BDD Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 226 238 168
Rank change year-on-year +12 -70 -44
Contract jobs citing BDD 78 107 394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.70% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.79% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 84 278
10th Percentile £377 £350 £413
25th Percentile £404 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -12.19% +6.67%
75th Percentile £639 £689 £700
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £600
% change year-on-year - -14.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £63.50
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% +10.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

BDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BDD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BDD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BDD.

BDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BDD over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

BDD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BDD.

BDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 35 (44.87%) Azure
2 22 (28.21%) AWS
2 22 (28.21%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.69%) GitHub
3 6 (7.69%) Slack
4 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.41%) PowerApps
4 5 (6.41%) Serverless
5 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.56%) IaaS
6 2 (2.56%) PaaS
6 2 (2.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.28%) dbt
7 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.28%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 13 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.97%) Redis
4 6 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (7.69%) MySQL
5 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.28%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Cucumber
2 17 (21.79%) JIRA
3 12 (15.38%) Postman
4 11 (14.10%) Git
4 11 (14.10%) Jenkins
4 11 (14.10%) JUnit
5 9 (11.54%) Selenium
6 8 (10.26%) Cypress.io
7 7 (8.97%) NUnit
8 6 (7.69%) Jasmine
9 5 (6.41%) GitLab
10 4 (5.13%) REST Assured
10 4 (5.13%) SpecFlow
11 2 (2.56%) Gatling
11 2 (2.56%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (2.56%) Subversion
11 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
11 2 (2.56%) TestRail
11 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio
11 2 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.92%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.10%) Finance
4 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.26%) Banking
5 8 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.97%) Investment Banking
7 5 (6.41%) Electronics
7 5 (6.41%) Manufacturing
7 5 (6.41%) Marketing
7 5 (6.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Front Office
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (46.15%) Developer
2 21 (26.92%) Lead
3 19 (24.36%) Senior
4 18 (23.08%) Java Developer
5 16 (20.51%) Lead Developer
6 12 (15.38%) Test Engineer
7 11 (14.10%) Senior Developer
8 10 (12.82%) Lead Java Developer
8 10 (12.82%) Tester
9 9 (11.54%) .NET Developer
10 7 (8.97%) Automation Tester
11 6 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (6.41%) Lead .NET Developer
12 5 (6.41%) Senior Test Engineer
13 4 (5.13%) Analyst
13 4 (5.13%) C# Developer
13 4 (5.13%) Java Engineer
13 4 (5.13%) Scala Developer
13 4 (5.13%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (5.13%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) .NET
2 14 (17.95%) RESTful
3 12 (15.38%) Kafka
4 11 (14.10%) .NET Core
4 11 (14.10%) Playwright
5 10 (12.82%) Spring Boot
6 9 (11.54%) Spring
7 7 (8.97%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (7.69%) OpenAPI
8 6 (7.69%) Swagger
9 5 (6.41%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.41%) ASP.NET
9 5 (6.41%) Gherkin
9 5 (6.41%) OAuth
9 5 (6.41%) OpenID
9 5 (6.41%) REST
9 5 (6.41%) Spring Batch
9 5 (6.41%) Spring Security
10 4 (5.13%) Node.js
10 4 (5.13%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.85%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.28%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.26%) Linux
2 6 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (71.79%) Agile
2 54 (69.23%) TDD
3 41 (52.56%) CI/CD
4 39 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 32 (41.03%) DevOps
6 29 (37.18%) Microservices
7 15 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 15 (19.23%) OWASP
8 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.95%) Software Engineering
9 13 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 13 (16.67%) Scrum
10 11 (14.10%) Test Scripting
11 9 (11.54%) API Development
11 9 (11.54%) API Integration
11 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (11.54%) Performance Testing
12 8 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.03%) Java
2 26 (33.33%) SQL
3 18 (23.08%) C#
4 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.97%) Python
5 7 (8.97%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.69%) Bash
7 5 (6.41%) C++
8 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.13%) Scala
9 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.56%) VBA
9 2 (2.56%) VBScript
10 1 (1.28%) Go
10 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
1 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.82%) Degree
3 7 (8.97%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (6.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.56%) ISEB
5 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.28%) MCPD
6 1 (1.28%) MCSD
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.64%) QA
2 11 (14.10%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (32.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.54%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.41%) SAP
3 2 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.28%) Splunk
4 1 (1.28%) TIBCO