BDD Job Trends in Leicester

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BDD 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.59% - 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 - £55,000
75th Percentile £58,000 - £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,200 £35,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +57.71% -36.36% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 281 176 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 83.14% 94.62% 85.90%
Number of salaries quoted 208 94 220
10th Percentile £29,450 £26,300 £27,425
25th Percentile £40,750 £34,063 £39,087
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £64,148
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,350 £70,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +5.24%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Leicester

BDD
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Delphi
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle