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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 309 256
Rank change year-on-year -41 -53 -20
Contract jobs citing BDD 293 212 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.77% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.85% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 147 235
10th Percentile £312 £352 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -7.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £551 £646 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -7.50% -7.41% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile £46.88 - -
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 38,549 24,860 29,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 90.73% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,182 15,935 19,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,342 1,889
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.67
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -73 110 £488 -17.37% 27
North of England -30 85 £464 +9.18% 13
Midlands -14 53 £425 -7.86% 15
West Midlands -15 52 £425 -8.11% 9
North West -23 43 £475 +17.00% 9
Yorkshire -37 27 £620 +19.29% 1
North East -28 21 £450 +7.14% 4
South West -25 19 £525 +27.27% 4
South East -77 18 £358 -10.50% 10
East of England -11 8 £510 - 1
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 44 (15.02%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Notion
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Mingle
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.73%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.02%) Findur
2 3 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 100 (34.13%) AWS
2 94 (32.08%) Azure
3 71 (24.23%) GitHub
4 45 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (12.97%) GCP
5 38 (12.97%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (8.53%) Serverless
7 24 (8.19%) Amazon SQS
8 22 (7.51%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.48%) Amazon S3
10 17 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.10%) AWS KMS
11 12 (4.10%) Route 53
12 11 (3.75%) BrowserStack
13 9 (3.07%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 5 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.39%) RTP
1 7 (2.39%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.05%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.02%) DSL
3 3 (1.02%) Internet
3 3 (1.02%) WAN
4 2 (0.68%) Firewall
4 2 (0.68%) NaaS
5 1 (0.34%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.34%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.72%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (16.04%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.48%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.48%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.05%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.71%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.02%) MySQL
12 2 (0.68%) Db2
12 2 (0.68%) Flink
12 2 (0.68%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 102 (34.81%) Cucumber
2 86 (29.35%) Git
3 84 (28.67%) Selenium
4 76 (25.94%) Jenkins
5 62 (21.16%) JUnit
6 60 (20.48%) JIRA
7 52 (17.75%) GitLab
8 40 (13.65%) Mockito
8 40 (13.65%) REST Assured
8 40 (13.65%) WebDriver
9 35 (11.95%) Postman
10 27 (9.22%) SonarQube
11 24 (8.19%) JMeter
12 22 (7.51%) Cypress.io
13 20 (6.83%) SpecFlow
14 19 (6.48%) Maven
15 18 (6.14%) Gatling
16 17 (5.80%) TeamCity
17 12 (4.10%) DbUnit
18 11 (3.75%) Bitbucket
General
1 83 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.48%) Public Sector
3 56 (19.11%) Finance
4 44 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.22%) Banking
6 11 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.73%) Military
8 8 (2.73%) Retail
9 5 (1.71%) Aviation
9 5 (1.71%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.71%) Police
10 3 (1.02%) Automotive
10 3 (1.02%) Billing
10 3 (1.02%) Front Office
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (30.03%) Developer
2 69 (23.55%) Senior
3 64 (21.84%) Java Developer
4 53 (18.09%) Test Engineer
5 42 (14.33%) Lead
6 30 (10.24%) Software Engineer
6 30 (10.24%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (8.19%) Senior Developer
7 24 (8.19%) Tester
8 22 (7.51%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (7.17%) Test Leader
10 19 (6.48%) Analyst
10 19 (6.48%) Automation Tester
11 16 (5.46%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.75%) Automation Test Lead
13 11 (3.75%) Senior Tester
14 10 (3.41%) Architect
14 10 (3.41%) QA Engineer
15 9 (3.07%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (26.28%) Spring
2 60 (20.48%) Spring Boot
3 57 (19.45%) Kafka
3 57 (19.45%) Playwright
4 55 (18.77%) REST
5 42 (14.33%) Gherkin
6 33 (11.26%) .NET
6 33 (11.26%) RESTful
7 29 (9.90%) AngularJS
8 28 (9.56%) ActiveMQ
9 27 (9.22%) WireMock
10 26 (8.87%) Node.js
11 23 (7.85%) React
11 23 (7.85%) SOAP
12 19 (6.48%) Spring Cloud
13 17 (5.80%) JAX-RS
14 16 (5.46%) JPA
14 16 (5.46%) Web Services
15 15 (5.12%) Hibernate
16 14 (4.78%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.31%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.22%) Cloud Native
3 25 (8.53%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.46%) Distributed Architecture
5 15 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.71%) Robotics
8 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.71%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.02%) Equities
10 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.68%) PKI
11 2 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.04%) Linux
2 22 (7.51%) Unix
3 12 (4.10%) Mac OS X
4 7 (2.39%) Android
4 7 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.02%) Windows
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (68.26%) Agile
2 185 (63.14%) TDD
3 177 (60.41%) CI/CD
4 172 (58.70%) Test Automation
5 123 (41.98%) Microservices
6 111 (37.88%) DevOps
7 68 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (21.50%) Test Strategy
9 62 (21.16%) Scrum
10 60 (20.48%) API Testing
10 60 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (18.09%) Software Engineering
12 43 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
13 42 (14.33%) AI
13 42 (14.33%) Mentoring
13 42 (14.33%) Observability
14 40 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (12.63%) Kanban
16 34 (11.60%) SDLC
17 33 (11.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 164 (55.97%) Java
2 69 (23.55%) SQL
3 53 (18.09%) C#
4 49 (16.72%) JavaScript
4 49 (16.72%) Python
5 24 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.73%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.39%) Groovy
8 6 (2.05%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.05%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.71%) Go
10 4 (1.37%) C++
10 4 (1.37%) R
10 4 (1.37%) Ruby
11 3 (1.02%) Scala
12 2 (0.68%) Bash
12 2 (0.68%) Bicep
12 2 (0.68%) Cypher
12 2 (0.68%) PromQL
12 2 (0.68%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 79 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.82%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.17%) Degree
4 13 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.10%) ISTQB
6 10 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (22.18%) QA
2 38 (12.97%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.80%) WCAG
4 10 (3.41%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 85 (29.01%) Docker
2 9 (3.07%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 43 (14.68%) Grafana
3 35 (11.95%) Prometheus
4 27 (9.22%) Terraform
5 6 (2.05%) Ansible
6 4 (1.37%) Kibana
7 3 (1.02%) Istio
8 2 (0.68%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.68%) Argo
8 2 (0.68%) Consul
8 2 (0.68%) Rancher
8 2 (0.68%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (5.80%) Microsoft
1 17 (5.80%) Salesforce
2 14 (4.78%) Atlassian
2 14 (4.78%) Oracle
3 13 (4.44%) Google
4 11 (3.75%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (2.73%) Checkmarx
5 8 (2.73%) Splunk
6 7 (2.39%) Conga
6 7 (2.39%) GoCardless
7 5 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.02%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.02%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.02%) Sybase
10 2 (0.68%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.68%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.68%) IBM