BDD Contracts in Northamptonshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing BDD 1 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.60% 0.47% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.52% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £219 £389 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £219 £398 £270
Median % change year-on-year -44.91% +47.22% -45.32%
75th Percentile £220 £406 £280
90th Percentile - - £364
East Midlands median daily rate £219 £398 £280
% change year-on-year -44.91% +41.96% -45.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 193 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.62% 89.77% 90.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 145 168
10th Percentile £268 £307 £189
25th Percentile £346 £356 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £443 £394
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +12.51% -13.46%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £500
90th Percentile £536 £620 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £440 £411 £455
% change year-on-year +7.06% -9.78% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 17
10th Percentile £16.04 £10.90 £16.44
25th Percentile £19.48 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +79.32%
75th Percentile £29.79 £50.71 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.92 £53.90 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +10.38% -15.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for BDD in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Northampton -1 1 £219 -44.91%
BDD
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft