BDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 207 182
Rank change year-on-year -90 -25 -37
Contract jobs citing BDD 96 281 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.18% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.31% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 200 290
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £446 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £614
90th Percentile £676 £689 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 7
10th Percentile - £61.75 £44.00
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +45.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.52
90th Percentile - - £69.98
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +61.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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

BDD
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

BDD
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 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
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

BDD
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 5 May 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
South East -17 30 £550 +10.00% 31
North of England -31 29 £500 -11.19% 25
South West -5 16 £590 +18.00% 17
Yorkshire -10 14 £550 -11.11% 4
North West +5 12 £500 -9.09% 19
Scotland +11 8 £496 +4.42% 4
Midlands +10 8 £425 +13.33% 29
West Midlands +17 7 £450 +10.77% 19
Wales +17 4 £356 -40.63% 6
North East +3 3 - - 2
East of England +9 1 £500 -14.68% 16
East Midlands +7 1 £398 +44.55% 10
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 5 (5.21%) Drupal
2 4 (4.17%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.04%) Appian
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
3 1 (1.04%) JBoss
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) AWS
2 25 (26.04%) Azure
3 12 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (11.46%) Serverless
5 10 (10.42%) GitHub
6 6 (6.25%) BrowserStack
6 6 (6.25%) GCP
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.17%) Datadog
9 3 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.08%) CloudBees
10 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.08%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.08%) IaaS
10 2 (2.08%) PaaS
10 2 (2.08%) SaaS
10 2 (2.08%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (1.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) HTTP
2 3 (3.13%) BGP
2 3 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (3.13%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) NoSQL
1 13 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.50%) MySQL
3 11 (11.46%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.04%) DB2
7 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (32.29%) Jenkins
2 30 (31.25%) Git
2 30 (31.25%) Selenium
3 23 (23.96%) Cucumber
4 16 (16.67%) JIRA
5 12 (12.50%) Cypress.io
6 10 (10.42%) JMeter
6 10 (10.42%) Postman
6 10 (10.42%) WebDriver
7 7 (7.29%) JUnit
8 6 (6.25%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.21%) Bitbucket
9 5 (5.21%) Gatling
9 5 (5.21%) GitLab
9 5 (5.21%) NUnit
9 5 (5.21%) SpecFlow
9 5 (5.21%) Subversion
10 4 (4.17%) Mockito
11 3 (3.13%) Maven
11 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.54%) Finance
2 13 (13.54%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.13%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.08%) Banking
5 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.04%) Electronics
6 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.04%) Law
6 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.04%) Marketing
6 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (34.38%) Developer
2 21 (21.88%) Senior
3 16 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 14 (14.58%) Java Developer
4 14 (14.58%) Software Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Test Automation Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) Senior Test Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Full Stack Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Drupal Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Lead
9 5 (5.21%) Scala Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Tester
10 4 (4.17%) Architect
10 4 (4.17%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.79%) React
2 18 (18.75%) REST
3 17 (17.71%) AngularJS
4 16 (16.67%) RESTful
5 15 (15.63%) Web Services
6 14 (14.58%) .NET
7 13 (13.54%) Spring
8 12 (12.50%) Kafka
9 10 (10.42%) CSS
10 9 (9.38%) GraphQL
10 9 (9.38%) Node.js
10 9 (9.38%) Spring Boot
11 8 (8.33%) HTML
12 7 (7.29%) ActiveMQ
13 6 (6.25%) Playwright
13 6 (6.25%) SOAP
14 5 (5.21%) Gherkin
14 5 (5.21%) Next.js
14 5 (5.21%) Sass
15 4 (4.17%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Linux
2 6 (6.25%) Mac OS X
2 6 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (77.08%) Agile
2 66 (68.75%) TDD
3 48 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 46 (47.92%) CI/CD
5 33 (34.38%) DevOps
6 28 (29.17%) Microservices
7 25 (26.04%) Software Engineering
8 24 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
9 21 (21.88%) Scrum
10 18 (18.75%) Kanban
11 15 (15.63%) SDLC
12 14 (14.58%) Test Strategy
13 13 (13.54%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (11.46%) Manual Testing
14 11 (11.46%) Waterfall
15 10 (10.42%) Mentoring
16 8 (8.33%) Open Source
16 8 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (8.33%) SDET
16 8 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (58.33%) Java
2 39 (40.63%) JavaScript
3 27 (28.13%) SQL
4 19 (19.79%) Python
5 17 (17.71%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.38%) C#
6 9 (9.38%) Scala
7 7 (7.29%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.25%) Bash
8 6 (6.25%) Groovy
9 5 (5.21%) C++
9 5 (5.21%) Go
9 5 (5.21%) PHP
10 4 (4.17%) C
11 3 (3.13%) Perl
11 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 3 (3.13%) Ruby
11 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
12 2 (2.08%) VBA
12 2 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.29%) Degree
4 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.08%) ISEB
6 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 8 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (26.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.54%) Terraform
3 12 (12.50%) Ansible
4 5 (5.21%) Grafana
5 3 (3.13%) Nagios
5 3 (3.13%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.13%) Puppet
6 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.04%) Kibana
7 1 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.17%) New Relic
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle
1 4 (4.17%) Splunk
2 3 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.13%) Cisco
2 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.13%) TOWER Software
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.04%) Confluent
4 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) OpenText
4 1 (1.04%) Pega
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.04%) SAP
4 1 (1.04%) VMware