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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 17 December 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
17 Dec 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
50 |
49 |
56 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-1 |
+7 |
+14 |
| Contract jobs citing BDD |
4,515 |
4,181 |
3,877 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.30% |
4.07% |
3.81% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
4.96% |
4.74% |
4.46% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
3,357 |
3,314 |
2,992 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£350 |
£325 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£613 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
+6.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
5 |
4 |
16 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£32.50 |
£33.00 |
£45.44 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-1.52% |
-27.37% |
+21.16% |
| 10th Percentile |
£17.45 |
£31.80 |
£31.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£35.00 |
£34.85 |
£48.63 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£33.75 |
£33.00 |
£39.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.27% |
-16.46% |
+5.33% |
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 |
91,056 |
88,128 |
86,878 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.78% |
85.88% |
85.32% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
60,307 |
58,823 |
57,239 |
| UK median daily rate |
£465 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+3.33% |
+5.88% |
+2.41% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£278 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£638 |
£601 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£401 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.12% |
+0.13% |
+3.23% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,332 |
2,060 |
2,454 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£22.50 |
£24.00 |
£22.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-6.25% |
+6.67% |
+2.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.25 |
£11.25 |
£11.09 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.25 |
£49.75 |
£48.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£21.00 |
£25.00 |
£22.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-16.00% |
+11.11% |
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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 17 December 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 |
3,444 (76.28%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
3,390 (75.08%) |
TDD |
| 3 |
2,229 (49.37%) |
Java |
| 4 |
1,614 (35.75%) |
Test Automation |
| 5 |
1,545 (34.22%) |
JavaScript |
| 6 |
1,424 (31.54%) |
Scrum |
| 7 |
1,255 (27.80%) |
Git (software) |
| 8 |
1,240 (27.46%) |
Jenkins |
| 9 |
1,159 (25.67%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 10 |
1,056 (23.39%) |
Microservices |
| 11 |
1,025 (22.70%) |
Spring |
| 12 |
1,009 (22.35%) |
Selenium |
| 13 |
969 (21.46%) |
REST |
| 14 |
924 (20.47%) |
C# |
| 15 |
911 (20.18%) |
HTML |
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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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