BDD Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 127 120
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 +33
Contract jobs citing BDD 6 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.13% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.15% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £302 £508 £478
25th Percentile £304 £508 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +1.75% -
75th Percentile £488 £509 £550
90th Percentile £503 £510 £616
England median daily rate £500 £509 £541
% change year-on-year -1.72% -6.01% -9.79%

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 2,724 1,999 2,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.28% 86.39% 84.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 1,255 1,508
10th Percentile £250 £250 £253
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £589
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 71 94
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.08
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.77
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -4.35% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.91 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BDD

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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 21 December 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 -27 4 £475 -6.63% 5
East Midlands - 2 £310 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Kong
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
3 3 (50.00%) Postman
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) JIRA
4 2 (33.33%) JUnit
5 1 (16.67%) Gatling
5 1 (16.67%) Git
5 1 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (16.67%) JMeter
5 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
1 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Camel
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) API Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle