BDD Contracts in Leeds

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 54 67
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing BDD 20 9 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.30% 1.13% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 1.30% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 17
10th Percentile £400 £400 £500
25th Percentile £431 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £775 £585 £688
90th Percentile £779 £593 £693
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £556
% change year-on-year - -10.11% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £66.25

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

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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 1 May 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Slack
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Apigee
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) npm
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) MongoDB
1 13 (65.00%) MySQL
2 10 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 8 (40.00%) Git
1 8 (40.00%) Jasmine
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Babel
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
3 9 (45.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) React Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Scala Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Scala Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior SQL Developer
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Spring
1 10 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (45.00%) Spring Security
3 8 (40.00%) RESTful
3 8 (40.00%) Spring Batch
3 8 (40.00%) Swagger
4 6 (30.00%) OpenAPI
5 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (20.00%) React
6 3 (15.00%) .NET
6 3 (15.00%) Akka
6 3 (15.00%) Laravel
6 3 (15.00%) Play Framework
6 3 (15.00%) React Native
6 3 (15.00%) Vue
6 3 (15.00%) WPF
7 1 (5.00%) HTML
7 1 (5.00%) JSON
7 1 (5.00%) JWT
7 1 (5.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (15.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
1 10 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Android
2 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) TDD
2 15 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 14 (70.00%) Microservices
4 12 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (55.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
8 8 (40.00%) Coaching
8 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (35.00%) API Design
9 7 (35.00%) Kernel Tuning
9 7 (35.00%) OWASP
10 6 (30.00%) Operational Stability
11 5 (25.00%) Agile
11 5 (25.00%) High Availability
11 5 (25.00%) Integration Testing
12 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 10 (50.00%) Bash
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) Scala
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform