BDD Contracts in Hertfordshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing BDD 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.29% - 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.10%
East of England median daily rate - £500 £547
% change year-on-year - -8.59% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 313 732 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.52% 88.41% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 255 345
10th Percentile £394 £231 £244
25th Percentile £450 £315 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £701 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 316 149
10th Percentile £17.91 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.38 £53.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -20.63% +24.94%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £39.66 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +81.82% +41.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. 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
Stevenage - 1 - - 4
BDD
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ggplot2
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) R