BDD Jobs in the North West

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 205 225
Rank change year-on-year -67 +20 -117
Permanent jobs citing BDD 17 86 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.83% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 1.02% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 14 83 40
10th Percentile £56,125 - -
25th Percentile £61,563 £38,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £98,474 £71,991 £72,438
90th Percentile - £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £73,750 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.92% -14.29% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,516 8,426 7,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 80.99% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 6,336 3,833
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD in the North West.

Salary trend for BDD in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Manchester +20 16 £90,000 +50.00% 34
Cheshire -1 1 £75,000 +57.89% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.88%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Spanner
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
2 2 (11.76%) LoadRunner
2 2 (11.76%) NeoLoad
2 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) Storybook
2 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.88%) NUnit
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Lead
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) QA Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Android Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) React
2 7 (41.18%) Node.js
2 7 (41.18%) Playwright
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) RESTful
3 5 (29.41%) Spring
4 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
4 3 (17.65%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) .NET
5 2 (11.76%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) HTML
5 2 (11.76%) Jest
5 2 (11.76%) JSON
5 2 (11.76%) Kafka
5 2 (11.76%) NumPy
5 2 (11.76%) Pandas
6 1 (5.88%) Flutter
6 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Algorithms
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) TDD
2 12 (70.59%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Code Quality
3 11 (64.71%) Test Automation
4 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
4 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
5 9 (52.94%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (41.18%) Architectural Design
6 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (41.18%) Knowledge Management
6 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (41.18%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (41.18%) Thought Leadership
7 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
7 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (17.65%) DevOps
9 2 (11.76%) API Testing
9 2 (11.76%) Coaching
9 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Dart
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google