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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 284 281
Rank change year-on-year -70 -3 -100
Contract jobs citing BDD 238 203 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.83% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.91% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 138 231
10th Percentile £320 £385 £356
25th Percentile £400 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.23% -9.58%
75th Percentile £575 £720 £650
90th Percentile £700 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £473 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -7.80% - -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
UK median hourly rate - - £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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -58 105 £475 -23.39% 24
North of England -37 72 £475 -5.00% 19
North West -13 40 £431 +1.17% 10
West Midlands -36 32 £425 -11.69% 4
Midlands -50 32 £425 -11.69% 11
Yorkshire -60 27 £573 +10.15% 5
South East -60 11 £358 -28.40% 24
South West -29 10 £525 - 8
East of England - 8 £510 - 2
North East -21 7 £413 +5.77% 5
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 36 (15.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Camunda
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Notion
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Findur
2 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.13%) AWS
2 68 (28.57%) Azure
3 46 (19.33%) GitHub
4 42 (17.65%) GCP
5 24 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.24%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (6.72%) Amazon S3
9 15 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (6.30%) Serverless
10 13 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.62%) BrowserStack
12 9 (3.78%) AWS KMS
12 9 (3.78%) Route 53
13 7 (2.94%) SaaS
14 5 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (2.10%) OpenShift
15 4 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.68%) 3GPP
1 4 (1.68%) RTP
1 4 (1.68%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.26%) WAN
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (0.84%) NaaS
4 1 (0.42%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.34%) MongoDB
3 15 (6.30%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 12 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.20%) MySQL
7 9 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (3.36%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.52%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.10%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.84%) Flink
12 2 (0.84%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.84%) Power BI
12 2 (0.84%) Tableau
12 2 (0.84%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.42%) DB2
13 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (35.29%) Cucumber
2 68 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 65 (27.31%) Git
4 63 (26.47%) Selenium
5 59 (24.79%) JIRA
6 49 (20.59%) GitLab
6 49 (20.59%) JUnit
7 33 (13.87%) Postman
8 29 (12.18%) Mockito
8 29 (12.18%) SonarQube
9 25 (10.50%) REST Assured
9 25 (10.50%) WebDriver
10 21 (8.82%) JMeter
11 13 (5.46%) Maven
12 12 (5.04%) TeamCity
13 11 (4.62%) Cypress.io
14 10 (4.20%) SpecFlow
15 9 (3.78%) DbUnit
15 9 (3.78%) Gatling
15 9 (3.78%) jMock
General
1 63 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.69%) Finance
3 40 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.40%) Banking
6 8 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.68%) Aviation
8 4 (1.68%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (1.68%) Military
8 4 (1.68%) Police
9 3 (1.26%) Billing
9 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Automotive
10 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (31.93%) Developer
2 52 (21.85%) Java Developer
3 42 (17.65%) Senior
4 36 (15.13%) Test Engineer
5 35 (14.71%) Lead
6 27 (11.34%) Software Engineer
7 23 (9.66%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (9.24%) Tester
9 17 (7.14%) Automation Tester
10 16 (6.72%) Test Leader
11 15 (6.30%) Senior Developer
12 14 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
13 13 (5.46%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.62%) Analyst
14 11 (4.62%) Automation Test Lead
15 10 (4.20%) Lead Test Engineer
15 10 (4.20%) Senior Automation Tester
15 10 (4.20%) Senior Tester
16 9 (3.78%) Backend Developer
17 8 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (29.41%) Spring
2 52 (21.85%) Spring Boot
3 40 (16.81%) REST
4 36 (15.13%) Playwright
5 34 (14.29%) Kafka
6 32 (13.45%) Gherkin
6 32 (13.45%) RESTful
7 30 (12.61%) AngularJS
8 27 (11.34%) .NET
9 23 (9.66%) Node.js
10 21 (8.82%) WireMock
11 20 (8.40%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (7.56%) React
13 16 (6.72%) Spring Cloud
14 14 (5.88%) Web Services
15 13 (5.46%) SOAP
16 12 (5.04%) JAX-RS
17 11 (4.62%) CSS
17 11 (4.62%) Hibernate
17 11 (4.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.18%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.98%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.46%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.78%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.68%) Robotics
7 3 (1.26%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.84%) AS400
8 2 (0.84%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.84%) Equities
8 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) iSeries
8 2 (0.84%) NHS
8 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.55%) Linux
2 16 (6.72%) Unix
3 11 (4.62%) Mac OS X
4 5 (2.10%) Android
4 5 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.26%) VMS
6 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (61.76%) TDD
2 146 (61.34%) Agile
3 139 (58.40%) Test Automation
4 121 (50.84%) CI/CD
5 99 (41.60%) Microservices
6 78 (32.77%) DevOps
7 51 (21.43%) Test Strategy
8 49 (20.59%) API Testing
9 48 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (19.33%) Scrum
11 42 (17.65%) Software Engineering
12 30 (12.61%) Observability
12 30 (12.61%) SDLC
13 29 (12.18%) Containerisation
13 29 (12.18%) Kanban
14 26 (10.92%) Mentoring
15 25 (10.50%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (10.50%) End-to-End Testing
16 24 (10.08%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 141 (59.24%) Java
2 59 (24.79%) SQL
3 49 (20.59%) Python
4 35 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 30 (12.61%) C#
6 23 (9.66%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.62%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.94%) PHP
9 5 (2.10%) C++
9 5 (2.10%) Go
9 5 (2.10%) Ruby
9 5 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.84%) Groovy
10 2 (0.84%) Scala
11 1 (0.42%) Bash
11 1 (0.42%) Bicep
11 1 (0.42%) COBOL
11 1 (0.42%) Swift
11 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 50 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.88%) Degree
4 9 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.68%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.68%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) ISEB
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (21.43%) QA
2 21 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.10%) WCAG
4 3 (1.26%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) HL7
5 2 (0.84%) PERC
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 61 (25.63%) Docker
2 8 (3.36%) Postfix
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 33 (13.87%) Grafana
3 28 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.88%) Terraform
5 3 (1.26%) Ansible
5 3 (1.26%) Rancher
6 2 (0.84%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.84%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.84%) Kibana
6 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 13 (5.46%) Atlassian
2 12 (5.04%) Google
3 10 (4.20%) Oracle
4 9 (3.78%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.36%) Checkmarx
5 8 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.94%) Splunk
7 4 (1.68%) Adobe
7 4 (1.68%) Veracode
8 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.26%) IBM
8 3 (1.26%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.84%) Amdocs
9 2 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.84%) Ciena
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.84%) VMware
9 2 (0.84%) Workday