BDD Contracts in Reading

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 84 65
Rank change year-on-year +29 -19 +27
Contract jobs citing BDD 5 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.59% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.65% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £460
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile - - £477
90th Percentile - - £500
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £569 £460
% change year-on-year -12.09% +23.64% -4.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Reading

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Mockito
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (20.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (20.00%) jMock
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) Playwright
3 2 (40.00%) WireMock
3 2 (40.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) JPA
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Process Management
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Kanban
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft