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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 306 258
Rank change year-on-year -54 -48 -21
Contract jobs citing BDD 294 211 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.77% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.84% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 148 240
10th Percentile £306 £346 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -7.50% -6.54% -9.13%
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 - - -23.73%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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 £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £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 31 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 31 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 -67 113 £494 -16.31% 33
North of England -25 82 £453 +3.54% 19
Midlands -11 55 £425 -7.86% 15
West Midlands -20 54 £425 -8.11% 9
North West -27 41 £475 +15.85% 13
Yorkshire -41 25 £660 +26.98% 3
North East -30 20 £450 +7.14% 4
South East -71 20 £323 -7.86% 16
South West -39 15 £525 +27.27% 3
East of England -12 8 £510 - 4
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 45 (15.31%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Camunda
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 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.72%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.02%) Findur
2 3 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 101 (34.35%) AWS
2 99 (33.67%) Azure
3 70 (23.81%) GitHub
4 45 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (13.27%) GCP
6 38 (12.93%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (8.16%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (8.16%) Serverless
8 22 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.46%) Amazon S3
10 17 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.08%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.08%) Route 53
13 9 (3.06%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.38%) BrowserStack
16 6 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
17 5 (1.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.38%) RTP
1 7 (2.38%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.04%) 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 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (15.31%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.46%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.46%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.42%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.70%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.02%) MySQL
11 2 (0.68%) Db2
11 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.68%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.68%) Redis
11 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (36.05%) Cucumber
2 93 (31.63%) Git
3 84 (28.57%) Selenium
4 70 (23.81%) Jenkins
5 68 (23.13%) JUnit
6 62 (21.09%) JIRA
7 52 (17.69%) GitLab
8 40 (13.61%) WebDriver
9 39 (13.27%) Mockito
10 37 (12.59%) REST Assured
11 35 (11.90%) Postman
12 28 (9.52%) SonarQube
13 24 (8.16%) JMeter
14 22 (7.48%) Cypress.io
15 20 (6.80%) SpecFlow
16 18 (6.12%) Gatling
16 18 (6.12%) Maven
17 17 (5.78%) TeamCity
18 12 (4.08%) DbUnit
19 11 (3.74%) jMock
General
1 85 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.75%) Public Sector
3 56 (19.05%) Finance
4 45 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (9.52%) Banking
6 11 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.72%) Retail
9 7 (2.38%) Military
10 5 (1.70%) Aviation
10 5 (1.70%) Fire and Rescue
10 5 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.70%) Police
11 3 (1.02%) Automotive
11 3 (1.02%) Billing
11 3 (1.02%) Front Office
11 3 (1.02%) Legal Technology
11 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Law
12 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (29.59%) Developer
2 69 (23.47%) Senior
3 63 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 50 (17.01%) Test Engineer
5 37 (12.59%) Lead
6 30 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 30 (10.20%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (8.16%) Tester
8 23 (7.82%) Senior Developer
9 21 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (7.14%) Test Leader
10 19 (6.46%) Analyst
10 19 (6.46%) Automation Tester
11 14 (4.76%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Automation Test Lead
13 11 (3.74%) QA Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Senior Tester
14 10 (3.40%) Architect
15 9 (3.06%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (24.15%) Spring
2 60 (20.41%) Playwright
3 59 (20.07%) REST
4 53 (18.03%) Kafka
4 53 (18.03%) Spring Boot
5 44 (14.97%) Gherkin
6 35 (11.90%) RESTful
7 34 (11.56%) .NET
8 30 (10.20%) WireMock
9 29 (9.86%) AngularJS
10 28 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
10 28 (9.52%) Node.js
11 24 (8.16%) React
12 23 (7.82%) SOAP
13 17 (5.78%) JAX-RS
14 16 (5.44%) JPA
14 16 (5.44%) Web Services
15 15 (5.10%) Hibernate
15 15 (5.10%) Spring Cloud
16 14 (4.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.18%) Cloud Native
3 26 (8.84%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 16 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.70%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.70%) Robotics
7 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.70%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.70%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.02%) Equities
9 3 (1.02%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.68%) PKI
10 2 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.33%) Linux
2 22 (7.48%) Unix
3 12 (4.08%) Mac OS X
4 7 (2.38%) Android
4 7 (2.38%) 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
1 204 (69.39%) Agile
2 190 (64.63%) TDD
3 179 (60.88%) CI/CD
4 177 (60.20%) Test Automation
5 124 (42.18%) Microservices
6 109 (37.07%) DevOps
7 69 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (22.45%) Scrum
9 63 (21.43%) API Testing
10 62 (21.09%) Test Strategy
11 59 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (18.03%) Software Engineering
13 45 (15.31%) AI
13 45 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
14 44 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (14.63%) Mentoring
16 38 (12.93%) Observability
17 37 (12.59%) End-to-End Testing
17 37 (12.59%) Kanban
18 36 (12.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 163 (55.44%) Java
2 68 (23.13%) SQL
3 53 (18.03%) C#
4 52 (17.69%) Python
5 51 (17.35%) JavaScript
6 25 (8.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.72%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.38%) Groovy
9 6 (2.04%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.70%) Go
10 5 (1.70%) R
11 4 (1.36%) C++
11 4 (1.36%) Ruby
11 4 (1.36%) Scala
12 3 (1.02%) Bash
13 2 (0.68%) Bicep
13 2 (0.68%) Cypher
13 2 (0.68%) PromQL
13 2 (0.68%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 76 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.14%) Degree
4 13 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.08%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (23.47%) QA
2 38 (12.93%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.80%) WCAG
4 10 (3.40%) 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 83 (28.23%) Docker
2 9 (3.06%) Postfix
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (21.09%) Kubernetes
2 39 (13.27%) Grafana
3 31 (10.54%) Prometheus
4 22 (7.48%) Terraform
5 6 (2.04%) Ansible
6 5 (1.70%) 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 20 (6.80%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.78%) Salesforce
3 14 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 12 (4.08%) Google
5 11 (3.74%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.40%) Oracle
7 8 (2.72%) Checkmarx
8 7 (2.38%) Conga
8 7 (2.38%) GoCardless
9 5 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.36%) Splunk
11 3 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.02%) Databricks
11 3 (1.02%) Guidewire
11 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.02%) OpenLink
11 3 (1.02%) Sybase
12 2 (0.68%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.68%) Bloomberg