BDD Job Trends in Coventry

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +5
Permanent jobs citing BDD 3 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 1.25% 3.72% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 3.83% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - £39,300
25th Percentile £37,500 £82,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% +30.77% +20.68%
75th Percentile £50,250 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £54,900 - £71,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £47,900
% change year-on-year -8.00% +30.48% -15.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 209 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 85.42% 97.21% 98.53%
Number of salaries quoted 100 108 246
10th Percentile £24,750 £33,050 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,813 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,283
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.60% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £63,563
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,150 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BDD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

BDD job vacancy trend in Coventry

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Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing BDD

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Salary Histogram in Coventry

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Coventry over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in Coventry

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Delphi
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle