BDD Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 158 129
Rank change year-on-year +36 -29 -36
Contract jobs citing BDD 47 26 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.42% 0.56% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 0.66% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 68
10th Percentile £357 £400 £353
25th Percentile £389 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £666
90th Percentile £553 £630 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,972 3,945 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.65% 85.39% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 2,422 3,502
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.35% +46.53%
75th Percentile £57.93 £45.00 £43.94
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

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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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
Yorkshire +30 26 £520 -5.50% 11
North West +18 13 £412 -17.60% 88
North East +1 9 £390 - 8
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England

BDD
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 10 (21.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) GitHub
2 7 (14.89%) Azure
3 6 (12.77%) AWS
4 4 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.51%) Slack
5 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.13%) Apigee
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.13%) Datadog
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) SAN
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.89%) MySQL
3 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.64%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Cucumber
2 17 (36.17%) JUnit
3 13 (27.66%) Git
3 13 (27.66%) Selenium
4 11 (23.40%) Jenkins
5 10 (21.28%) JIRA
6 7 (14.89%) Maven
7 5 (10.64%) Gradle
7 5 (10.64%) Postman
7 5 (10.64%) REST Assured
7 5 (10.64%) TestNG
8 4 (8.51%) HP UFT
8 4 (8.51%) IntelliJ
8 4 (8.51%) Jasmine
8 4 (8.51%) JMeter
9 3 (6.38%) Cypress.io
9 3 (6.38%) GitLab
10 2 (4.26%) Appium
10 2 (4.26%) SpecFlow
11 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
2 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Aviation
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Military
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Developer
2 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 9 (19.15%) Java Developer
4 7 (14.89%) Lead
4 7 (14.89%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Test Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Tester
6 5 (10.64%) Scala Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Test Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Lead Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (6.38%) QA Tester
9 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) Spring Boot
2 8 (17.02%) RESTful
2 8 (17.02%) Spring
3 6 (12.77%) Node.js
4 5 (10.64%) Akka
4 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.64%) Play Framework
4 5 (10.64%) React
4 5 (10.64%) Spring Batch
4 5 (10.64%) Spring Security
4 5 (10.64%) Swagger
5 4 (8.51%) Jest
5 4 (8.51%) Kafka
5 4 (8.51%) OpenAPI
5 4 (8.51%) Playwright
5 4 (8.51%) pytest
6 3 (6.38%) .NET
6 3 (6.38%) WireMock
7 2 (4.26%) REST
7 2 (4.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (8.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.26%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
1 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) TDD
2 25 (53.19%) Test Automation
3 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
4 22 (46.81%) Agile
5 21 (44.68%) Microservices
6 12 (25.53%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (21.28%) Code Quality
7 10 (21.28%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (21.28%) DevOps
8 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
8 8 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (17.02%) Test Strategy
9 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
9 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.77%) API Testing
10 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
10 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
10 6 (12.77%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) Java
2 7 (14.89%) Bash
2 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (14.89%) SQL
3 5 (10.64%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) Scala
4 2 (4.26%) C#
4 2 (4.26%) PHP
4 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) Swift
5 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) QA
2 6 (12.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (40.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.64%) Kibana
3 3 (6.38%) Terraform
4 2 (4.26%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.26%) Puppet
4 2 (4.26%) vRealize
5 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) 3PAR
1 2 (4.26%) Brocade
1 2 (4.26%) Cisco
1 2 (4.26%) EMC
1 2 (4.26%) HP
1 2 (4.26%) VMware
2 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.13%) Confluent
2 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.13%) New Relic
2 1 (2.13%) SAP