BDD Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring BDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing BDD 8 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.56% 2.75% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 2.96% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £446 - £540
25th Percentile £450 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £600
75th Percentile - - £669
90th Percentile £499 - £710
North East median daily rate £460 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 192 169 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 85.33% 92.86% 84.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 80 102
10th Percentile £200 £325 £350
25th Percentile £390 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -10.80% +0.95%
75th Percentile £572 £590 £624
90th Percentile £625 £653 £720
North East median daily rate £465 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -41.89% +48.85% +14.29%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Tyne and Wear

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 7 £460 - 2
BDD
North East

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (37.50%) Mockito
2 3 (37.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Gatling
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) TestRail
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (37.50%) JAX-RS
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Mac OS X
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) TDD
5 3 (37.50%) API Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
5 3 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (37.50%) Web Design
5 3 (37.50%) Web Development
6 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
6 2 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker