BDD Contracts in the North West

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 126 130
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 -56
Contract jobs citing BDD 16 10 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.82% 0.38% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.44% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 30
10th Percentile £324 £410 £285
25th Percentile £375 £425 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £462 - £625
90th Percentile £541 - £625
England median daily rate £506 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% -10.00% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,266 2,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.15% 85.64% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,444 1,937
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 252 138
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.90 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +30.55% -28.90% +51.88%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Cheshire - 8 £383 - 11
Manchester +9 6 £450 -10.00% 29
Lancashire - 1 £525 - 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (12.50%) Slack
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Datadog
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) JUnit
2 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (25.00%) Gradle
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) Selenium
3 3 (18.75%) Xcode
4 2 (12.50%) Appium
4 2 (12.50%) Jasmine
4 2 (12.50%) Postman
4 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
5 1 (6.25%) JMeter
5 1 (6.25%) Maven
5 1 (6.25%) Mockito
5 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aviation
3 1 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) iOS Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (25.00%) Kafka
3 3 (18.75%) CSS
3 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 3 (18.75%) RESTful
3 3 (18.75%) Spring
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 2 (12.50%) React
4 2 (12.50%) Spring Batch
4 2 (12.50%) Spring Security
4 2 (12.50%) Swagger
5 1 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (6.25%) Chai
5 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
5 1 (6.25%) Jest
5 1 (6.25%) Playwright
5 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Android
1 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) TDD
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) Scrum
4 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 5 (31.25%) User Experience
6 4 (25.00%) Front End Development
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (18.75%) iOS Development
7 3 (18.75%) Mobile Development
7 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 3 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
7 3 (18.75%) UX Design
8 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) C
3 3 (18.75%) C++
3 3 (18.75%) Kotlin
3 3 (18.75%) Objective-C
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Ruby
3 3 (18.75%) Scala
3 3 (18.75%) Swift
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.25%) Confluent
1 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
1 1 (6.25%) New Relic