BDD Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 163 167
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing BDD 28 35 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.77% 0.81% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.96% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 14
10th Percentile £46,750 £46,750 £45,525
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.88% +10.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,688 £69,688
90th Percentile - £79,250 £83,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +35.00% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,151 3,642 3,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 84.23% 93.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 1,759 2,183
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,425 £32,075
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,009 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,063 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

BDD
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in the Thames Valley

BDD
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Berkshire -2 27 £65,000 -3.70% 12
Buckinghamshire +2 1 £47,500 - 4
BDD
South East

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.29%) JBoss
1 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (89.29%) AWS
2 23 (82.14%) Amazon ECS
2 23 (82.14%) Amazon EKS
2 23 (82.14%) Serverless
3 21 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
4 2 (7.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (89.29%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (82.14%) Relational Database
3 19 (67.86%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (89.29%) Jenkins
1 25 (89.29%) JUnit
2 21 (75.00%) Mockito
3 19 (67.86%) JMeter
4 6 (21.43%) Git
5 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (7.14%) DbUnit
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) jMock
5 2 (7.14%) Maven
5 2 (7.14%) Selenium
5 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 25 (89.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
1 25 (89.29%) Java Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Full-Stack Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 15 (53.57%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.57%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Automation Tester
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Tester
5 1 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (89.29%) Spring
1 25 (89.29%) Spring Boot
1 25 (89.29%) Web Services
2 23 (82.14%) Apache Camel
2 23 (82.14%) REST
3 21 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
3 21 (75.00%) Hibernate
4 19 (67.86%) HTML
4 19 (67.86%) jQuery
4 19 (67.86%) WireMock
4 19 (67.86%) XML
5 18 (64.29%) JSON
6 6 (21.43%) RESTful
6 6 (21.43%) SOAP
7 4 (14.29%) J2EE
8 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
8 2 (7.14%) JPA
8 2 (7.14%) PowerMock
8 2 (7.14%) Spring Batch
8 2 (7.14%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 23 (82.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Agile
2 27 (96.43%) TDD
3 25 (89.29%) Microservices
4 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
5 19 (67.86%) Process Management
5 19 (67.86%) Workflow
6 18 (64.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (53.57%) SDLC
8 7 (25.00%) Kanban
8 7 (25.00%) Scrum
9 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
10 4 (14.29%) DevOps
10 4 (14.29%) Open Source
11 2 (7.14%) ATDD
11 2 (7.14%) Coaching
11 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
11 2 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (7.14%) Exploratory Testing
11 2 (7.14%) Non-Functional Testing
11 2 (7.14%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) Java
2 19 (67.86%) JavaScript
2 19 (67.86%) Python
2 19 (67.86%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
2 3 (10.71%) QA
3 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (89.29%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (82.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (67.86%) Kibana
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Dynatrace
1 19 (67.86%) Splunk
2 2 (7.14%) Atlassian