BDD Job Trends in the North of England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 274 271
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 -42
Permanent jobs citing BDD 52 25 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.27% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.31% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 34 20 47
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,231 £40,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £59,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +7.69% +14.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,868 £71,991
90th Percentile - £100,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.75% +0.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,157 8,159 11,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.43% 87.65% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,118 4,089 6,713
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the North of England

BDD
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for BDD in the North of England

BDD
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
North West -5 30 £60,000 -20.00% 22
Yorkshire -34 14 £57,500 -2.96% 10
North East -55 8 £52,500 -22.22% 5
BDD
England

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (15.38%) Confluence
2 4 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (3.85%) CMS
3 2 (3.85%) JBoss
3 2 (3.85%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) nginx
4 1 (1.92%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 28 (53.85%) AWS
2 27 (51.92%) Azure
3 14 (26.92%) GitHub
4 10 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (19.23%) Serverless
5 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (15.38%) Azure AI
5 8 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (13.46%) Amazon S3
7 6 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (9.62%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (9.62%) dbt
8 5 (9.62%) PaaS
8 5 (9.62%) SaaS
9 4 (7.69%) npm
10 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.85%) Datadog
11 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 13 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 5 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.77%) MySQL
6 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (30.77%) JIRA
2 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) Bitbucket
3 6 (11.54%) Git
3 6 (11.54%) Maven
4 5 (9.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (7.69%) GitLab
5 4 (7.69%) REST Assured
5 4 (7.69%) Storybook
6 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.77%) Postman
7 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.85%) JMeter
7 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.92%) Gatling
8 1 (1.92%) Locust
8 1 (1.92%) Selenium
8 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Advertising
3 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Publishing
6 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.92%) Games
8 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (46.15%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Lead
5 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Test Leader
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Angular Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Scrum Master
7 3 (5.77%) Senior UI Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Software Tester
7 3 (5.77%) Tester
7 3 (5.77%) UI Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (36.54%) AngularJS
2 18 (34.62%) Node.js
3 13 (25.00%) .NET
3 13 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 13 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 13 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 13 (25.00%) CSS
3 13 (25.00%) HTML
3 13 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 12 (23.08%) Spring
5 9 (17.31%) React
6 8 (15.38%) ML.NET
7 6 (11.54%) Gherkin
7 6 (11.54%) REST
7 6 (11.54%) Terraform
8 5 (9.62%) .NET Framework
8 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (9.62%) Entity Framework
8 5 (9.62%) Vue
8 5 (9.62%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (3.85%) Online Gambling
4 2 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) Smart Home
5 1 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (76.92%) Agile
2 35 (67.31%) TDD
3 29 (55.77%) CI/CD
4 21 (40.38%) Test Automation
5 20 (38.46%) Scrum
6 18 (34.62%) Kanban
7 16 (30.77%) AI
7 16 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (26.92%) Microservices
9 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (23.08%) DevOps
10 12 (23.08%) SDLC
11 10 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (17.31%) Design Patterns
12 9 (17.31%) Information Security
12 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
12 9 (17.31%) Sprint Retrospective
13 8 (15.38%) OO
13 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering
13 8 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (51.92%) Java
2 24 (46.15%) SQL
3 18 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 15 (28.85%) Python
5 13 (25.00%) C#
6 11 (21.15%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.85%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.92%) Bash
9 1 (1.92%) C
9 1 (1.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) AWS Certification
1 6 (11.54%) Degree
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (9.62%) Master's Degree
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.54%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) WCAG
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Kibana
3 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.92%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Splunk
3 4 (7.69%) Adobe
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.85%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.85%) IBM
5 2 (3.85%) Pega
5 2 (3.85%) WSO2
6 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.92%) New Relic
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.92%) YouTube