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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 166 216
Rank change year-on-year +17 +50 -21
Permanent jobs citing BDD 35 77 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.02% 1.15% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.36% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4 45 22
10th Percentile £48,125 £44,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £70,938 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £72,625 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -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 3,221 5,681 5,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 94.04% 84.54% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 3,876 3,044
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -

BDD
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 17 May 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 17 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
Berkshire 0 33 £63,750 +2.00% 7
Buckinghamshire +29 2 £58,750 +11.90% 3
BDD
South East

BDD
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 14 (40.00%) JBoss
1 14 (40.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (97.14%) AWS
2 27 (77.14%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (77.14%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (77.14%) Serverless
3 18 (51.43%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) Route 53
6 1 (2.86%) Azure
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (91.43%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (77.14%) Relational Database
3 13 (37.14%) RDBMS
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (91.43%) Jenkins
1 32 (91.43%) JUnit
2 20 (57.14%) Git
3 18 (51.43%) Mockito
4 13 (37.14%) JMeter
5 5 (14.29%) DbUnit
5 5 (14.29%) jMock
5 5 (14.29%) Maven
5 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
6 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.86%) JIRA
8 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (91.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (94.29%) Developer
2 32 (91.43%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Developer
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Backend Developer
5 1 (2.86%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (2.86%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (2.86%) C# Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (94.29%) Spring
2 32 (91.43%) REST
2 32 (91.43%) Web Services
3 31 (88.57%) Spring Boot
4 28 (80.00%) Apache Camel
5 21 (60.00%) RESTful
6 19 (54.29%) SOAP
7 18 (51.43%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (51.43%) Hibernate
8 14 (40.00%) J2EE
9 13 (37.14%) HTML
9 13 (37.14%) jQuery
9 13 (37.14%) WireMock
10 6 (17.14%) JSON
10 6 (17.14%) XML
11 5 (14.29%) JPA
11 5 (14.29%) PowerMock
12 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
13 3 (8.57%) Spring Batch
13 3 (8.57%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 31 (88.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Agile
2 34 (97.14%) TDD
3 33 (94.29%) Microservices
4 27 (77.14%) Scrum
5 26 (74.29%) Kanban
6 16 (45.71%) DevOps
7 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
8 14 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (37.14%) Process Management
9 13 (37.14%) Workflow
10 7 (20.00%) Architectural Design
10 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (14.29%) Open Source
12 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
12 3 (8.57%) SDLC
13 2 (5.71%) BPMN
13 2 (5.71%) Decision-Making
13 2 (5.71%) Migration
13 2 (5.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (94.29%) Java
2 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (37.14%) Python
3 13 (37.14%) Shell Script
4 4 (11.43%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (62.86%) SC Cleared
1 22 (62.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (88.57%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 28 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (40.00%) Ansible
3 13 (37.14%) Kibana
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Dynatrace
1 13 (37.14%) Splunk
2 3 (8.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.71%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft