BDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 298 218
Rank change year-on-year +62 -80 -27
Contract jobs citing BDD 98 96 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.46% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.55% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 68 195
10th Percentile £357 £350 £348
25th Percentile £400 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £578
90th Percentile £656 £676 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £600
% change year-on-year - -14.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 15
10th Percentile - - £61.75
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.41% +48.72%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North of England +31 49 £500 - 36
Yorkshire +24 30 £520 -5.50% 8
South East +27 21 £500 -9.09% 44
Midlands +22 12 £481 +13.24% 29
West Midlands +18 12 £481 +6.94% 19
North West +9 11 £426 -14.80% 23
Scotland +12 9 £400 -19.35% 9
North East +2 9 £390 - 5
South West +18 5 £525 -11.02% 16
Wales +5 2 - - 8
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (18.37%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.51%) Azure
2 19 (19.39%) AWS
3 15 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (10.20%) GitHub
5 9 (9.18%) Slack
6 8 (8.16%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (7.14%) AWS KMS
7 7 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (7.14%) Route 53
8 5 (5.10%) GCP
8 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.10%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.10%) SaaS
9 4 (4.08%) IaaS
9 4 (4.08%) PaaS
9 4 (4.08%) Serverless
10 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) HTTP
2 2 (2.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (20.41%) MongoDB
3 15 (15.31%) MySQL
4 13 (13.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (9.18%) NoSQL
6 7 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 6 (6.12%) RDBMS
7 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.02%) Couchbase
11 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.02%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 37 (37.76%) Git
2 32 (32.65%) Cucumber
3 30 (30.61%) JUnit
4 28 (28.57%) JIRA
5 27 (27.55%) Jenkins
6 14 (14.29%) Selenium
7 11 (11.22%) Maven
8 10 (10.20%) Jasmine
8 10 (10.20%) Mockito
9 9 (9.18%) Postman
10 6 (6.12%) SpecFlow
11 5 (5.10%) Cypress.io
11 5 (5.10%) Gradle
11 5 (5.10%) Subversion
12 4 (4.08%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (4.08%) DbUnit
12 4 (4.08%) HP UFT
12 4 (4.08%) IntelliJ
12 4 (4.08%) jMock
12 4 (4.08%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (29.59%) Public Sector
2 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Finance
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Electronics
6 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.10%) Marketing
6 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.04%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Aviation
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (46.94%) Developer
2 28 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 24 (24.49%) Senior
4 17 (17.35%) Senior Developer
5 13 (13.27%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (12.24%) Test Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Lead
8 6 (6.12%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Tester
9 5 (5.10%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.10%) QA Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Scala Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Test Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.61%) Spring Boot
2 25 (25.51%) Spring
3 19 (19.39%) RESTful
4 15 (15.31%) REST
5 14 (14.29%) Playwright
5 14 (14.29%) Spring Batch
6 13 (13.27%) AngularJS
7 12 (12.24%) .NET
8 11 (11.22%) HTML
8 11 (11.22%) Spring Security
9 10 (10.20%) Swagger
10 9 (9.18%) Hibernate
10 9 (9.18%) Kafka
10 9 (9.18%) Web Services
11 8 (8.16%) OpenAPI
11 8 (8.16%) React
11 8 (8.16%) WireMock
12 7 (7.14%) Node.js
13 6 (6.12%) ActiveMQ
13 6 (6.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.12%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.06%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.06%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.06%) iPad
5 3 (3.06%) iPhone
5 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.04%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.02%) Derivative
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.02%) Equities
7 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.35%) Linux
2 12 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.12%) Android
3 6 (6.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.02%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (72.45%) TDD
2 60 (61.22%) Agile
3 55 (56.12%) CI/CD
4 52 (53.06%) Test Automation
5 51 (52.04%) Microservices
6 31 (31.63%) DevOps
7 28 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 27 (27.55%) Scrum
9 23 (23.47%) Continuous Delivery
10 20 (20.41%) Kanban
11 17 (17.35%) Containerisation
11 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (16.33%) Mentoring
13 15 (15.31%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (12.24%) Decision-Making
14 12 (12.24%) Integration Testing
15 11 (11.22%) Code Quality
15 11 (11.22%) OWASP
16 10 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (54.08%) Java
2 37 (37.76%) SQL
3 19 (19.39%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.31%) Bash
5 11 (11.22%) C#
6 10 (10.20%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.14%) Go
7 7 (7.14%) Python
8 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.10%) Scala
8 5 (5.10%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.08%) C++
10 3 (3.06%) Objective-C
10 3 (3.06%) PHP
10 3 (3.06%) Swift
10 3 (3.06%) VBA
10 3 (3.06%) VBScript
11 1 (1.02%) COBOL
11 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Degree
3 6 (6.12%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.08%) ISEB
4 4 (4.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.02%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.37%) QA
2 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (42.86%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (23.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.14%) Kibana
3 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.08%) Grafana
4 4 (4.08%) Terraform
5 2 (2.04%) Ansible
5 2 (2.04%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.04%) Puppet
5 2 (2.04%) vRealize
6 1 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (6.12%) Atlassian
2 5 (5.10%) SAP
3 4 (4.08%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.04%) 3PAR
5 2 (2.04%) Brocade
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco
5 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.04%) EMC
5 2 (2.04%) HP
5 2 (2.04%) Splunk
5 2 (2.04%) VMware
6 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.02%) ESRI
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.02%) New Relic
6 1 (1.02%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.02%) Reuters