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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 164 177
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing BDD 19 18 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.53% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.50% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 15
10th Percentile £198 £236 £500
25th Percentile £260 £301 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £360 £565
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -36.28% +17.71%
75th Percentile £450 £494 £628
90th Percentile £540 £595 £753
England median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.05% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.50
England median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +13.03%

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 3,207 3,588 4,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.71% 84.19% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,014 2,170 3,311
10th Percentile £218 £262 £231
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 181 262
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.48% +8.97% +50.87%
75th Percentile £38.42 £70.00 £66.39
90th Percentile £69.29 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

BDD
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

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the South East over the 6 months to 19 October 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 19 October 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 0 8 £283 +33.06% 7
Thames Valley +1 6 £199 -41.91% 15
Berkshire +11 3 £500 +17.65% 8
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £197 - 2
Hampshire +12 2 £550 - 12
Middlesex - 2 £635 -
Surrey +9 1 £450 -28.00% 9
BDD
England

BDD
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Git
1 12 (63.16%) Jenkins
2 10 (52.63%) JIRA
3 7 (36.84%) Subversion
4 6 (31.58%) Selenium
5 4 (21.05%) SpecFlow
6 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
7 2 (10.53%) HP UFT
7 2 (10.53%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (10.53%) Maven
8 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (5.26%) DbUnit
8 1 (5.26%) Gradle
8 1 (5.26%) JUnit
8 1 (5.26%) Mockito
8 1 (5.26%) MSTest
8 1 (5.26%) NUnit
8 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) REST
2 9 (47.37%) Kafka
3 8 (42.11%) GraphQL
3 8 (42.11%) gRPC
3 8 (42.11%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (26.32%) Playwright
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.26%) JPA
6 1 (5.26%) JSON
6 1 (5.26%) SOAP
6 1 (5.26%) Spring
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Batch
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Integration
6 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) IoT
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
2 15 (78.95%) Agile
2 15 (78.95%) TDD
3 12 (63.16%) Scrum
4 10 (52.63%) Microservices
4 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
5 9 (47.37%) Kanban
5 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
5 9 (47.37%) Waterfall
6 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (42.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (36.84%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (36.84%) Regression Testing
8 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
9 5 (26.32%) DevOps
10 4 (21.05%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
11 3 (15.79%) API Testing
11 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Go
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) C#
4 4 (21.05%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Jaspersoft