BDD Job Trends in the South East

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 247 273
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 -40
Permanent jobs citing BDD 71 44 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.56% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 61 10 63
10th Percentile £38,750 £51,625 £46,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £70,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £88,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,375 £93,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.57% -1.56%

All Process & 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 12,261 7,810 11,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.53% 88.02% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,749 4,182 7,232
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the South East

BDD
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the South East over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for BDD in the South East

BDD
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 16 August 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
Thames Valley -2 29 £82,500 +13.79% 3
Berkshire -3 13 £82,500 +13.79% 2
Hampshire -35 12 £60,000 -25.00% 3
West Sussex -10 9 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Buckinghamshire +1 8 £82,500 +73.68%
Oxfordshire - 8 £58,750 - 1
Surrey -23 7 £67,500 -25.00% 1
Kent - 7 £55,000 - 2
East Sussex - 6 £42,500 - 1
BDD
England

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (70.42%) Azure
2 45 (63.38%) AWS
3 29 (40.85%) GitHub
4 25 (35.21%) GitHub Copilot
5 19 (26.76%) Serverless
6 12 (16.90%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (15.49%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (11.27%) SaaS
10 6 (8.45%) Azure AI
11 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
11 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (53.52%) Azure SQL Database
1 38 (53.52%) MongoDB
2 32 (45.07%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (14.08%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.04%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.82%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.90%) Git
3 10 (14.08%) JMeter
4 9 (12.68%) JUnit
5 8 (11.27%) Postman
6 7 (9.86%) Cucumber
6 7 (9.86%) Mockito
6 7 (9.86%) SpecFlow
7 4 (5.63%) Selenium
8 1 (1.41%) GitLab
8 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.41%) Snyk
8 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.68%) Finance
3 8 (11.27%) Advertising
4 4 (5.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (67.61%) Developer
2 38 (53.52%) .NET Developer
3 11 (15.49%) Lead
4 10 (14.08%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Backend Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Java Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Automation Test Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Quality Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Test Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Graduate
7 3 (4.23%) Graduate Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Graduate Test Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Junior
7 3 (4.23%) Junior Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Junior Automation Test Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Junior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (69.01%) .NET
2 38 (53.52%) .NET Core
2 38 (53.52%) ASP.NET
2 38 (53.52%) ASP.NET Core
3 37 (52.11%) AngularJS
4 33 (46.48%) Node.js
5 25 (35.21%) Vue
6 23 (32.39%) .NET Framework
7 22 (30.99%) React
8 17 (23.94%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (22.54%) Spring
10 15 (21.13%) REST
11 13 (18.31%) HTML
11 13 (18.31%) Spring Boot
12 9 (12.68%) Web Services
13 8 (11.27%) Gherkin
14 7 (9.86%) Apache Camel
14 7 (9.86%) Blazor
14 7 (9.86%) jQuery
14 7 (9.86%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.45%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (91.55%) Agile
2 63 (88.73%) TDD
3 47 (66.20%) Microservices
4 41 (57.75%) Scrum
5 40 (56.34%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (56.34%) Kanban
6 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
7 19 (26.76%) Test Automation
8 17 (23.94%) AI
9 13 (18.31%) Mentoring
10 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.49%) Software Engineering
11 10 (14.08%) DevOps
11 10 (14.08%) Fintech
12 9 (12.68%) API Testing
12 9 (12.68%) Asset Management
12 9 (12.68%) Event-Driven
12 9 (12.68%) Integration Testing
12 9 (12.68%) Wealth Management
13 7 (9.86%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 52 (73.24%) C#
2 45 (63.38%) SQL
3 26 (36.62%) TypeScript
4 21 (29.58%) JavaScript
5 19 (26.76%) Java
6 11 (15.49%) Python
7 8 (11.27%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.63%) C
8 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.82%) Go
10 1 (1.41%) Groovy
10 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
1 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (61.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (52.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (18.31%) Kibana
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
3 5 (7.04%) Terraform
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 43 (60.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.68%) Splunk
3 7 (9.86%) Dynatrace
3 7 (9.86%) Oracle
4 5 (7.04%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.63%) IBM