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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 165 177
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -11
Permanent jobs citing BDD 23 35 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.31% 0.91% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.01% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 10
10th Percentile - £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £86,750 - £80,500
South East median annual salary £58,750 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.97% +11.54% +18.18%

All Process & 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 5,334 3,475 3,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.08% 90.47% 83.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 1,465 1,918
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,520 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.74% -13.60% -

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 5 October 2026.

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 5 October 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
Berkshire -12 10 £75,000 +3.45% 2
Oxfordshire - 8 £58,750 - 3
Buckinghamshire 0 5 £83,750 +76.32%
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 (17.39%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Serverless
3 9 (39.13%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (39.13%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (39.13%) Azure
4 8 (34.78%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (34.78%) GitHub
5 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (17.39%) SaaS
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (39.13%) Relational Database
2 6 (26.09%) RDBMS
3 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 8 (34.78%) JMeter
2 8 (34.78%) JUnit
2 8 (34.78%) Mockito
3 5 (21.74%) Git
3 5 (21.74%) Postman
4 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Lead
3 6 (26.09%) Java Developer
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Java Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Quality Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) .NET
2 10 (43.48%) Spring
3 9 (39.13%) Hibernate
3 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
4 8 (34.78%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (34.78%) AngularJS
4 8 (34.78%) Apache Camel
4 8 (34.78%) HTML
4 8 (34.78%) jQuery
4 8 (34.78%) REST
4 8 (34.78%) WireMock
5 7 (30.43%) JSON
5 7 (30.43%) Web Services
5 7 (30.43%) XML
6 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
6 5 (21.74%) Gherkin
6 5 (21.74%) Node.js
7 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
7 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (17.39%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Agile
1 22 (95.65%) TDD
2 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) Microservices
4 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
4 9 (39.13%) Workflow
5 8 (34.78%) AI
5 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (34.78%) Kanban
5 8 (34.78%) Scrum
5 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) Process Management
7 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
7 6 (26.09%) Integration Testing
7 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
7 6 (26.09%) SDLC
8 5 (21.74%) API Testing
8 5 (21.74%) Biometrics
9 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
9 4 (17.39%) Exploratory Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) C#
2 10 (43.48%) Java
3 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 9 (39.13%) Python
4 8 (34.78%) Shell Script
5 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
6 4 (17.39%) C
6 4 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Dynatrace
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow