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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 290 268
Rank change year-on-year -59 -22 -81
Contract jobs citing BDD 252 206 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.85% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.93% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 140 235
10th Percentile £326 £375 £353
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.97% -6.16% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £650
90th Percentile £700 £753 £750
UK median daily rate £473 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.50% -6.19% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - -22.41%

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 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -73 100 £488 -13.26% 21
North of England -33 83 £450 -2.17% 20
North West -8 43 £431 +4.61% 11
Midlands -32 38 £425 -7.61% 10
West Midlands -32 37 £425 -7.86% 4
Yorkshire -47 31 £620 +19.29% 6
South West -26 16 £525 - 5
North East -18 13 £426 +9.10% 4
South East -63 12 £358 -28.40% 18
East of England -17 8 £510 - 2
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 33 (13.10%) Confluence
2 3 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.79%) Notion
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Mingle
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.19%) Findur
3 2 (0.79%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.90%) AWS
2 71 (28.17%) Azure
3 54 (21.43%) GitHub
4 41 (16.27%) GCP
5 24 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
7 20 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (7.94%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.14%) Serverless
9 16 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.76%) AWS KMS
10 12 (4.76%) BrowserStack
10 12 (4.76%) Route 53
11 6 (2.38%) SaaS
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.98%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (1.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) 3GPP
1 5 (1.98%) RTP
1 5 (1.98%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.79%) NaaS
4 1 (0.40%) DSL
4 1 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.90%) MongoDB
3 18 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.57%) MySQL
8 8 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.38%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.79%) Flink
12 2 (0.79%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.79%) Power BI
12 2 (0.79%) Redis
12 2 (0.79%) Tableau
12 2 (0.79%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 90 (35.71%) Cucumber
2 74 (29.37%) Jenkins
3 73 (28.97%) Git
4 70 (27.78%) Selenium
5 56 (22.22%) JIRA
6 52 (20.63%) JUnit
7 51 (20.24%) GitLab
8 39 (15.48%) REST Assured
9 36 (14.29%) Postman
10 33 (13.10%) Mockito
11 31 (12.30%) SonarQube
12 24 (9.52%) WebDriver
13 22 (8.73%) JMeter
14 17 (6.75%) Maven
15 14 (5.56%) SpecFlow
16 13 (5.16%) TeamCity
17 12 (4.76%) Cypress.io
17 12 (4.76%) DbUnit
18 11 (4.37%) Gatling
18 11 (4.37%) jMock
General
1 66 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.43%) Finance
3 49 (19.44%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.73%) Banking
6 8 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.59%) Aviation
7 4 (1.59%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.59%) Police
8 3 (1.19%) Billing
8 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.19%) Military
8 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Retail
9 2 (0.79%) Automotive
9 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Law
9 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (31.35%) Developer
2 56 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 47 (18.65%) Test Engineer
4 44 (17.46%) Senior
5 42 (16.67%) Lead
6 28 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 28 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
7 22 (8.73%) Tester
8 19 (7.54%) Test Leader
9 18 (7.14%) Automation Tester
9 18 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 17 (6.75%) Senior Java Developer
11 14 (5.56%) Automation Test Lead
11 14 (5.56%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.76%) Lead Test Engineer
13 10 (3.97%) Senior Automation Tester
13 10 (3.97%) Senior Tester
14 9 (3.57%) Analyst
14 9 (3.57%) Backend Developer
14 9 (3.57%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (30.16%) Spring
2 60 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 49 (19.44%) REST
4 45 (17.86%) Playwright
5 37 (14.68%) Kafka
5 37 (14.68%) RESTful
6 34 (13.49%) Gherkin
7 31 (12.30%) AngularJS
8 28 (11.11%) .NET
9 23 (9.13%) Node.js
9 23 (9.13%) React
10 22 (8.73%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (8.33%) WireMock
12 20 (7.94%) Spring Cloud
13 17 (6.75%) SOAP
13 17 (6.75%) Web Services
14 15 (5.95%) Hibernate
14 15 (5.95%) JPA
15 14 (5.56%) Spring Batch
16 13 (5.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.54%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 11 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.57%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.59%) Robotics
7 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.79%) AS400
9 2 (0.79%) Equities
9 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) iSeries
9 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.48%) Linux
2 15 (5.95%) Unix
3 10 (3.97%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.98%) Android
4 5 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.79%) VMS
5 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (62.30%) TDD
2 152 (60.32%) Test Automation
3 150 (59.52%) Agile
4 136 (53.97%) CI/CD
5 107 (42.46%) Microservices
6 89 (35.32%) DevOps
7 57 (22.62%) API Testing
7 57 (22.62%) Test Strategy
8 53 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (20.24%) Scrum
10 47 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (17.86%) Software Engineering
12 38 (15.08%) Observability
13 34 (13.49%) Mentoring
14 32 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (12.30%) Containerisation
16 29 (11.51%) Kanban
16 29 (11.51%) SDLC
17 28 (11.11%) Performance Testing
18 27 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 154 (61.11%) Java
2 67 (26.59%) SQL
3 51 (20.24%) Python
4 41 (16.27%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.89%) C#
6 23 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.37%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.78%) PHP
9 6 (2.38%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.98%) C++
10 5 (1.98%) Go
10 5 (1.98%) Ruby
10 5 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.79%) Bash
11 2 (0.79%) Groovy
11 2 (0.79%) PromQL
11 2 (0.79%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) Bicep
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 51 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.54%) Degree
4 11 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (21.83%) QA
2 23 (9.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.38%) WCAG
4 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) HL7
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 74 (29.37%) Docker
2 9 (3.57%) Postfix
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 39 (15.48%) Grafana
3 33 (13.10%) Prometheus
4 16 (6.35%) Terraform
5 6 (2.38%) Ansible
6 3 (1.19%) Kibana
7 2 (0.79%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.79%) Consul
7 2 (0.79%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.79%) Istio
7 2 (0.79%) Rancher
7 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.79%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (5.95%) Atlassian
2 14 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 12 (4.76%) Google
4 11 (4.37%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (4.37%) Oracle
5 9 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.17%) Checkmarx
6 8 (3.17%) Splunk
7 7 (2.78%) Conga
7 7 (2.78%) GoCardless
8 4 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.59%) Veracode
9 3 (1.19%) Adobe
9 3 (1.19%) IBM
9 3 (1.19%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.79%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.79%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft
10 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.79%) VMware