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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 234 189
Rank change year-on-year -5 -45 +15
Permanent jobs citing BDD 24 51 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.55% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.61% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 84
10th Percentile £51,250 £28,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -3.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,440 - £92,375
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +15.00% -16.08%

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 8,559 8,368 7,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.49% 90.10% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,765 5,537
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -1.87%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 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
North West +13 12 £65,000 - 21
North East +8 6 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Yorkshire -16 6 £67,500 -8.63% 23
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 5 (20.83%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) JBoss
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) Serverless
4 7 (29.17%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (12.50%) Datadog
7 2 (8.33%) dbt
7 2 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (8.33%) PaaS
7 2 (8.33%) SaaS
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.17%) Apigee
8 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (4.17%) GitHub
8 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (16.67%) JMeter
4 3 (12.50%) GitLab
5 2 (8.33%) Appium
5 2 (8.33%) JIRA
5 2 (8.33%) Locust
5 2 (8.33%) Maven
5 2 (8.33%) Selenium
5 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
6 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.17%) JUnit
6 1 (4.17%) Mockito
6 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (25.00%) Senior
5 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Lead
8 2 (8.33%) Android Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Applications Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Android Developer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Spring
2 11 (45.83%) Spring Boot
3 10 (41.67%) Node.js
4 9 (37.50%) REST
5 8 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (25.00%) React
7 5 (20.83%) Web Services
8 4 (16.67%) Apache Camel
8 4 (16.67%) CSS
8 4 (16.67%) CSS3
8 4 (16.67%) HTML
8 4 (16.67%) HTML5
8 4 (16.67%) OAuth
9 3 (12.50%) Gherkin
9 3 (12.50%) JSON
9 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
10 2 (8.33%) Express.js
10 2 (8.33%) JAX-RS
10 2 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) TDD
2 13 (54.17%) Agile
3 11 (45.83%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) Microservices
4 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
7 6 (25.00%) Kanban
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (25.00%) Scrum
8 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Process Management
9 4 (16.67%) Workflow
10 3 (12.50%) API Design
10 3 (12.50%) API Development
10 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) Java
2 13 (54.17%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) Kotlin
3 5 (20.83%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) Delphi
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
4 1 (4.17%) Nagios
4 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Pega
1 4 (16.67%) WSO2
2 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) New Relic
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk