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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 272 301
Rank change year-on-year -77 +29 -147
Contract jobs citing BDD 251 213 266
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.86% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.95% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 137 200
10th Percentile £350 £363 £364
25th Percentile £400 £413 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -0.94% -11.67%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £663
90th Percentile £711 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £465 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.38% +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 32,413 22,389 32,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.76% 86.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,785 14,611 21,658
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £615 £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 1,991 834 2,145
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% - -7.29%

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 22 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 22 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 -31 124 £475 -16.67% 30
North of England -59 75 £475 +5.56% 33
North West -5 35 £453 +7.73% 16
Yorkshire -61 30 £525 - 8
Midlands -39 29 £425 -12.37% 11
West Midlands -47 29 £425 -12.37% 7
North East -11 13 £413 +5.77% 9
South West -35 10 £463 -13.95% 4
South East -59 9 £367 -26.60% 25
East of England -21 3 £510 +63.20% 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 (15.94%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) nginx
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Findur
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 96 (38.25%) AWS
2 70 (27.89%) Azure
3 51 (20.32%) GitHub
4 36 (14.34%) GCP
5 30 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.97%) Serverless
8 16 (6.37%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (3.98%) BrowserStack
11 8 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.79%) SaaS
13 5 (1.99%) Amazon Cognito
13 5 (1.99%) AWS KMS
13 5 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.99%) Route 53
14 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.99%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (1.20%) WAN
3 2 (0.80%) NaaS
4 1 (0.40%) DSL
4 1 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.40%) FTP
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.54%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (10.36%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (5.18%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.98%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.98%) MySQL
5 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.39%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.59%) Redis
10 3 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.80%) Flink
11 2 (0.80%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.80%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.40%) Big Data
12 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.40%) DB2
Development Applications
1 101 (40.24%) Cucumber
2 72 (28.69%) Jenkins
3 66 (26.29%) JIRA
4 62 (24.70%) Git
4 62 (24.70%) Selenium
5 51 (20.32%) GitLab
6 43 (17.13%) JUnit
7 35 (13.94%) Postman
8 28 (11.16%) REST Assured
9 25 (9.96%) Mockito
10 22 (8.76%) WebDriver
11 20 (7.97%) JMeter
11 20 (7.97%) SonarQube
12 19 (7.57%) Cypress.io
13 10 (3.98%) Bitbucket
14 9 (3.59%) Maven
15 8 (3.19%) Gatling
15 8 (3.19%) TestRail
16 6 (2.39%) Mocha
16 6 (2.39%) SpecFlow
General
1 75 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.12%) Finance
3 44 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.76%) Banking
6 8 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.39%) Front Office
7 6 (2.39%) Military
8 5 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.99%) Legal
9 4 (1.59%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Billing
10 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Automotive
11 2 (0.80%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (32.67%) Developer
2 48 (19.12%) Java Developer
3 42 (16.73%) Senior
4 41 (16.33%) Test Engineer
5 34 (13.55%) Lead
6 22 (8.76%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.37%) Tester
8 20 (7.97%) Test Automation Engineer
9 16 (6.37%) Automation Tester
10 14 (5.58%) QA Engineer
10 14 (5.58%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.58%) Test Leader
11 13 (5.18%) Java Engineer
12 11 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (3.98%) Analyst
13 10 (3.98%) Automation Test Lead
13 10 (3.98%) Lead Test Engineer
13 10 (3.98%) Senior Automation Tester
13 10 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (3.98%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (24.70%) Spring
2 50 (19.92%) Spring Boot
3 49 (19.52%) REST
4 38 (15.14%) Playwright
5 36 (14.34%) Node.js
6 34 (13.55%) RESTful
7 33 (13.15%) React
8 30 (11.95%) Kafka
9 29 (11.55%) Gherkin
10 27 (10.76%) WireMock
11 25 (9.96%) AngularJS
12 23 (9.16%) .NET
13 18 (7.17%) CSS
14 16 (6.37%) Jest
15 15 (5.98%) SOAP
16 14 (5.58%) ActiveMQ
17 12 (4.78%) OAuth
17 12 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
18 11 (4.38%) Web Services
19 10 (3.98%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.56%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (5.18%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.19%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.39%) Equities
7 5 (1.99%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.20%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.80%) AS400
10 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.80%) NHS
10 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.35%) Linux
2 15 (5.98%) Unix
3 9 (3.59%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.20%) Android
4 3 (1.20%) VMS
4 3 (1.20%) Windows
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (63.75%) Agile
2 155 (61.75%) TDD
3 150 (59.76%) Test Automation
4 137 (54.58%) CI/CD
5 111 (44.22%) Microservices
6 73 (29.08%) DevOps
7 60 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (23.11%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (22.31%) Test Strategy
10 55 (21.91%) API Testing
11 53 (21.12%) Scrum
12 39 (15.54%) Software Engineering
13 33 (13.15%) Containerisation
13 33 (13.15%) Mentoring
14 32 (12.75%) End-to-End Testing
15 31 (12.35%) Kanban
15 31 (12.35%) SDLC
16 29 (11.55%) Observability
17 28 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
17 28 (11.16%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 148 (58.96%) Java
2 53 (21.12%) SQL
3 51 (20.32%) JavaScript
4 45 (17.93%) Python
5 34 (13.55%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.56%) C#
7 11 (4.38%) C++
8 10 (3.98%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.79%) PHP
10 6 (2.39%) JSX
10 6 (2.39%) Ruby
11 4 (1.59%) Go
12 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.80%) Scala
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) Swift
14 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 63 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.78%) Degree
4 8 (3.19%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) ISEB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (22.31%) QA
2 27 (10.76%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.19%) GDPR
4 7 (2.79%) WCAG
5 5 (1.99%) PERC
6 2 (0.80%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 65 (25.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Postfix
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (19.52%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.75%) Grafana
3 25 (9.96%) Prometheus
4 17 (6.77%) Terraform
5 4 (1.59%) Ansible
6 3 (1.20%) Rancher
7 2 (0.80%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.80%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.80%) Kibana
7 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 11 (4.38%) Atlassian
1 11 (4.38%) Oracle
2 9 (3.59%) ServiceNow
2 9 (3.59%) Splunk
3 8 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.79%) Google
5 5 (1.99%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (1.59%) Adobe
6 4 (1.59%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.59%) Veracode
7 3 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.20%) Checkmarx
7 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.20%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.80%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.80%) Ciena
8 2 (0.80%) IBM
8 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.80%) SAP
8 2 (0.80%) Workday