BDD Contracts in Reading

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 66 93
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 -42
Contract jobs citing BDD 5 22 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.43% 2.17% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 2.40% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 4
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile - £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £460 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -5.15% -15.65%
75th Percentile - £477 £495
90th Percentile - £500 -
Berkshire median daily rate £569 £460 £489
% change year-on-year +23.64% -5.88% -6.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,052 916 1,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.76% 90.34% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 616 808
10th Percentile £213 £363 £246
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £654
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.62 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% +132.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £78.84 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.48 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.03
% change year-on-year +6.02% +174.99% -0.12%

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

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Applications Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) WireMock
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Process Management
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk