BDD Contracts in the South West

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 123 123
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 -30
Contract jobs citing BDD 17 44 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 1.21% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.35% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 45
10th Percentile £481 £400 £400
25th Percentile £513 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £525
90th Percentile £688 £675 £588
England median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +6.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,656 3,250 3,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.03% 89.63% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,696 2,395 2,328
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.30%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
Bristol +26 8 £553 -15.00% 7
Gloucestershire +4 5 £625 +20.48% 4
Devon -4 2 £600 +9.09% 4
Somerset +6 1 £600 +2.13% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Postman
2 5 (29.41%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) NUnit
2 5 (29.41%) Visual Studio
3 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
4 3 (17.65%) Selenium
5 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (17.65%) Tech for Good
2 1 (5.88%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 6 (35.29%) Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Test Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) CRM Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Digital Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
2 5 (29.41%) React
3 4 (23.53%) GraphQL
3 4 (23.53%) Playwright
4 3 (17.65%) CSS
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) Node.js
4 3 (17.65%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) CSS3
5 2 (11.76%) HTML5
5 2 (11.76%) Jest
5 2 (11.76%) React Native
6 1 (5.88%) Spring
6 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) TDD
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
3 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (29.41%) Kanban
5 5 (29.41%) Manual Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
6 4 (23.53%) Load Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Security Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
1 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.88%) SAP