BDD Contracts in West Yorkshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD 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 42 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing BDD 20 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.65% 1.10% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 1.26% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 18
10th Percentile £400 £400 £500
25th Percentile £431 £431 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year - -10.11% +1.14%
75th Percentile £775 £576 £658
90th Percentile £779 £589 £691
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -5.50% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £66.25

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

BDD 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for BDD in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +14 20 £500 +11.11% 9
BDD
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Slack
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Apigee
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) npm
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) MongoDB
1 13 (65.00%) MySQL
2 10 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 8 (40.00%) Git
1 8 (40.00%) Jasmine
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Babel
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
3 9 (45.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) React Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Scala Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Scala Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior SQL Developer
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Spring
1 10 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (45.00%) Spring Security
3 8 (40.00%) RESTful
3 8 (40.00%) Spring Batch
3 8 (40.00%) Swagger
4 6 (30.00%) OpenAPI
5 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (20.00%) React
6 3 (15.00%) .NET
6 3 (15.00%) Akka
6 3 (15.00%) Laravel
6 3 (15.00%) Play Framework
6 3 (15.00%) React Native
6 3 (15.00%) Vue
6 3 (15.00%) WPF
7 1 (5.00%) HTML
7 1 (5.00%) JSON
7 1 (5.00%) JWT
7 1 (5.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (15.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
1 10 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Android
2 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) TDD
2 15 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 14 (70.00%) Microservices
4 12 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (55.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
8 8 (40.00%) Coaching
8 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (35.00%) API Design
9 7 (35.00%) Kernel Tuning
9 7 (35.00%) OWASP
10 6 (30.00%) Operational Stability
11 5 (25.00%) Agile
11 5 (25.00%) High Availability
11 5 (25.00%) Integration Testing
12 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 10 (50.00%) Bash
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) Scala
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform