Feature Driven Development Contracts

Feature Driven Development (FDD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 506 578 704
Rank change year-on-year +72 +126 +125
Contract jobs citing Feature Driven Development 14 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.009% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.011% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £399 £428 £344
25th Percentile £407 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.90% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £488
90th Percentile £658 £573 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Feature Driven Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Feature Driven Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Feature Driven Development.

Daily rate trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feature Driven Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Feature Driven Development.

Hourly rate trend for Feature Driven Development in the UK

Feature Driven Development
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 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
England +64 9 £585 +1.65% 9
Work from Home +45 5 £400 -5.88% 9
London - 4 £575 - 5
UK excluding London +62 3 £400 -20.00% 4
Scotland +14 3 £400 -5.88%

Feature Driven Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (21.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
3 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
1 6 (42.86%) PowerApps
2 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (21.43%) IaaS
3 3 (21.43%) PaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Selenium
2 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
2 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
2 3 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Postman
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
2 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
2 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Consultant
1 6 (42.86%) Management Consultant
1 6 (42.86%) SAP Consultant
1 6 (42.86%) SAP SD Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) CRM Architect
2 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
1 6 (42.86%) SAP TM
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (21.43%) JSON
2 3 (21.43%) WCF
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
3 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) TDD
3 6 (42.86%) Data Mapping
3 6 (42.86%) User Experience
3 6 (42.86%) User Stories
3 6 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (28.57%) BDD
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) CRM
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) SOA
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 3 (21.43%) V-Model
5 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 3 (21.43%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) VBA
3 3 (21.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 3 (21.43%) ISEB
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Cognizant
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Workday