Feature Driven Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Feature Driven Development (FDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Feature Driven Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Feature Driven Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 395 455
Rank change year-on-year +62 +60 +47
Contract jobs citing Feature Driven Development 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.023% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £428 £349
25th Percentile - £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £550 £488
90th Percentile - £573 -
UK median daily rate £585 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +16.90% +5.26% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Feature Driven Development 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +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% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Feature Driven Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK excluding London

Feature Driven Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK excluding London

Feature Driven Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK excluding London

Feature Driven Development
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 Feature Driven Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Scotland +14 3 £400 -5.88%
Feature Driven Development
UK

Feature Driven Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) ATDD
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) V-Model
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VBA
1 3 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA