BDD Contracts in the South East

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 168 150
Rank change year-on-year +35 -18 +22
Contract jobs citing BDD 19 30 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.54% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.64% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 29
10th Percentile £463 - £453
25th Percentile £491 £325 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £538
90th Percentile £646 £695 £586
England median daily rate £525 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% -3.01%

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 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the South East.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the South East

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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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the South East

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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 2 May 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
Thames Valley +32 6 £500 -9.09% 7
Berkshire +24 6 £500 -12.09% 5
West Sussex +16 5 £475 - 6
Hampshire +20 4 £500 +26.98% 18
Surrey +13 2 - - 2
East Sussex - 2 £638 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Route 53
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Cucumber
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) JMeter
3 3 (15.79%) JUnit
3 3 (15.79%) Mockito
3 3 (15.79%) SpecFlow
4 2 (10.53%) Postman
4 2 (10.53%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.26%) DbUnit
5 1 (5.26%) GitLab
5 1 (5.26%) jMock
5 1 (5.26%) Maven
5 1 (5.26%) Mocha
5 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Test Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Test Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Playwright
2 5 (26.32%) HTML
2 5 (26.32%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (15.79%) CSS
4 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
4 3 (15.79%) RESTful
4 3 (15.79%) Spring
4 3 (15.79%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) Apache Camel
5 2 (10.53%) jQuery
5 2 (10.53%) JSON
5 2 (10.53%) Kafka
5 2 (10.53%) WireMock
5 2 (10.53%) XML
6 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.26%) gRPC
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
3 9 (47.37%) TDD
4 7 (36.84%) Microservices
5 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (31.58%) DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) Manual Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Scrum
6 4 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (21.05%) API Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Kanban
6 4 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (21.05%) SDLC
7 3 (15.79%) OO
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
7 3 (15.79%) User Stories
7 3 (15.79%) Workflow
8 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) Go
3 4 (21.05%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
1 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.26%) Jaspersoft