BDD Contracts in Sheffield

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 43 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -15
Contract jobs citing BDD 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.19% 0.79% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 0.85% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £374 £435 -
25th Percentile £449 £501 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% -1.96% +27.50%
75th Percentile £529 £638 £656
90th Percentile £567 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £522 £625 £638
% change year-on-year -16.42% -1.96% +27.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
2 4 (57.14%) Gradle
2 4 (57.14%) HP UFT
2 4 (57.14%) IntelliJ
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) JUnit
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 2 (28.57%) TestNG
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) pytest
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Case Management
3 4 (57.14%) Code Coverage
3 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Data Privacy
3 4 (57.14%) Document Management
3 4 (57.14%) Due Diligence
3 4 (57.14%) Exploratory Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (57.14%) QA Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Workflow
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
1 2 (28.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) 3PAR
1 2 (28.57%) Brocade
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) EMC
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) VMware