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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 285 242
Rank change year-on-year -95 -43 +24
Contract jobs citing BDD 260 237 311
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.86% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.95% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 166 219
10th Percentile £306 £361 £357
25th Percentile £400 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -3.70% -6.09%
75th Percentile £550 £648 £650
90th Percentile £669 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £459 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -10.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.88 - -
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -47.06% - -

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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -78 116 £500 -9.09% 134
North of England -77 69 £448 -14.76% 52
Midlands -19 40 £438 -8.85% 22
West Midlands -17 39 £438 -12.50% 16
North West -50 29 £438 +3.31% 30
Yorkshire -45 25 £525 -4.55% 14
North East -29 19 £450 -2.17% 9
South East -60 16 £275 -4.51% 28
South West -47 12 £525 +27.27% 15
East of England -27 5 £570 +52.00% 8
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 (8.85%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) CMS
2 3 (1.15%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Notion
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 10 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.77%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.92%) Azure
2 80 (30.77%) AWS
3 60 (23.08%) GitHub
4 40 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (8.85%) Serverless
7 20 (7.69%) GCP
8 15 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.38%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.62%) Power Automate
11 11 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.08%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.69%) AWS KMS
14 7 (2.69%) Route 53
15 6 (2.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.69%) RTP
1 7 (2.69%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.31%) 3GPP
3 5 (1.92%) Internet
4 2 (0.77%) DSL
4 2 (0.77%) Firewall
4 2 (0.77%) HTTP
5 1 (0.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.85%) MongoDB
2 27 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.62%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.69%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.92%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.54%) MySQL
9 3 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.77%) Flink
10 2 (0.77%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.77%) Power BI
10 2 (0.77%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 99 (38.08%) Cucumber
2 87 (33.46%) Git
3 76 (29.23%) Selenium
4 55 (21.15%) Jenkins
4 55 (21.15%) JUnit
5 46 (17.69%) GitLab
6 42 (16.15%) REST Assured
7 40 (15.38%) JIRA
8 36 (13.85%) Postman
9 29 (11.15%) WebDriver
10 27 (10.38%) Mockito
11 26 (10.00%) SonarQube
12 23 (8.85%) Cypress.io
13 21 (8.08%) Gatling
14 18 (6.92%) Maven
15 17 (6.54%) SpecFlow
16 13 (5.00%) TeamCity
17 10 (3.85%) Gradle
17 10 (3.85%) JMeter
18 8 (3.08%) TestNG
General
1 87 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.62%) Public Sector
3 48 (18.46%) Finance
4 45 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (12.69%) Banking
6 14 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.69%) Retail
8 6 (2.31%) Military
9 5 (1.92%) Aviation
9 5 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.92%) Front Office
9 5 (1.92%) Police
10 3 (1.15%) Legal Technology
10 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Local Government
11 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (25.00%) Developer
2 62 (23.85%) Senior
3 49 (18.85%) Test Engineer
4 45 (17.31%) Java Developer
5 31 (11.92%) Software Engineer
6 30 (11.54%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (9.23%) Lead
8 22 (8.46%) Senior Developer
9 19 (7.31%) Analyst
10 18 (6.92%) Java Engineer
11 17 (6.54%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (5.38%) QA Engineer
13 13 (5.00%) Test Leader
14 12 (4.62%) Quality Engineer
14 12 (4.62%) Test Analyst
15 11 (4.23%) Tester
16 10 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (3.85%) Senior Test Engineer
17 9 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
17 9 (3.46%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (21.54%) Playwright
2 54 (20.77%) REST
3 52 (20.00%) Spring
4 49 (18.85%) Kafka
5 46 (17.69%) Spring Boot
6 44 (16.92%) Gherkin
7 31 (11.92%) RESTful
8 26 (10.00%) .NET
9 22 (8.46%) Terraform
10 21 (8.08%) AngularJS
10 21 (8.08%) Node.js
10 21 (8.08%) React
11 19 (7.31%) WireMock
12 18 (6.92%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (6.92%) SOAP
13 15 (5.77%) HTML
14 13 (5.00%) JPA
14 13 (5.00%) JSON
14 13 (5.00%) Swagger
14 13 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (10.38%) Product Ownership
3 25 (9.62%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.92%) Robotics
9 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.92%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.54%) NHS
10 4 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.77%) Equities
12 2 (0.77%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.00%) Linux
2 18 (6.92%) Unix
3 5 (1.92%) Android
3 5 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.92%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.15%) Windows
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (70.00%) Agile
2 163 (62.69%) CI/CD
3 162 (62.31%) TDD
4 161 (61.92%) Test Automation
5 94 (36.15%) DevOps
6 89 (34.23%) Microservices
7 60 (23.08%) AI
8 58 (22.31%) Scrum
9 57 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (20.77%) API Testing
11 54 (20.77%) Software Engineering
12 53 (20.38%) Test Strategy
13 44 (16.92%) Software Testing
13 44 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (15.00%) SDLC
15 35 (13.46%) Integration Testing
15 35 (13.46%) Mentoring
16 31 (11.92%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 155 (59.62%) Java
2 67 (25.77%) SQL
3 56 (21.54%) Python
4 51 (19.62%) JavaScript
5 45 (17.31%) C#
6 24 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.23%) Bash
8 8 (3.08%) Ruby
9 7 (2.69%) Groovy
10 6 (2.31%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.31%) R
11 5 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.92%) Scala
12 3 (1.15%) Go
12 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.77%) Bicep
13 2 (0.77%) Cypher
13 2 (0.77%) PromQL
13 2 (0.77%) SHACL
14 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (24.23%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.31%) Degree
4 16 (6.15%) ISTQB
5 15 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.77%) ISEB
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (27.69%) QA
2 44 (16.92%) Accessibility
3 31 (11.92%) WCAG
4 12 (4.62%) GDPR
5 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) SEPA
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 68 (26.15%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 53 (20.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.31%) Grafana
3 14 (5.38%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.31%) Ansible
5 4 (1.54%) Kibana
6 3 (1.15%) Istio
7 2 (0.77%) Argo
7 2 (0.77%) Consul
7 2 (0.77%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.38%) Control-M
8 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.38%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.46%) Databricks
3 9 (3.46%) Google
3 9 (3.46%) Oracle
4 7 (2.69%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.69%) Conga
4 7 (2.69%) GoCardless
5 6 (2.31%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (1.92%) Checkmarx
6 5 (1.92%) IBM
6 5 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.15%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.15%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.15%) Splunk
8 2 (0.77%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.77%) FactSet
8 2 (0.77%) Solace