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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 214 230
Rank change year-on-year -69 +16 -133
Permanent jobs citing BDD 18 82 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.82% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 1.00% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 16 81 41
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £38,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -8.33% +7.75%
75th Percentile £98,474 £71,991 £71,250
90th Percentile - £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £73,750 £60,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year +22.92% -15.49% +9.23%

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 7,723 8,221 7,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.81% 82.40% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,001 6,231 3,872
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,064
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 £77,500 £80,000 £81,475
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 19 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 19 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 17 £70,000 +16.67% 44
Cheshire -1 1 £75,000 +57.89% 44
BDD
England

BDD
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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.56%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) JMeter
2 2 (11.11%) LoadRunner
2 2 (11.11%) NeoLoad
2 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) Storybook
2 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Lead
3 7 (38.89%) Senior
3 7 (38.89%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) PHP Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) React
2 7 (38.89%) Node.js
2 7 (38.89%) Playwright
2 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
3 5 (27.78%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) .NET
4 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 4 (22.22%) Laravel
4 4 (22.22%) Vue
5 3 (16.67%) RESTful
6 2 (11.11%) CSS
6 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) Jest
6 2 (11.11%) Kafka
6 2 (11.11%) NumPy
6 2 (11.11%) Pandas
6 2 (11.11%) REST
7 1 (5.56%) Flutter
7 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Algorithms
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
1 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) TDD
2 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 14 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
4 10 (55.56%) Code Quality
4 10 (55.56%) Mentoring
5 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (38.89%) Architectural Design
6 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (38.89%) Knowledge Management
6 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (38.89%) Thought Leadership
7 6 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
9 3 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (16.67%) DevOps
10 2 (11.11%) API Testing
10 2 (11.11%) Coaching
10 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (22.22%) PHP
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Dart
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google