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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 277 329
Rank change year-on-year -53 +52 -178
Contract jobs citing BDD 262 219 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.98% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 141 186
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +3.70% -15.63%
75th Percentile £570 £668 £600
90th Percentile £683 £800 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
UK median hourly rate - - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - -19.64%

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 31,861 22,379 32,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.57% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,379 14,469 21,822
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 803 2,148
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 March 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 March 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 -46 125 £475 -17.39% 30
North of England -43 84 £475 +5.56% 34
North West -13 35 £431 +10.23% 17
Yorkshire -60 32 £525 - 8
Midlands -36 30 £425 -12.37% 14
West Midlands -44 29 £425 -12.37% 10
North East -3 20 £475 +21.79% 9
South West -29 10 £463 -13.95% 6
South East -60 9 £367 -26.60% 34
East of England -25 3 £510 +63.20% 6
East Midlands - 1 £308 - 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 42 (16.03%) Confluence
2 4 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.76%) nginx
4 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.38%) Findur
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (39.31%) AWS
2 66 (25.19%) Azure
3 48 (18.32%) GitHub
4 35 (13.36%) GCP
5 27 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (8.02%) Serverless
7 20 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.11%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.82%) BrowserStack
12 9 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.67%) SaaS
14 5 (1.91%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (1.91%) AWS KMS
14 5 (1.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.91%) Route 53
15 4 (1.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.91%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (1.15%) WAN
3 2 (0.76%) NaaS
4 1 (0.38%) DSL
4 1 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.38%) FTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.50%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.31%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.34%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.82%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.82%) MySQL
6 8 (3.05%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.29%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.53%) Redis
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.76%) Flink
11 2 (0.76%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
12 1 (0.38%) Big Data
12 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 107 (40.84%) Cucumber
2 75 (28.63%) Jenkins
3 70 (26.72%) Selenium
4 67 (25.57%) JIRA
5 62 (23.66%) Git
6 58 (22.14%) GitLab
7 45 (17.18%) JUnit
8 38 (14.50%) Postman
9 30 (11.45%) REST Assured
10 26 (9.92%) Mockito
11 22 (8.40%) WebDriver
12 21 (8.02%) Cypress.io
12 21 (8.02%) JMeter
12 21 (8.02%) SonarQube
13 10 (3.82%) Bitbucket
13 10 (3.82%) Gatling
14 9 (3.44%) Maven
15 8 (3.05%) TestRail
16 7 (2.67%) Serenity BDD
17 6 (2.29%) Mocha
General
1 75 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.08%) Public Sector
3 48 (18.32%) Finance
4 24 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.40%) Banking
6 8 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.29%) Front Office
7 6 (2.29%) Military
8 5 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.91%) Legal
9 4 (1.53%) Electronics
10 3 (1.15%) Billing
10 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Automotive
11 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (31.68%) Developer
2 50 (19.08%) Java Developer
3 44 (16.79%) Senior
4 42 (16.03%) Test Engineer
5 38 (14.50%) Lead
6 25 (9.54%) Software Engineer
7 22 (8.40%) Tester
8 18 (6.87%) Test Automation Engineer
9 16 (6.11%) Automation Tester
9 16 (6.11%) Java Engineer
10 15 (5.73%) QA Engineer
10 15 (5.73%) Senior Developer
10 15 (5.73%) Test Leader
11 12 (4.58%) Lead Test Engineer
12 11 (4.20%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.20%) Senior Tester
13 10 (3.82%) Analyst
13 10 (3.82%) Automation Test Lead
13 10 (3.82%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (25.57%) Spring
2 58 (22.14%) Spring Boot
3 53 (20.23%) REST
4 41 (15.65%) Playwright
5 38 (14.50%) Node.js
6 34 (12.98%) React
6 34 (12.98%) RESTful
7 32 (12.21%) Kafka
8 31 (11.83%) Gherkin
9 29 (11.07%) WireMock
10 25 (9.54%) .NET
10 25 (9.54%) AngularJS
11 19 (7.25%) CSS
12 17 (6.49%) SOAP
13 16 (6.11%) Jest
14 15 (5.73%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (4.96%) Web Services
16 12 (4.58%) Spring Cloud
17 11 (4.20%) HTML
17 11 (4.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.78%) Product Ownership
2 22 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.49%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (4.96%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.05%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.29%) Equities
7 5 (1.91%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.15%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.15%) NHS
10 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.76%) AS400
10 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.76%) iSeries
10 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.60%) Linux
2 17 (6.49%) Unix
3 9 (3.44%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.15%) Android
4 3 (1.15%) VMS
4 3 (1.15%) Windows
5 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (64.12%) Agile
2 166 (63.36%) TDD
3 160 (61.07%) Test Automation
4 147 (56.11%) CI/CD
5 123 (46.95%) Microservices
6 74 (28.24%) DevOps
7 61 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (22.90%) API Testing
9 59 (22.52%) Test Strategy
10 58 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (20.99%) Scrum
12 45 (17.18%) Software Engineering
13 42 (16.03%) Containerisation
14 38 (14.50%) Mentoring
15 33 (12.60%) SDLC
16 32 (12.21%) Performance Testing
17 31 (11.83%) End-to-End Testing
17 31 (11.83%) Kanban
18 29 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
19 28 (10.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 160 (61.07%) Java
2 52 (19.85%) JavaScript
3 50 (19.08%) SQL
4 43 (16.41%) Python
5 35 (13.36%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.78%) C#
7 11 (4.20%) C++
8 10 (3.82%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.67%) PHP
10 6 (2.29%) JSX
10 6 (2.29%) Ruby
11 4 (1.53%) Go
12 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.76%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) Bash
14 1 (0.38%) C
14 1 (0.38%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.38%) Swift
14 1 (0.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (26.34%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.58%) Degree
4 9 (3.44%) ISTQB
5 7 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) ISEB
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (23.28%) QA
2 31 (11.83%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.82%) WCAG
4 8 (3.05%) GDPR
5 5 (1.91%) PERC
6 2 (0.76%) HL7
7 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 74 (28.24%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (20.23%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.83%) Grafana
3 24 (9.16%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.63%) Terraform
5 4 (1.53%) Ansible
6 3 (1.15%) Rancher
7 2 (0.76%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.76%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.76%) Kibana
7 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (4.58%) Oracle
2 11 (4.20%) Atlassian
3 10 (3.82%) Splunk
4 9 (3.44%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.67%) Google
6 5 (1.91%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.53%) Adobe
7 4 (1.53%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.53%) Veracode
8 3 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.15%) Checkmarx
8 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.76%) Amdocs
9 2 (0.76%) Ciena
9 2 (0.76%) IBM
9 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.76%) SAP
9 2 (0.76%) VMware
9 2 (0.76%) Workday