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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 278 271
Rank change year-on-year -101 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing BDD 277 253 282
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.92% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.01% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 177 192
10th Percentile £306 £356 £358
25th Percentile £400 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% -1.00% -8.30%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £628
90th Percentile £650 £743 £774
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.88 - -
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -47.06% - -

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 39,188 25,068 27,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.60% 90.98% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,853 15,921 17,051
10th Percentile £325 £298 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,855 1,537 1,209
10th Percentile £13.91 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.19
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -76 125 £500 -7.41% 74
North of England -86 68 £441 -15.95% 36
Midlands -6 49 £438 -5.41% 29
West Midlands -6 48 £438 -12.50% 18
Yorkshire -51 28 £411 -25.27% 10
North West -51 25 £441 +4.56% 15
North East -38 19 £450 -7.69% 11
South East -76 15 £275 -4.51% 17
South West -40 12 £500 +21.21% 15
East of England -25 4 £585 +56.00% 6
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 21 (7.58%) Confluence
2 3 (1.08%) CMS
2 3 (1.08%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Apache
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Mingle
1 3 (1.08%) Notion
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (3.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.89%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (33.94%) AWS
2 93 (33.57%) Azure
3 69 (24.91%) GitHub
4 41 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (9.03%) Serverless
7 21 (7.58%) GCP
8 15 (5.42%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (5.42%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (4.69%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.25%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.53%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.53%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.53%) RTP
1 7 (2.53%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.17%) 3GPP
3 5 (1.81%) Internet
4 2 (0.72%) DNS
4 2 (0.72%) DSL
4 2 (0.72%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.08%) MongoDB
2 27 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.50%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.97%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.53%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.81%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.81%) MySQL
10 4 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.44%) Big Data
10 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.08%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.08%) Power BI
11 3 (1.08%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.08%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 119 (42.96%) Cucumber
2 99 (35.74%) Git
3 91 (32.85%) Selenium
4 63 (22.74%) JUnit
5 60 (21.66%) Jenkins
6 57 (20.58%) GitLab
7 44 (15.88%) REST Assured
8 39 (14.08%) JIRA
9 38 (13.72%) Postman
10 32 (11.55%) SonarQube
11 31 (11.19%) Gatling
12 28 (10.11%) WebDriver
13 27 (9.75%) Mockito
14 25 (9.03%) Cypress.io
15 19 (6.86%) Maven
16 18 (6.50%) SpecFlow
17 12 (4.33%) Gradle
17 12 (4.33%) TeamCity
18 10 (3.61%) JMeter
19 9 (3.25%) TestNG
General
1 103 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.94%) Finance
3 54 (19.49%) Public Sector
4 47 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (14.08%) Banking
6 16 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.53%) Front Office
7 7 (2.53%) Military
7 7 (2.53%) Retail
8 5 (1.81%) Aviation
8 5 (1.81%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (1.81%) Police
9 4 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Legal Technology
11 2 (0.72%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (23.83%) Senior
2 64 (23.10%) Developer
3 50 (18.05%) Test Engineer
4 41 (14.80%) Java Developer
5 32 (11.55%) Software Engineer
6 28 (10.11%) Test Automation Engineer
7 26 (9.39%) Lead
8 23 (8.30%) Senior Developer
9 21 (7.58%) Quality Engineer
10 20 (7.22%) Analyst
11 19 (6.86%) Java Engineer
12 16 (5.78%) QA Engineer
13 15 (5.42%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (5.05%) Test Leader
15 13 (4.69%) Test Analyst
16 12 (4.33%) Senior Test Engineer
17 11 (3.97%) Automation Engineer
18 10 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
19 9 (3.25%) Architect
19 9 (3.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (24.19%) Playwright
2 61 (22.02%) Spring
3 55 (19.86%) REST
4 53 (19.13%) Gherkin
4 53 (19.13%) Kafka
5 50 (18.05%) Spring Boot
6 31 (11.19%) RESTful
7 29 (10.47%) .NET
8 26 (9.39%) WireMock
9 25 (9.03%) React
10 24 (8.66%) Terraform
11 23 (8.30%) Node.js
12 20 (7.22%) AngularJS
13 18 (6.50%) SOAP
14 17 (6.14%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (5.78%) HTML
16 14 (5.05%) .NET Core
16 14 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (5.05%) Swagger
17 13 (4.69%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 26 (9.39%) Cloud Native
3 25 (9.03%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.53%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.81%) Robotics
9 5 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.81%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.44%) NHS
11 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.72%) Equities
12 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.80%) Linux
2 20 (7.22%) Unix
3 6 (2.17%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.81%) Android
4 5 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (71.12%) Agile
2 186 (67.15%) CI/CD
3 178 (64.26%) TDD
3 178 (64.26%) Test Automation
4 102 (36.82%) DevOps
4 102 (36.82%) Microservices
5 69 (24.91%) Scrum
6 66 (23.83%) AI
7 63 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (22.02%) Software Testing
8 61 (22.02%) Test Strategy
9 59 (21.30%) Software Engineering
10 58 (20.94%) API Testing
10 58 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (20.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 43 (15.52%) SDLC
13 42 (15.16%) Integration Testing
14 40 (14.44%) Coaching
14 40 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (13.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 170 (61.37%) Java
2 65 (23.47%) SQL
3 61 (22.02%) Python
4 58 (20.94%) JavaScript
5 55 (19.86%) C#
6 30 (10.83%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.33%) Bash
8 8 (2.89%) Ruby
9 7 (2.53%) Groovy
10 6 (2.17%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.17%) R
10 6 (2.17%) Scala
11 4 (1.44%) Go
12 3 (1.08%) Bicep
12 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.72%) Cypher
13 2 (0.72%) PromQL
13 2 (0.72%) SHACL
14 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (7.58%) Degree
5 17 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.14%) ISTQB
6 9 (3.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) ISEB
10 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (30.69%) QA
2 57 (20.58%) Accessibility
3 41 (14.80%) WCAG
4 13 (4.69%) GDPR
5 4 (1.44%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.72%) SEPA
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 80 (28.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 67 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.86%) Grafana
3 13 (4.69%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.17%) Ansible
5 4 (1.44%) Kibana
6 3 (1.08%) Istio
7 2 (0.72%) Argo
7 2 (0.72%) Consul
7 2 (0.72%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.36%) Control-M
8 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.05%) Salesforce
3 13 (4.69%) Databricks
4 11 (3.97%) Oracle
5 10 (3.61%) Google
6 7 (2.53%) Conga
6 7 (2.53%) GoCardless
7 6 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.17%) IBM
7 6 (2.17%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.17%) Splunk
8 5 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.44%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.44%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.44%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.08%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.72%) FactSet
11 2 (0.72%) HP
11 2 (0.72%) Solace