BDD Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.77% 3.19% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 3.23% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £440 - £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £500 £648
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% -22.78% -
75th Percentile £638 - £671
90th Percentile £688 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £375 £500 £394
% change year-on-year -25.00% +26.98% -26.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 93 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 80.77% 98.94% 76.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 65 53
10th Percentile £463 £377 £400
25th Percentile £489 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £644 £575 £713
90th Percentile £725 £650 £770
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.42% +11.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 0
10th Percentile £40.46 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £42.29 - -
Median hourly rate £49.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.67% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile - £76.13 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +4.27%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

BDD job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing BDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Farnborough over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Farnborough

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Tester
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDET
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian