BDD Contracts in Yorkshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 62 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing BDD 30 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.95% 0.83% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 0.96% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 20
10th Percentile £388 £400 £500
25th Percentile £441 £425 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £585 £664
90th Percentile £775 £635 £689
England median daily rate £525 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +4.35%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% -3.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +24 20 £500 - 4
South Yorkshire +15 10 £522 -16.42% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 11 (36.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) GitHub
1 7 (23.33%) Slack
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) Apigee
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) npm
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) MongoDB
1 13 (43.33%) MySQL
2 10 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Git
2 12 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 12 (40.00%) JIRA
2 12 (40.00%) JUnit
3 8 (26.67%) Jasmine
4 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (20.00%) Selenium
6 4 (13.33%) Gradle
6 4 (13.33%) HP UFT
6 4 (13.33%) IntelliJ
6 4 (13.33%) Maven
7 2 (6.67%) TestNG
8 1 (3.33%) Babel
8 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) Java Developer
3 10 (33.33%) Senior
4 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
5 8 (26.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (16.67%) Lead
7 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
7 4 (13.33%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Java Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (10.00%) React Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Scala Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) Test Manager
9 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Lead Java Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 13 (43.33%) Spring
3 9 (30.00%) RESTful
3 9 (30.00%) Spring Security
4 8 (26.67%) Spring Batch
4 8 (26.67%) Swagger
5 6 (20.00%) OpenAPI
6 5 (16.67%) Node.js
7 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (13.33%) Jest
7 4 (13.33%) React
8 3 (10.00%) .NET
8 3 (10.00%) Akka
8 3 (10.00%) Laravel
8 3 (10.00%) Play Framework
8 3 (10.00%) React Native
8 3 (10.00%) Vue
8 3 (10.00%) WPF
9 2 (6.67%) pytest
9 2 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
1 10 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) TDD
2 18 (60.00%) Microservices
3 16 (53.33%) Software Engineering
4 15 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 14 (46.67%) Test Automation
6 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
7 12 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 9 (30.00%) Agile
9 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
10 8 (26.67%) Coaching
11 7 (23.33%) API Design
11 7 (23.33%) Code Quality
11 7 (23.33%) DevOps
11 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (23.33%) Kernel Tuning
11 7 (23.33%) OWASP
12 6 (20.00%) Operational Stability
13 5 (16.67%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Java
2 12 (40.00%) Bash
3 10 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) PHP
5 3 (10.00%) Python
5 3 (10.00%) Scala
6 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Kibana
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.67%) Puppet
3 2 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) 3PAR
1 2 (6.67%) Brocade
1 2 (6.67%) Cisco
1 2 (6.67%) EMC
1 2 (6.67%) HP
1 2 (6.67%) VMware