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 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 471 298 281
Rank change year-on-year -173 -17 -175
Permanent jobs citing BDD 222 821 1,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.95% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.12% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 162 725 755
10th Percentile £51,375 £38,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £60,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -15.49% +9.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +7.69%

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 46,515 73,601 84,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.11% 85.11% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 23,741 53,968 50,109
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,860 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 May 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +11 132 £82,500 - 140
South East -71 46 £70,000 +16.67% 55
North of England -71 30 £65,000 +18.18% 107
North West -69 18 £72,500 +31.82% 90
South West +56 12 £62,500 +11.11% 37
Midlands +7 12 £67,500 +28.57% 34
Yorkshire +25 10 £48,507 -21.10% 11
West Midlands +1 10 £71,250 +35.71% 20
East of England -26 5 £67,500 +12.50% 11
North East +23 2 £65,000 +36.84% 6
East Midlands +4 2 £40,000 -23.81% 13
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 14 (6.31%) Confluence
1 14 (6.31%) JBoss
1 14 (6.31%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (2.25%) CMS
2 5 (2.25%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.35%) nginx
3 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 117 (52.70%) AWS
2 64 (28.83%) Azure
3 45 (20.27%) Serverless
4 30 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (9.46%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (7.21%) GCP
7 16 (7.21%) GitHub
8 14 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (6.31%) Power Platform
9 13 (5.86%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (5.41%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.60%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.15%) AWS KMS
14 6 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.25%) Figma
15 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (22.97%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (15.32%) Relational Database
3 27 (12.16%) MongoDB
4 20 (9.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (7.21%) NoSQL
7 13 (5.86%) RDBMS
8 12 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (5.41%) MySQL
9 10 (4.50%) DynamoDB
10 9 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.05%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.35%) Couchbase
11 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.35%) Power BI
12 2 (0.90%) Cloud Spanner
12 2 (0.90%) OLAP
12 2 (0.90%) OLTP
13 1 (0.45%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 67 (30.18%) Git
2 58 (26.13%) Jenkins
3 39 (17.57%) JUnit
4 23 (10.36%) Mockito
5 21 (9.46%) JIRA
6 19 (8.56%) Cucumber
6 19 (8.56%) JMeter
7 13 (5.86%) Maven
7 13 (5.86%) Selenium
8 10 (4.50%) SonarQube
9 9 (4.05%) Gradle
10 7 (3.15%) DbUnit
10 7 (3.15%) jMock
10 7 (3.15%) Storybook
11 6 (2.70%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.70%) Postman
12 5 (2.25%) Artifactory
12 5 (2.25%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (2.25%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.80%) GitLab
General
1 74 (33.33%) Finance
2 38 (17.12%) Public Sector
3 35 (15.77%) Banking
4 31 (13.96%) Social Skills
5 26 (11.71%) Financial Institution
6 17 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.50%) Tech for Good
8 7 (3.15%) Front Office
9 6 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.25%) Retail
10 5 (2.25%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.90%) Back Office
12 2 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.90%) Games
13 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.45%) Law
13 1 (0.45%) Marketing
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (40.54%) Developer
2 58 (26.13%) Software Engineer
3 48 (21.62%) Java Developer
4 38 (17.12%) Senior
5 33 (14.86%) Java Engineer
5 33 (14.86%) Lead
6 29 (13.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (12.16%) Java Software Engineer
8 22 (9.91%) .NET Developer
9 14 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
10 12 (5.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 11 (4.95%) Application Development Manager
11 11 (4.95%) Applications Development Manager
11 11 (4.95%) Applications Manager
11 11 (4.95%) Development Manager
12 10 (4.50%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Quality Engineer
14 7 (3.15%) JavaScript Developer
14 7 (3.15%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (35.59%) Spring Boot
2 77 (34.68%) Spring
3 64 (28.83%) AngularJS
4 58 (26.13%) REST
5 53 (23.87%) React
6 44 (19.82%) .NET
7 40 (18.02%) RESTful
7 40 (18.02%) Web Services
8 38 (17.12%) Kafka
9 36 (16.22%) Node.js
10 33 (14.86%) HTML
11 28 (12.61%) Apache Camel
12 25 (11.26%) Akka
12 25 (11.26%) SOAP
12 25 (11.26%) Vue
13 23 (10.36%) CSS
14 22 (9.91%) .NET Core
14 22 (9.91%) ASP.NET
15 21 (9.46%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (9.46%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.27%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.76%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.86%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.86%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.95%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.15%) Equities
7 6 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.25%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.80%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.35%) Life Science
11 2 (0.90%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.45%) EMC VMAX
12 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.66%) Linux
2 10 (4.50%) Android
2 10 (4.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (87.84%) Agile
2 177 (79.73%) TDD
3 107 (48.20%) Microservices
4 90 (40.54%) Software Engineering
5 87 (39.19%) CI/CD
6 81 (36.49%) DevOps
7 69 (31.08%) Scrum
8 63 (28.38%) Test Automation
9 60 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 57 (25.68%) Kanban
11 41 (18.47%) Mentoring
12 40 (18.02%) Fintech
13 34 (15.32%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (13.06%) Pair Programming
15 28 (12.61%) MVC
16 26 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (10.36%) Code Quality
18 20 (9.01%) Coaching
18 20 (9.01%) Containerisation
18 20 (9.01%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 125 (56.31%) Java
2 72 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 58 (26.13%) SQL
4 47 (21.17%) TypeScript
5 37 (16.67%) C#
6 34 (15.32%) Python
7 13 (5.86%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.05%) PHP
9 5 (2.25%) Go
10 4 (1.80%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.80%) Objective-C
10 4 (1.80%) Swift
11 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) Ada
12 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) Dart
12 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.91%) Degree
4 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.90%) OCP
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) CSPO
8 1 (0.45%) ISEB
8 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.66%) SLA
2 15 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.76%) QA
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.45%) GRC
4 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 84 (37.84%) Docker
2 4 (1.80%) Postfix
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.46%) Ansible
3 17 (7.66%) Terraform
4 13 (5.86%) Kibana
5 3 (1.35%) Grafana
5 3 (1.35%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.35%) Packer
5 3 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.45%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.86%) Dynatrace
2 13 (5.86%) Google
2 13 (5.86%) Splunk
3 8 (3.60%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.70%) Oracle
5 3 (1.35%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.90%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.45%) Brocade
7 1 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco
7 1 (0.45%) Databricks
7 1 (0.45%) EMC
7 1 (0.45%) HP
7 1 (0.45%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) VMware