BDD Contracts in the South West

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 120 133
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing BDD 13 23 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.67% 0.83% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.00% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 19
10th Percentile £360 £483 £373
25th Percentile £379 £513 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +12.38% -10.64%
75th Percentile £506 £600 £650
90th Percentile £531 - £675
England median daily rate £515 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -4.63% -10.00% +2.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,736 2,301 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.81% 83.22% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,470 2,050
10th Percentile £213 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.51% +2.57%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 251 256
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.51 £39.57 £44.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +19.58%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £76.37
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.58
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +53.76%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BDD

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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 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BDD

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DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +2 8 £390 -32.76% 9
Devon +6 4 £519 -13.54% 4
Wiltshire +21 1 £475 - 3
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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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (23.08%) Electronics
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
1 3 (23.08%) Marketing
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Lead
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Developer
4 3 (23.08%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) C# Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead C# Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior C# Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
6 1 (7.69%) Digital Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
1 5 (38.46%) ARM Templates
1 5 (38.46%) Node.js
1 5 (38.46%) React
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) TypeORM
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) TDD
2 9 (69.23%) SOLID
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) OO
4 7 (53.85%) Microservices
5 6 (46.15%) Clean Code
6 5 (38.46%) DevOps
7 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 4 (30.77%) OOP
7 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
8 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (23.08%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (23.08%) OWASP
8 3 (23.08%) Pair Programming
8 3 (23.08%) Programme Management
8 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
8 3 (23.08%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) ESRI
2 1 (7.69%) Rapid7