BDD Contracts in the North of England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 125 88
Rank change year-on-year -35 -37 +6
Contract jobs citing BDD 29 91 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 1.56% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.72% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 71 110
10th Percentile £400 £300 £412
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £577 £653 £661
90th Percentile £628 £700 £676
England median daily rate £540 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £74.75
% change year-on-year -22.41% -3.01% +28.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,108 5,304 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.82% 90.84% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 3,679 4,645
10th Percentile £287 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £681 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 212 263
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.50 £12.94
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.60 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% +47.59% -1.29%
75th Percentile £44.74 £45.05 £33.66
90th Percentile £53.85 £65.00 £51.69
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +1 14 £550 -2.22% 6
North West -4 12 £500 -4.76% 23
North East +2 3 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) GitHub
3 7 (24.14%) Azure
4 6 (20.69%) BrowserStack
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (10.34%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) CloudBees
7 2 (6.90%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (6.90%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (3.45%) Datadog
8 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.45%) Figma
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) MongoDB
2 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.79%) MySQL
3 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Selenium
2 10 (34.48%) Cucumber
3 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (27.59%) Git
4 8 (27.59%) JIRA
5 6 (20.69%) JMeter
6 5 (17.24%) Cypress.io
7 4 (13.79%) Gatling
7 4 (13.79%) WebDriver
8 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
8 3 (10.34%) GitLab
8 3 (10.34%) Mockito
8 3 (10.34%) Postman
9 2 (6.90%) Appium
9 2 (6.90%) SpecFlow
10 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
10 1 (3.45%) Gradle
10 1 (3.45%) Mercurial
10 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
10 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Test Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Test Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Full Stack Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) QA Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Scala Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
7 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (6.90%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Tester
8 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Kafka
2 6 (20.69%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (20.69%) React
2 6 (20.69%) Web Services
3 5 (17.24%) RESTful
4 4 (13.79%) Next.js
5 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.90%) JAX-RS
5 2 (6.90%) pytest
5 2 (6.90%) REST
5 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.90%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (3.45%) ADO
6 1 (3.45%) CSS
6 1 (3.45%) HTML
6 1 (3.45%) Node.js
6 1 (3.45%) OAuth
6 1 (3.45%) OpenID
6 1 (3.45%) SAML
6 1 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Mac OS X
1 6 (20.69%) Unix
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) Agile
2 23 (79.31%) TDD
3 20 (68.97%) Test Automation
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 8 (27.59%) Microservices
5 8 (27.59%) SDLC
5 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 6 (20.69%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (17.24%) Manual Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Operational Stability
9 4 (13.79%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (13.79%) Cross-Browser Testing
9 4 (13.79%) Test Strategy
9 4 (13.79%) Web Development
10 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
10 3 (10.34%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 7 (24.14%) Scala
3 7 (24.14%) SQL
4 6 (20.69%) Groovy
4 6 (20.69%) TypeScript
5 4 (13.79%) Python
5 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.90%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.24%) Grafana
3 4 (13.79%) Terraform
4 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Google
1 2 (6.90%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (3.45%) Confluent
2 1 (3.45%) New Relic