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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 294 275
Rank change year-on-year -61 -19 -81
Contract jobs citing BDD 264 200 297
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.81% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.89% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 133 237
10th Percentile £344 £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 £470 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

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 16 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 16 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 -78 107 £500 -13.42% 31
North of England -41 76 £453 +2.08% 90
Midlands -32 43 £425 -11.69% 64
West Midlands -33 42 £425 -15.00% 30
North West -16 38 £453 +14.25% 42
Yorkshire -54 25 £620 +19.29% 32
South West -21 19 £525 +27.27% 30
North East -23 17 £450 +7.14% 16
South East -64 13 £359 -24.53% 103
East of England -23 8 £510 - 45
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%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
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%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 93 (35.23%) AWS
2 81 (30.68%) Azure
3 63 (23.86%) GitHub
4 36 (13.64%) GCP
5 34 (12.88%) 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
9 20 (7.58%) Serverless
10 17 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.55%) AWS KMS
11 12 (4.55%) BrowserStack
11 12 (4.55%) Route 53
12 7 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (1.52%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.52%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.14%) Power Automate
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
5 12 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.27%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.14%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.14%) MySQL
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%) Power BI
11 2 (0.76%) Redis
11 2 (0.76%) Tableau
11 2 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 92 (34.85%) Cucumber
2 79 (29.92%) Git
3 71 (26.89%) Selenium
4 70 (26.52%) Jenkins
5 60 (22.73%) JUnit
6 55 (20.83%) JIRA
7 53 (20.08%) GitLab
8 38 (14.39%) REST Assured
9 35 (13.26%) Mockito
10 33 (12.50%) WebDriver
11 30 (11.36%) Postman
11 30 (11.36%) SonarQube
12 24 (9.09%) JMeter
13 17 (6.44%) Maven
14 15 (5.68%) SpecFlow
15 14 (5.30%) Cypress.io
15 14 (5.30%) Gatling
15 14 (5.30%) TeamCity
16 12 (4.55%) DbUnit
17 11 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 73 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.45%) Finance
3 52 (19.70%) Public Sector
4 34 (12.88%) 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%) Inclusion and Diversity
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%) 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 54 (20.45%) Senior
4 48 (18.18%) Test Engineer
5 40 (15.15%) Lead
6 30 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 26 (9.85%) 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
10 18 (6.82%) Test Leader
11 17 (6.44%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
12 11 (4.17%) QA Engineer
12 11 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.79%) Salesforce Engineer
13 10 (3.79%) Senior Tester
14 9 (3.41%) Analyst
14 9 (3.41%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (28.79%) Spring
2 60 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 51 (19.32%) Playwright
4 48 (18.18%) REST
5 46 (17.42%) Kafka
6 33 (12.50%) Gherkin
7 32 (12.12%) RESTful
8 29 (10.98%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.85%) .NET
10 25 (9.47%) Node.js
10 25 (9.47%) WireMock
11 23 (8.71%) React
12 22 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
13 19 (7.20%) Spring Cloud
14 18 (6.82%) SOAP
15 17 (6.44%) Web Services
16 16 (6.06%) JPA
17 15 (5.68%) Hibernate
18 14 (5.30%) Spring Batch
19 12 (4.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (9.09%) 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%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
9 2 (0.76%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) CMDB
10 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
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
1 167 (63.26%) Agile
2 164 (62.12%) TDD
3 152 (57.58%) Test Automation
4 149 (56.44%) CI/CD
5 110 (41.67%) Microservices
6 98 (37.12%) DevOps
7 57 (21.59%) Test Strategy
8 54 (20.45%) Scrum
9 53 (20.08%) API Testing
9 53 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (19.32%) Software Engineering
11 44 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (15.53%) Observability
13 38 (14.39%) Mentoring
14 36 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
15 35 (13.26%) SDLC
16 32 (12.12%) Kanban
17 30 (11.36%) AI
17 30 (11.36%) Containerisation
17 30 (11.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 157 (59.47%) Java
2 64 (24.24%) SQL
3 47 (17.80%) Python
4 41 (15.53%) C#
5 37 (14.02%) 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 69 (26.14%) 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 6 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.70%) QA
2 30 (11.36%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.03%) WCAG
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 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 58 (21.97%) 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%) 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
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.06%) Salesforce
2 15 (5.68%) Atlassian
3 13 (4.92%) Oracle
4 12 (4.55%) Google
5 11 (4.17%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.03%) Checkmarx
6 8 (3.03%) Splunk
7 7 (2.65%) Conga
7 7 (2.65%) GoCardless
8 6 (2.27%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.89%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.52%) Veracode
11 3 (1.14%) OpenLink
11 3 (1.14%) Sybase
12 2 (0.76%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.76%) SAP
12 2 (0.76%) VMware