BDD Job Trends in Durham

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BDD 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55,138 - -
25th Percentile £59,245 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - -
75th Percentile £74,533 - -
90th Percentile £74,813 - -
North East median annual salary £53,850 £65,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.15% +36.84% -17.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 229 157 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 71.56% 99.37% 87.59%
Number of salaries quoted 82 46 254
10th Percentile £26,450 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £31,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,093 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% -4.06% +11.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,375 £57,599
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,629 £70,000
North East median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -3.23%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Durham

BDD
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Durham over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for BDD in Durham

BDD
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Durham region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington - 2 £72,539 - 1
BDD
North East

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Locust
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
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 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle