BDD Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 25 9
Rank change year-on-year -38 -16 +85
Contract jobs citing BDD 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.80% 1.72% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.94% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £316 £508 -
25th Percentile £341 £508 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £509 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% - -
75th Percentile £441 £509 -
90th Percentile £469 £510 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -6.63% -3.10% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 103 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 87.47% 88.79% 65.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 68 24
10th Percentile £400 £221 £271
25th Percentile £446 £360 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +19.25% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £500
90th Percentile £552 £567 £536
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% - -
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile £32.58 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £24.80
% change year-on-year -13.42% -12.12% +40.11%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Shropshire

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing BDD

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Shropshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Shropshire

BDD
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Telford -38 3 £388 -23.83% 2
BDD
West Midlands

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Kong
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) Gatling
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Mockito
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle