BDD Contracts in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 285 214
Rank change year-on-year -8 -71 -76
Contract jobs citing BDD 214 305 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 0.82% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.96% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 238 422
10th Percentile £361 £354 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £695
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 23
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.41% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £84.25
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% +24.70%

All Process and 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 23,975 31,937 42,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.99% 85.52% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,423 20,731 29,966
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 2,302 1,555
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.06 £16.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.94
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Daily rate trend for BDD in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in England

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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 July 2025. 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 -53 114 £588 +6.82% 313
North of England +22 45 £460 -9.36% 124
South East +43 24 £400 -21.95% 128
Yorkshire +17 24 £520 -5.50% 43
Midlands +16 15 £481 +6.94% 76
North West +5 15 £402 -19.60% 76
South West +31 14 £425 -27.97% 62
West Midlands +19 14 £500 +11.11% 55
North East +4 7 £420 - 5
East of England +20 1 - - 52
East Midlands +4 1 £219 -44.91% 21
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UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (9.35%) Confluence
2 4 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.05%) Azure
2 64 (29.91%) AWS
3 45 (21.03%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (13.55%) GitHub
5 15 (7.01%) Amazon S3
6 14 (6.54%) Serverless
7 12 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.21%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.74%) AWS KMS
9 8 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.74%) Route 53
10 7 (3.27%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.80%) GCP
11 6 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.93%) SAN
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (21.50%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.35%) Relational Database
3 17 (7.94%) Redis
4 13 (6.07%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.21%) DynamoDB
5 9 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.87%) MySQL
7 3 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.40%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.40%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.93%) Parquet
8 2 (0.93%) Power BI
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.47%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 61 (28.50%) Jenkins
2 56 (26.17%) Git
3 49 (22.90%) Cucumber
4 36 (16.82%) JIRA
5 33 (15.42%) Selenium
6 28 (13.08%) JUnit
7 20 (9.35%) Maven
8 18 (8.41%) Postman
9 14 (6.54%) Cypress.io
10 12 (5.61%) GitLab
10 12 (5.61%) Gradle
10 12 (5.61%) Mockito
10 12 (5.61%) REST Assured
11 10 (4.67%) JMeter
12 9 (4.21%) SonarQube
13 8 (3.74%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (3.74%) DbUnit
13 8 (3.74%) jMock
13 8 (3.74%) SpecFlow
14 6 (2.80%) TestNG
General
1 64 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.16%) Finance
3 36 (16.82%) Banking
3 36 (16.82%) Public Sector
4 34 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.35%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.74%) Electronics
6 8 (3.74%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.74%) Marketing
6 8 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.87%) Front Office
7 4 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.47%) Aviation
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 101 (47.20%) Developer
2 50 (23.36%) Java Developer
3 42 (19.63%) Senior
4 39 (18.22%) Lead
5 29 (13.55%) Lead Developer
6 26 (12.15%) Senior Developer
7 20 (9.35%) Lead Java Developer
8 18 (8.41%) Test Engineer
9 16 (7.48%) Tester
10 14 (6.54%) C# Developer
11 13 (6.07%) Analyst
12 12 (5.61%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (5.14%) Azure Developer
13 11 (5.14%) Business Analyst
14 10 (4.67%) .NET Developer
15 9 (4.21%) Automation Tester
15 9 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
15 9 (4.21%) Data Engineer
15 9 (4.21%) Senior C# Developer
16 8 (3.74%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.63%) Kafka
2 39 (18.22%) REST
2 39 (18.22%) Spring
3 35 (16.36%) .NET
4 34 (15.89%) Spring Boot
5 28 (13.08%) ActiveMQ
6 25 (11.68%) RESTful
7 22 (10.28%) Web Services
8 21 (9.81%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.88%) HTML
9 19 (8.88%) React
10 18 (8.41%) .NET Core
11 17 (7.94%) CSS
12 16 (7.48%) Playwright
13 14 (6.54%) Node.js
13 14 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (6.07%) Hibernate
15 11 (5.14%) pytest
16 10 (4.67%) JPA
16 10 (4.67%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.41%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.80%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.80%) Mobile Banking
5 5 (2.34%) Derivative
5 5 (2.34%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.34%) N-Tier
6 4 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.01%) Linux
2 9 (4.21%) Android
3 6 (2.80%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (74.30%) Agile
2 149 (69.63%) TDD
3 90 (42.06%) CI/CD
4 79 (36.92%) DevOps
5 77 (35.98%) Test Automation
6 70 (32.71%) Microservices
7 60 (28.04%) Scrum
8 45 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (16.82%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (16.82%) Kanban
10 31 (14.49%) Computer Science
11 29 (13.55%) Software Engineering
12 26 (12.15%) SOLID
13 25 (11.68%) API Testing
13 25 (11.68%) OO
14 24 (11.21%) Mentoring
15 23 (10.75%) Architectural Design
16 22 (10.28%) Continuous Delivery
17 21 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (9.81%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 114 (53.27%) Java
2 58 (27.10%) SQL
3 42 (19.63%) Python
4 39 (18.22%) C#
5 37 (17.29%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.54%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.67%) Go
8 10 (4.67%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.74%) Scala
10 7 (3.27%) Bash
11 5 (2.34%) Swift
11 5 (2.34%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.87%) C
12 4 (1.87%) C++
12 4 (1.87%) Haskell
12 4 (1.87%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.87%) Ruby
13 2 (0.93%) RPG
13 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (17.76%) Degree
2 34 (15.89%) Security Cleared
3 32 (14.95%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.35%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.34%) MCPD
6 5 (2.34%) MCSD
6 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.40%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.76%) QA
2 14 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.74%) WCAG
4 4 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) SEPA
6 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (27.10%) Docker
2 8 (3.74%) Postfix
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (13.55%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.81%) Terraform
3 12 (5.61%) Ansible
4 10 (4.67%) Grafana
5 8 (3.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.87%) Kibana
7 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.93%) Puppet
7 2 (0.93%) vRealize
8 1 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.14%) Atlassian
3 9 (4.21%) SAP
4 8 (3.74%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (2.80%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (2.34%) Databricks
6 5 (2.34%) Oracle
6 5 (2.34%) Splunk
7 4 (1.87%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.40%) Google
9 2 (0.93%) 3PAR
9 2 (0.93%) Brocade
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco
9 2 (0.93%) Dell
9 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.93%) EMC
9 2 (0.93%) HP
9 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.93%) VMware
10 1 (0.47%) Informatica