BDD Contract Job Trends in the North East

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring BDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 29 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing BDD 9 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.14% 1.87% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 2.07% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £446 - £540
25th Percentile £450 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile - - £669
90th Percentile £499 - £710
England median daily rate £520 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -3.70% -6.09% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 241 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.28% 89.93% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 104 152
10th Percentile £203 £311 £314
25th Percentile £395 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £591
90th Percentile £625 £707 £707
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 9
10th Percentile £11.60 £13.75 £16.85
25th Percentile £13.75 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.30 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.89% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £33.75
90th Percentile £42.40 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the North East

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Tyne and Wear -2 8 £460 - 2
Durham - 1 - -
BDD
England

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) Mockito
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Gatling
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
3 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (33.33%) JAX-RS
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) SwiftUI
2 1 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) API Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 3 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (33.33%) Web Design
5 3 (33.33%) Web Development
6 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Refactoring
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (44.44%) QA
3 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker