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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 289 254
Rank change year-on-year -91 -35 +11
Contract jobs citing BDD 269 236 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.85% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.93% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 166 222
10th Percentile £306 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -5.50% -6.58%
75th Percentile £550 £648 £650
90th Percentile £669 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £461 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.85% -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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £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 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -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% +3.61%

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 11 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 11 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 -66 120 £500 -9.09% 72
North of England -68 71 £445 -15.24% 25
Midlands -19 40 £438 -12.50% 12
West Midlands -18 39 £438 -12.50% 8
North West -35 31 £438 +3.67% 13
Yorkshire -50 25 £525 -4.55% 7
North East -35 19 £450 -2.17% 5
South East -64 16 £275 -4.51% 21
South West -48 12 £525 +27.27% 9
East of England -26 8 £510 +36.00% 7
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 86 (31.97%) Azure
2 85 (31.60%) AWS
3 67 (24.91%) GitHub
4 40 (14.87%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (12.27%) 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 37 (13.75%) 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
5 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.86%) Couchbase
6 5 (1.86%) MySQL
7 3 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.12%) Flink
8 2 (0.74%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.74%) Power BI
8 2 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 100 (37.17%) Cucumber
2 92 (34.20%) Git
3 75 (27.88%) 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 29 (10.78%) Mockito
10 29 (10.78%) SonarQube
10 29 (10.78%) WebDriver
11 22 (8.18%) Cypress.io
12 21 (7.81%) Gatling
13 18 (6.69%) Maven
14 17 (6.32%) SpecFlow
15 13 (4.83%) TeamCity
16 11 (4.09%) JMeter
17 10 (3.72%) Gradle
18 8 (2.97%) IntelliJ
General
1 88 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.70%) Finance
3 51 (18.96%) Public Sector
4 45 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (12.64%) Banking
6 13 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.60%) Retail
8 6 (2.23%) Military
9 5 (1.86%) Aviation
9 5 (1.86%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.86%) Front Office
9 5 (1.86%) Police
10 3 (1.12%) Automotive
10 3 (1.12%) Legal Technology
10 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Law
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 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 12 (4.46%) Quality Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Test Leader
13 12 (4.46%) Tester
14 11 (4.09%) Test Analyst
15 10 (3.72%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (3.72%) Automation Tester
15 10 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (3.72%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (22.30%) Spring
2 56 (20.82%) Playwright
3 55 (20.45%) REST
4 52 (19.33%) Kafka
4 52 (19.33%) Spring Boot
5 45 (16.73%) Gherkin
6 32 (11.90%) RESTful
7 26 (9.67%) .NET
8 24 (8.92%) Terraform
9 23 (8.55%) Node.js
10 21 (7.81%) AngularJS
10 21 (7.81%) React
10 21 (7.81%) WireMock
11 19 (7.06%) SOAP
12 18 (6.69%) ActiveMQ
13 15 (5.58%) HTML
14 14 (5.20%) JSON
14 14 (5.20%) Swagger
14 14 (5.20%) XML
15 13 (4.83%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (10.41%) Product Ownership
3 27 (10.04%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.86%) Robotics
8 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.86%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.49%) NHS
9 4 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.74%) Equities
11 2 (0.74%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.87%) Linux
2 18 (6.69%) Unix
3 5 (1.86%) Android
3 5 (1.86%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.86%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.12%) Windows
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (69.89%) Agile
2 170 (63.20%) CI/CD
3 168 (62.45%) TDD
4 166 (61.71%) Test Automation
5 99 (36.80%) DevOps
6 93 (34.57%) Microservices
7 60 (22.30%) AI
8 59 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (21.93%) Scrum
9 55 (20.45%) API Testing
9 55 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (20.07%) Software Engineering
10 54 (20.07%) Test Strategy
11 44 (16.36%) Software Testing
12 42 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (14.87%) Continuous Integration
13 40 (14.87%) SDLC
14 35 (13.01%) Integration Testing
14 35 (13.01%) Mentoring
15 31 (11.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 162 (60.22%) Java
2 68 (25.28%) SQL
3 62 (23.05%) Python
4 51 (18.96%) JavaScript
5 44 (16.36%) C#
6 24 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.09%) Bash
8 8 (2.97%) Ruby
9 7 (2.60%) Groovy
10 6 (2.23%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.23%) Kotlin
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 19 (7.06%) Degree
4 15 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (5.58%) ISTQB
5 14 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.74%) ISEB
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 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 72 (26.77%) Docker
2 5 (1.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 57 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.81%) Grafana
3 16 (5.95%) 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 12 (4.46%) Google
4 9 (3.35%) Oracle
5 8 (2.97%) Checkmarx
5 8 (2.97%) Databricks
6 7 (2.60%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.60%) Conga
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%) FactSet
10 2 (0.74%) Solace