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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 276 264
Rank change year-on-year -91 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing BDD 278 256 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.92% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.01% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 179 200
10th Percentile £306 £359 £357
25th Percentile £400 £417 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% -1.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £728 £764
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -9.98% -3.85% -5.45%
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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 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 26 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 -75 123 £500 -8.26% 112
North of England -84 70 £445 -15.24% 61
Midlands -10 48 £438 -5.41% 35
West Midlands -8 47 £438 -12.50% 24
Yorkshire -51 29 £416 -24.45% 16
North West -44 27 £445 +5.45% 30
North East -39 18 £450 -6.49% 15
South East -77 16 £275 -4.51% 33
South West -39 13 £513 +24.24% 15
East of England -32 4 £585 +56.00% 8
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 22 (7.91%) 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%) Notion
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 11 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.88%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.17%) AWS
2 92 (33.09%) Azure
3 69 (24.82%) GitHub
4 40 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (8.99%) Serverless
7 21 (7.55%) GCP
8 15 (5.40%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.40%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (5.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (4.68%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.24%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.52%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.52%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.52%) RTP
1 7 (2.52%) Wireshark
2 6 (2.16%) 3GPP
3 5 (1.80%) 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 40 (14.39%) MongoDB
2 27 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.47%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.40%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.96%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.52%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.80%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.80%) 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
1 117 (42.09%) Cucumber
2 99 (35.61%) Git
3 91 (32.73%) Selenium
4 63 (22.66%) JUnit
5 61 (21.94%) Jenkins
6 56 (20.14%) GitLab
7 43 (15.47%) REST Assured
8 39 (14.03%) JIRA
9 38 (13.67%) Postman
10 32 (11.51%) SonarQube
11 31 (11.15%) Gatling
12 29 (10.43%) WebDriver
13 28 (10.07%) Mockito
14 25 (8.99%) Cypress.io
15 19 (6.83%) Maven
16 17 (6.12%) SpecFlow
17 13 (4.68%) TeamCity
18 12 (4.32%) Gradle
19 10 (3.60%) JMeter
20 9 (3.24%) TestNG
General
1 103 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.50%) Finance
3 54 (19.42%) Public Sector
4 47 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (14.03%) Banking
6 16 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.52%) Military
7 7 (2.52%) Retail
8 6 (2.16%) Front Office
9 5 (1.80%) Aviation
9 5 (1.80%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (1.80%) Police
10 4 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.72%) Law
12 2 (0.72%) Local Government
12 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Automotive
13 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (24.10%) Senior
2 66 (23.74%) Developer
3 50 (17.99%) Test Engineer
4 44 (15.83%) Java Developer
5 32 (11.51%) Software Engineer
6 28 (10.07%) Test Automation Engineer
7 26 (9.35%) Lead
8 24 (8.63%) Senior Developer
9 20 (7.19%) Analyst
9 20 (7.19%) Quality Engineer
10 19 (6.83%) Java Engineer
11 16 (5.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (5.04%) QA Engineer
12 14 (5.04%) Test Leader
13 13 (4.68%) Test Analyst
14 12 (4.32%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
16 10 (3.60%) Architect
16 10 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
17 9 (3.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (24.10%) Playwright
2 60 (21.58%) Spring
3 55 (19.78%) REST
4 53 (19.06%) Kafka
5 52 (18.71%) Gherkin
6 48 (17.27%) Spring Boot
7 31 (11.15%) RESTful
8 29 (10.43%) .NET
9 25 (8.99%) React
9 25 (8.99%) WireMock
10 24 (8.63%) Terraform
11 23 (8.27%) Node.js
12 19 (6.83%) AngularJS
13 18 (6.47%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (6.47%) SOAP
14 16 (5.76%) HTML
15 14 (5.04%) .NET Core
15 14 (5.04%) Swagger
16 13 (4.68%) OpenAPI
16 13 (4.68%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.71%) Product Ownership
2 26 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 25 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (6.83%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.32%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.52%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.80%) Robotics
9 5 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.80%) 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 42 (15.11%) Linux
2 21 (7.55%) Unix
3 6 (2.16%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.80%) Android
4 5 (1.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.08%) Windows
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (71.22%) Agile
2 184 (66.19%) CI/CD
3 179 (64.39%) TDD
4 177 (63.67%) Test Automation
5 102 (36.69%) Microservices
6 101 (36.33%) DevOps
7 70 (25.18%) Scrum
8 66 (23.74%) AI
9 63 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (21.94%) Test Strategy
11 59 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (21.22%) Software Engineering
11 59 (21.22%) Software Testing
12 58 (20.86%) API Testing
13 56 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (15.47%) SDLC
15 41 (14.75%) Integration Testing
16 40 (14.39%) Coaching
17 39 (14.03%) Continuous Integration
18 38 (13.67%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 172 (61.87%) Java
2 66 (23.74%) SQL
3 61 (21.94%) Python
4 58 (20.86%) JavaScript
5 54 (19.42%) C#
6 29 (10.43%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.32%) Bash
8 8 (2.88%) Ruby
9 7 (2.52%) Groovy
10 6 (2.16%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.16%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.16%) R
10 6 (2.16%) Scala
11 4 (1.44%) Go
12 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.72%) Bicep
13 2 (0.72%) Cypher
13 2 (0.72%) PromQL
13 2 (0.72%) SHACL
14 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (7.55%) Degree
5 17 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.12%) ISTQB
6 9 (3.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.16%) 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 83 (29.86%) QA
2 56 (20.14%) Accessibility
3 40 (14.39%) WCAG
4 13 (4.68%) 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 (28.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 67 (24.10%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.83%) Grafana
3 13 (4.68%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.16%) 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 30 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.04%) Salesforce
3 13 (4.68%) Databricks
4 11 (3.96%) Oracle
5 10 (3.60%) Google
6 7 (2.52%) Conga
6 7 (2.52%) GoCardless
7 6 (2.16%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.16%) IBM
7 6 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.16%) Splunk
8 5 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.44%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.44%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
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