BDD Jobs in the South West

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 234 218
Rank change year-on-year +70 -16 -95
Permanent jobs citing BDD 11 59 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.31% 0.64% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.76% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 54 31
10th Percentile £40,800 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,063 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £65,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £75,304 £72,433 £83,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +20.83% -17.24% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,324 7,721 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.29% 83.42% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 5,559 3,544
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the South West

BDD
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for BDD in the South West

BDD
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in the South West

BDD
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol +33 5 £71,991 +19.99% 8
Gloucestershire +64 4 - - 8
Devon +8 1 £55,000 +15.79% 7
Dorset - 1 £62,500 - 4
BDD
England

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) git-flow
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Test Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Automation Test Lead
3 4 (36.36%) Lead Test Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) SaaS Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LAMP
1 3 (27.27%) Laravel
1 3 (27.27%) React
1 3 (27.27%) React Native
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
4 4 (36.36%) Fintech
4 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
4 4 (36.36%) SOLID
4 4 (36.36%) System Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Adaptive Web Design
5 1 (9.09%) ArchiMate
5 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) PHP
4 2 (18.18%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) ISEB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft