
12 56 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
13 43 (15.75%) SDLC
14 41 (15.02%) Integration Testing
15 40 (14.65%) Coaching
16 39 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
17 37 (13.55%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 168 (61.54%) Java
2 64 (23.44%) SQL
3 61 (22.34%) Python
4 58 (21.25%) JavaScript
5 53 (19.41%) C#
6 29 (10.62%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.40%) Bash
8 8 (2.93%) Ruby
9 7 (2.56%) Groovy
10 6 (2.20%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.20%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.20%) R
10 6 (2.20%) Scala
11 4 (1.47%) Go
12 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.73%) Bicep
13 2 (0.73%) Cypher
13 2 (0.73%) PromQL
13 2 (0.73%) SHACL
14 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (7.69%) Degree
5 17 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.23%) ISTQB
6 9 (3.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) ISEB
10 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (30.40%) QA
2 56 (20.51%) Accessibility
3 40 (14.65%) WCAG
4 13 (4.76%) GDPR
5 4 (1.47%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.73%) SEPA
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 79 (28.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 67 (24.54%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.96%) Grafana
3 13 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.20%) Ansible
5 4 (1.47%) Kibana
6 3 (1.10%) Istio
7 2 (0.73%) Argo
7 2 (0.73%) Consul
7 2 (0.73%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.37%) Control-M
8 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 13 (4.76%) Databricks
4 11 (4.03%) Oracle
5 10 (3.66%) Google
6 7 (2.56%) Conga
6 7 (2.56%) GoCardless
7 6 (2.20%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.20%) IBM
7 6 (2.20%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.20%) Splunk
8 5 (1.83%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.47%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.47%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.10%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.73%) FactSet
11 2 (0.73%) HP
11 2 (0.73%) Solace