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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 294 245
Rank change year-on-year -87 -49 +22
Contract jobs citing BDD 269 237 313
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.85% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.94% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 168 221
10th Percentile £306 £362 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -5.93% -6.58%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £650
90th Percentile £669 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £459 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.20% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.88 - -
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -47.06% - -

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -72 118 £500 -9.09% 55
North of England -68 72 £448 -14.76% 20
Midlands -24 41 £431 -13.75% 11
West Midlands -13 40 £431 -13.75% 7
North West -47 32 £438 +3.67% 10
Yorkshire -57 25 £525 -4.55% 6
North East -35 19 £450 -2.17% 4
South East -71 16 £275 -4.51% 19
South West -43 12 £525 +27.27% 6
East of England -22 8 £510 +36.00% 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 24 (8.92%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) CMS
2 3 (1.12%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Notion
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 9 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.97%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.12%) Findur
3 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (32.34%) AWS
2 85 (31.60%) Azure
3 68 (25.28%) GitHub
4 40 (14.87%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (9.67%) GCP
7 23 (8.55%) Serverless
8 16 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (5.58%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (3.72%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.60%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.60%) Route 53
14 6 (2.23%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.60%) RTP
1 7 (2.60%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.23%) 3GPP
3 4 (1.49%) Internet
4 2 (0.74%) DSL
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
4 2 (0.74%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) DNS
5 1 (0.37%) NaaS
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.38%) MongoDB
2 29 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.58%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.58%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.83%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.86%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.49%) MySQL
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.12%) Flink
10 2 (0.74%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.74%) Power BI
10 2 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 99 (36.80%) Cucumber
2 91 (33.83%) Git
3 76 (28.25%) Selenium
4 60 (22.30%) JUnit
5 59 (21.93%) Jenkins
6 49 (18.22%) GitLab
7 42 (15.61%) JIRA
8 41 (15.24%) REST Assured
9 37 (13.75%) Postman
10 30 (11.15%) WebDriver
11 28 (10.41%) Mockito
11 28 (10.41%) SonarQube
12 22 (8.18%) Cypress.io
13 21 (7.81%) Gatling
14 17 (6.32%) Maven
14 17 (6.32%) SpecFlow
15 13 (4.83%) TeamCity
16 12 (4.46%) JMeter
17 9 (3.35%) Gradle
18 8 (2.97%) TestNG
General
1 88 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.45%) Finance
3 51 (18.96%) Public Sector
4 44 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (12.64%) Banking
6 13 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.60%) Retail
8 5 (1.86%) Aviation
8 5 (1.86%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (1.86%) Front Office
8 5 (1.86%) Military
8 5 (1.86%) Police
9 3 (1.12%) Automotive
9 3 (1.12%) Legal Technology
9 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Law
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
10 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (25.65%) Developer
2 62 (23.05%) Senior
3 51 (18.96%) Test Engineer
4 49 (18.22%) Java Developer
5 32 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 31 (11.52%) Test Automation Engineer
7 23 (8.55%) Lead
8 22 (8.18%) Senior Developer
9 19 (7.06%) Java Engineer
10 18 (6.69%) Analyst
11 17 (6.32%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (5.20%) QA Engineer
13 13 (4.83%) Tester
14 12 (4.46%) Quality Engineer
14 12 (4.46%) Test Leader
15 11 (4.09%) Automation Tester
15 11 (4.09%) Test Analyst
16 10 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
16 10 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (3.72%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (23.05%) Spring
2 56 (20.82%) Playwright
3 54 (20.07%) REST
4 53 (19.70%) Spring Boot
5 51 (18.96%) Kafka
6 45 (16.73%) Gherkin
7 30 (11.15%) RESTful
8 26 (9.67%) .NET
9 24 (8.92%) Terraform
10 22 (8.18%) WireMock
11 21 (7.81%) Node.js
12 20 (7.43%) AngularJS
12 20 (7.43%) React
13 18 (6.69%) SOAP
14 17 (6.32%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (5.20%) HTML
15 14 (5.20%) JSON
15 14 (5.20%) Swagger
16 13 (4.83%) JPA
16 13 (4.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (10.41%) Product Ownership
3 26 (9.67%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.86%) Robotics
9 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.86%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.49%) NHS
10 4 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.13%) Linux
2 17 (6.32%) Unix
3 5 (1.86%) Android
3 5 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.49%) Mac OS X
5 3 (1.12%) Windows
6 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (69.52%) Agile
2 169 (62.83%) CI/CD
3 168 (62.45%) TDD
4 166 (61.71%) Test Automation
5 98 (36.43%) DevOps
6 94 (34.94%) Microservices
7 62 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (22.30%) AI
9 59 (21.93%) Scrum
10 56 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (20.45%) Test Strategy
12 54 (20.07%) API Testing
13 53 (19.70%) Software Engineering
14 43 (15.99%) Software Testing
15 42 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (15.24%) SDLC
17 40 (14.87%) Continuous Integration
18 37 (13.75%) Mentoring
19 34 (12.64%) Integration Testing
20 31 (11.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 162 (60.22%) Java
2 68 (25.28%) SQL
3 62 (23.05%) Python
4 49 (18.22%) JavaScript
5 44 (16.36%) C#
6 24 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.09%) Bash
8 8 (2.97%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.97%) Ruby
9 7 (2.60%) Groovy
10 6 (2.23%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.23%) R
11 5 (1.86%) Scala
12 4 (1.49%) Go
13 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.74%) Bicep
14 2 (0.74%) Cypher
14 2 (0.74%) PromQL
14 2 (0.74%) SHACL
15 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 52 (19.33%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.69%) Degree
4 15 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (5.58%) ISTQB
5 13 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.74%) ISEB
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (26.77%) QA
2 43 (15.99%) Accessibility
3 30 (11.15%) WCAG
4 11 (4.09%) GDPR
5 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 71 (26.39%) Docker
2 5 (1.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 56 (20.82%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.18%) Grafana
3 17 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.23%) Ansible
5 4 (1.49%) Kibana
6 3 (1.12%) Istio
7 2 (0.74%) Argo
7 2 (0.74%) Consul
7 2 (0.74%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.37%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.37%) Control-M
8 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.37%) Rancher
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.58%) Salesforce
3 11 (4.09%) Google
4 9 (3.35%) Oracle
5 8 (2.97%) Checkmarx
6 7 (2.60%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.60%) Conga
6 7 (2.60%) Databricks
6 7 (2.60%) GoCardless
7 6 (2.23%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (1.86%) IBM
8 5 (1.86%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.12%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.12%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.12%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.12%) Splunk
10 2 (0.74%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.74%) Sybase