BDD Jobs in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 393 303
Rank change year-on-year -84 -90 -177
Permanent jobs citing BDD 237 537 819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.62% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.75% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 170 437 614
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.07% +6.92%
75th Percentile £98,474 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,498 71,327 70,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 90.09% 82.49% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 25,234 49,508 46,226
10th Percentile £28,267 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,500 £40,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in England

BDD
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Salary trend for BDD in England

BDD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in England

BDD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +62 151 £82,500 +3.13% 88
South East -34 46 £72,500 +16.00% 48
North of England -38 31 £72,500 +20.83% 63
Midlands +52 20 £72,500 +38.10% 30
North West -31 20 £90,000 +63.64% 36
West Midlands +44 17 £72,500 +31.82% 21
South West +57 11 £55,000 - 16
Yorkshire +16 10 £48,507 -25.90% 20
East Midlands +33 3 £57,500 +21.05% 9
North East +23 1 - - 7
East of England -21 1 £55,000 -8.33% 11
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (6.33%) Confluence
2 10 (4.22%) JBoss
2 10 (4.22%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (2.95%) CMS
4 5 (2.11%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.27%) nginx
5 3 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.84%) Drupal
6 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) WordPress
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.84%) Elementor
1 2 (0.84%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.42%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 144 (60.76%) AWS
2 76 (32.07%) Azure
3 47 (19.83%) Serverless
4 35 (14.77%) Amazon ECS
5 33 (13.92%) Amazon EC2
6 30 (12.66%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (8.44%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (8.02%) GCP
9 14 (5.91%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.06%) AWS KMS
11 12 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.64%) Route 53
13 10 (4.22%) GitHub
14 8 (3.38%) Power Platform
14 8 (3.38%) PowerApps
15 7 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.95%) Figma
16 6 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
17 5 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.69%) DNS
1 4 (1.69%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.84%) RFID
3 1 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (24.47%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (15.19%) MongoDB
3 32 (13.50%) Relational Database
4 24 (10.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (10.13%) NoSQL
5 21 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (8.44%) RDBMS
7 18 (7.59%) DynamoDB
8 17 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (6.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.95%) MySQL
11 5 (2.11%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.11%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.69%) OLAP
12 4 (1.69%) OLTP
13 2 (0.84%) Cloud Spanner
13 2 (0.84%) Power BI
14 1 (0.42%) Big Data
14 1 (0.42%) DB2
14 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 71 (29.96%) Git
2 70 (29.54%) Jenkins
3 49 (20.68%) JUnit
4 35 (14.77%) Mockito
5 30 (12.66%) JMeter
6 29 (12.24%) JIRA
7 23 (9.70%) Cucumber
8 19 (8.02%) Maven
8 19 (8.02%) Selenium
9 15 (6.33%) SonarQube
10 12 (5.06%) DbUnit
10 12 (5.06%) jMock
11 11 (4.64%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (3.38%) Gradle
13 7 (2.95%) Postman
14 6 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (2.53%) Bitbucket
14 6 (2.53%) GitLab
14 6 (2.53%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (2.53%) TestNG
General
1 98 (41.35%) Finance
2 46 (19.41%) Public Sector
3 39 (16.46%) Banking
4 28 (11.81%) Financial Institution
4 28 (11.81%) Social Skills
5 18 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.38%) Law
8 7 (2.95%) Front Office
8 7 (2.95%) Retail
9 6 (2.53%) Marketing
9 6 (2.53%) Tech for Good
10 5 (2.11%) Games
11 3 (1.27%) Back Office
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 112 (47.26%) Developer
2 64 (27.00%) Java Developer
3 52 (21.94%) Software Engineer
4 41 (17.30%) Java Engineer
5 38 (16.03%) Lead
6 37 (15.61%) Senior
7 31 (13.08%) Java Software Engineer
8 25 (10.55%) .NET Developer
9 21 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (8.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (7.17%) Senior Java Engineer
12 14 (5.91%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 12 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (4.64%) Lead Developer
14 11 (4.64%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.80%) QA Engineer
15 9 (3.80%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.38%) Quality Engineer
17 7 (2.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (40.93%) Spring
2 96 (40.51%) Spring Boot
3 70 (29.54%) AngularJS
4 63 (26.58%) REST
5 45 (18.99%) HTML
5 45 (18.99%) Web Services
6 43 (18.14%) Kafka
7 41 (17.30%) .NET
7 41 (17.30%) RESTful
8 40 (16.88%) React
9 39 (16.46%) Node.js
10 33 (13.92%) ActiveMQ
10 33 (13.92%) Hibernate
11 30 (12.66%) Apache Camel
12 28 (11.81%) Akka
13 27 (11.39%) .NET Core
13 27 (11.39%) SOAP
14 26 (10.97%) CSS
14 26 (10.97%) Vue
15 24 (10.13%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.68%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (10.97%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.75%) Algorithms
4 14 (5.91%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.06%) Mobile App
5 12 (5.06%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (3.38%) Equities
7 8 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (2.53%) Digital TV
9 6 (2.53%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.11%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.27%) Life Science
12 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.42%) EMC VMAX
13 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.55%) Linux
2 6 (2.53%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (86.92%) Agile
2 184 (77.64%) TDD
3 128 (54.01%) Microservices
4 100 (42.19%) CI/CD
5 85 (35.86%) DevOps
6 84 (35.44%) Software Engineering
7 78 (32.91%) Test Automation
8 73 (30.80%) Scrum
9 67 (28.27%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (27.43%) Kanban
11 42 (17.72%) Fintech
12 36 (15.19%) Mentoring
13 35 (14.77%) Pair Programming
14 31 (13.08%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (11.81%) Multithreading
16 27 (11.39%) Code Quality
16 27 (11.39%) MVC
17 26 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (10.55%) Workflow
19 23 (9.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 146 (61.60%) Java
2 78 (32.91%) JavaScript
3 72 (30.38%) SQL
4 46 (19.41%) Python
4 46 (19.41%) TypeScript
5 40 (16.88%) C#
6 20 (8.44%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.69%) C++
7 4 (1.69%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.69%) PHP
7 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.84%) Go
8 2 (0.84%) Groovy
9 1 (0.42%) Ada
9 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.42%) Dart
9 1 (0.42%) Scala
9 1 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 47 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.06%) AWS Certification
3 12 (5.06%) Degree
4 9 (3.80%) ISTQB
5 6 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.42%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.97%) QA
2 14 (5.91%) SLA
3 10 (4.22%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.69%) GDPR
4 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 98 (41.35%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.69%) Postfix
3 2 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 86 (36.29%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.28%) Terraform
3 20 (8.44%) Ansible
3 20 (8.44%) Kibana
4 5 (2.11%) Grafana
4 5 (2.11%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.11%) Puppet
5 4 (1.69%) Salt
6 3 (1.27%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.27%) Packer
7 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.86%) Splunk
3 20 (8.44%) Dynatrace
4 18 (7.59%) Google
5 12 (5.06%) Oracle
6 11 (4.64%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.69%) Confluent
7 4 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.84%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.84%) Netlify
10 1 (0.42%) Brocade
10 1 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.42%) Databricks
10 1 (0.42%) EMC
10 1 (0.42%) HP
10 1 (0.42%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.42%) Revolut
10 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.42%) VMware