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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 84 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 -32 +41
Permanent jobs citing BDD 2 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.20% 0.45% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.56% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £62,875 - £46,000
25th Percentile £63,438 £36,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £42,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.88% -34.62% +13.04%
75th Percentile £68,438 £48,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £68,625 - £79,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.72% +11.20% -10.71%

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 806 1,064 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 82.41% 79.70% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 499 534 430
10th Percentile £25,067 £25,231 £29,725
25th Percentile £28,219 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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
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 17 October 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 +10 2 £66,250 +55.88% 7
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache CXF
2 1 (50.00%) Dropwizard
2 1 (50.00%) Express.js
2 1 (50.00%) hapi
2 1 (50.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (50.00%) LESS
2 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Mongoose
2 1 (50.00%) NestJS
2 1 (50.00%) Nunjucks
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft