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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 284 280
Rank change year-on-year -66 -4 -106
Contract jobs citing BDD 250 205 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.84% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.92% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 139 221
10th Percentile £343 £385 £356
25th Percentile £400 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £686 £650
90th Percentile £700 £784 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -7.32% - -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 34,270 22,183 32,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,910 14,537 21,121
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,134 920 2,242
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.75 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%

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 April 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 April 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 -55 110 £475 -18.98% 27
North of England -48 78 £488 -2.50% 14
North West -9 40 £431 +1.17% 9
West Midlands -39 32 £425 -11.69% 3
Midlands -49 32 £425 -11.69% 6
Yorkshire -57 31 £573 +10.15% 3
South East -58 12 £358 -28.40% 25
South West -27 10 £525 -2.33% 7
North East -17 9 £413 +5.77% 2
East of England -31 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 (14.40%) Confluence
2 4 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.80%) Notion
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Findur
2 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 91 (36.40%) AWS
2 69 (27.60%) Azure
3 49 (19.60%) GitHub
4 42 (16.80%) GCP
5 24 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (7.20%) Amazon S3
7 17 (6.80%) Serverless
8 15 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.00%) BrowserStack
12 9 (3.60%) AWS KMS
12 9 (3.60%) Route 53
13 7 (2.80%) SaaS
14 5 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (2.00%) OpenShift
15 4 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.00%) Cisco IPT
2 4 (1.60%) 3GPP
2 4 (1.60%) RTP
2 4 (1.60%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.20%) WAN
4 2 (0.80%) NaaS
5 1 (0.40%) DSL
5 1 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (11.20%) MongoDB
3 15 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (5.60%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.20%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.00%) MySQL
7 9 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.40%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.40%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.80%) Flink
11 2 (0.80%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.80%) Power BI
11 2 (0.80%) Tableau
11 2 (0.80%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.40%) Big Data
12 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 87 (34.80%) Cucumber
2 72 (28.80%) Git
3 68 (27.20%) Jenkins
4 64 (25.60%) Selenium
5 59 (23.60%) JIRA
6 50 (20.00%) GitLab
6 50 (20.00%) JUnit
7 33 (13.20%) Postman
8 31 (12.40%) Mockito
9 29 (11.60%) SonarQube
10 26 (10.40%) REST Assured
10 26 (10.40%) WebDriver
11 20 (8.00%) JMeter
12 15 (6.00%) Cypress.io
13 14 (5.60%) Maven
14 12 (4.80%) TeamCity
15 10 (4.00%) SpecFlow
16 9 (3.60%) Bitbucket
16 9 (3.60%) DbUnit
16 9 (3.60%) jMock
General
1 67 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.60%) Finance
3 41 (16.40%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.60%) Banking
6 8 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.00%) Legal
8 4 (1.60%) Aviation
8 4 (1.60%) Electronics
8 4 (1.60%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (1.60%) Military
8 4 (1.60%) Police
9 3 (1.20%) Billing
9 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Automotive
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (32.80%) Developer
2 57 (22.80%) Java Developer
3 42 (16.80%) Senior
4 39 (15.60%) Test Engineer
5 37 (14.80%) Lead
6 27 (10.80%) Software Engineer
7 24 (9.60%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (8.80%) Tester
9 17 (6.80%) Automation Tester
10 16 (6.40%) Senior Developer
10 16 (6.40%) Test Leader
11 15 (6.00%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (5.60%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.40%) Automation Test Lead
14 10 (4.00%) Analyst
14 10 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
14 10 (4.00%) Senior Automation Tester
14 10 (4.00%) Senior Tester
15 9 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.60%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (28.00%) Spring
2 54 (21.60%) Spring Boot
3 41 (16.40%) REST
4 35 (14.00%) Kafka
4 35 (14.00%) Playwright
5 33 (13.20%) RESTful
6 31 (12.40%) Gherkin
7 29 (11.60%) AngularJS
7 29 (11.60%) Node.js
8 25 (10.00%) .NET
9 24 (9.60%) React
10 22 (8.80%) WireMock
11 21 (8.40%) ActiveMQ
12 16 (6.40%) Spring Cloud
13 14 (5.60%) SOAP
13 14 (5.60%) Web Services
14 13 (5.20%) JAX-RS
15 12 (4.80%) CSS
15 12 (4.80%) Jest
16 11 (4.40%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.60%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (8.80%) Product Ownership
3 21 (8.40%) Cloud Native
4 15 (6.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (3.20%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.60%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.60%) Robotics
7 3 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.80%) AS400
8 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) iSeries
8 2 (0.80%) NHS
8 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.20%) Linux
2 17 (6.80%) Unix
3 11 (4.40%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.60%) Android
4 4 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.20%) VMS
6 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (62.40%) TDD
2 154 (61.60%) Agile
3 147 (58.80%) Test Automation
4 129 (51.60%) CI/CD
5 104 (41.60%) Microservices
6 81 (32.40%) DevOps
7 52 (20.80%) Test Strategy
8 50 (20.00%) API Testing
9 48 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (18.40%) Scrum
11 44 (17.60%) Software Engineering
12 32 (12.80%) Containerisation
12 32 (12.80%) SDLC
13 31 (12.40%) Observability
14 30 (12.00%) End-to-End Testing
14 30 (12.00%) Kanban
15 27 (10.80%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (10.40%) Mentoring
17 24 (9.60%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 148 (59.20%) Java
2 61 (24.40%) SQL
3 49 (19.60%) Python
4 39 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 28 (11.20%) C#
6 27 (10.80%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.40%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.80%) PHP
9 5 (2.00%) C++
9 5 (2.00%) Go
9 5 (2.00%) Ruby
10 3 (1.20%) JSX
10 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Groovy
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) Bash
12 1 (0.40%) Bicep
12 1 (0.40%) COBOL
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.60%) Degree
4 9 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) ISEB
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (20.40%) QA
2 20 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.40%) GDPR
4 5 (2.00%) PERC
4 5 (2.00%) WCAG
5 2 (0.80%) HL7
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 66 (26.40%) Docker
2 8 (3.20%) Postfix
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (13.20%) Grafana
3 28 (11.20%) Prometheus
4 15 (6.00%) Terraform
5 3 (1.20%) Ansible
5 3 (1.20%) Rancher
6 2 (0.80%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.80%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.80%) Kibana
6 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 13 (5.20%) Atlassian
2 12 (4.80%) Google
3 10 (4.00%) Oracle
4 9 (3.60%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.20%) Checkmarx
5 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.80%) Splunk
7 4 (1.60%) Adobe
7 4 (1.60%) Veracode
8 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.20%) IBM
8 3 (1.20%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.80%) Amdocs
9 2 (0.80%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.80%) Ciena
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.80%) VMware