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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 296 284
Rank change year-on-year -53 -12 -64
Contract jobs citing BDD 280 207 297
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.81% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.89% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 142 233
10th Percentile £319 £364 £351
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £551 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -7.50% -7.41% -10.00%
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 - - -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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 June 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 30 June 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 -84 110 £488 -17.02% 24
North of England -38 83 £453 -1.52% 16
Midlands -29 47 £425 -11.69% 10
West Midlands -24 46 £425 -15.00% 8
North West -18 43 £438 +8.83% 8
Yorkshire -50 26 £620 +19.29% 4
North East -22 19 £450 +7.14% 4
South West -24 19 £525 +23.53% 2
South East -72 15 £359 -12.97% 18
East of England -19 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 42 (15.00%) Confluence
2 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) Camunda
4 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Notion
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Mingle
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.07%) Findur
4 2 (0.71%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (36.79%) AWS
2 87 (31.07%) Azure
3 66 (23.57%) GitHub
4 38 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (12.50%) GCP
6 33 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (8.57%) Serverless
8 23 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.50%) Amazon S3
10 19 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.29%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.29%) Route 53
13 11 (3.93%) BrowserStack
14 7 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 5 (1.79%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.79%) Power Automate
17 4 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) 3GPP
1 6 (2.14%) RTP
1 6 (2.14%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.07%) Internet
2 3 (1.07%) WAN
3 2 (0.71%) DSL
3 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) NaaS
4 1 (0.36%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.79%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.93%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.21%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.14%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.79%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.71%) Flink
11 2 (0.71%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.71%) Power BI
11 2 (0.71%) Redis
11 2 (0.71%) Tableau
11 2 (0.71%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 98 (35.00%) Cucumber
2 83 (29.64%) Git
3 76 (27.14%) Jenkins
4 75 (26.79%) Selenium
5 64 (22.86%) JUnit
6 59 (21.07%) JIRA
7 55 (19.64%) GitLab
8 40 (14.29%) REST Assured
9 38 (13.57%) Mockito
10 35 (12.50%) Postman
10 35 (12.50%) WebDriver
11 30 (10.71%) SonarQube
12 25 (8.93%) JMeter
13 19 (6.79%) Maven
14 17 (6.07%) Cypress.io
15 16 (5.71%) Gatling
15 16 (5.71%) SpecFlow
15 16 (5.71%) TeamCity
16 12 (4.29%) Bitbucket
16 12 (4.29%) DbUnit
General
1 77 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 54 (19.29%) Finance
4 39 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.64%) Banking
6 9 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.21%) Retail
7 7 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.50%) Military
8 5 (1.79%) Aviation
8 5 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Police
9 3 (1.07%) Billing
9 3 (1.07%) Front Office
9 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Automotive
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (29.29%) Developer
2 62 (22.14%) Java Developer
3 59 (21.07%) Senior
4 49 (17.50%) Test Engineer
5 40 (14.29%) Lead
6 34 (12.14%) Software Engineer
7 27 (9.64%) Test Automation Engineer
8 25 (8.93%) Tester
9 19 (6.79%) Automation Tester
9 19 (6.79%) Java Engineer
9 19 (6.79%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (6.79%) Test Leader
10 12 (4.29%) Analyst
10 12 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (3.93%) Automation Test Lead
11 11 (3.93%) Senior Tester
12 10 (3.57%) QA Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) Salesforce Engineer
13 9 (3.21%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (27.86%) Spring
2 61 (21.79%) Spring Boot
3 54 (19.29%) Playwright
4 53 (18.93%) REST
5 51 (18.21%) Kafka
6 37 (13.21%) Gherkin
7 31 (11.07%) .NET
7 31 (11.07%) RESTful
8 29 (10.36%) AngularJS
9 28 (10.00%) WireMock
10 24 (8.57%) Node.js
11 23 (8.21%) ActiveMQ
12 22 (7.86%) React
13 20 (7.14%) SOAP
14 19 (6.79%) Spring Cloud
15 16 (5.71%) JPA
15 16 (5.71%) Web Services
16 15 (5.36%) Hibernate
17 14 (5.00%) Spring Batch
18 12 (4.29%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.86%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.64%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
5 13 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.79%) Robotics
7 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.07%) Equities
8 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.07%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.71%) PKI
9 2 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.36%) Linux
2 17 (6.07%) Unix
3 10 (3.57%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.79%) Android
4 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.07%) Windows
6 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.71%) VMS
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (65.36%) Agile
2 175 (62.50%) TDD
3 162 (57.86%) Test Automation
4 161 (57.50%) CI/CD
5 118 (42.14%) Microservices
6 103 (36.79%) DevOps
7 60 (21.43%) Test Strategy
8 58 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (20.71%) Scrum
9 57 (20.36%) Software Engineering
10 55 (19.64%) API Testing
11 49 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (15.00%) Mentoring
13 41 (14.64%) Observability
14 36 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (12.86%) SDLC
15 33 (11.79%) Kanban
16 32 (11.43%) AI
16 32 (11.43%) Containerisation
16 32 (11.43%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 168 (60.00%) Java
2 68 (24.29%) SQL
3 46 (16.43%) C#
4 45 (16.07%) Python
5 43 (15.36%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.86%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.86%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.50%) Groovy
9 6 (2.14%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.14%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.79%) C++
11 4 (1.43%) Go
12 2 (0.71%) Bash
12 2 (0.71%) Bicep
12 2 (0.71%) PromQL
12 2 (0.71%) Ruby
12 2 (0.71%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) COBOL
13 1 (0.36%) Cypher
13 1 (0.36%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 76 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.14%) Degree
4 12 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.86%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (19.29%) QA
2 32 (11.43%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.93%) WCAG
4 5 (1.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 82 (29.29%) Docker
2 9 (3.21%) Postfix
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.00%) Grafana
3 35 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 27 (9.64%) Terraform
5 7 (2.50%) Ansible
6 3 (1.07%) Istio
6 3 (1.07%) Kibana
7 2 (0.71%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.71%) Consul
7 2 (0.71%) Rancher
7 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.71%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.36%) Argo
8 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (5.71%) Salesforce
2 15 (5.36%) Atlassian
3 14 (5.00%) Oracle
4 11 (3.93%) Google
4 11 (3.93%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (2.86%) Checkmarx
5 8 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.86%) Splunk
6 7 (2.50%) Conga
6 7 (2.50%) GoCardless
7 5 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.43%) Veracode
9 3 (1.07%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.07%) Sybase
10 2 (0.71%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.71%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.71%) Ciena
10 2 (0.71%) IBM
10 2 (0.71%) SAP