BDD Contracts in London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 238 204 146
Rank change year-on-year -34 -58 -30
Contract jobs citing BDD 115 197 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 1.10% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.25% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 154 352
10th Percentile £407 £352 £463
25th Percentile £432 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £541 £634
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% -14.60% +5.63%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £725
90th Percentile £831 £750 £755
England median daily rate £525 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £55.65
25th Percentile - - £68.63
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% -3.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in London

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in London.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -1 19 £425 -24.44% 11
East London +13 3 £585 +8.33% 1
West London +9 3 £550 +57.14%
South London +1 3 £380 -
BDD
England

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 21 (18.26%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.26%) AWS
2 41 (35.65%) Azure
3 24 (20.87%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (13.04%) GitHub
5 11 (9.57%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (7.83%) Slack
7 7 (6.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (5.22%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.22%) Serverless
9 5 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.48%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.48%) SaaS
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.61%) GCP
11 3 (2.61%) IaaS
11 3 (2.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) HTTP
2 2 (1.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.48%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.91%) MongoDB
3 14 (12.17%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.43%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.57%) MySQL
6 10 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (8.70%) Redis
7 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.87%) DB2
9 1 (0.87%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.87%) Power BI
9 1 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (29.57%) Cucumber
2 30 (26.09%) JIRA
3 27 (23.48%) Git
4 25 (21.74%) Jenkins
5 19 (16.52%) Selenium
6 17 (14.78%) Postman
7 15 (13.04%) JUnit
8 13 (11.30%) REST Assured
9 9 (7.83%) Jasmine
10 8 (6.96%) Cypress.io
10 8 (6.96%) JMeter
11 5 (4.35%) GitLab
12 4 (3.48%) Gatling
12 4 (3.48%) Gradle
12 4 (3.48%) WebDriver
13 3 (2.61%) Artifactory
13 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.61%) git-flow
13 3 (2.61%) SpecFlow
13 3 (2.61%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.83%) Finance
3 22 (19.13%) Banking
4 21 (18.26%) Public Sector
5 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (12.17%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Front Office
8 2 (1.74%) Electronics
8 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (51.30%) Developer
2 38 (33.04%) Senior
3 34 (29.57%) Java Developer
4 28 (24.35%) Lead
5 21 (18.26%) Senior Developer
6 20 (17.39%) Lead Developer
7 17 (14.78%) Lead Java Developer
8 14 (12.17%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (10.43%) Test Engineer
10 10 (8.70%) Python Engineer
10 10 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
11 9 (7.83%) C# Developer
12 8 (6.96%) Tester
13 6 (5.22%) Analyst
13 6 (5.22%) Data Engineer
13 6 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
14 5 (4.35%) Azure Developer
14 5 (4.35%) Business Analyst
14 5 (4.35%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.35%) .NET
2 24 (20.87%) Spring
3 23 (20.00%) REST
4 19 (16.52%) Kafka
5 17 (14.78%) Spring Boot
6 14 (12.17%) pytest
7 13 (11.30%) Web Services
8 12 (10.43%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (9.57%) .NET Core
9 11 (9.57%) RESTful
10 10 (8.70%) Spring Batch
10 10 (8.70%) Spring Security
11 9 (7.83%) OpenAPI
11 9 (7.83%) Swagger
12 7 (6.09%) HTML
12 7 (6.09%) JSON
12 7 (6.09%) React
13 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
14 5 (4.35%) WCF
14 5 (4.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 8 (6.96%) Derivative
3 7 (6.09%) Market Risk
4 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.35%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.87%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.04%) Linux
2 13 (11.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (67.83%) TDD
2 73 (63.48%) Agile
3 56 (48.70%) CI/CD
4 46 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 37 (32.17%) DevOps
6 31 (26.96%) Microservices
7 27 (23.48%) Scrum
8 25 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (16.52%) Computer Science
11 16 (13.91%) API Testing
11 16 (13.91%) Architectural Design
11 16 (13.91%) Continuous Delivery
11 16 (13.91%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.91%) Mathematics
12 15 (13.04%) Test Scripting
13 14 (12.17%) Containerisation
13 14 (12.17%) Economics
13 14 (12.17%) OWASP
13 14 (12.17%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.35%) Java
2 36 (31.30%) SQL
3 33 (28.70%) Python
4 24 (20.87%) C#
5 16 (13.91%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.43%) Bash
7 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.48%) Haskell
10 2 (1.74%) C++
10 2 (1.74%) RPG
10 2 (1.74%) Scala
10 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.87%) Bicep
11 1 (0.87%) Dart
11 1 (0.87%) Go
11 1 (0.87%) Groovy
11 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (20.87%) Degree
2 22 (19.13%) SC Cleared
2 22 (19.13%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.17%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (4.35%) MCPD
4 5 (4.35%) MCSD
4 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.13%) QA
2 14 (12.17%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.35%) WCAG
4 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) SEPA
5 1 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (18.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.96%) Terraform
3 7 (6.09%) Ansible
4 2 (1.74%) Kibana
5 1 (0.87%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.48%) Databricks
2 4 (3.48%) Oracle
2 4 (3.48%) Splunk
3 3 (2.61%) SAP
4 2 (1.74%) Dell
4 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.74%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.87%) IBM
5 1 (0.87%) Informatica
5 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.87%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.87%) Virgin Media