BDD Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 29 58
Rank change year-on-year -11 +29 -8
Contract jobs citing BDD 37 35 10
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 4.99% 5.92% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 6.81% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 6
10th Percentile £408 £395 £413
25th Percentile £513 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -10.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £594
90th Percentile £700 £775 £619
West Yorkshire median daily rate £638 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +41.67% -10.00% -25.93%

All Process & 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 647 514 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.20% 86.97% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 321 531
10th Percentile £301 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -0.95%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £613
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 4
10th Percentile - £15.54 £14.32
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £17.01
Median hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +63.71% -14.61%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £31.98
90th Percentile £33.88 £98.79 £49.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £18.32
% change year-on-year -34.46% +77.40% -14.79%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Leeds

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing BDD

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Leeds

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing BDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 10 (27.03%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.41%) Apigee
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (5.41%) Serverless
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (54.05%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.41%) Redis
4 1 (2.70%) GIS
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (40.54%) Mockito
2 8 (21.62%) Cucumber
3 7 (18.92%) Cypress.io
3 7 (18.92%) GitLab
3 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) Maven
4 2 (5.41%) Mocha
4 2 (5.41%) Selenium
4 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.70%) Git
5 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 12 (32.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (75.68%) Developer
2 25 (67.57%) Java Developer
3 23 (62.16%) Senior
4 15 (40.54%) Senior Developer
5 13 (35.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (16.22%) Senior Test Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Test Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Lead
7 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Agile Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Agile Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Digital Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Digital Transformation
8 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (5.41%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.41%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Agile Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Agile Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (43.24%) Kafka
2 15 (40.54%) ActiveMQ
2 15 (40.54%) JAX-RS
3 9 (24.32%) Node.js
4 5 (13.51%) Playwright
5 4 (10.81%) Jest
6 3 (8.11%) Spring
6 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.41%) CSS
7 2 (5.41%) Express.js
7 2 (5.41%) Gherkin
7 2 (5.41%) HTML
7 2 (5.41%) React
8 1 (2.70%) .NET
8 1 (2.70%) FHIR
8 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.70%) NHS
2 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Unix
2 18 (48.65%) Linux
3 16 (43.24%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (89.19%) Agile
2 31 (83.78%) Microservices
3 28 (75.68%) TDD
4 26 (70.27%) Test Automation
5 19 (51.35%) Continuous Deployment
5 19 (51.35%) Pair Programming
6 12 (32.43%) Responsive Web Design
6 12 (32.43%) Web Design
7 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (29.73%) Web Development
8 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
9 6 (16.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.51%) Manual Testing
10 5 (13.51%) Scrum
10 5 (13.51%) Software Testing
10 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy
11 4 (10.81%) API Development
11 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (10.81%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 34 (91.89%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) TypeScript
3 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Groovy
5 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
2 19 (51.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.51%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Grafana
2 2 (5.41%) HP Fortify
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Splunk