BDD Contracts in Manchester

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 88 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 -36 +11
Contract jobs citing BDD 12 28 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.78% 1.48% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.61% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 26 50
10th Percentile £413 £285 £425
25th Percentile £444 £300 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -5.22% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £626 £675
90th Percentile £534 £694 £676
North West median daily rate £500 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% +19.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,341 1,737 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.13% 91.81% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,272 1,807
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £663 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 51
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 29 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
Altrincham - 1 £563 -
BDD
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) BrowserStack
4 2 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) Figma
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Selenium
2 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) JMeter
4 3 (25.00%) Postman
5 2 (16.67%) Appium
5 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 2 (16.67%) Gatling
5 2 (16.67%) GitLab
5 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
5 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
6 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (8.33%) Gradle
6 1 (8.33%) Mercurial
6 1 (8.33%) Mockito
6 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (8.33%) TestCafe
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) Jest
3 1 (8.33%) Next.js
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) API Testing
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (16.67%) Conversational AI
4 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 2 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Operational Stability
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (8.33%) Confluent
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic