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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 155 172
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing BDD 22 25 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.64% 0.55% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.66% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 17
10th Percentile £199 £283 £485
25th Percentile £267 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% -33.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £488 £597 £605
90th Percentile £530 £678 £741
England median daily rate £520 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -3.70% -6.09% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.00%

All Process and 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 3,069 3,769 5,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.14% 82.53% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,911 2,254 3,357
10th Percentile £220 £257 £250
25th Percentile £380 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £654 £689 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 255 258
10th Percentile £13.25 £16.10 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £33.00 £23.52
Median hourly rate £20.75 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.82% +9.24% +61.54%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.82 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BDD 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
West Sussex +5 9 £288 +35.53% 3
Thames Valley +11 8 £199 -41.91% 13
Berkshire +14 5 £500 +17.65% 9
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £197 - 1
Hampshire +6 2 £550 +57.14% 8
Middlesex +1 2 £635 -
Surrey +6 1 £450 -29.41% 5
BDD
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
1 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Git
1 13 (59.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (40.91%) JIRA
3 6 (27.27%) Selenium
3 6 (27.27%) Subversion
4 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
5 4 (18.18%) SpecFlow
6 3 (13.64%) JUnit
6 3 (13.64%) Mockito
7 2 (9.09%) HP UFT
7 2 (9.09%) JMeter
7 2 (9.09%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (9.09%) Maven
7 2 (9.09%) Postman
7 2 (9.09%) SoapUI
8 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (4.55%) Gradle
8 1 (4.55%) NUnit
8 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Banking
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Test Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) REST
2 8 (36.36%) Kafka
3 7 (31.82%) GraphQL
3 7 (31.82%) gRPC
3 7 (31.82%) Playwright
3 7 (31.82%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (18.18%) HTML
5 3 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (13.64%) Hibernate
5 3 (13.64%) JSON
5 3 (13.64%) Spring
5 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.64%) Web Services
6 2 (9.09%) Apache Camel
6 2 (9.09%) CSS
6 2 (9.09%) jQuery
6 2 (9.09%) RESTful
6 2 (9.09%) WireMock
6 2 (9.09%) XML
7 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 16 (72.73%) TDD
4 11 (50.00%) Microservices
4 11 (50.00%) Scrum
4 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
6 8 (36.36%) Kanban
6 8 (36.36%) Waterfall
7 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (31.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
8 6 (27.27%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (27.27%) Regression Testing
9 5 (22.73%) API Testing
9 5 (22.73%) DevOps
10 4 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy
11 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) Go
3 6 (27.27%) C#
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) Python
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 6 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Kibana
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Jaspersoft