BDD Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 99 116
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing BDD 4 8 21
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.27% 0.51% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.57% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile - £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% - -8.26%
75th Percentile - £485 £469
90th Percentile - £497 £500
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -14.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,275 1,404 2,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.79% 90.35% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 818 1,237
10th Percentile £247 £230 £259
25th Percentile £386 £365 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 48 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.56 £13.57
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.21
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +29.58% -1.59%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £42.96 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

BDD job vacancy trend in Scotland

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing BDD

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing BDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Edinburgh -5 3 £545 +28.24% 3
Glasgow -1 1 - -
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) Loki
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Equities
2 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) MLOps
2 2 (50.00%) ModelOps
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Reuters