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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 305 264
Rank change year-on-year -46 -41 -30
Contract jobs citing BDD 288 214 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.78% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.86% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 148 236
10th Percentile £310 £346 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -7.50% -7.41% -7.10%
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 38,425 24,898 29,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.75% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,067 15,953 19,300
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £424 £405 £416
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 £521 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,362 1,833
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.21 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.46 £51.65 £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 28 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 28 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 -75 110 £488 -19.75% 31
North of England -26 83 £453 +3.54% 19
Midlands -12 53 £425 -7.86% 17
West Midlands -13 52 £425 -8.11% 11
North West -20 42 £475 +15.85% 12
Yorkshire -29 26 £660 +26.98% 3
North East -27 21 £450 +7.14% 5
South East -78 18 £358 +2.29% 17
South West -32 16 £525 +27.27% 4
East of England -13 8 £510 - 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 44 (15.28%) Confluence
2 4 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Notion
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Mingle
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.04%) Findur
2 3 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 97 (33.68%) AWS
2 94 (32.64%) Azure
3 69 (23.96%) GitHub
4 45 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (13.19%) GCP
5 38 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 24 (8.33%) Serverless
7 22 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (6.60%) Amazon S3
9 17 (5.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.17%) AWS KMS
11 12 (4.17%) Route 53
12 9 (3.13%) BrowserStack
12 9 (3.13%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.43%) RTP
1 7 (2.43%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.08%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.04%) DSL
3 3 (1.04%) Internet
3 3 (1.04%) WAN
4 2 (0.69%) Firewall
4 2 (0.69%) NaaS
5 1 (0.35%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.01%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (15.97%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.60%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.60%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.51%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.74%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.04%) MySQL
11 2 (0.69%) Db2
11 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.69%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.69%) Redis
11 2 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 100 (34.72%) Cucumber
2 86 (29.86%) Git
3 83 (28.82%) Selenium
4 73 (25.35%) Jenkins
5 62 (21.53%) JUnit
6 60 (20.83%) JIRA
7 50 (17.36%) GitLab
8 40 (13.89%) WebDriver
9 39 (13.54%) Mockito
10 38 (13.19%) REST Assured
11 35 (12.15%) Postman
12 26 (9.03%) SonarQube
13 24 (8.33%) JMeter
14 22 (7.64%) Cypress.io
15 20 (6.94%) SpecFlow
16 18 (6.25%) Maven
17 17 (5.90%) TeamCity
18 16 (5.56%) Gatling
19 12 (4.17%) DbUnit
20 11 (3.82%) jMock
General
1 83 (28.82%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 53 (18.40%) Finance
4 43 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.38%) Banking
6 11 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.78%) Retail
9 7 (2.43%) Military
10 5 (1.74%) Aviation
10 5 (1.74%) Fire and Rescue
10 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Police
11 3 (1.04%) Automotive
11 3 (1.04%) Billing
11 3 (1.04%) Front Office
11 3 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Law
12 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (30.56%) Developer
2 68 (23.61%) Senior
3 63 (21.88%) Java Developer
4 51 (17.71%) Test Engineer
5 40 (13.89%) Lead
6 30 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 30 (10.42%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (8.33%) Tester
8 23 (7.99%) Senior Developer
9 21 (7.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (7.29%) Test Leader
10 19 (6.60%) Analyst
10 19 (6.60%) Automation Tester
11 14 (4.86%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.82%) Automation Test Lead
13 11 (3.82%) Senior Tester
14 10 (3.47%) Architect
14 10 (3.47%) QA Engineer
15 9 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (25.00%) Spring
2 56 (19.44%) Playwright
2 56 (19.44%) REST
2 56 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 55 (19.10%) Kafka
4 41 (14.24%) Gherkin
5 33 (11.46%) .NET
5 33 (11.46%) RESTful
6 29 (10.07%) AngularJS
7 28 (9.72%) ActiveMQ
8 27 (9.38%) WireMock
9 26 (9.03%) Node.js
10 23 (7.99%) React
10 23 (7.99%) SOAP
11 17 (5.90%) JAX-RS
11 17 (5.90%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (5.56%) JPA
12 16 (5.56%) Web Services
13 15 (5.21%) Hibernate
14 14 (4.86%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (9.03%) Cloud Native
3 25 (8.68%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 15 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.74%) Robotics
8 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.74%) Taxonomies
8 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.04%) Equities
10 3 (1.04%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.69%) PKI
11 2 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.32%) Linux
2 22 (7.64%) Unix
3 12 (4.17%) Mac OS X
4 7 (2.43%) Android
4 7 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.04%) Windows
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (68.75%) Agile
2 185 (64.24%) TDD
3 176 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 171 (59.38%) Test Automation
5 121 (42.01%) Microservices
6 109 (37.85%) DevOps
7 68 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (21.18%) Scrum
8 61 (21.18%) Test Strategy
9 60 (20.83%) API Testing
10 57 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (18.40%) Software Engineering
12 44 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
13 42 (14.58%) Mentoring
14 41 (14.24%) AI
15 40 (13.89%) Observability
15 40 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (12.85%) Kanban
17 33 (11.46%) Containerisation
17 33 (11.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 159 (55.21%) Java
2 68 (23.61%) SQL
3 53 (18.40%) C#
4 50 (17.36%) Python
5 49 (17.01%) JavaScript
6 24 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.43%) Groovy
9 6 (2.08%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.08%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.74%) Go
11 4 (1.39%) C++
11 4 (1.39%) R
11 4 (1.39%) Ruby
11 4 (1.39%) Scala
12 2 (0.69%) Bash
12 2 (0.69%) Bicep
12 2 (0.69%) Cypher
12 2 (0.69%) PromQL
12 2 (0.69%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 77 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.29%) Degree
4 13 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.17%) ISTQB
6 10 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (22.57%) QA
2 36 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.90%) WCAG
4 10 (3.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) SEPA
6 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 82 (28.47%) Docker
2 9 (3.13%) Postfix
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 41 (14.24%) Grafana
3 33 (11.46%) Prometheus
4 23 (7.99%) Terraform
5 6 (2.08%) Ansible
6 5 (1.74%) Kibana
7 3 (1.04%) Istio
8 2 (0.69%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.69%) Argo
8 2 (0.69%) Consul
8 2 (0.69%) Rancher
8 2 (0.69%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 17 (5.90%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.86%) Atlassian
4 13 (4.51%) Google
5 11 (3.82%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.47%) Oracle
7 8 (2.78%) Checkmarx
8 7 (2.43%) Conga
8 7 (2.43%) GoCardless
9 6 (2.08%) Splunk
10 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.39%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (1.04%) Guidewire
12 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.04%) OpenLink
12 3 (1.04%) Sybase
13 2 (0.69%) Amdocs
13 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.69%) IBM