BDD Job Trends in Merton

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merton requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 -
Permanent jobs citing BDD 2 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 2.27% 4.65% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 4.76% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £81,250 £81,125 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £84,688 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £93,750 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +1.35% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £102,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,375 -
South London median annual salary £76,250 £67,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +12.96% -18.18% -7.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86 42 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 97.73% 97.67% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 48 26 34
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £33,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,380 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -10.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,250 £69,875
90th Percentile £85,375 £74,375 £92,500
South London median annual salary £42,500 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.56% -6.96% +4.55%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Merton

BDD
Salary Trend in Merton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in Merton

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Merton over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for BDD in Merton

BDD
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Merton region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Wimbledon 0 2 £95,000 +1.33%
BDD
South London

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Akka
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RxJava
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes