BDD Jobs in the South East

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 269 187 302
Rank change year-on-year -82 +115 -141
Permanent jobs citing BDD 46 236 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 1.34% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.61% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11 180 70
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £39,124
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
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
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,915 14,700 13,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.05% 83.43% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 10,114 7,701
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,906 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £85,000
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 South East

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD in the South East.

Salary trend for BDD in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for BDD in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the South East 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
Thames Valley +28 36 £71,250 +14.00% 8
Berkshire +9 34 £72,500 +16.00% 3
West Sussex +16 4 £70,000 +21.74% 6
Surrey +29 3 £90,000 +50.00% 3
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £58,750 +11.90% 5
Hampshire +8 2 £55,000 -8.33% 8
BDD
England

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (30.43%) JBoss
1 14 (30.43%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (10.87%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 38 (82.61%) AWS
2 27 (58.70%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (58.70%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (58.70%) Serverless
3 19 (41.30%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (13.04%) AWS KMS
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.87%) Route 53
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Azure
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (80.43%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (58.70%) Relational Database
3 13 (28.26%) RDBMS
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
6 3 (6.52%) MySQL
6 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.35%) Couchbase
7 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (80.43%) Jenkins
2 33 (71.74%) JUnit
3 24 (52.17%) Git
4 19 (41.30%) Mockito
5 13 (28.26%) JMeter
6 7 (15.22%) JIRA
7 6 (13.04%) DbUnit
7 6 (13.04%) jMock
7 6 (13.04%) Maven
7 6 (13.04%) SonarQube
8 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (4.35%) GitLab
9 2 (4.35%) Selenium
9 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.17%) Subversion
10 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (71.74%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (2.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 39 (84.78%) Developer
2 35 (76.09%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Lead
4 6 (13.04%) Lead Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Backend Developer
8 1 (2.17%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.17%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (82.61%) Spring Boot
2 36 (78.26%) Spring
3 34 (73.91%) REST
4 33 (71.74%) Web Services
5 27 (58.70%) Apache Camel
6 23 (50.00%) RESTful
7 20 (43.48%) Hibernate
7 20 (43.48%) SOAP
8 19 (41.30%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (30.43%) J2EE
10 13 (28.26%) HTML
10 13 (28.26%) jQuery
10 13 (28.26%) WireMock
11 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
11 6 (13.04%) JPA
11 6 (13.04%) PowerMock
12 5 (10.87%) Bootstrap
12 5 (10.87%) Spring Batch
12 5 (10.87%) Spring Integration
12 5 (10.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (65.22%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.52%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (95.65%) Agile
2 43 (93.48%) TDD
3 39 (84.78%) Microservices
4 34 (73.91%) Scrum
5 33 (71.74%) Kanban
6 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
7 19 (41.30%) DevOps
8 13 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (28.26%) Process Management
8 13 (28.26%) Workflow
9 9 (19.57%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (17.39%) Architectural Design
11 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
12 6 (13.04%) Open Source
13 5 (10.87%) Test Automation
14 3 (6.52%) Regression Testing
14 3 (6.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 3 (6.52%) SDLC
14 3 (6.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (84.78%) Java
2 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
3 13 (28.26%) Python
3 13 (28.26%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.87%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) Go
6 2 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (54.35%) SC Cleared
1 25 (54.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (30.43%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 40 (86.96%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 14 (30.43%) Ansible
3 13 (28.26%) Kibana
4 3 (6.52%) Terraform
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Dynatrace
1 13 (28.26%) Splunk
2 7 (15.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle