BDD Contracts in Manchester

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 73 84 90
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -38
Contract jobs citing BDD 6 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.79% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.91% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 26
10th Percentile £345 £413 £285
25th Percentile £375 £444 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.26% -5.22%
75th Percentile £525 - £626
90th Percentile £555 £534 £694
North West median daily rate £426 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -14.80% -7.41% +0.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Manchester

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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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (33.33%) Slack
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jasmine
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Batch
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Security
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Chai
3 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Kernel Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Confluent
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (16.67%) New Relic