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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 92 79
Rank change year-on-year +26 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing BDD 26 13 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.50% 0.78% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 0.91% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 25
10th Percentile £385 £400 -
25th Percentile £413 £438 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £700
90th Percentile £556 £636 -
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +8.30%
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% +10.62%

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 959 1,427 2,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.12% 85.86% 90.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 860 1,336
10th Percentile £263 £275 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.97%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 66 63
10th Percentile £14.86 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.27 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.35%
75th Percentile £22.14 £22.00 £20.97
90th Percentile £34.24 £53.75 £55.23
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

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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 19 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 19 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 +15 16 £500 -9.09% 6
South Yorkshire +16 10 £522 -16.42% 1
BDD
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 6 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) GitHub
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (7.69%) Slack
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) Apigee
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.85%) npm
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 5 (19.23%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 9 (34.62%) Cucumber
2 9 (34.62%) Git
2 9 (34.62%) Selenium
3 8 (30.77%) JUnit
4 6 (23.08%) JIRA
4 6 (23.08%) Maven
5 5 (19.23%) TestNG
6 4 (15.38%) Gradle
6 4 (15.38%) HP UFT
6 4 (15.38%) IntelliJ
7 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
7 3 (11.54%) GitLab
7 3 (11.54%) JMeter
7 3 (11.54%) Postman
7 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
8 2 (7.69%) Jasmine
9 1 (3.85%) Babel
9 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Test Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Lead Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Scala Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Test Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) React Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Tester
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
2 6 (23.08%) Spring
3 5 (19.23%) Node.js
4 4 (15.38%) Jest
4 4 (15.38%) pytest
5 3 (11.54%) Akka
5 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.54%) Play Framework
5 3 (11.54%) Playwright
5 3 (11.54%) React
5 3 (11.54%) RESTful
5 3 (11.54%) Spring Batch
5 3 (11.54%) Spring Security
5 3 (11.54%) Swagger
6 2 (7.69%) .NET
6 2 (7.69%) Laravel
6 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
6 2 (7.69%) REST
6 2 (7.69%) Vue
6 2 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (7.69%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Android
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) TDD
2 14 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (42.31%) Agile
4 11 (42.31%) Microservices
5 8 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (26.92%) Code Quality
6 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (26.92%) DevOps
6 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (23.08%) Test Strategy
8 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (19.23%) Non-Functional Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Analytics
9 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (15.38%) Data Privacy
9 4 (15.38%) Document Management
9 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Scala
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kibana
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.69%) Puppet
2 2 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) 3PAR
1 2 (7.69%) Brocade
1 2 (7.69%) Cisco
1 2 (7.69%) EMC
1 2 (7.69%) HP
1 2 (7.69%) VMware