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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 294 267
Rank change year-on-year -61 -27 -64
Contract jobs citing BDD 265 201 297
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.82% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.90% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 136 235
10th Percentile £350 £360 £353
25th Percentile £400 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £617 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 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 12 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 -63 109 £494 -14.50% 21
North of England -40 78 £453 +2.08% 12
Midlands -40 41 £425 -11.69% 7
West Midlands -35 40 £425 -15.00% 4
North West -8 37 £431 +8.70% 8
Yorkshire -48 29 £620 +19.29% 3
South West -16 18 £525 +27.27% 5
North East -27 16 £450 +7.14% 1
South East -78 13 £359 -24.53% 18
East of England -15 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 40 (15.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Notion
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Mingle
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.02%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.13%) Findur
3 2 (0.75%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (36.60%) AWS
2 81 (30.57%) Azure
3 61 (23.02%) GitHub
4 39 (14.72%) GCP
5 31 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (8.68%) Amazon SQS
8 22 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (7.55%) Amazon S3
10 19 (7.17%) Serverless
11 17 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.53%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.53%) BrowserStack
12 12 (4.53%) Route 53
13 7 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.26%) OpenShift
15 5 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.89%) SaaS
16 4 (1.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.26%) 3GPP
1 6 (2.26%) RTP
1 6 (2.26%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.13%) WAN
3 2 (0.75%) DSL
3 2 (0.75%) NaaS
4 1 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.83%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.79%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (5.28%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.64%) MySQL
9 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.75%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.75%) Flink
11 2 (0.75%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.75%) Tableau
11 2 (0.75%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 95 (35.85%) Cucumber
2 78 (29.43%) Git
3 74 (27.92%) Jenkins
3 74 (27.92%) Selenium
4 60 (22.64%) JIRA
4 60 (22.64%) JUnit
5 56 (21.13%) GitLab
6 42 (15.85%) REST Assured
7 34 (12.83%) Mockito
8 33 (12.45%) Postman
9 32 (12.08%) WebDriver
10 29 (10.94%) SonarQube
11 24 (9.06%) JMeter
12 17 (6.42%) Maven
13 15 (5.66%) SpecFlow
14 14 (5.28%) TeamCity
15 12 (4.53%) DbUnit
15 12 (4.53%) Gatling
16 11 (4.15%) Bitbucket
16 11 (4.15%) Cypress.io
General
1 70 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.75%) Finance
3 48 (18.11%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.43%) Banking
6 9 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.89%) Aviation
7 5 (1.89%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.89%) Military
7 5 (1.89%) Police
7 5 (1.89%) Retail
8 3 (1.13%) Billing
8 3 (1.13%) Front Office
8 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Automotive
9 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.75%) Law
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 75 (28.30%) Developer
2 56 (21.13%) Java Developer
3 52 (19.62%) Senior
4 48 (18.11%) Test Engineer
5 41 (15.47%) Lead
6 31 (11.70%) Software Engineer
7 27 (10.19%) Test Automation Engineer
8 24 (9.06%) Tester
9 19 (7.17%) Java Engineer
10 18 (6.79%) Automation Tester
10 18 (6.79%) Senior Developer
11 17 (6.42%) Senior Java Developer
11 17 (6.42%) Test Leader
12 12 (4.53%) Automation Test Lead
12 12 (4.53%) QA Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Lead Test Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Senior Tester
14 9 (3.40%) Architect
14 9 (3.40%) Salesforce Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (29.06%) Spring
2 61 (23.02%) Spring Boot
3 52 (19.62%) REST
4 48 (18.11%) Playwright
5 43 (16.23%) Kafka
6 35 (13.21%) RESTful
7 33 (12.45%) Gherkin
8 31 (11.70%) AngularJS
9 30 (11.32%) .NET
10 24 (9.06%) WireMock
11 23 (8.68%) Node.js
12 22 (8.30%) ActiveMQ
13 21 (7.92%) React
14 19 (7.17%) Spring Cloud
15 18 (6.79%) SOAP
16 17 (6.42%) Web Services
17 16 (6.04%) JPA
18 15 (5.66%) Hibernate
19 14 (5.28%) Spring Batch
20 12 (4.53%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.08%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 16 (6.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 12 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.89%) Robotics
7 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.13%) Equities
8 3 (1.13%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.47%) Linux
2 15 (5.66%) Unix
3 10 (3.77%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.89%) Android
4 5 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.75%) VMS
5 2 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (62.64%) TDD
2 165 (62.26%) Agile
3 153 (57.74%) Test Automation
4 149 (56.23%) CI/CD
5 111 (41.89%) Microservices
6 99 (37.36%) DevOps
7 59 (22.26%) Test Strategy
8 54 (20.38%) API Testing
9 53 (20.00%) Scrum
10 52 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (19.62%) Software Engineering
11 41 (15.47%) Observability
11 41 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (13.58%) Mentoring
13 34 (12.83%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (12.45%) SDLC
15 32 (12.08%) Containerisation
15 32 (12.08%) Kanban
16 29 (10.94%) AI
16 29 (10.94%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 161 (60.75%) Java
2 67 (25.28%) SQL
3 50 (18.87%) Python
4 40 (15.09%) C#
5 39 (14.72%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.30%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.64%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.26%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.89%) C++
10 4 (1.51%) Go
10 4 (1.51%) Groovy
10 4 (1.51%) PHP
11 3 (1.13%) Ruby
12 2 (0.75%) PromQL
12 2 (0.75%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Bash
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) Cypher
13 1 (0.38%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 67 (25.28%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.17%) Degree
4 11 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.51%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (21.89%) QA
2 26 (9.81%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.26%) WCAG
4 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 78 (29.43%) Docker
2 9 (3.40%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (21.51%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.85%) Grafana
3 35 (13.21%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.55%) Terraform
5 7 (2.64%) Ansible
6 3 (1.13%) Kibana
7 2 (0.75%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.75%) Consul
7 2 (0.75%) Istio
7 2 (0.75%) Rancher
7 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.75%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (5.66%) Atlassian
1 15 (5.66%) Salesforce
2 13 (4.91%) Oracle
3 12 (4.53%) Google
4 11 (4.15%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (3.02%) Checkmarx
5 8 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.02%) Splunk
6 7 (2.64%) Conga
6 7 (2.64%) GoCardless
7 4 (1.51%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.51%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.51%) Veracode
8 3 (1.13%) Adobe
8 3 (1.13%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.13%) Sybase
9 2 (0.75%) Amdocs
9 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.75%) SAP
9 2 (0.75%) VMware