BDD Job Trends in the North East

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 90 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 -38 +41
Permanent jobs citing BDD 5 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.46% 0.39% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.49% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £55,440 - £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.07%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £68,438
90th Percentile £71,940 - £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 895 1,021 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.74% 78.96% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 590 496 411
10th Percentile £25,087 £24,980 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £48,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -3.23% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the North East

BDD
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the North East over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in the North East

BDD
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the North East region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Tyne and Wear +12 3 £65,000 - 5
Durham - 2 £62,639 -
BDD
England

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Appium
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Locust
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache CXF
2 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) FreeMarker
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) hapi
2 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (20.00%) LESS
2 1 (20.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SEO
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle