BDD Job Trends in London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 270 250
Rank change year-on-year -44 -20 -84
Permanent jobs citing BDD 86 137 271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.45% 1.06% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.10% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 53 93 228
10th Percentile £51,480 £55,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £118,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -17.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,098 12,402 21,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.39% 96.08% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,521 7,547 16,086
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,042
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

BDD job vacancy trend in London

BDD
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for BDD in London

BDD
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
South London -25 5 £70,000 -15.15% 1
Central London -14 4 £70,000 -6.67% 16
BDD
England

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 18 (20.93%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (8.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) SAP CX
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) AWS
2 26 (30.23%) Azure
3 14 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (6.98%) Serverless
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.49%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (3.49%) BrowserStack
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.33%) Datadog
7 2 (2.33%) dbt
7 2 (2.33%) GCP
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub
7 2 (2.33%) PaaS
7 2 (2.33%) SaaS
7 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.95%) SQL Server
3 10 (11.63%) DB2
3 10 (11.63%) MongoDB
3 10 (11.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.16%) Big Data
7 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (32.56%) Selenium
2 26 (30.23%) Cucumber
3 22 (25.58%) JIRA
4 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
5 11 (12.79%) GitLab
5 11 (12.79%) SpecFlow
6 10 (11.63%) Bitbucket
6 10 (11.63%) TeamCity
7 9 (10.47%) Git
7 9 (10.47%) JMeter
8 6 (6.98%) Postman
8 6 (6.98%) WebDriver
9 5 (5.81%) JUnit
10 3 (3.49%) LoadRunner
10 3 (3.49%) SoapUI
11 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.33%) Locust
11 2 (2.33%) Mockito
11 2 (2.33%) webpack
12 1 (1.16%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (55.81%) Finance
2 26 (30.23%) Banking
3 13 (15.12%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.14%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.49%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Developer
2 17 (19.77%) Senior
3 15 (17.44%) Java Engineer
3 15 (17.44%) Lead
4 14 (16.28%) Java Developer
5 13 (15.12%) QA Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Software Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Test Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Development Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Lead Software Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Principal Java Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Scrum Master
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Java Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Software Development Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Agile Java Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.93%) React
1 18 (20.93%) REST
1 18 (20.93%) Spring
1 18 (20.93%) Spring Boot
2 16 (18.60%) Gherkin
3 14 (16.28%) .NET
4 13 (15.12%) HTML
4 13 (15.12%) Kafka
4 13 (15.12%) Node.js
5 12 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (12.79%) CSS
6 11 (12.79%) Playwright
6 11 (12.79%) RESTful
7 9 (10.47%) XML
8 8 (9.30%) JSON
9 5 (5.81%) .NET Framework
9 5 (5.81%) Akka
9 5 (5.81%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (4.65%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Product Ownership
1 16 (18.60%) Public Cloud
2 14 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (15.12%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
5 8 (9.30%) e-Learning
5 8 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.33%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.16%) Digital TV
8 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (65.12%) Agile
2 52 (60.47%) Test Automation
3 46 (53.49%) CI/CD
4 42 (48.84%) TDD
5 34 (39.53%) Microservices
6 28 (32.56%) Software Engineering
7 25 (29.07%) Scrum
8 22 (25.58%) DevOps
8 22 (25.58%) Kanban
9 16 (18.60%) End-to-End Testing
9 16 (18.60%) Integration Testing
10 15 (17.44%) API Testing
10 15 (17.44%) Sprint Planning
11 14 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (16.28%) Functional Testing
11 14 (16.28%) Roadmaps
11 14 (16.28%) SDLC
11 14 (16.28%) Sprint Retrospective
12 13 (15.12%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (15.12%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (65.12%) Java
2 40 (46.51%) SQL
3 23 (26.74%) Python
4 22 (25.58%) JavaScript
5 19 (22.09%) C#
6 11 (12.79%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.49%) RPG
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) Delphi
9 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) AWS Certification
1 8 (9.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) Degree
3 4 (4.65%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.26%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.33%) WCAG
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (25.58%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (25.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.14%) Terraform
3 3 (3.49%) Grafana
4 2 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (1.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Atlassian
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.49%) IBM
3 3 (3.49%) SAP
4 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.16%) Databricks
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.16%) Talend