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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 183 166
Rank change year-on-year +44 -17 +14
Contract jobs citing BDD 24 21 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.37% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.45% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 18
10th Percentile £228 - £454
25th Percentile £284 £325 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% - +5.13%
75th Percentile £513 £648 £597
90th Percentile £603 £714 £647
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £65.88
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £71.25
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% +25.00%

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 2,978 4,700 5,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.57% 82.75% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,854 2,737 3,584
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £672 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 445 240
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.32 £22.11
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.81 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

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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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +15 11 £345 - 7
Thames Valley +24 8 £197 -58.55% 25
Berkshire +26 6 £500 - 14
Surrey +16 2 £450 -30.77% 11
Buckinghamshire +9 2 £196 -61.67% 6
East Sussex - 2 £638 - 3
Middlesex +6 1 - -
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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 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.17%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) Git
2 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (45.83%) JIRA
4 5 (20.83%) Cucumber
4 5 (20.83%) Subversion
5 3 (12.50%) JUnit
5 3 (12.50%) Mockito
5 3 (12.50%) Selenium
5 3 (12.50%) SpecFlow
6 2 (8.33%) JMeter
6 2 (8.33%) Postman
6 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.17%) DbUnit
7 1 (4.17%) GitLab
7 1 (4.17%) jMock
7 1 (4.17%) Maven
7 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Test Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) REST
2 8 (33.33%) Kafka
3 7 (29.17%) GraphQL
3 7 (29.17%) gRPC
3 7 (29.17%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (20.83%) HTML
4 5 (20.83%) Playwright
5 4 (16.67%) RESTful
5 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
6 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (12.50%) CSS
6 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 3 (12.50%) JSON
6 3 (12.50%) Spring
6 3 (12.50%) Web Services
7 2 (8.33%) Apache Camel
7 2 (8.33%) jQuery
7 2 (8.33%) WireMock
7 2 (8.33%) XML
8 1 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Agile
2 18 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (70.83%) TDD
4 13 (54.17%) Microservices
5 12 (50.00%) Scrum
6 10 (41.67%) Kanban
7 9 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
8 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
8 7 (29.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
9 6 (25.00%) DevOps
9 6 (25.00%) Regression Testing
10 5 (20.83%) Continuous Deployment
10 5 (20.83%) Waterfall
11 4 (16.67%) API Testing
11 4 (16.67%) SDLC
12 3 (12.50%) Manual Testing
12 3 (12.50%) OO
12 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Go
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 6 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Jaspersoft