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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 246 266
Rank change year-on-year -41 +20 -131
Contract jobs citing BDD 240 313 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.86% 0.95% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.10% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 219 280
10th Percentile £362 £357 £380
25th Percentile £420 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £689
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £88.62
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.00%

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 25,260 28,349 37,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.90% 86.08% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,060 17,666 25,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,499 1,306 1,419
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -50 111 £554 -7.67% 84
North of England +9 74 £525 +16.67% 41
Yorkshire 0 37 £550 +22.22% 15
North West -12 27 £424 +5.88% 24
South East +16 22 £288 -17.71% 55
South West +15 13 £413 -28.26% 11
Midlands -6 12 £480 +5.49% 20
North East +5 11 £460 - 2
West Midlands -2 10 £500 +9.89% 8
East of England +2 2 £375 -25.00% 14
East Midlands - 2 £266 - 11
BDD
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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.08%) Azure
2 62 (25.83%) AWS
3 38 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (15.00%) GitHub
5 18 (7.50%) Serverless
6 14 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (5.42%) GCP
8 12 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (4.58%) Route 53
10 10 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.33%) PaaS
13 7 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (2.92%) Datadog
13 7 (2.92%) SaaS
14 6 (2.50%) AWS KMS
15 5 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.25%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.83%) MQTT
2 2 (0.83%) X.509
3 1 (0.42%) DSL
3 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 23 (9.58%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.50%) Redis
5 17 (7.08%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.42%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (5.00%) MySQL
7 12 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.75%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.08%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.25%) DB2
12 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.83%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.83%) Parquet
12 2 (0.83%) Power BI
13 1 (0.42%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 67 (27.92%) Git
2 62 (25.83%) Jenkins
3 51 (21.25%) Cucumber
4 40 (16.67%) Selenium
5 36 (15.00%) JIRA
6 30 (12.50%) Mockito
7 24 (10.00%) Maven
8 21 (8.75%) Gradle
9 19 (7.92%) JUnit
10 15 (6.25%) GitLab
10 15 (6.25%) Postman
11 13 (5.42%) Cypress.io
12 12 (5.00%) JMeter
12 12 (5.00%) SonarQube
13 10 (4.17%) Bitbucket
13 10 (4.17%) REST Assured
14 8 (3.33%) SpecFlow
15 7 (2.92%) WebDriver
15 7 (2.92%) Xcode
16 6 (2.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 62 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.58%) Public Sector
3 37 (15.42%) Finance
4 36 (15.00%) Banking
5 26 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.08%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.08%) Electronics
8 5 (2.08%) Front Office
8 5 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.08%) Marketing
9 4 (1.67%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Aviation
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 115 (47.92%) Developer
2 72 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 51 (21.25%) Senior
4 32 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 25 (10.42%) Lead
6 23 (9.58%) Senior Java Developer
7 22 (9.17%) Test Engineer
8 19 (7.92%) Lead Developer
9 14 (5.83%) Analyst
10 13 (5.42%) Lead Java Developer
10 13 (5.42%) Test Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Tester
12 10 (4.17%) Architect
12 10 (4.17%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.75%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.75%) Business Analyst
14 8 (3.33%) Azure Developer
14 8 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
14 8 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 8 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (25.00%) Kafka
2 45 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 43 (17.92%) ActiveMQ
4 40 (16.67%) REST
5 38 (15.83%) Spring
6 34 (14.17%) RESTful
7 29 (12.08%) .NET
8 25 (10.42%) HTML
9 22 (9.17%) AngularJS
9 22 (9.17%) CSS
9 22 (9.17%) Web Services
10 21 (8.75%) JAX-RS
11 19 (7.92%) Playwright
12 17 (7.08%) React
13 14 (5.83%) Hibernate
13 14 (5.83%) Node.js
14 13 (5.42%) .NET Core
15 12 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (4.58%) Gherkin
16 11 (4.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.75%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.83%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.75%) N-Tier
6 7 (2.92%) Mobile Banking
7 5 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.83%) Derivative
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.83%) IoT
10 2 (0.83%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.83%) PKI
11 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.50%) Linux
2 22 (9.17%) Unix
3 18 (7.50%) Mac OS X
4 11 (4.58%) Android
5 8 (3.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (79.58%) Agile
2 174 (72.50%) TDD
3 115 (47.92%) Test Automation
4 114 (47.50%) Microservices
5 101 (42.08%) CI/CD
6 74 (30.83%) Scrum
7 71 (29.58%) DevOps
8 50 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (17.92%) Kanban
10 38 (15.83%) Continuous Deployment
11 35 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (14.58%) Software Engineering
12 31 (12.92%) Containerisation
12 31 (12.92%) Pair Programming
13 29 (12.08%) SOLID
14 27 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (10.83%) API Testing
16 25 (10.42%) Mentoring
17 23 (9.58%) Computer Science
17 23 (9.58%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 153 (63.75%) Java
2 52 (21.67%) SQL
3 45 (18.75%) Python
4 36 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 34 (14.17%) C#
6 22 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.58%) Kotlin
8 10 (4.17%) Scala
9 8 (3.33%) Go
9 8 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.33%) Swift
10 7 (2.92%) C
10 7 (2.92%) C++
10 7 (2.92%) Objective-C
10 7 (2.92%) Ruby
11 6 (2.50%) Bash
12 3 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Haskell
13 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.08%) Degree
4 14 (5.83%) Numerate Degree
5 9 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.92%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.25%) MCPD
7 3 (1.25%) MCSD
7 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) ISEB
8 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.83%) QA
2 16 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.75%) WCAG
4 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (28.33%) Docker
2 6 (2.50%) Postfix
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.33%) Terraform
3 12 (5.00%) Grafana
4 10 (4.17%) Ansible
5 9 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (5.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 12 (5.00%) Oracle
3 6 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (2.50%) Databricks
3 6 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (2.50%) Splunk
4 5 (2.08%) Gigya
4 5 (2.08%) SAP
5 4 (1.67%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.25%) Google
6 3 (1.25%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.83%) Dell
7 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.42%) Charles River
8 1 (0.42%) ESRI
8 1 (0.42%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.42%) Rapid7