BDD Contracts in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 282 174
Rank change year-on-year -9 -108 -42
Contract jobs citing BDD 202 286 751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.77% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.89% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 222 542
10th Percentile £385 £356 £417
25th Percentile £430 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £700
90th Percentile £788 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £600
% change year-on-year - -14.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 23
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.41% -3.01%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% +10.62%

All Process and 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Daily rate trend for BDD in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in England

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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 1 May 2025. 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 -34 115 £586 +8.31% 150
North of England +39 49 £500 - 105
Yorkshire +24 30 £520 -5.50% 37
South East +36 20 £500 -9.09% 122
Midlands +26 12 £481 +13.24% 90
West Midlands +19 12 £481 +6.94% 53
North West +16 11 £426 -14.80% 55
North East +6 9 £390 - 13
South West +34 5 £525 -11.02% 53
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UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (18.81%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.20%) Azure
2 60 (29.70%) AWS
3 35 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (12.87%) GitHub
5 18 (8.91%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (8.91%) Slack
6 11 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.96%) Serverless
9 7 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.47%) AWS KMS
9 7 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.47%) GCP
9 7 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.47%) Route 53
10 6 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.97%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.95%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) Firewall
2 2 (0.99%) SAN
3 1 (0.50%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (24.26%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (17.33%) MongoDB
3 26 (12.87%) MySQL
4 23 (11.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (8.42%) Relational Database
6 15 (7.43%) SQL Server
7 11 (5.45%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.95%) Redis
9 7 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.47%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.48%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.50%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.50%) Power BI
12 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 62 (30.69%) Cucumber
2 58 (28.71%) Git
3 52 (25.74%) JIRA
4 44 (21.78%) Jenkins
5 43 (21.29%) JUnit
6 30 (14.85%) Selenium
7 24 (11.88%) Postman
8 19 (9.41%) Jasmine
9 16 (7.92%) REST Assured
10 12 (5.94%) Maven
11 11 (5.45%) Cypress.io
12 10 (4.95%) Mockito
13 9 (4.46%) Gradle
13 9 (4.46%) JMeter
13 9 (4.46%) SpecFlow
14 8 (3.96%) GitLab
15 5 (2.48%) SonarQube
15 5 (2.48%) WebDriver
16 4 (1.98%) DbUnit
16 4 (1.98%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.28%) Public Sector
3 41 (20.30%) Finance
4 27 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.89%) Banking
6 14 (6.93%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.47%) Electronics
8 7 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.47%) Marketing
8 7 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.49%) Front Office
10 2 (0.99%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Aviation
11 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Military
11 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (49.50%) Developer
2 59 (29.21%) Java Developer
3 57 (28.22%) Senior
4 38 (18.81%) Lead
5 35 (17.33%) Senior Developer
6 26 (12.87%) Lead Developer
7 25 (12.38%) Test Engineer
8 24 (11.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (10.89%) Lead Java Developer
10 14 (6.93%) Tester
11 13 (6.44%) Senior Test Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) C# Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.46%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.96%) Analyst
14 8 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (3.47%) Business Analyst
15 7 (3.47%) Scala Developer
16 6 (2.97%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (23.27%) Spring
2 45 (22.28%) Spring Boot
3 37 (18.32%) .NET
4 34 (16.83%) REST
5 31 (15.35%) RESTful
6 25 (12.38%) Kafka
7 24 (11.88%) Spring Batch
8 21 (10.40%) Spring Security
9 20 (9.90%) Web Services
10 19 (9.41%) Swagger
11 18 (8.91%) AngularJS
12 17 (8.42%) OpenAPI
13 16 (7.92%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (7.92%) HTML
13 16 (7.92%) pytest
14 15 (7.43%) Playwright
14 15 (7.43%) React
15 12 (5.94%) .NET Core
16 11 (5.45%) CSS
16 11 (5.45%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.96%) Derivative
5 7 (3.47%) Market Risk
6 6 (2.97%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.48%) N-Tier
7 5 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.99%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.99%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.35%) Linux
2 25 (12.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Android
3 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.99%) Windows
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (68.81%) TDD
2 122 (60.40%) Agile
3 102 (50.50%) CI/CD
4 90 (44.55%) Test Automation
5 78 (38.61%) Microservices
6 63 (31.19%) DevOps
7 48 (23.76%) Scrum
8 46 (22.77%) Software Engineering
9 44 (21.78%) Continuous Integration
10 39 (19.31%) Continuous Delivery
10 39 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (15.35%) Containerisation
12 28 (13.86%) Mentoring
13 25 (12.38%) Kanban
13 25 (12.38%) OWASP
14 24 (11.88%) API Testing
14 24 (11.88%) Test Strategy
15 23 (11.39%) Test Scripting
16 21 (10.40%) Computer Science
16 21 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 96 (47.52%) Java
2 70 (34.65%) SQL
3 37 (18.32%) Python
4 32 (15.84%) C#
5 30 (14.85%) JavaScript
6 27 (13.37%) Bash
7 14 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.47%) Scala
10 5 (2.48%) Go
10 5 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.98%) Haskell
12 3 (1.49%) PHP
13 2 (0.99%) C++
13 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.99%) RPG
13 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.50%) COBOL
14 1 (0.50%) Dart
14 1 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 48 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.36%) Degree
4 14 (6.93%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (2.97%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.48%) MCPD
6 5 (2.48%) MCSD
6 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.32%) QA
2 19 (9.41%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.48%) WCAG
4 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) SEPA
5 1 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (29.21%) Docker
2 4 (1.98%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (21.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.94%) Terraform
3 9 (4.46%) Ansible
4 7 (3.47%) Kibana
5 5 (2.48%) Grafana
5 5 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.99%) Puppet
6 2 (0.99%) vRealize
7 1 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.96%) SAP
3 6 (2.97%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.48%) Splunk
5 4 (1.98%) Databricks
5 4 (1.98%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (1.98%) Oracle
6 2 (0.99%) 3PAR
6 2 (0.99%) Brocade
6 2 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.99%) Cisco
6 2 (0.99%) Dell
6 2 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.99%) EMC
6 2 (0.99%) HP
6 2 (0.99%) OpenLink
6 2 (0.99%) VMware
7 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.50%) New Relic
7 1 (0.50%) Rapid7