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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 280 278
Rank change year-on-year -74 -2 -98
Contract jobs citing BDD 239 205 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.84% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.92% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 139 231
10th Percentile £320 £385 £356
25th Percentile £400 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.23% -9.58%
75th Percentile £575 £716 £650
90th Percentile £700 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £470 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -8.29% - -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
UK median hourly rate - - £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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 4 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 4 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 -61 104 £475 -22.76% 28
North of England -37 73 £481 -3.75% 18
North West -8 40 £431 +1.17% 10
West Midlands -41 32 £425 -11.69% 3
Midlands -51 32 £425 -11.69% 10
Yorkshire -50 27 £573 +10.15% 4
South East -64 12 £358 -28.40% 26
South West -29 10 £525 - 9
North East -21 8 £425 +8.97% 4
East of England - 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 36 (15.06%) Confluence
2 4 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Camunda
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Notion
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Findur
2 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 87 (36.40%) AWS
2 69 (28.87%) Azure
3 45 (18.83%) GitHub
4 42 (17.57%) GCP
5 24 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (6.69%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.86%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.86%) Serverless
10 13 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.60%) BrowserStack
13 9 (3.77%) AWS KMS
13 9 (3.77%) Route 53
14 7 (2.93%) SaaS
15 5 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (2.09%) OpenShift
16 4 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.67%) 3GPP
1 4 (1.67%) RTP
1 4 (1.67%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.26%) WAN
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.84%) NaaS
4 1 (0.42%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.64%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.30%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.86%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.18%) MySQL
7 9 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (3.35%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.51%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.09%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.84%) Flink
12 2 (0.84%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.84%) Power BI
12 2 (0.84%) Tableau
12 2 (0.84%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.42%) Big Data
13 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (35.56%) Cucumber
2 68 (28.45%) Git
2 68 (28.45%) Jenkins
3 64 (26.78%) Selenium
4 60 (25.10%) JIRA
5 50 (20.92%) GitLab
5 50 (20.92%) JUnit
6 34 (14.23%) Postman
7 30 (12.55%) Mockito
8 29 (12.13%) SonarQube
9 26 (10.88%) WebDriver
10 25 (10.46%) REST Assured
11 20 (8.37%) JMeter
12 14 (5.86%) Maven
13 12 (5.02%) Cypress.io
13 12 (5.02%) TeamCity
14 10 (4.18%) SpecFlow
15 9 (3.77%) DbUnit
15 9 (3.77%) jMock
16 8 (3.35%) IntelliJ
General
1 63 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.18%) Finance
3 40 (16.74%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.95%) Banking
6 8 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Aviation
8 4 (1.67%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (1.67%) Military
8 4 (1.67%) Police
9 3 (1.26%) Billing
9 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Automotive
10 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (32.22%) Developer
2 53 (22.18%) Java Developer
3 40 (16.74%) Senior
4 38 (15.90%) Test Engineer
5 35 (14.64%) Lead
6 25 (10.46%) Software Engineer
7 23 (9.62%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (9.21%) Tester
9 17 (7.11%) Automation Tester
10 16 (6.69%) Test Leader
11 15 (6.28%) Senior Developer
12 14 (5.86%) Java Engineer
12 14 (5.86%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.60%) Analyst
13 11 (4.60%) Automation Test Lead
14 10 (4.18%) Lead Test Engineer
14 10 (4.18%) Senior Automation Tester
14 10 (4.18%) Senior Tester
15 9 (3.77%) Backend Developer
16 8 (3.35%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (29.29%) Spring
2 52 (21.76%) Spring Boot
3 39 (16.32%) REST
4 35 (14.64%) Playwright
5 34 (14.23%) Kafka
6 32 (13.39%) Gherkin
7 30 (12.55%) RESTful
8 28 (11.72%) AngularJS
9 25 (10.46%) .NET
9 25 (10.46%) Node.js
10 21 (8.79%) WireMock
11 20 (8.37%) ActiveMQ
11 20 (8.37%) React
12 16 (6.69%) Spring Cloud
13 14 (5.86%) Web Services
14 13 (5.44%) SOAP
15 12 (5.02%) JAX-RS
16 11 (4.60%) Hibernate
16 11 (4.60%) OAuth
17 10 (4.18%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.13%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (8.79%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.37%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.44%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.77%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.67%) Robotics
7 3 (1.26%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.84%) AS400
8 2 (0.84%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) iSeries
8 2 (0.84%) NHS
8 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.48%) Linux
2 16 (6.69%) Unix
3 11 (4.60%) Mac OS X
4 5 (2.09%) Android
4 5 (2.09%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.26%) VMS
6 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (61.92%) TDD
2 146 (61.09%) Agile
3 141 (59.00%) Test Automation
4 122 (51.05%) CI/CD
5 100 (41.84%) Microservices
6 80 (33.47%) DevOps
7 52 (21.76%) Test Strategy
8 50 (20.92%) API Testing
9 48 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (19.25%) Scrum
11 45 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (17.15%) Software Engineering
13 30 (12.55%) Containerisation
13 30 (12.55%) Observability
13 30 (12.55%) SDLC
14 29 (12.13%) Kanban
15 27 (11.30%) End-to-End Testing
16 26 (10.88%) Mentoring
17 25 (10.46%) Continuous Integration
18 23 (9.62%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 143 (59.83%) Java
2 58 (24.27%) SQL
3 49 (20.50%) Python
4 34 (14.23%) JavaScript
5 28 (11.72%) C#
6 23 (9.62%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.60%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.93%) PHP
9 5 (2.09%) C++
9 5 (2.09%) Go
9 5 (2.09%) Ruby
10 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Groovy
11 2 (0.84%) Scala
12 1 (0.42%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
12 1 (0.42%) COBOL
12 1 (0.42%) Swift
12 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.86%) Degree
4 9 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) ISEB
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.92%) QA
2 21 (8.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.09%) WCAG
4 3 (1.26%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) HL7
5 2 (0.84%) PERC
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 63 (26.36%) Docker
2 8 (3.35%) Postfix
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (20.50%) Kubernetes
2 33 (13.81%) Grafana
3 28 (11.72%) Prometheus
4 15 (6.28%) Terraform
5 3 (1.26%) Ansible
5 3 (1.26%) Rancher
6 2 (0.84%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.84%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.84%) Kibana
6 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 13 (5.44%) Atlassian
2 12 (5.02%) Google
3 10 (4.18%) Oracle
4 9 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.35%) Checkmarx
5 8 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.93%) Splunk
7 4 (1.67%) Adobe
7 4 (1.67%) Veracode
8 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.26%) IBM
8 3 (1.26%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.84%) Amdocs
9 2 (0.84%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.84%) Ciena
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.84%) VMware