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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 261 295
Rank change year-on-year -44 +34 -159
Contract jobs citing BDD 252 280 299
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.90% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.04% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 173 205
10th Percentile £363 £355 £381
25th Percentile £413 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £668
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £87.25
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.14%

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 27,490 26,978 34,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.21% 86.87% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,441 16,489 23,672
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,813 961 1,464
10th Percentile £14.87 £15.10 £14.51
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £74.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 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 -49 111 £526 -4.45% 105
North of England -23 93 £513 +13.89% 35
Yorkshire -30 44 £563 +25.00% 9
North West -24 26 £425 +6.25% 22
North East +11 25 £455 +46.77% 4
South East -4 16 £288 -20.00% 68
Midlands -15 11 £488 -4.17% 20
South West -16 11 £425 -20.93% 17
West Midlands -24 9 £500 -1.72% 8
East Midlands - 2 £310 - 12
East of England -26 1 £375 -7.69% 12
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 (9.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.40%) CMS
2 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.38%) AWS
2 53 (21.03%) Azure
3 38 (15.08%) GitHub
4 24 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.73%) Serverless
6 17 (6.75%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (3.97%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.97%) GCP
10 9 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.57%) Route 53
11 7 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.78%) Datadog
12 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.38%) PaaS
13 5 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (1.98%) Apigee
13 5 (1.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.79%) Firewall
2 2 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) MQTT
2 2 (0.79%) X.509
3 1 (0.40%) DSL
3 1 (0.40%) FTP
3 1 (0.40%) Internet
3 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (18.25%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (13.89%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.95%) Redis
5 14 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.76%) MySQL
6 12 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.97%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.38%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.19%) DB2
13 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.79%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.79%) Parquet
14 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.40%) Metadata
14 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (27.38%) Git
2 64 (25.40%) Cucumber
3 62 (24.60%) Jenkins
4 46 (18.25%) JIRA
5 44 (17.46%) Selenium
6 30 (11.90%) Mockito
7 23 (9.13%) GitLab
8 22 (8.73%) Cypress.io
9 20 (7.94%) Postman
10 18 (7.14%) Gradle
11 17 (6.75%) JUnit
11 17 (6.75%) REST Assured
12 16 (6.35%) Maven
13 15 (5.95%) Bitbucket
14 14 (5.56%) SonarQube
15 9 (3.57%) JMeter
16 7 (2.78%) WebDriver
16 7 (2.78%) Xcode
17 6 (2.38%) Subversion
18 5 (1.98%) Gatling
General
1 65 (25.79%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.03%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.10%) Banking
4 26 (10.32%) Finance
5 16 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.17%) Front Office
8 6 (2.38%) Electronics
9 5 (1.98%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Military
10 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.79%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (41.67%) Developer
2 70 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 45 (17.86%) Senior
4 32 (12.70%) Test Engineer
5 28 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 24 (9.52%) Lead
7 22 (8.73%) Senior Java Developer
8 18 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.95%) Test Automation Engineer
10 14 (5.56%) Analyst
10 14 (5.56%) QA Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Lead Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Tester
13 10 (3.97%) Angular Developer
13 10 (3.97%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.57%) Java Engineer
15 8 (3.17%) Lead Java Developer
16 7 (2.78%) Architect
16 7 (2.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 7 (2.78%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.43%) Spring Boot
2 53 (21.03%) Kafka
2 53 (21.03%) REST
3 37 (14.68%) Spring
4 36 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
4 36 (14.29%) RESTful
5 34 (13.49%) React
6 31 (12.30%) Node.js
7 30 (11.90%) CSS
8 26 (10.32%) Playwright
9 25 (9.92%) AngularJS
10 24 (9.52%) HTML
10 24 (9.52%) JAX-RS
11 18 (7.14%) .NET
11 18 (7.14%) Gherkin
12 15 (5.95%) JSON
12 15 (5.95%) Web Services
13 14 (5.56%) Jest
14 13 (5.16%) SOAP
14 13 (5.16%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.32%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.78%) Mobile Banking
5 6 (2.38%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.38%) N-Tier
6 5 (1.98%) Equities
6 5 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.19%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.79%) IoT
8 2 (0.79%) PKI
8 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.08%) Linux
2 29 (11.51%) Unix
3 19 (7.54%) Mac OS X
4 12 (4.76%) Android
5 7 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (78.17%) Agile
2 179 (71.03%) TDD
3 140 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 135 (53.57%) Microservices
5 124 (49.21%) CI/CD
6 71 (28.17%) Scrum
7 57 (22.62%) DevOps
8 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 44 (17.46%) Kanban
11 43 (17.06%) Containerisation
12 40 (15.87%) Continuous Deployment
13 38 (15.08%) Continuous Integration
14 35 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (13.49%) Mentoring
16 33 (13.10%) API Testing
17 32 (12.70%) Non-Functional Testing
18 31 (12.30%) Pair Programming
19 29 (11.51%) Functional Testing
20 27 (10.71%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 174 (69.05%) Java
2 50 (19.84%) JavaScript
3 42 (16.67%) SQL
4 32 (12.70%) Python
4 32 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.14%) C#
6 13 (5.16%) C++
7 11 (4.37%) Kotlin
7 11 (4.37%) Scala
8 8 (3.17%) C
8 8 (3.17%) Ruby
9 7 (2.78%) Go
9 7 (2.78%) Objective-C
9 7 (2.78%) Swift
10 6 (2.38%) JSX
11 3 (1.19%) Bash
12 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (27.38%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.54%) Degree
4 12 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (4.37%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.19%) ISEB
9 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.67%) QA
2 24 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.16%) WCAG
4 8 (3.17%) GDPR
5 5 (1.98%) PERC
6 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 76 (30.16%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.94%) Terraform
3 12 (4.76%) Grafana
4 8 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.98%) Ansible
6 2 (0.79%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) logstash
7 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (4.76%) Atlassian
2 11 (4.37%) Oracle
3 9 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.98%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (1.98%) Gigya
4 5 (1.98%) Splunk
5 4 (1.59%) Databricks
5 4 (1.59%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.19%) Google
6 3 (1.19%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.79%) SAP
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Charles River
8 1 (0.40%) Marketo
8 1 (0.40%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.40%) UiPath
8 1 (0.40%) Xamarin