BDD Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 14 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 142 174
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 -16
Permanent jobs citing BDD 35 66 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.03% 1.57% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.74% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8 39 45
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £50,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,625 £83,750 £86,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +4.17%

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 3,107 3,784 5,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.79% 89.84% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,383 2,439 3,165
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,043 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £76,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for BDD in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for BDD in the Thames Valley

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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 January 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 +13 32 £62,500 -7.41% 3
Buckinghamshire -4 2 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Oxfordshire -9 1 £80,000 +14.29%
BDD
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (28.57%) JBoss
1 10 (28.57%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (82.86%) AWS
2 23 (65.71%) Amazon ECS
2 23 (65.71%) Amazon EKS
2 23 (65.71%) Serverless
3 17 (48.57%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (65.71%) Relational Database
3 12 (34.29%) RDBMS
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (88.57%) JUnit
2 28 (80.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (48.57%) Mockito
4 16 (45.71%) Git
5 12 (34.29%) JMeter
6 5 (14.29%) DbUnit
6 5 (14.29%) jMock
6 5 (14.29%) Maven
6 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
7 4 (11.43%) Cucumber
7 4 (11.43%) REST Assured
7 4 (11.43%) Selenium
7 4 (11.43%) TestNG
7 4 (11.43%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (77.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (85.71%) Developer
2 28 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Automation Tester
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Tester
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Junior Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Junior Java Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (88.57%) REST
2 28 (80.00%) Spring
2 28 (80.00%) Web Services
3 24 (68.57%) Apache Camel
4 23 (65.71%) Spring Boot
5 18 (51.43%) Hibernate
5 18 (51.43%) RESTful
6 17 (48.57%) ActiveMQ
7 16 (45.71%) WireMock
8 15 (42.86%) SOAP
9 12 (34.29%) HTML
9 12 (34.29%) jQuery
10 7 (20.00%) J2EE
11 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
11 5 (14.29%) JPA
11 5 (14.29%) JSON
11 5 (14.29%) PowerMock
11 5 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
11 5 (14.29%) XML
12 4 (11.43%) Guava
Miscellaneous
1 28 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (88.57%) TDD
2 30 (85.71%) Agile
3 27 (77.14%) Microservices
4 26 (74.29%) Scrum
5 24 (68.57%) Kanban
6 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
7 14 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (37.14%) Process Management
8 13 (37.14%) SDLC
8 13 (37.14%) Workflow
9 11 (31.43%) DevOps
10 9 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (22.86%) Architectural Design
11 8 (22.86%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (14.29%) Biometrics
12 5 (14.29%) BPMN
12 5 (14.29%) Migration
12 5 (14.29%) Open Source
13 4 (11.43%) Continuous Deployment
13 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (94.29%) Java
2 19 (54.29%) JavaScript
3 13 (37.14%) Python
3 13 (37.14%) Shell Script
4 6 (17.14%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (77.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (77.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (34.29%) Kibana
3 11 (31.43%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Splunk
2 11 (31.43%) Dynatrace
3 4 (11.43%) WSO2