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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 253 299
Rank change year-on-year -60 +46 -160
Contract jobs citing BDD 242 291 303
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 0.94% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.08% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 180 211
10th Percentile £357 £362 £385
25th Percentile £413 £417 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £668
90th Percentile £700 £814 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £502 £520
% change year-on-year -0.40% -3.46% -11.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £87.25
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.11%

All Process and 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 27,380 27,022 34,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.64% 87.64% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,423 16,566 23,536
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,778 979 1,450
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.36% +24.64%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -32 109 £525 -8.70% 53
North of England -30 90 £525 +16.67% 16
Yorkshire -27 44 £575 +27.78% 2
North West -25 25 £550 +37.50% 13
North East +11 23 £460 +48.39% 1
South East -14 15 £309 -38.25% 54
South West -9 10 £425 -19.05% 11
Midlands -23 7 £394 -22.60% 11
West Midlands -17 5 £488 -4.17% 7
East Midlands - 2 £310 - 4
East of England -14 1 £375 +20.00% 11
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 23 (9.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.41%) CMS
2 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 70 (28.93%) AWS
2 51 (21.07%) Azure
3 38 (15.70%) GitHub
4 24 (9.92%) Serverless
5 23 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.96%) GCP
9 9 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.72%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.89%) Apigee
10 7 (2.89%) Datadog
11 6 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.48%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (2.48%) PaaS
11 6 (2.48%) Route 53
12 5 (2.07%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.07%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.83%) MQTT
2 2 (0.83%) X.509
3 1 (0.41%) DSL
3 1 (0.41%) FTP
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.12%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (14.88%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.61%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.37%) Redis
5 12 (4.96%) MySQL
5 12 (4.96%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.72%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.72%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.48%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.07%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.24%) DB2
12 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.83%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.83%) Parquet
13 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.41%) Metadata
13 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (26.45%) Cucumber
2 59 (24.38%) Git
3 58 (23.97%) Jenkins
4 45 (18.60%) Selenium
5 43 (17.77%) JIRA
6 29 (11.98%) GitLab
7 27 (11.16%) Mockito
8 25 (10.33%) Cypress.io
9 19 (7.85%) Postman
10 17 (7.02%) REST Assured
11 15 (6.20%) Bitbucket
12 14 (5.79%) Gradle
12 14 (5.79%) JUnit
12 14 (5.79%) Maven
13 13 (5.37%) SonarQube
14 9 (3.72%) JMeter
15 7 (2.89%) WebDriver
16 5 (2.07%) Gatling
16 5 (2.07%) SpecFlow
16 5 (2.07%) Subversion
General
1 65 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.83%) Public Sector
3 28 (11.57%) Banking
4 25 (10.33%) Finance
5 16 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.31%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.89%) Front Office
8 6 (2.48%) Military
9 5 (2.07%) Electronics
9 5 (2.07%) Legal
10 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (40.50%) Developer
2 68 (28.10%) Java Developer
3 44 (18.18%) Senior
4 32 (13.22%) Test Engineer
5 26 (10.74%) Senior Developer
6 21 (8.68%) Lead
6 21 (8.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 18 (7.44%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.79%) Analyst
8 14 (5.79%) Test Automation Engineer
9 13 (5.37%) QA Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Angular Developer
11 9 (3.72%) Java Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.72%) Tester
12 8 (3.31%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.31%) Senior Test Engineer
13 7 (2.89%) Architect
13 7 (2.89%) Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.48%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.73%) Spring Boot
2 51 (21.07%) Kafka
3 49 (20.25%) REST
4 37 (15.29%) Spring
5 35 (14.46%) RESTful
6 33 (13.64%) React
7 32 (13.22%) Node.js
8 31 (12.81%) ActiveMQ
9 27 (11.16%) Playwright
10 26 (10.74%) CSS
11 24 (9.92%) JAX-RS
12 23 (9.50%) AngularJS
13 20 (8.26%) Gherkin
13 20 (8.26%) HTML
14 16 (6.61%) .NET
15 15 (6.20%) Jest
15 15 (6.20%) JSON
16 13 (5.37%) WireMock
17 12 (4.96%) XML
18 11 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.57%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.96%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.89%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (2.48%) N-Tier
5 5 (2.07%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.07%) Equities
5 5 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.24%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.24%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.24%) NHS
7 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.83%) AS400
7 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.83%) iSeries
7 2 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.46%) Linux
2 29 (11.98%) Unix
3 19 (7.85%) Mac OS X
4 8 (3.31%) Android
5 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (76.45%) Agile
2 171 (70.66%) TDD
3 142 (58.68%) Test Automation
4 133 (54.96%) Microservices
5 124 (51.24%) CI/CD
6 67 (27.69%) Scrum
7 52 (21.49%) DevOps
8 51 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (17.77%) Software Engineering
10 42 (17.36%) Containerisation
11 41 (16.94%) Kanban
12 36 (14.88%) Continuous Deployment
12 36 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (14.88%) Mentoring
13 34 (14.05%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (13.22%) API Testing
15 31 (12.81%) Non-Functional Testing
15 31 (12.81%) Pair Programming
16 29 (11.98%) Functional Testing
16 29 (11.98%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 166 (68.60%) Java
2 47 (19.42%) JavaScript
3 41 (16.94%) SQL
4 34 (14.05%) TypeScript
5 28 (11.57%) Python
6 16 (6.61%) C#
7 10 (4.13%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.72%) C++
9 7 (2.89%) Scala
10 6 (2.48%) Go
10 6 (2.48%) JSX
11 4 (1.65%) Bash
11 4 (1.65%) C
11 4 (1.65%) Ruby
12 3 (1.24%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.24%) Swift
13 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
14 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 68 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.20%) Degree
4 13 (5.37%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.07%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.24%) ISEB
8 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.77%) QA
2 23 (9.50%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.96%) WCAG
4 8 (3.31%) GDPR
5 5 (2.07%) PERC
6 2 (0.83%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 72 (29.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (17.77%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.26%) Terraform
3 10 (4.13%) Grafana
4 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.65%) Ansible
6 2 (0.83%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.83%) Kibana
7 1 (0.41%) logstash
7 1 (0.41%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (4.55%) Oracle
2 9 (3.72%) Atlassian
3 8 (3.31%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.48%) Splunk
5 5 (2.07%) Gigya
6 4 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.65%) Databricks
7 3 (1.24%) Google
7 3 (1.24%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.83%) IBM
8 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) Charles River
9 1 (0.41%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.41%) Marketo
9 1 (0.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.41%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.41%) UiPath
9 1 (0.41%) Xamarin