BDD Contracts in London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 152 117
Rank change year-on-year -60 -35 -38
Contract jobs citing BDD 195 494 961
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.83% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.01% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 352 757
10th Percentile £351 £463 £429
25th Percentile £450 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £634 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +5.63% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £750 £755 £743
England median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 8
10th Percentile - £55.65 £72.83
25th Percentile - £68.63 £74.63
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £77.75
Median % change year-on-year - -3.54% -
75th Percentile - £78.75 £81.63
90th Percentile - £90.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £74.75
% change year-on-year -22.41% -3.01% +28.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +9 24 £563 -16.67% 16
South London +2 9 £380 -20.42% 1
West London +13 6 £350 -46.15% 5
East London 0 5 £540 +20.00% 3
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 13 (6.67%) Confluence
2 5 (2.56%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) Apache
4 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) JBoss
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Mingle
2 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.54%) Endur
3 2 (1.03%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.51%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.51%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.51%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.51%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 50 (25.64%) AWS
2 47 (24.10%) Azure
3 26 (13.33%) Serverless
4 23 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (6.67%) GCP
5 13 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.64%) GitHub
6 11 (5.64%) PowerApps
7 10 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (4.62%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.10%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.59%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.59%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (3.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) HTTP
2 5 (2.56%) Internet
2 5 (2.56%) SSH
3 2 (1.03%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.51%) Intranet
4 1 (0.51%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.23%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.21%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.08%) Big Data
7 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.08%) OLTP
7 6 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.56%) Power BI
9 4 (2.05%) KDB
9 4 (2.05%) Redis
10 2 (1.03%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.03%) MySQL
10 2 (1.03%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 49 (25.13%) Cucumber
2 44 (22.56%) Git
3 39 (20.00%) JIRA
4 36 (18.46%) Selenium
5 27 (13.85%) JUnit
6 24 (12.31%) Jenkins
6 24 (12.31%) SpecFlow
7 22 (11.28%) Postman
8 21 (10.77%) Mockito
9 17 (8.72%) WebDriver
10 16 (8.21%) REST Assured
11 15 (7.69%) JMeter
11 15 (7.69%) TestNG
12 14 (7.18%) SoapUI
13 12 (6.15%) Appium
13 12 (6.15%) Visual Studio
14 9 (4.62%) eggPlant
14 9 (4.62%) SOAtest
15 7 (3.59%) Bitbucket
15 7 (3.59%) GitLab
General
1 47 (24.10%) Finance
2 42 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.46%) Banking
4 23 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.74%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 10 (5.13%) Back Office
8 9 (4.62%) Front Office
9 5 (2.56%) Retail
10 3 (1.54%) Legal
10 3 (1.54%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.54%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Electronics
11 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.03%) Games
11 2 (1.03%) Law
11 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.03%) Marketing
11 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (46.15%) Developer
2 50 (25.64%) Senior
3 38 (19.49%) Java Developer
4 29 (14.87%) Senior Developer
5 23 (11.79%) Tester
6 16 (8.21%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (7.18%) Analyst
7 14 (7.18%) Full Stack Developer
7 14 (7.18%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.67%) Lead
9 11 (5.64%) QA Tester
9 11 (5.64%) Scala Developer
10 10 (5.13%) Business Analyst
10 10 (5.13%) QA Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.62%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.10%) Automation Tester
13 7 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) Consultant
13 7 (3.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.15%) .NET
2 37 (18.97%) REST
3 29 (14.87%) Spring
4 27 (13.85%) .NET Framework
4 27 (13.85%) React
4 27 (13.85%) Web Services
5 26 (13.33%) Kafka
6 22 (11.28%) AngularJS
7 21 (10.77%) JSON
7 21 (10.77%) RESTful
8 20 (10.26%) XML
9 19 (9.74%) Spring Boot
10 18 (9.23%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (8.72%) Node.js
11 17 (8.72%) SOAP
12 16 (8.21%) JAX-RS
13 15 (7.69%) Hibernate
14 14 (7.18%) HTML
14 14 (7.18%) JPA
15 12 (6.15%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.69%) Derivative
2 11 (5.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.05%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 4 (2.05%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.03%) Replication
8 2 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.51%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.87%) Unix
2 28 (14.36%) Linux
3 16 (8.21%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (70.26%) TDD
2 120 (61.54%) Agile
3 91 (46.67%) Test Automation
4 71 (36.41%) Microservices
5 66 (33.85%) DevOps
6 63 (32.31%) CI/CD
7 56 (28.72%) Scrum
8 46 (23.59%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (17.95%) Pair Programming
10 31 (15.90%) Kanban
11 30 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
12 28 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (13.33%) User Stories
14 25 (12.82%) Software Engineering
15 24 (12.31%) Test Strategy
16 23 (11.79%) Full Stack Development
16 23 (11.79%) SDLC
17 21 (10.77%) Acceptance Criteria
18 20 (10.26%) Software Testing
19 19 (9.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (49.74%) Java
2 44 (22.56%) C#
3 43 (22.05%) SQL
4 32 (16.41%) Python
5 29 (14.87%) JavaScript
6 26 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.18%) Scala
8 13 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.56%) Perl
10 4 (2.05%) Go
11 2 (1.03%) Bash
11 2 (1.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) Dart
11 2 (1.03%) Haskell
11 2 (1.03%) Ruby
11 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 50 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.18%) Degree
4 7 (3.59%) ISTQB
5 6 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) ISEB
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (19.49%) QA
2 16 (8.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.05%) WCAG
4 2 (1.03%) HL7
5 1 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (15.90%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.77%) Terraform
3 8 (4.10%) Grafana
4 6 (3.08%) Ansible
5 5 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.54%) Kibana
7 2 (1.03%) logstash
8 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.18%) Oracle
3 6 (3.08%) NEC
4 5 (2.56%) Typelevel
5 3 (1.54%) Splunk
6 2 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.03%) HP
6 2 (1.03%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.03%) Murex
6 2 (1.03%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (0.51%) Aareon
7 1 (0.51%) Capita
7 1 (0.51%) Civica
7 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.51%) Google
7 1 (0.51%) IBM
7 1 (0.51%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.51%) Planview
7 1 (0.51%) Solace