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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 295 244
Rank change year-on-year -50 -51 +11
Contract jobs citing BDD 289 217 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.79% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.87% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 151 240
10th Percentile £306 £353 £369
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £640 £653
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -7.50% -7.41% -6.09%
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 - - -25.00%

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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -81 111 £494 -16.31% 55
North of England -33 82 £464 +0.87% 19
Midlands -16 53 £425 -7.86% 17
West Midlands -22 52 £425 -8.11% 10
North West -20 41 £488 +0.31% 12
Yorkshire -29 25 £660 +26.98% 4
North East -28 20 £450 - 4
South East -73 19 £309 -9.19% 18
South West -33 14 £525 +27.27% 3
East of England -15 8 £510 +36.00% 3
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 41 (14.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.04%) CMS
2 3 (1.04%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Notion
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.77%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.04%) Findur
3 3 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (33.56%) AWS
1 97 (33.56%) Azure
2 68 (23.53%) GitHub
3 46 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (13.49%) GCP
5 36 (12.46%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.30%) Serverless
7 21 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.46%) AWS KMS
11 10 (3.46%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.46%) Route 53
12 9 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.42%) BrowserStack
14 6 (2.08%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.42%) RTP
1 7 (2.42%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.08%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.04%) DSL
3 3 (1.04%) Internet
4 2 (0.69%) Firewall
4 2 (0.69%) NaaS
4 2 (0.69%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (15.92%) MongoDB
2 44 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 17 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.73%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.04%) MySQL
11 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.69%) Flink
11 2 (0.69%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.69%) Power BI
11 2 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.69%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 106 (36.68%) Cucumber
2 90 (31.14%) Git
3 82 (28.37%) Selenium
4 65 (22.49%) Jenkins
4 65 (22.49%) JUnit
5 57 (19.72%) JIRA
6 52 (17.99%) GitLab
7 41 (14.19%) WebDriver
8 37 (12.80%) Mockito
8 37 (12.80%) REST Assured
9 34 (11.76%) Postman
10 26 (9.00%) SonarQube
11 24 (8.30%) JMeter
12 23 (7.96%) Cypress.io
13 19 (6.57%) SpecFlow
14 18 (6.23%) Gatling
15 17 (5.88%) Maven
16 15 (5.19%) TeamCity
17 10 (3.46%) DbUnit
18 9 (3.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 84 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.42%) Public Sector
3 52 (17.99%) Finance
4 45 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.34%) Banking
6 11 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.42%) Military
8 7 (2.42%) Retail
9 5 (1.73%) Aviation
9 5 (1.73%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.73%) Police
10 3 (1.04%) Automotive
10 3 (1.04%) Billing
10 3 (1.04%) Front Office
10 3 (1.04%) Legal Technology
10 3 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (29.07%) Developer
2 69 (23.88%) Senior
3 60 (20.76%) Java Developer
4 49 (16.96%) Test Engineer
5 37 (12.80%) Lead
6 29 (10.03%) Software Engineer
6 29 (10.03%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (8.30%) Senior Developer
8 23 (7.96%) Tester
9 22 (7.61%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (7.61%) Test Leader
10 20 (6.92%) Analyst
11 18 (6.23%) Automation Tester
12 15 (5.19%) Java Engineer
13 12 (4.15%) QA Engineer
14 11 (3.81%) Automation Test Lead
14 11 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (3.81%) Senior Tester
15 10 (3.46%) Test Analyst
16 9 (3.11%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (23.53%) Spring
2 59 (20.42%) Playwright
3 57 (19.72%) REST
4 54 (18.69%) Kafka
5 49 (16.96%) Spring Boot
6 43 (14.88%) Gherkin
7 33 (11.42%) .NET
7 33 (11.42%) RESTful
8 30 (10.38%) WireMock
9 27 (9.34%) ActiveMQ
10 26 (9.00%) AngularJS
11 25 (8.65%) Node.js
12 23 (7.96%) React
13 21 (7.27%) SOAP
14 18 (6.23%) JAX-RS
15 15 (5.19%) JSON
16 14 (4.84%) JPA
16 14 (4.84%) Web Services
17 13 (4.50%) Hibernate
17 13 (4.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.19%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.54%) Distributed Architecture
4 15 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.73%) Robotics
7 5 (1.73%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.69%) Equities
10 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.69%) PKI
10 2 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.26%) Linux
2 23 (7.96%) Unix
3 12 (4.15%) Mac OS X
4 7 (2.42%) Android
4 7 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.04%) Windows
6 2 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (69.20%) Agile
2 189 (65.40%) TDD
3 177 (61.25%) Test Automation
4 175 (60.55%) CI/CD
5 120 (41.52%) Microservices
6 105 (36.33%) DevOps
7 68 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (21.80%) Scrum
8 63 (21.80%) Test Strategy
9 62 (21.45%) API Testing
10 60 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (17.65%) Software Engineering
12 47 (16.26%) AI
13 43 (14.88%) Continuous Integration
13 43 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (13.84%) Mentoring
15 38 (13.15%) End-to-End Testing
15 38 (13.15%) Observability
16 34 (11.76%) SDLC
16 34 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 160 (55.36%) Java
2 66 (22.84%) SQL
3 52 (17.99%) C#
4 50 (17.30%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.30%) Python
5 25 (8.65%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.77%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.42%) Groovy
8 6 (2.08%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.73%) Go
9 5 (1.73%) R
9 5 (1.73%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.38%) C++
10 4 (1.38%) Ruby
10 4 (1.38%) Scala
11 3 (1.04%) Bash
12 2 (0.69%) Bicep
12 2 (0.69%) Cypher
12 2 (0.69%) PromQL
12 2 (0.69%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 74 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.92%) Degree
4 13 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.50%) ISTQB
5 12 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (23.18%) QA
2 37 (12.80%) Accessibility
3 22 (7.61%) WCAG
4 11 (3.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) SEPA
6 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 79 (27.34%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 59 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 37 (12.80%) Grafana
3 30 (10.38%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.27%) Terraform
5 6 (2.08%) Ansible
6 4 (1.38%) Kibana
7 3 (1.04%) Istio
8 2 (0.69%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.69%) Argo
8 2 (0.69%) Consul
8 2 (0.69%) Rancher
8 2 (0.69%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 11 (3.81%) Atlassian
3 11 (3.81%) Google
4 9 (3.11%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (2.77%) Checkmarx
5 8 (2.77%) Oracle
6 7 (2.42%) Conga
6 7 (2.42%) GoCardless
7 5 (1.73%) Databricks
7 5 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.38%) Splunk
9 3 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.04%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.04%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.69%) IBM
10 2 (0.69%) Sybase