BDD Contracts in Leeds

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 67 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 -10
Contract jobs citing BDD 9 29 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.13% 2.18% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 2.39% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 38
10th Percentile £400 £500 £446
25th Percentile £425 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £585 £688 £675
90th Percentile £593 £693 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -10.11% +1.14% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £66.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 692 1,211 1,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.61% 91.05% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 872 1,055
10th Percentile £300 £388 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £586 £620 £575
90th Percentile £669 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.38 £17.95
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £12.30 £58.25 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -78.88% +158.37% +3.70%
75th Percentile £12.53 £70.00 £28.00
90th Percentile £14.82 - £28.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £25.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year -50.38% +40.28% -22.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Leeds over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Gatling
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) JMeter
2 2 (22.22%) Mockito
2 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 4 (44.44%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) JAX-RS
5 1 (11.11%) Akka
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) React
5 1 (11.11%) Redux
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Mac OS X
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
3 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Web Development
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
5 2 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (22.22%) SDET
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Web Design
6 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
6 1 (11.11%) Fintech
6 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) Groovy
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus