BDD Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - -
North West median daily rate £431 £412 £500
% change year-on-year +4.61% -17.60% -1.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 249 127 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 75.23% 76.97% 77.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 77 88
10th Percentile £133 £143 £144
25th Percentile £161 £203 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £522 £545 £494
90th Percentile £638 £655 £608
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 25
10th Percentile £16.07 £13.07 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.51 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -5.73% +5.71%
75th Percentile - £18.08 £34.32
90th Percentile - £24.23 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.25 £25.60
% change year-on-year +70.54% +25.98% -26.92%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

BDD job vacancy trend in Merseyside

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 20 May 2026. 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
Liverpool - 2 £365 - 1
BDD
North West

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ranorex
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA