BDD Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 432 328
Rank change year-on-year +9 -104 +3
Permanent jobs citing BDD 210 128 518
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.38% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.43% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 173 72 337
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,231 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £98,126 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,003 29,702 59,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.70% 88.63% 80.26%
Number of salaries quoted 35,156 15,836 41,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £32,951 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,268 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BDD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

BDD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BDD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
South East -17 72 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North of England -3 65 £57,500 -17.86% 21
Midlands -12 37 £70,000 -3.45% 13
North West +12 33 £63,750 -29.17% 13
West Midlands 0 31 £70,000 -3.45% 10
Yorkshire -20 21 £57,500 +18.54% 4
Wales -38 14 £72,500 -3.33% 2
North East -36 11 £52,315 - 4
East of England -3 8 £67,500 +22.73% 4
South West -61 7 £55,625 +1.14% 5
East Midlands -18 6 - - 3
Northern Ireland -61 6 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Scotland +8 3 £75,000 -12.03% 3
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (8.10%) Confluence
2 4 (1.90%) JBoss
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
4 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (57.14%) Azure
2 115 (54.76%) AWS
3 58 (27.62%) GitHub
4 44 (20.95%) GitHub Copilot
5 36 (17.14%) Serverless
6 34 (16.19%) SaaS
7 25 (11.90%) dbt
7 25 (11.90%) PaaS
8 24 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (7.14%) Amazon S3
12 14 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.67%) Azure AI
13 8 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (2.38%) BrowserStack
14 5 (2.38%) Datadog
14 5 (2.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.86%) MQTT
1 6 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
1 6 (2.86%) Wireless
1 6 (2.86%) ZigBee
2 4 (1.90%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.95%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (35.71%) MongoDB
2 65 (30.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (24.76%) Elasticsearch
4 24 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.19%) MySQL
6 13 (6.19%) Relational Database
7 11 (5.24%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.38%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.95%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.48%) Power BI
10 1 (0.48%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 38 (18.10%) Jenkins
2 35 (16.67%) Git
3 26 (12.38%) Cucumber
4 25 (11.90%) JIRA
5 19 (9.05%) JMeter
5 19 (9.05%) Selenium
6 18 (8.57%) GitLab
7 15 (7.14%) Postman
8 14 (6.67%) JUnit
9 9 (4.29%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.81%) SpecFlow
11 7 (3.33%) Bitbucket
11 7 (3.33%) Gatling
11 7 (3.33%) Mockito
11 7 (3.33%) REST Assured
11 7 (3.33%) SonarQube
11 7 (3.33%) Zephyr
12 6 (2.86%) GDB
13 5 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (1.90%) Maven
General
1 37 (17.62%) Finance
1 37 (17.62%) Public Sector
2 18 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.62%) Advertising
4 8 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.33%) Banking
5 7 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.43%) Aviation
7 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (46.19%) Developer
2 66 (31.43%) .NET Developer
3 46 (21.90%) Lead
4 25 (11.90%) Test Leader
5 22 (10.48%) Software Engineer
6 17 (8.10%) Senior
7 16 (7.62%) Java Developer
8 14 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 10 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.29%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (4.29%) Quality Engineer
10 9 (4.29%) Test Engineer
11 8 (3.81%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Software Developer
13 6 (2.86%) Analyst
13 6 (2.86%) Embedded Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) Scrum Master
14 5 (2.38%) Backend Developer
14 5 (2.38%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (37.62%) .NET
2 71 (33.81%) Node.js
3 68 (32.38%) AngularJS
4 65 (30.95%) .NET Core
4 65 (30.95%) ASP.NET
4 65 (30.95%) ASP.NET Core
5 45 (21.43%) React
6 43 (20.48%) Vue
7 37 (17.62%) Spring
8 34 (16.19%) .NET Framework
8 34 (16.19%) Spring Boot
9 29 (13.81%) HTML
10 27 (12.86%) REST
11 25 (11.90%) ASP.NET Web API
12 22 (10.48%) CSS
13 18 (8.57%) Playwright
14 16 (7.62%) Gherkin
14 16 (7.62%) RESTful
15 14 (6.67%) ML.NET
16 11 (5.24%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.38%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.62%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.86%) ARM Cortex
7 6 (2.86%) Device Driver
7 6 (2.86%) IoT
7 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.43%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.48%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.48%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.48%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.29%) Linux
2 3 (1.43%) AIX
2 3 (1.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (78.10%) Agile
2 139 (66.19%) TDD
3 97 (46.19%) Microservices
4 96 (45.71%) Test Automation
5 87 (41.43%) Scrum
6 86 (40.95%) CI/CD
7 80 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 79 (37.62%) Kanban
9 48 (22.86%) DevOps
10 32 (15.24%) Mentoring
10 32 (15.24%) Software Engineering
11 30 (14.29%) AI
12 23 (10.95%) Containerisation
12 23 (10.95%) SDLC
13 22 (10.48%) Coaching
14 19 (9.05%) Computer Science
14 19 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (8.57%) API Testing
15 18 (8.57%) Observability
15 18 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (44.76%) Java
2 91 (43.33%) SQL
3 84 (40.00%) C#
4 65 (30.95%) Python
5 55 (26.19%) JavaScript
6 54 (25.71%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.71%) C
8 8 (3.81%) Bash
8 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.33%) C++
9 7 (3.33%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.86%) Ruby
11 5 (2.38%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.90%) Groovy
13 3 (1.43%) Go
14 1 (0.48%) JCL
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
14 1 (0.48%) PHP
14 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (12.38%) Degree
2 24 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.71%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.81%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.43%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) ISEB
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.33%) QA
2 20 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.29%) WCAG
4 6 (2.86%) GDPR
4 6 (2.86%) JTAG
5 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (39.52%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (32.38%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.57%) Terraform
3 14 (6.67%) Kibana
4 10 (4.76%) Grafana
5 7 (3.33%) Ansible
6 4 (1.90%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.48%) Nagios
7 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.10%) Splunk
3 11 (5.24%) Oracle
4 7 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.86%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.38%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.90%) IBM
7 4 (1.90%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.43%) Pega
9 2 (0.95%) Google
9 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.95%) Veracode
9 2 (0.95%) WSO2
10 1 (0.48%) New Relic
10 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.48%) SAP