BDD Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 79 78
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing BDD 7 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.98% 0.60% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.64% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
Scotland median daily rate £350 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.94% -10.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 589 784 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.26% 93.78% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 498 543
10th Percentile £306 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year - -6.83% +1.68%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £607 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £480
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 40
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +9.64% +69.02%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £44.14
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.81% +17.63% +18.18%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Glasgow

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (28.57%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (28.57%) ChatGPT
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
2 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) DB2
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Front Office
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Equity Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) AI
1 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) Data Science
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (28.57%) LLM
5 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks
3 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) Sybase
4 1 (14.29%) TOWER Software