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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 288 256
Rank change year-on-year -84 -32 +14
Contract jobs citing BDD 267 236 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.87% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.96% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 169 222
10th Percentile £306 £362 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -5.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £643 £650
90th Percentile £674 £750 £761
UK median daily rate £459 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.20% -4.76% -7.69%
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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 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 4 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 -90 113 £500 -9.09% 115
North of England -70 74 £450 -14.29% 37
Midlands -18 42 £425 -15.00% 18
West Midlands -16 41 £425 -15.00% 12
North West -38 33 £438 +3.67% 22
Yorkshire -53 25 £606 +10.23% 10
North East -25 20 £450 -2.17% 5
South East -77 16 £275 -4.51% 26
South West -46 12 £525 +27.27% 10
East of England -12 8 £510 +36.00% 8
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 25 (9.36%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) CMS
2 3 (1.12%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.37%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Notion
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 9 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.00%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.12%) Findur
3 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (31.84%) AWS
2 84 (31.46%) Azure
3 67 (25.09%) GitHub
4 41 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (10.11%) GCP
7 22 (8.24%) Serverless
8 16 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (3.75%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.62%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.62%) Route 53
14 6 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.25%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.62%) RTP
1 7 (2.62%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.25%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.12%) Internet
4 2 (0.75%) DSL
4 2 (0.75%) Firewall
4 2 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) NaaS
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.48%) MongoDB
2 29 (10.86%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.62%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.87%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.87%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.50%) MySQL
11 3 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.12%) Flink
12 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.75%) Power BI
12 2 (0.75%) Tableau
12 2 (0.75%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 99 (37.08%) Cucumber
2 86 (32.21%) Git
3 76 (28.46%) Selenium
4 58 (21.72%) JUnit
5 55 (20.60%) Jenkins
6 48 (17.98%) GitLab
7 43 (16.10%) JIRA
8 38 (14.23%) REST Assured
9 36 (13.48%) Postman
10 31 (11.61%) WebDriver
11 28 (10.49%) SonarQube
12 27 (10.11%) Mockito
13 22 (8.24%) Cypress.io
14 21 (7.87%) Gatling
15 17 (6.37%) SpecFlow
16 16 (5.99%) Maven
17 13 (4.87%) JMeter
17 13 (4.87%) TeamCity
18 8 (3.00%) Gradle
18 8 (3.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 88 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.60%) Finance
3 50 (18.73%) Public Sector
4 44 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (12.36%) Banking
6 12 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.62%) Retail
8 5 (1.87%) Aviation
8 5 (1.87%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (1.87%) Military
8 5 (1.87%) Police
9 3 (1.12%) Automotive
9 3 (1.12%) Front Office
9 3 (1.12%) Legal Technology
9 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.75%) Law
10 2 (0.75%) Local Government
10 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (25.47%) Developer
2 60 (22.47%) Senior
3 49 (18.35%) Java Developer
3 49 (18.35%) Test Engineer
4 31 (11.61%) Software Engineer
5 30 (11.24%) Test Automation Engineer
6 25 (9.36%) Lead
7 20 (7.49%) Senior Developer
8 19 (7.12%) Java Engineer
9 18 (6.74%) Analyst
10 17 (6.37%) Senior Java Developer
11 14 (5.24%) Test Leader
11 14 (5.24%) Tester
12 13 (4.87%) QA Engineer
13 12 (4.49%) Automation Tester
13 12 (4.49%) Quality Engineer
14 11 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (4.12%) Test Analyst
15 10 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 9 (3.37%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (22.10%) Spring
2 55 (20.60%) Playwright
3 54 (20.22%) REST
4 50 (18.73%) Kafka
5 49 (18.35%) Spring Boot
6 46 (17.23%) Gherkin
7 29 (10.86%) RESTful
8 27 (10.11%) .NET
9 24 (8.99%) Terraform
10 23 (8.61%) WireMock
11 21 (7.87%) AngularJS
11 21 (7.87%) Node.js
12 20 (7.49%) React
13 18 (6.74%) SOAP
14 17 (6.37%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (5.24%) HTML
15 14 (5.24%) JSON
16 13 (4.87%) pytest
16 13 (4.87%) XML
17 12 (4.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.61%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (9.74%) Product Ownership
3 25 (9.36%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.87%) Robotics
9 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.87%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.50%) NHS
10 4 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.23%) Linux
2 17 (6.37%) Unix
3 5 (1.87%) Android
3 5 (1.87%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.50%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.12%) Windows
6 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (70.04%) Agile
2 171 (64.04%) TDD
3 166 (62.17%) CI/CD
4 163 (61.05%) Test Automation
5 96 (35.96%) DevOps
6 93 (34.83%) Microservices
7 62 (23.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (22.10%) Scrum
9 56 (20.97%) AI
9 56 (20.97%) Test Strategy
10 54 (20.22%) API Testing
10 54 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (19.10%) Software Engineering
12 41 (15.36%) Software Testing
12 41 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (14.23%) SDLC
14 37 (13.86%) Continuous Integration
14 37 (13.86%) Mentoring
15 32 (11.99%) End-to-End Testing
16 31 (11.61%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (59.18%) Java
2 68 (25.47%) SQL
3 59 (22.10%) Python
4 47 (17.60%) JavaScript
5 45 (16.85%) C#
6 22 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.12%) Bash
8 8 (3.00%) Ruby
9 7 (2.62%) Groovy
9 7 (2.62%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.25%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.25%) R
11 4 (1.50%) Go
11 4 (1.50%) Scala
12 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.75%) Bicep
13 2 (0.75%) Cypher
13 2 (0.75%) PromQL
13 2 (0.75%) SHACL
14 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.37%) Degree
4 15 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (5.62%) ISTQB
5 12 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) ISEB
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (25.84%) QA
2 41 (15.36%) Accessibility
3 30 (11.24%) WCAG
4 11 (4.12%) GDPR
5 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 69 (25.84%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 54 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.24%) Grafana
3 17 (6.37%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.25%) Ansible
5 4 (1.50%) Kibana
6 3 (1.12%) Istio
7 2 (0.75%) Argo
7 2 (0.75%) Consul
7 2 (0.75%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.37%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.37%) Rancher
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 11 (4.12%) Google
4 8 (3.00%) Checkmarx
4 8 (3.00%) Oracle
5 7 (2.62%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.62%) Conga
5 7 (2.62%) GoCardless
6 6 (2.25%) Databricks
6 6 (2.25%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (1.87%) IBM
8 3 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.12%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.12%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.12%) Splunk
9 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.75%) FactSet
9 2 (0.75%) Solace