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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 293 279
Rank change year-on-year -58 -14 -81
Contract jobs citing BDD 264 200 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.81% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.89% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 133 240
10th Percentile £350 £365 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - -22.41%

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 36,403 22,531 32,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.36% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,041 14,566 20,743
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,039 2,376
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.00 £37.09
% change year-on-year +62.81% -27.20% +5.97%

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 June 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 June 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 -75 110 £488 -15.58% 21
North of England -35 76 £453 +2.08% 12
Midlands -33 41 £425 -11.69% 8
West Midlands -30 40 £425 -15.00% 5
North West -16 38 £453 +14.25% 8
Yorkshire -50 25 £620 +19.29% 3
South West -19 18 £525 +27.27% 5
North East -23 17 £450 +7.14% 1
South East -69 13 £359 -24.53% 18
East of England -21 8 £510 - 2
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 40 (15.15%) Confluence
2 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Notion
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Mingle
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.14%) Findur
3 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 95 (35.98%) AWS
2 79 (29.92%) Azure
3 63 (23.86%) GitHub
4 36 (13.64%) GCP
5 32 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (8.71%) Amazon SQS
8 22 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (7.58%) Amazon S3
10 19 (7.20%) Serverless
11 17 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.55%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.55%) BrowserStack
12 12 (4.55%) Route 53
13 7 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (2.27%) OpenShift
15 4 (1.52%) Power Platform
16 3 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.27%) 3GPP
1 6 (2.27%) RTP
1 6 (2.27%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.14%) WAN
3 2 (0.76%) DSL
3 2 (0.76%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) Internet
3 2 (0.76%) NaaS
4 1 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (17.42%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.88%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.79%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.41%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.27%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.14%) Couchbase
11 3 (1.14%) MySQL
12 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.76%) Flink
12 2 (0.76%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.76%) Power BI
12 2 (0.76%) Redis
12 2 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (35.23%) Cucumber
2 79 (29.92%) Git
3 71 (26.89%) Jenkins
4 70 (26.52%) Selenium
5 60 (22.73%) JUnit
6 55 (20.83%) JIRA
7 54 (20.45%) GitLab
8 38 (14.39%) REST Assured
9 35 (13.26%) Mockito
10 32 (12.12%) WebDriver
11 30 (11.36%) SonarQube
12 28 (10.61%) Postman
13 24 (9.09%) JMeter
14 17 (6.44%) Maven
15 15 (5.68%) SpecFlow
16 14 (5.30%) Gatling
16 14 (5.30%) TeamCity
17 12 (4.55%) Cypress.io
17 12 (4.55%) DbUnit
18 11 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 70 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.21%) Finance
3 49 (18.56%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.85%) Banking
6 9 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.27%) Military
7 6 (2.27%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Aviation
8 5 (1.89%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Police
9 3 (1.14%) Billing
9 3 (1.14%) Front Office
9 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Automotive
10 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Law
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 75 (28.41%) Developer
2 56 (21.21%) Java Developer
3 53 (20.08%) Senior
4 47 (17.80%) Test Engineer
5 39 (14.77%) Lead
6 32 (12.12%) Software Engineer
7 25 (9.47%) Test Automation Engineer
8 24 (9.09%) Tester
9 20 (7.58%) Java Engineer
10 18 (6.82%) Automation Tester
10 18 (6.82%) Senior Developer
11 17 (6.44%) Senior Java Developer
11 17 (6.44%) Test Leader
12 12 (4.55%) QA Engineer
13 11 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
13 11 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.79%) Senior Tester
15 9 (3.41%) Architect
15 9 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.41%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (29.55%) Spring
2 62 (23.48%) Spring Boot
3 50 (18.94%) Playwright
3 50 (18.94%) REST
4 46 (17.42%) Kafka
5 34 (12.88%) RESTful
6 32 (12.12%) Gherkin
7 31 (11.74%) AngularJS
8 26 (9.85%) .NET
9 25 (9.47%) Node.js
9 25 (9.47%) WireMock
10 23 (8.71%) React
11 22 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
12 19 (7.20%) Spring Cloud
13 18 (6.82%) SOAP
14 17 (6.44%) Web Services
15 16 (6.06%) JPA
16 15 (5.68%) Hibernate
17 14 (5.30%) Spring Batch
18 12 (4.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 16 (6.06%) Distributed Architecture
5 12 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.89%) Robotics
7 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.14%) Equities
8 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.76%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
9 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.91%) Linux
2 15 (5.68%) Unix
3 10 (3.79%) Mac OS X
4 5 (1.89%) Android
4 5 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.76%) VMS
5 2 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (62.12%) Agile
2 163 (61.74%) TDD
3 150 (56.82%) Test Automation
4 148 (56.06%) CI/CD
5 112 (42.42%) Microservices
6 96 (36.36%) DevOps
7 56 (21.21%) Test Strategy
8 53 (20.08%) Software Engineering
9 52 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (19.70%) Scrum
10 51 (19.32%) API Testing
11 42 (15.91%) Observability
11 42 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (14.02%) Mentoring
13 35 (13.26%) Continuous Integration
13 35 (13.26%) SDLC
14 32 (12.12%) Containerisation
14 32 (12.12%) Kanban
15 30 (11.36%) Validation
16 29 (10.98%) AI
Programming Languages
1 160 (60.61%) Java
2 64 (24.24%) SQL
3 47 (17.80%) Python
4 40 (15.15%) C#
5 36 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.65%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.27%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.89%) C++
9 5 (1.89%) Groovy
10 4 (1.52%) Go
11 3 (1.14%) Ruby
12 2 (0.76%) Bash
12 2 (0.76%) PromQL
12 2 (0.76%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) Cypher
13 1 (0.38%) R
13 1 (0.38%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 68 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.20%) Degree
4 11 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (20.08%) QA
2 28 (10.61%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.27%) WCAG
4 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 78 (29.55%) Docker
2 9 (3.41%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (22.35%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.91%) Grafana
3 35 (13.26%) Prometheus
4 23 (8.71%) Terraform
5 8 (3.03%) Ansible
6 3 (1.14%) Istio
6 3 (1.14%) Kibana
7 2 (0.76%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.76%) Consul
7 2 (0.76%) Rancher
7 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.76%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (5.68%) Atlassian
1 15 (5.68%) Salesforce
2 13 (4.92%) Oracle
3 12 (4.55%) Google
4 11 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (3.03%) Checkmarx
5 8 (3.03%) Splunk
6 7 (2.65%) Conga
6 7 (2.65%) GoCardless
7 5 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.52%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.52%) Veracode
9 3 (1.14%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.14%) Sybase
10 2 (0.76%) Adobe
10 2 (0.76%) Amdocs
10 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.76%) SAP
10 2 (0.76%) VMware