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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 275 296
Rank change year-on-year -66 +21 -137
Contract jobs citing BDD 254 215 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.88% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.97% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 140 207
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £575 £659 £655
90th Percentile £723 £782 £750
UK median daily rate £469 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -10.67% +5.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
UK median hourly rate - - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - -19.64%

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 32,791 22,195 32,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.18% 90.78% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,993 14,632 21,603
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 863 2,155
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.24 £15.97
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.86 £58.24
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -10.34%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -46 120 £475 -18.80% 32
North of England -43 79 £475 -1.04% 31
North West -17 39 £431 -4.22% 15
Yorkshire -62 31 £525 - 7
West Midlands -36 30 £425 -8.11% 7
Midlands -47 30 £425 -8.11% 11
North East -10 12 £413 +5.77% 9
South West -28 11 £494 -8.14% 5
South East -53 9 £359 -28.20% 24
East of England -28 4 £505 +61.60% 3
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 40 (15.75%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.79%) nginx
4 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Findur
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (38.19%) AWS
2 72 (28.35%) Azure
3 50 (19.69%) GitHub
4 37 (14.57%) GCP
5 29 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.48%) Serverless
8 16 (6.30%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.94%) BrowserStack
12 9 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.76%) SaaS
14 6 (2.36%) AWS KMS
14 6 (2.36%) Route 53
15 5 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 4 (1.57%) Amazon Cognito
16 4 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (1.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.97%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (1.18%) WAN
3 2 (0.79%) NaaS
4 1 (0.39%) DSL
4 1 (0.39%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.39%) FTP
4 1 (0.39%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.39%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.51%) SQL Server
4 13 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.33%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.94%) MySQL
7 9 (3.54%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.15%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.36%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.57%) Redis
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.79%) Flink
12 2 (0.79%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.79%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.39%) Big Data
13 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.39%) DB2
Development Applications
1 99 (38.98%) Cucumber
2 72 (28.35%) Jenkins
3 66 (25.98%) JIRA
4 62 (24.41%) Git
4 62 (24.41%) Selenium
5 52 (20.47%) GitLab
6 45 (17.72%) JUnit
7 36 (14.17%) Postman
8 27 (10.63%) Mockito
8 27 (10.63%) REST Assured
9 23 (9.06%) WebDriver
10 22 (8.66%) SonarQube
11 20 (7.87%) JMeter
12 18 (7.09%) Cypress.io
13 10 (3.94%) Bitbucket
13 10 (3.94%) Maven
14 8 (3.15%) Gatling
14 8 (3.15%) TestRail
15 7 (2.76%) SpecFlow
16 6 (2.36%) DbUnit
General
1 73 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 49 (19.29%) Finance
3 45 (17.72%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.27%) Banking
6 8 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Front Office
7 5 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Legal
7 5 (1.97%) Military
8 4 (1.57%) Electronics
9 3 (1.18%) Billing
9 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (33.07%) Developer
2 51 (20.08%) Java Developer
3 44 (17.32%) Senior
4 42 (16.54%) Test Engineer
5 34 (13.39%) Lead
6 22 (8.66%) Software Engineer
6 22 (8.66%) Test Automation Engineer
6 22 (8.66%) Tester
7 17 (6.69%) Automation Tester
8 16 (6.30%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.51%) Test Leader
10 13 (5.12%) Java Engineer
10 13 (5.12%) QA Engineer
11 12 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.33%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Analyst
13 10 (3.94%) Automation Test Lead
13 10 (3.94%) Lead Test Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Senior Automation Tester
13 10 (3.94%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (25.59%) Spring
2 51 (20.08%) Spring Boot
3 47 (18.50%) REST
4 38 (14.96%) Playwright
5 36 (14.17%) Node.js
6 34 (13.39%) RESTful
7 32 (12.60%) React
8 31 (12.20%) Kafka
9 29 (11.42%) Gherkin
10 26 (10.24%) AngularJS
10 26 (10.24%) WireMock
11 25 (9.84%) .NET
12 17 (6.69%) CSS
13 16 (6.30%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (6.30%) Jest
14 15 (5.91%) SOAP
15 13 (5.12%) Spring Cloud
16 12 (4.72%) OAuth
17 11 (4.33%) HTML
17 11 (4.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (9.06%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.30%) Distributed Architecture
4 14 (5.51%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.15%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.97%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.97%) Equities
6 5 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.18%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) AS400
9 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.79%) NHS
9 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.60%) Linux
2 15 (5.91%) Unix
3 9 (3.54%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.18%) Android
4 3 (1.18%) VMS
4 3 (1.18%) Windows
5 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (63.39%) Agile
2 156 (61.42%) TDD
3 152 (59.84%) Test Automation
4 135 (53.15%) CI/CD
5 111 (43.70%) Microservices
6 75 (29.53%) DevOps
7 59 (23.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 59 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (22.44%) Test Strategy
9 56 (22.05%) API Testing
10 52 (20.47%) Scrum
11 38 (14.96%) Software Engineering
12 34 (13.39%) Containerisation
13 33 (12.99%) Mentoring
14 32 (12.60%) End-to-End Testing
14 32 (12.60%) SDLC
15 29 (11.42%) Kanban
15 29 (11.42%) Observability
16 28 (11.02%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (10.63%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 150 (59.06%) Java
2 54 (21.26%) SQL
3 51 (20.08%) JavaScript
4 47 (18.50%) Python
5 33 (12.99%) TypeScript
6 25 (9.84%) C#
7 10 (3.94%) C++
7 10 (3.94%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.76%) PHP
9 6 (2.36%) Ruby
10 5 (1.97%) JSX
11 4 (1.57%) Go
12 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.79%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) Bash
14 1 (0.39%) C
14 1 (0.39%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.39%) Swift
14 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 63 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 53 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.12%) Degree
4 7 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.76%) ISTQB
5 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.39%) ISEB
8 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (22.05%) QA
2 27 (10.63%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.15%) GDPR
4 7 (2.76%) WCAG
5 5 (1.97%) PERC
6 2 (0.79%) HL7
7 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (25.98%) Docker
2 5 (1.97%) Postfix
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (19.29%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.99%) Grafana
3 26 (10.24%) Prometheus
4 17 (6.69%) Terraform
5 3 (1.18%) Ansible
5 3 (1.18%) Rancher
6 2 (0.79%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.79%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.79%) Kibana
6 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.39%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (4.72%) Atlassian
2 10 (3.94%) Oracle
3 9 (3.54%) ServiceNow
3 9 (3.54%) Splunk
4 8 (3.15%) Google
4 8 (3.15%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.36%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (1.57%) Adobe
6 4 (1.57%) Checkmarx
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.57%) Veracode
7 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.18%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.79%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.79%) Ciena
8 2 (0.79%) IBM
8 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.79%) SAP
8 2 (0.79%) VMware