BDD Contracts in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 188 137
Rank change year-on-year -85 -51 -40
Contract jobs citing BDD 296 656 1,402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 1.38% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.53% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 479 1,049
10th Percentile £350 £425 £412
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £554
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.30% +5.52%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 12
10th Percentile - £62.70 £45.13
25th Percentile - £70.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £61.77
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +17.37% -5.69%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.17
90th Percentile - - £79.43
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +13.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,431 42,926 64,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.01% 89.99% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,589 30,110 45,551
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,521 1,725
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £15.99 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.20 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
% change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in England

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Daily rate trend for BDD in England

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in England

BDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in England

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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 25 May 2024. 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 -48 206 £546 -12.60% 148
North of England -23 29 £500 -11.11% 43
South East -20 24 £513 +2.50% 79
South West -11 18 £590 +19.19% 28
Yorkshire -17 14 £550 -15.38% 10
North West +4 11 £500 -3.85% 30
Midlands +17 6 £425 +13.33% 27
West Midlands +6 5 £450 +18.03% 21
North East +4 4 - - 3
East of England +1 3 £500 -8.59% 9
East Midlands +5 1 £398 +41.96% 6
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UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.07%) Confluence
2 5 (1.69%) Drupal
3 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.01%) Appian
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Mingle
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.36%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.01%) Endur
3 3 (1.01%) RMDS
4 2 (0.68%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.34%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 83 (28.04%) AWS
2 74 (25.00%) Azure
3 30 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (10.14%) Serverless
4 24 (8.11%) GitHub
5 18 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (6.08%) GCP
6 15 (5.07%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (3.38%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.38%) PowerApps
10 8 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.70%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.70%) BrowserStack
11 7 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.36%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.39%) HTTP
2 9 (3.04%) SSH
3 5 (1.69%) Internet
4 3 (1.01%) BGP
4 3 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.01%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.68%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.34%) DNS
6 1 (0.34%) Firewall
6 1 (0.34%) Intranet
6 1 (0.34%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.82%) MongoDB
2 26 (8.78%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (7.77%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.39%) MySQL
5 10 (3.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.70%) Power BI
8 7 (2.36%) Big Data
8 7 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.36%) OLTP
9 6 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.03%) KDB
10 5 (1.69%) Redis
11 4 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.01%) Tableau
13 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.68%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 65 (21.96%) Git
2 63 (21.28%) Cucumber
3 56 (18.92%) JIRA
3 56 (18.92%) Selenium
4 45 (15.20%) Jenkins
5 37 (12.50%) Postman
6 32 (10.81%) JUnit
7 30 (10.14%) SpecFlow
8 26 (8.78%) Mockito
9 22 (7.43%) JMeter
10 21 (7.09%) WebDriver
11 19 (6.42%) Visual Studio
12 18 (6.08%) Cypress.io
13 17 (5.74%) SoapUI
14 15 (5.07%) GitLab
14 15 (5.07%) REST Assured
15 14 (4.73%) TestNG
16 13 (4.39%) Appium
17 10 (3.38%) Gatling
17 10 (3.38%) NUnit
General
1 77 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.64%) Finance
3 45 (15.20%) Banking
4 33 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.73%) Front Office
8 10 (3.38%) Back Office
9 6 (2.03%) Retail
9 6 (2.03%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.01%) Electronics
11 3 (1.01%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.01%) Marketing
11 3 (1.01%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 128 (43.24%) Developer
2 72 (24.32%) Senior
3 53 (17.91%) Java Developer
4 37 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 32 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 27 (9.12%) Tester
7 22 (7.43%) Senior Java Developer
8 21 (7.09%) Lead
8 21 (7.09%) Test Engineer
9 16 (5.41%) Analyst
9 16 (5.41%) Scala Developer
10 15 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
11 13 (4.39%) Automation Tester
12 12 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (4.05%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.05%) Test Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.72%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.72%) QA Engineer
13 11 (3.72%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.38%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.62%) .NET
2 54 (18.24%) REST
3 52 (17.57%) React
4 44 (14.86%) Spring
5 43 (14.53%) Kafka
6 41 (13.85%) Web Services
7 40 (13.51%) AngularJS
8 35 (11.82%) RESTful
9 28 (9.46%) .NET Framework
9 28 (9.46%) JSON
10 26 (8.78%) ActiveMQ
10 26 (8.78%) HTML
10 26 (8.78%) XML
11 24 (8.11%) SOAP
11 24 (8.11%) Spring Boot
12 22 (7.43%) CSS
13 20 (6.76%) GraphQL
13 20 (6.76%) JAX-RS
14 18 (6.08%) Hibernate
15 17 (5.74%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.41%) Derivative
2 13 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.35%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.35%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 4 (1.35%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.19%) Unix
2 41 (13.85%) Linux
3 24 (8.11%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.01%) Windows
5 2 (0.68%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (71.62%) TDD
2 194 (65.54%) Agile
3 136 (45.95%) Test Automation
4 99 (33.45%) Microservices
5 97 (32.77%) CI/CD
5 97 (32.77%) DevOps
6 72 (24.32%) Scrum
7 66 (22.30%) Continuous Integration
8 59 (19.93%) Software Engineering
9 45 (15.20%) Pair Programming
10 44 (14.86%) SDLC
11 42 (14.19%) Kanban
12 41 (13.85%) Full Stack Development
13 40 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (13.18%) Continuous Deployment
15 32 (10.81%) Test Strategy
16 30 (10.14%) User Stories
17 27 (9.12%) Acceptance Criteria
18 24 (8.11%) Manual Testing
18 24 (8.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 155 (52.36%) Java
2 72 (24.32%) SQL
3 60 (20.27%) JavaScript
4 53 (17.91%) C#
5 49 (16.55%) Python
6 43 (14.53%) TypeScript
7 26 (8.78%) Scala
8 17 (5.74%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.72%) Bash
10 10 (3.38%) Perl
11 9 (3.04%) Go
12 6 (2.03%) Groovy
12 6 (2.03%) Ruby
12 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.69%) C
13 5 (1.69%) PHP
14 4 (1.35%) Bicep
14 4 (1.35%) C++
15 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.45%) Degree
4 9 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.03%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.54%) QA
2 22 (7.43%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.35%) WCAG
4 2 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (16.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (16.89%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.16%) Terraform
3 14 (4.73%) Grafana
4 12 (4.05%) Ansible
5 8 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.69%) Kibana
6 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.69%) Puppet
7 4 (1.35%) Nagios
8 2 (0.68%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 32 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.41%) Oracle
3 7 (2.36%) NEC
3 7 (2.36%) Splunk
4 6 (2.03%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (2.03%) Typelevel
5 5 (1.69%) New Relic
6 4 (1.35%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.35%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (1.01%) Cisco
7 3 (1.01%) Google
7 3 (1.01%) IBM
7 3 (1.01%) OpenText
7 3 (1.01%) Pega
7 3 (1.01%) SAP
7 3 (1.01%) Solace
7 3 (1.01%) TOWER Software
8 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.68%) Murex
8 2 (0.68%) Planview