BDD Contracts in the Midlands

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 99 125 139
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 +29
Contract jobs citing BDD 12 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 0.29% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.35% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 23
10th Percentile £431 £379 -
25th Percentile £455 £385 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% +13.33% -24.62%
75th Percentile £506 £450 £497
90th Percentile £522 - £548
England median daily rate £525 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% -3.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +19 12 £481 +6.94% 17
BDD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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%) WebLogic
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 6 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (50.00%) JUnit
2 6 (50.00%) Mockito
3 5 (41.67%) Maven
4 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (25.00%) DbUnit
4 3 (25.00%) Git
4 3 (25.00%) jMock
4 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (16.67%) GitLab
6 1 (8.33%) Appium
6 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (8.33%) CA Gen
6 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Spring
1 7 (58.33%) Spring Boot
2 6 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (50.00%) REST
2 6 (50.00%) Web Services
3 5 (41.67%) HTML
4 3 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 3 (25.00%) JPA
4 3 (25.00%) jQuery
4 3 (25.00%) PowerMock
4 3 (25.00%) RESTful
4 3 (25.00%) SOAP
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Batch
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Integration
4 3 (25.00%) WireMock
5 2 (16.67%) Apache Camel
5 2 (16.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (91.67%) Microservices
3 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (66.67%) TDD
5 7 (58.33%) Scrum
6 6 (50.00%) Kanban
7 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (41.67%) DevOps
8 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
8 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
9 3 (25.00%) Open Source
9 3 (25.00%) Pair Programming
9 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
9 3 (25.00%) SDLC
9 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
9 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ISEB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Grafana
2 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (25.00%) Jaspersoft