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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 October 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) UK |
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6 months to
22 Oct 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
51 |
54 |
60 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+3 |
+6 |
+14 |
| Contract jobs citing BDD |
4,380 |
3,674 |
3,791 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.24% |
3.70% |
3.60% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
4.92% |
4.31% |
4.22% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
3,257 |
2,826 |
2,967 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£460 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+3.26% |
+8.24% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£345 |
£325 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£613 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£438 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
-2.86% |
+16.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
9 |
10 |
14 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£32.50 |
£41.25 |
£45.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-21.21% |
-8.33% |
+20.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£18.65 |
£31.50 |
£31.40 |
| 90th Percentile |
£48.00 |
£58.00 |
£49.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£41.25 |
£36.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-15.15% |
+14.58% |
-4.00% |
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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
| All Process and Methodology Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills |
89,046 |
85,202 |
89,754 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.22% |
85.74% |
85.14% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
58,741 |
56,485 |
59,254 |
| UK median daily rate |
£454 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+0.89% |
+5.88% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£280 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
- |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,410 |
2,040 |
2,437 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£21.00 |
£24.93 |
£22.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-15.75% |
+10.78% |
+3.97% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.18 |
£11.25 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£50.00 |
£48.43 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£20.50 |
£25.00 |
£22.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-18.00% |
+11.11% |
+3.07% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing BDD as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing BDD.
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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing BDD over the 6 months to 22 October 2018.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing BDD over the 6 months to 22 October 2018.
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Top 16 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 22 October 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 22 October 2018, IT contractor jobs citing BDD also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for BDD.
| 1 |
3,370 (76.94%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,316 (75.71%) |
TDD |
| 3 |
2,215 (50.57%) |
Java |
| 4 |
1,514 (34.57%) |
Test Automation |
| 5 |
1,441 (32.90%) |
Scrum |
| 6 |
1,416 (32.33%) |
JavaScript |
| 7 |
1,183 (27.01%) |
Git (software) |
| 8 |
1,158 (26.44%) |
Jenkins |
| 9 |
1,094 (24.98%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 10 |
1,002 (22.88%) |
Microservices |
| 11 |
980 (22.37%) |
Spring |
| 12 |
950 (21.69%) |
Selenium |
| 13 |
896 (20.46%) |
C# |
| 14 |
888 (20.27%) |
Cucumber |
| 15 |
873 (19.93%) |
REST |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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