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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 67 96
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 +10
Permanent jobs citing BDD 12 2 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.75% 0.35% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.38% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 18
10th Percentile £46,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £62,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +36.84% -17.39%
75th Percentile £67,033 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £74,066 - -
England median annual salary £68,403 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year +1.34% +11.57% -16.55%

All Process & 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 1,181 531 1,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 74.04% 93.16% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 813 319 1,228
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,893 £28,175
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +9.09% -12.00%

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 31 March 2026.

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 31 March 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
Tyne and Wear -26 8 £52,130 -19.80% 8
Durham - 4 £70,079 - 1
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 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) dbt
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Datadog
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (41.67%) JMeter
3 4 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (25.00%) Postman
5 2 (16.67%) Appium
5 2 (16.67%) GitLab
5 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (16.67%) Locust
5 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (8.33%) Gatling
6 1 (8.33%) Git
6 1 (8.33%) JUnit
6 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SEO Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Playwright
2 3 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Django
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) Flask
4 1 (8.33%) pytest
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) TDD
4 6 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
5 5 (41.67%) Performance Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Test Management
6 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 4 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Kanban
7 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (25.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) C
5 1 (8.33%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (25.00%) WCAG
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle