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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 195 214
Rank change year-on-year -54 +19 -103
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BDD 117 214 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 1.32% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.48% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 162 205
10th Percentile £413 £380 £432
25th Percentile £500 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -11.29% -0.80%
75th Percentile £750 £720 £703
90th Percentile - £848 £775
England median daily rate £514 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -4.86% -10.00% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £76.22
25th Percentile - - £78.05
Median hourly rate - - £86.41
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +29.31%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,389 14,442 21,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 88.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 10,030 15,302
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 196 228
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.08 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £22.86
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -12.31% +6.84%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.56 £78.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BDD

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in London over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in London

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BDD

BDD
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -14 16 £570 -5.00% 31
East London +7 3 £540 -
West London +4 3 £550 +57.14% 6
South London -9 3 - - 2
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 11 (9.40%) Confluence
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 54 (46.15%) Azure
2 38 (32.48%) AWS
3 30 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (11.97%) GitHub
5 7 (5.98%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (5.13%) GCP
7 4 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.42%) Serverless
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.56%) dbt
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Firewall
1 2 (1.71%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.85%) DSL
2 1 (0.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.35%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (17.09%) Relational Database
3 15 (12.82%) Redis
4 14 (11.97%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.56%) DB2
7 3 (2.56%) Power BI
7 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.71%) MySQL
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (23.93%) Cucumber
2 25 (21.37%) Git
2 25 (21.37%) Jenkins
3 21 (17.95%) Selenium
4 11 (9.40%) JIRA
5 9 (7.69%) JUnit
5 9 (7.69%) Postman
6 8 (6.84%) GitLab
6 8 (6.84%) JMeter
7 7 (5.98%) Bitbucket
7 7 (5.98%) Cypress.io
8 6 (5.13%) REST Assured
9 5 (4.27%) Eclipse
9 5 (4.27%) Maven
9 5 (4.27%) TeamCity
10 4 (3.42%) Gradle
10 4 (3.42%) Mockito
10 4 (3.42%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.56%) Gatling
11 3 (2.56%) IntelliJ
General
1 50 (42.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.64%) Banking
2 30 (25.64%) Finance
3 21 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (17.09%) Investment Banking
5 10 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.27%) Front Office
7 2 (1.71%) Electronics
7 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.71%) Marketing
7 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 58 (49.57%) Developer
2 35 (29.91%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.66%) Senior
4 17 (14.53%) Lead
5 16 (13.68%) Lead Developer
6 14 (11.97%) Lead Java Developer
7 12 (10.26%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.84%) Analyst
8 8 (6.84%) C# Developer
8 8 (6.84%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (5.98%) Test Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Automation Tester
10 6 (5.13%) Azure Developer
10 6 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Tester
11 5 (4.27%) Angular Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) QA Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.50%) Kafka
2 24 (20.51%) Spring
3 22 (18.80%) REST
4 21 (17.95%) .NET
5 18 (15.38%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (14.53%) Web Services
7 16 (13.68%) RESTful
7 16 (13.68%) Spring Boot
8 12 (10.26%) .NET Core
8 12 (10.26%) HTML
9 9 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 9 (7.69%) CSS
9 9 (7.69%) React
10 8 (6.84%) Gherkin
10 8 (6.84%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.98%) JSON
11 7 (5.98%) XML
12 5 (4.27%) .NET Framework
12 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (4.27%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.27%) N-Tier
4 4 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.56%) Derivative
5 3 (2.56%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.71%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.42%) Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (79.49%) Agile
2 78 (66.67%) TDD
3 53 (45.30%) CI/CD
4 47 (40.17%) DevOps
5 45 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 39 (33.33%) Scrum
7 35 (29.91%) Microservices
8 31 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (23.08%) Kanban
10 20 (17.09%) Computer Science
11 19 (16.24%) Architectural Design
12 17 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (14.53%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (14.53%) Economics
12 17 (14.53%) Mathematics
13 14 (11.97%) Design Patterns
13 14 (11.97%) Unit Testing
14 13 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
14 13 (11.11%) Software Engineering
15 12 (10.26%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (62.39%) Java
2 38 (32.48%) SQL
3 28 (23.93%) Python
4 24 (20.51%) C#
5 17 (14.53%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.98%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.27%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.42%) Scala
9 3 (2.56%) Haskell
9 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.71%) Bash
10 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.71%) RPG
10 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.85%) Dart
11 1 (0.85%) Go
11 1 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (21.37%) Degree
2 17 (14.53%) Numerate Degree
3 13 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) MCPD
4 5 (4.27%) MCSD
4 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.71%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.71%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.51%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.71%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) NIST
4 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (21.37%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Postfix
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.55%) Ansible
3 7 (5.98%) Terraform
4 5 (4.27%) Grafana
5 3 (2.56%) Kibana
5 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.84%) Oracle
3 6 (5.13%) Databricks
4 5 (4.27%) Splunk
5 4 (3.42%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.42%) OpenLink
6 3 (2.56%) SAP
7 2 (1.71%) Dell
7 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.71%) Google
8 1 (0.85%) Charles River
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) Informatica
8 1 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.85%) UiPath
8 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media