BDD Job Trends in Croydon

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +23
Permanent jobs citing BDD 15 29 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 12.93% 18.01% 20.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% 18.71% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £53,910 £60,625 £66,250
25th Percentile £56,175 £61,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,600 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -16.13% -13.89%
75th Percentile £68,875 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £71,050 - -
South London median annual salary £76,250 £67,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +12.96% -18.18% -7.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 155 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 81.90% 96.27% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 36 32 95
10th Percentile £28,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £32,688 £32,000 £47,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £53,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.57% -14.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £40,894 £65,272 £78,750
90th Percentile £62,736 £68,750 £83,750
South London median annual salary £42,625 £53,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year -20.70% -7.33% +5.45%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Croydon

BDD
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Croydon over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in Croydon

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon ECS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (93.33%) Serverless
3 13 (86.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (86.67%) RDBMS
2 13 (86.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (93.33%) JUnit
3 13 (86.67%) JMeter
3 13 (86.67%) Mockito
4 2 (13.33%) Git
5 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) GitLab
5 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 13 (86.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (93.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (93.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 14 (93.33%) Java Developer
3 13 (86.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) Spring
1 15 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 14 (93.33%) JSON
2 14 (93.33%) REST
2 14 (93.33%) Web Services
2 14 (93.33%) XML
3 13 (86.67%) ActiveMQ
3 13 (86.67%) Apache Camel
3 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
3 13 (86.67%) HTML
3 13 (86.67%) jQuery
3 13 (86.67%) WireMock
4 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Django
5 1 (6.67%) Flask
5 1 (6.67%) Mustache
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) pytest
5 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (93.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (100.00%) Microservices
1 15 (100.00%) TDD
2 14 (93.33%) Agile
2 14 (93.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (86.67%) Process Management
3 13 (86.67%) SDLC
3 13 (86.67%) Workflow
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) API Development
5 1 (6.67%) API Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (6.67%) Kanban
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum
5 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (6.67%) SEO
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (93.33%) JavaScript
2 14 (93.33%) Python
3 13 (86.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (86.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Dynatrace
1 13 (86.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle