BDD Contract Job Trends in the South East

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 138 169
Rank change year-on-year -72 +31 +2
Contract jobs citing BDD 19 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.29% 0.72% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.80% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 15
10th Percentile £210 £200 £283
25th Percentile £250 £274 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £309 £395 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.84% +12.86% -33.33%
75th Percentile £370 £538 £634
90th Percentile £388 £647 £710
England median daily rate £463 £510 £540
% change year-on-year -9.31% -5.56% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,361 3,141 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.95% 90.08% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 1,957 2,488
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 287 327
10th Percentile £15.31 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £26.19 £15.13 £26.03
Median hourly rate £57.79 £21.58 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +167.83% -62.38% +14.70%
75th Percentile £80.09 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £74.25 £76.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the South East over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BDD

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Thames Valley -49 8 £214 +7.56% 2
Hampshire -34 6 £375 - 3
Berkshire -32 4 £359 -28.30% 1
Buckinghamshire -39 4 £210 +6.65%
West Sussex -29 3 £283 -10.03% 4
East Sussex +1 1 £323 -49.41% 2
Middlesex -16 1 £470 -25.98%
BDD
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.53%) Lucidchart
6 1 (5.26%) dbt
6 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 8 (42.11%) SpecFlow
3 7 (36.84%) Git
3 7 (36.84%) Selenium
4 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
4 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (21.05%) Bitbucket
5 4 (21.05%) REST Assured
5 4 (21.05%) WebDriver
6 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
7 2 (10.53%) Balsamiq
7 2 (10.53%) MSTest
8 1 (5.26%) GitLab
8 1 (5.26%) JUnit
8 1 (5.26%) Mockito
8 1 (5.26%) NUnit
8 1 (5.26%) Postman
8 1 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Test Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Gen AI Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Tester
4 2 (10.53%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Playwright
2 4 (21.05%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) RESTful
2 4 (21.05%) Swagger
3 3 (15.79%) SOAP
4 2 (10.53%) ADO
4 2 (10.53%) Gherkin
4 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.53%) gRPC
4 2 (10.53%) JSON
4 2 (10.53%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) Node.js
4 2 (10.53%) pytest
4 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (10.53%) React
4 2 (10.53%) XML
5 1 (5.26%) CSS3
5 1 (5.26%) JWT
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
2 14 (73.68%) Test Automation
3 13 (68.42%) Agile
4 10 (52.63%) DevOps
5 7 (36.84%) API Testing
5 7 (36.84%) TDD
6 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (31.58%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (26.32%) Validation
8 4 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (21.05%) CRM
8 4 (21.05%) QA Automation
8 4 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (21.05%) Scrum
8 4 (21.05%) SDET
8 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) SOLID
8 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
9 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
6 1 (5.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.53%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Conga
3 1 (5.26%) GoCardless