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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 255 303
Rank change year-on-year -67 +48 -166
Contract jobs citing BDD 228 261 254
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.96% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.08% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 156 184
10th Percentile £363 £356 £390
25th Percentile £413 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -3.59% -12.92%
75th Percentile £588 £632 £652
90th Percentile £675 £819 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

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 27,898 24,261 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.43% 88.86% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,820 14,910 21,421
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 794 1,420
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 January 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 January 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 -41 105 £520 -8.37% 34
North of England -22 99 £500 +11.11% 25
Yorkshire -42 49 £550 +15.79% 10
North West -22 29 £418 +4.38% 13
North East +5 23 £460 +26.90% 2
South East -30 8 £550 +10.00% 35
Midlands -38 5 £394 -22.41% 11
South West -26 3 £400 -25.58% 10
West Midlands -37 3 £488 -3.94% 8
East Midlands - 2 £310 - 3
East of England -17 1 £375 +20.00% 13
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 (9.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.82%) AWS
2 46 (20.18%) Azure
3 31 (13.60%) GitHub
4 19 (8.33%) Serverless
5 18 (7.89%) GCP
6 14 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (4.39%) SaaS
9 9 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.07%) Apigee
11 6 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (2.63%) Datadog
11 6 (2.63%) PaaS
12 5 (2.19%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (2.19%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.19%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.88%) MQTT
3 1 (0.44%) DSL
3 1 (0.44%) FTP
3 1 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.35%) MongoDB
2 30 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.33%) MySQL
4 15 (6.58%) NoSQL
4 15 (6.58%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.39%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.95%) Redis
7 8 (3.51%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.63%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.32%) DB2
11 1 (0.44%) Big Data
11 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 75 (32.89%) Cucumber
2 58 (25.44%) Jenkins
3 54 (23.68%) Git
4 51 (22.37%) Selenium
5 42 (18.42%) JIRA
6 36 (15.79%) GitLab
7 31 (13.60%) Postman
8 25 (10.96%) Mockito
8 25 (10.96%) REST Assured
9 21 (9.21%) Cypress.io
10 14 (6.14%) Bitbucket
10 14 (6.14%) Gradle
11 13 (5.70%) JUnit
12 12 (5.26%) Maven
12 12 (5.26%) SonarQube
13 10 (4.39%) JMeter
14 9 (3.95%) TestRail
15 8 (3.51%) WebDriver
16 5 (2.19%) Gatling
16 5 (2.19%) Subversion
General
1 59 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.49%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.84%) Finance
4 25 (10.96%) Banking
5 11 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.63%) Front Office
7 5 (2.19%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.19%) Legal
7 5 (2.19%) Military
8 4 (1.75%) Electronics
9 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (40.35%) Developer
2 64 (28.07%) Java Developer
3 45 (19.74%) Senior
4 37 (16.23%) Test Engineer
5 26 (11.40%) Senior Developer
6 21 (9.21%) Senior Java Developer
7 20 (8.77%) Lead
8 18 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) QA Engineer
10 11 (4.82%) Analyst
10 11 (4.82%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.39%) Angular Developer
12 9 (3.95%) Tester
13 8 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.51%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (3.07%) Automation Tester
14 7 (3.07%) Backend Developer
14 7 (3.07%) Lead Test Engineer
15 6 (2.63%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (24.56%) Spring Boot
2 50 (21.93%) REST
3 39 (17.11%) Kafka
4 37 (16.23%) React
5 36 (15.79%) Spring
6 33 (14.47%) RESTful
7 32 (14.04%) Node.js
8 25 (10.96%) ActiveMQ
8 25 (10.96%) Gherkin
9 24 (10.53%) Playwright
10 23 (10.09%) CSS
10 23 (10.09%) JAX-RS
11 21 (9.21%) AngularJS
12 20 (8.77%) .NET
13 17 (7.46%) HTML
14 14 (6.14%) Jest
15 13 (5.70%) WireMock
16 11 (4.82%) JSON
17 10 (4.39%) Web Services
18 9 (3.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.51%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (2.63%) N-Tier
4 6 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.19%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.19%) Equities
5 5 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.32%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (1.32%) NHS
6 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.88%) AS400
7 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.88%) IoT
7 2 (0.88%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.91%) Linux
2 28 (12.28%) Unix
3 19 (8.33%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.75%) Android
5 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (71.49%) Agile
2 160 (70.18%) TDD
3 142 (62.28%) Test Automation
4 125 (54.82%) Microservices
5 115 (50.44%) CI/CD
6 58 (25.44%) Scrum
7 49 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (21.05%) API Testing
9 47 (20.61%) DevOps
10 44 (19.30%) Containerisation
11 41 (17.98%) Software Engineering
12 36 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (14.91%) Continuous Deployment
14 33 (14.47%) Kanban
15 31 (13.60%) Mentoring
16 30 (13.16%) Non-Functional Testing
16 30 (13.16%) Test Strategy
17 28 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (12.28%) Functional Testing
17 28 (12.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 160 (70.18%) Java
2 49 (21.49%) JavaScript
3 45 (19.74%) SQL
4 36 (15.79%) Python
5 33 (14.47%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.26%) C#
7 9 (3.95%) C++
7 9 (3.95%) Ruby
8 8 (3.51%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.07%) PHP
10 6 (2.63%) JSX
10 6 (2.63%) Scala
11 4 (1.75%) Bash
11 4 (1.75%) C
11 4 (1.75%) Go
12 3 (1.32%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.32%) Swift
13 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Groovy
14 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 47 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.70%) ISTQB
4 11 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.95%) Degree
6 5 (2.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.32%) ISEB
8 2 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (22.81%) QA
2 24 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.82%) WCAG
4 8 (3.51%) GDPR
5 5 (2.19%) PERC
6 2 (0.88%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (27.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.46%) Terraform
3 9 (3.95%) Grafana
4 5 (2.19%) Ansible
5 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.88%) Kibana
7 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.44%) logstash
7 1 (0.44%) Rancher
7 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.26%) Oracle
2 7 (3.07%) Atlassian
3 6 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.63%) Splunk
4 5 (2.19%) Gigya
4 5 (2.19%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.75%) Adobe
5 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.44%) Databricks
8 1 (0.44%) Google
8 1 (0.44%) Marketo
8 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.44%) UiPath
8 1 (0.44%) VMware
8 1 (0.44%) Xamarin