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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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
49 |
62 |
65 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+13 |
+3 |
+30 |
| Contract jobs citing BDD |
4,293 |
3,230 |
3,327 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.25% |
3.49% |
3.12% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
4.96% |
4.13% |
3.72% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
3,417 |
2,454 |
2,700 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
- |
+11.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£343 |
£325 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£600 |
£600 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£420 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.19% |
+5.00% |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
6 |
14 |
6 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£47.50 |
£45.94 |
£47.25 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.41% |
-2.78% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£40.00 |
£36.10 |
£40.77 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.50 |
£56.35 |
£70.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£47.50 |
£45.87 |
£47.25 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.55% |
-2.92% |
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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 |
86,568 |
78,196 |
89,330 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
85.62% |
84.38% |
83.68% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
57,177 |
51,470 |
58,297 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£438 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£299 |
£270 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£620 |
£606 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£420 |
£400 |
£395 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+1.27% |
+5.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,215 |
2,127 |
2,465 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£22.50 |
£25.00 |
£24.85 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-10.00% |
+0.60% |
+23.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.25 |
£11.39 |
£11.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.25 |
£51.25 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£21.33 |
£25.00 |
£25.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-14.70% |
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+15.93% |
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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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 |
3,453 (80.43%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,376 (78.64%) |
TDD |
| 3 |
1,966 (45.80%) |
Java |
| 4 |
1,548 (36.06%) |
Test Automation |
| 5 |
1,523 (35.48%) |
JavaScript |
| 6 |
1,469 (34.22%) |
Scrum |
| 7 |
1,204 (28.05%) |
Git (software) |
| 8 |
1,173 (27.32%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 9 |
1,124 (26.18%) |
Jenkins |
| 10 |
1,002 (23.34%) |
C# |
| 11 |
913 (21.27%) |
HTML |
| 12 |
907 (21.13%) |
Microservices |
| 13 |
869 (20.24%) |
Selenium |
| 14 |
867 (20.20%) |
CSS |
| 15 |
865 (20.15%) |
.NET |
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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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