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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 301 268
Rank change year-on-year -40 -33 -50
Contract jobs citing BDD 295 219 305
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.81% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.89% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 154 235
10th Percentile £313 £357 £359
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £641 £650
90th Percentile £699 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -7.50% -7.41% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile £46.88 - -
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -73 115 £475 -19.32% 22
North of England -37 85 £453 -0.44% 11
Midlands -22 52 £425 -7.86% 8
West Midlands -18 51 £425 -8.11% 4
North West -22 44 £438 +8.83% 7
Yorkshire -43 27 £620 +18.10% 3
North East -25 20 £450 +7.14% 2
South West -23 19 £525 +23.53% 2
South East -68 18 £358 -10.50% 10
East of England -14 8 £510 - 2
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 46 (15.59%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Notion
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Mingle
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.02%) Findur
3 3 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 106 (35.93%) AWS
2 93 (31.53%) Azure
3 71 (24.07%) GitHub
4 43 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (12.54%) GCP
7 25 (8.47%) Serverless
8 24 (8.14%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (7.12%) Amazon S3
11 19 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.07%) AWS KMS
13 12 (4.07%) Route 53
14 11 (3.73%) BrowserStack
15 8 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.37%) Power Automate
17 6 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 5 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.03%) 3GPP
1 6 (2.03%) RTP
1 6 (2.03%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.02%) DSL
2 3 (1.02%) Internet
2 3 (1.02%) WAN
3 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) NaaS
4 1 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.34%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.61%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (15.59%) MongoDB
3 20 (6.78%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.76%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.03%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.69%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.68%) Flink
11 2 (0.68%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.68%) Power BI
11 2 (0.68%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 101 (34.24%) Cucumber
2 87 (29.49%) Git
3 82 (27.80%) Selenium
4 78 (26.44%) Jenkins
5 63 (21.36%) JIRA
5 63 (21.36%) JUnit
6 57 (19.32%) GitLab
7 40 (13.56%) Mockito
8 39 (13.22%) REST Assured
8 39 (13.22%) WebDriver
9 34 (11.53%) Postman
10 30 (10.17%) SonarQube
11 24 (8.14%) JMeter
12 20 (6.78%) Cypress.io
12 20 (6.78%) SpecFlow
13 19 (6.44%) Maven
14 17 (5.76%) Gatling
15 16 (5.42%) TeamCity
16 12 (4.07%) DbUnit
17 11 (3.73%) Bitbucket
General
1 80 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.00%) Finance
3 57 (19.32%) Public Sector
4 41 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.83%) Banking
6 10 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.05%) Retail
8 7 (2.37%) Military
9 5 (1.69%) Aviation
9 5 (1.69%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.69%) Police
10 3 (1.02%) Automotive
10 3 (1.02%) Billing
10 3 (1.02%) Front Office
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (29.49%) Developer
2 65 (22.03%) Java Developer
2 65 (22.03%) Senior
3 53 (17.97%) Test Engineer
4 40 (13.56%) Lead
5 33 (11.19%) Software Engineer
6 30 (10.17%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (8.14%) Tester
8 23 (7.80%) Senior Developer
9 22 (7.46%) Senior Java Developer
10 19 (6.44%) Automation Tester
10 19 (6.44%) Java Engineer
10 19 (6.44%) Test Leader
11 16 (5.42%) Analyst
12 12 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.73%) Automation Test Lead
13 11 (3.73%) Senior Tester
14 10 (3.39%) Architect
14 10 (3.39%) QA Engineer
14 10 (3.39%) Salesforce Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (26.44%) Spring
2 61 (20.68%) Spring Boot
3 57 (19.32%) Playwright
4 56 (18.98%) Kafka
5 55 (18.64%) REST
6 39 (13.22%) Gherkin
7 35 (11.86%) RESTful
8 32 (10.85%) .NET
9 30 (10.17%) AngularJS
10 28 (9.49%) WireMock
11 27 (9.15%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (8.14%) Node.js
12 24 (8.14%) SOAP
13 23 (7.80%) React
14 19 (6.44%) Spring Cloud
15 17 (5.76%) Web Services
16 16 (5.42%) JAX-RS
16 16 (5.42%) JPA
17 15 (5.08%) Hibernate
18 14 (4.75%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.54%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (9.49%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.14%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.42%) Distributed Architecture
5 15 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.69%) Robotics
7 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.69%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.02%) Equities
8 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.59%) Linux
2 21 (7.12%) Unix
3 12 (4.07%) Mac OS X
4 7 (2.37%) Android
4 7 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.02%) Windows
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.68%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (67.46%) Agile
2 186 (63.05%) TDD
3 177 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 170 (57.63%) Test Automation
5 125 (42.37%) Microservices
6 110 (37.29%) DevOps
7 66 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (20.68%) Scrum
8 61 (20.68%) Test Strategy
9 58 (19.66%) API Testing
10 56 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (18.64%) Software Engineering
12 42 (14.24%) Continuous Integration
12 42 (14.24%) Mentoring
12 42 (14.24%) Observability
13 39 (13.22%) AI
14 38 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (12.20%) Kanban
16 35 (11.86%) SDLC
17 33 (11.19%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 172 (58.31%) Java
2 69 (23.39%) SQL
3 51 (17.29%) C#
4 50 (16.95%) Python
5 46 (15.59%) JavaScript
6 24 (8.14%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.71%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.37%) Groovy
9 6 (2.03%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.69%) Go
11 4 (1.36%) C++
11 4 (1.36%) R
12 3 (1.02%) Ruby
12 3 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) Bash
13 2 (0.68%) Bicep
13 2 (0.68%) Cypher
13 2 (0.68%) PromQL
13 2 (0.68%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 75 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.78%) Degree
4 12 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.39%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (21.36%) QA
2 35 (11.86%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.75%) WCAG
4 7 (2.37%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 84 (28.47%) Docker
2 9 (3.05%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (22.37%) Kubernetes
2 43 (14.58%) Grafana
3 35 (11.86%) Prometheus
4 27 (9.15%) Terraform
5 7 (2.37%) Ansible
6 4 (1.36%) Kibana
7 3 (1.02%) Istio
8 2 (0.68%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.68%) Argo
8 2 (0.68%) Consul
8 2 (0.68%) Rancher
8 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.68%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 20 (6.78%) Salesforce
2 15 (5.08%) Oracle
3 14 (4.75%) Atlassian
3 14 (4.75%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.07%) Google
5 11 (3.73%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (2.71%) Checkmarx
6 8 (2.71%) Splunk
7 7 (2.37%) Conga
7 7 (2.37%) GoCardless
8 5 (1.69%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.36%) Veracode
10 3 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.02%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.02%) OpenLink
10 3 (1.02%) Sybase
11 2 (0.68%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.68%) IBM