BDD Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 337 154
Rank change year-on-year +66 -183 -16
Permanent jobs citing BDD 742 545 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 0.90% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.95% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 556 340 933
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,227 £37,885
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +12.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £71,991 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +128 241 £60,000 +4.35% 29
North of England +13 146 £57,500 -5.74% 30
Scotland -5 128 £60,000 -11.29% 8
North West +12 80 £55,000 -8.33% 21
Midlands -1 75 £52,500 -12.50% 28
East of England +37 70 £60,000 -17.24% 16
South West -18 60 £56,250 -10.36% 24
West Midlands -10 53 £52,500 -19.23% 19
Yorkshire +36 46 £65,465 +3.91% 7
East Midlands +5 22 £52,500 -12.50% 9
North East +7 20 £47,500 -19.15% 2
Wales +21 17 £45,000 -6.25% 4
Northern Ireland +8 5 £57,500 +35.29% 1
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (4.72%) OpenStack
2 14 (1.89%) Apache
3 12 (1.62%) JBoss
4 10 (1.35%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (1.21%) Confluence
6 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.13%) DNN
8 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.13%) Immediacy CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Kentico
8 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 468 (63.07%) Azure
2 412 (55.53%) AWS
3 55 (7.41%) Serverless
4 46 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
4 46 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (4.18%) GCP
6 27 (3.64%) BlazeMeter
7 22 (2.96%) GitHub
8 18 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.08%) SaaS
10 8 (1.08%) Slack
11 6 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.54%) BrowserStack
13 4 (0.54%) IBM Cloud
14 2 (0.27%) Datadog
14 2 (0.27%) Entra ID
14 2 (0.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 54 (7.28%) Internet
2 20 (2.70%) DNS
3 18 (2.43%) Firewall
4 16 (2.16%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.67%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.67%) RS-232
6 5 (0.67%) RS-485
6 5 (0.67%) VoIP
6 5 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.67%) Wireless
6 5 (0.67%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (47.04%) SQL Server
2 230 (31.00%) MongoDB
3 190 (25.61%) Elasticsearch
4 146 (19.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 79 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
6 72 (9.70%) NoSQL
7 44 (5.93%) Relational Database
8 30 (4.04%) MySQL
9 9 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.08%) Big Data
10 8 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.40%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.27%) Redis
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.13%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.13%) Event Store
13 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.13%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 110 (14.82%) Selenium
2 101 (13.61%) Jenkins
3 100 (13.48%) JUnit
4 98 (13.21%) Git
5 83 (11.19%) Cypress.io
6 75 (10.11%) WebDriver
7 67 (9.03%) Cucumber
8 61 (8.22%) Jasmine
9 60 (8.09%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (8.09%) Protractor
10 38 (5.12%) JMeter
11 35 (4.72%) JIRA
12 26 (3.50%) Maven
13 16 (2.16%) REST Assured
13 16 (2.16%) SpecFlow
14 15 (2.02%) GitLab
15 12 (1.62%) Postman
15 12 (1.62%) TestNG
16 10 (1.35%) TeamCity
17 9 (1.21%) Gradle
General
1 199 (26.82%) Finance
2 115 (15.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 110 (14.82%) Banking
4 99 (13.34%) Law
5 74 (9.97%) Marketing
6 70 (9.43%) Investment Banking
6 70 (9.43%) Public Sector
7 69 (9.30%) Social Skills
8 42 (5.66%) Advertising
9 39 (5.26%) Retail
10 30 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.77%) Games
12 17 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.94%) Legal
14 5 (0.67%) Electronics
14 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.40%) Aviation
17 2 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 440 (59.30%) Developer
2 344 (46.36%) .NET Developer
3 163 (21.97%) Software Engineer
4 135 (18.19%) Java Engineer
5 127 (17.12%) Java Software Engineer
6 109 (14.69%) C# Developer
7 105 (14.15%) C# .NET Developer
8 76 (10.24%) Senior
9 63 (8.49%) Java Developer
10 54 (7.28%) Lead
11 35 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.31%) Internet Developer
13 31 (4.18%) Full Stack Engineer
14 30 (4.04%) Senior Developer
15 27 (3.64%) QA Engineer
15 27 (3.64%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
16 26 (3.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 25 (3.37%) Tester
18 23 (3.10%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (52.29%) .NET
2 344 (46.36%) .NET Core
3 339 (45.69%) Entity Framework
4 334 (45.01%) ASP.NET
4 334 (45.01%) ASP.NET MVC
5 321 (43.26%) React
6 308 (41.51%) AngularJS
7 304 (40.97%) Node.js
8 230 (31.00%) HTML
9 221 (29.78%) CSS
10 199 (26.82%) .NET Framework
11 191 (25.74%) ASP.NET Web API
11 191 (25.74%) Vue
12 171 (23.05%) Spring
13 150 (20.22%) CSS3
13 150 (20.22%) HTML5
14 146 (19.68%) Blazor
15 103 (13.88%) REST
16 101 (13.61%) JSON
17 99 (13.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.16%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (8.09%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.64%) Market Risk
5 25 (3.37%) Digital TV
6 23 (3.10%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.62%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.08%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.94%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.94%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (0.94%) Derivative
11 7 (0.94%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.94%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (0.94%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.04%) Linux
2 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (0.67%) ThreadX
4 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (93.67%) Agile
2 667 (89.89%) TDD
3 397 (53.50%) Full Stack Development
4 367 (49.46%) Microservices
5 336 (45.28%) MVC
6 309 (41.64%) Scrum
7 263 (35.44%) Kanban
8 205 (27.63%) CI/CD
9 184 (24.80%) Software Engineering
10 174 (23.45%) Test Automation
11 153 (20.62%) SDLC
12 116 (15.63%) DevOps
13 91 (12.26%) Operational Stability
14 89 (11.99%) Artificial Intelligence
15 83 (11.19%) Machine Learning
16 76 (10.24%) Continuous Integration
17 62 (8.36%) Multithreading
18 60 (8.09%) Mentoring
18 60 (8.09%) Software Testing
18 60 (8.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 520 (70.08%) JavaScript
2 382 (51.48%) C#
3 307 (41.37%) Java
4 286 (38.54%) TypeScript
5 272 (36.66%) SQL
6 57 (7.68%) Python
7 12 (1.62%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.21%) C
9 7 (0.94%) Bash
10 6 (0.81%) Go
11 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.54%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.54%) Groovy
12 4 (0.54%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.54%) PHP
12 4 (0.54%) Swift
13 3 (0.40%) Ruby
14 2 (0.27%) Bicep
14 2 (0.27%) C++
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 69 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 65 (8.76%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.37%) Degree
4 21 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.02%) DBS Check
6 10 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.94%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.54%) CIPD
9 3 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.40%) ISEB
10 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) PhD
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.80%) QA
2 8 (1.08%) GDPR
2 8 (1.08%) PSD2
3 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (11.99%) Docker
2 27 (3.64%) Hyper-V
3 18 (2.43%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (12.40%) Kubernetes
2 52 (7.01%) Ansible
3 39 (5.26%) Terraform
4 9 (1.21%) Puppet
5 7 (0.94%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.81%) Kibana
7 5 (0.67%) Argo
8 3 (0.40%) Grafana
9 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) linkerd
9 2 (0.27%) Nagios
9 2 (0.27%) Podman
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 358 (48.25%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.72%) WSO2
3 33 (4.45%) Google
4 20 (2.70%) Oracle
5 18 (2.43%) Facebook
6 9 (1.21%) TOWER Software
7 8 (1.08%) Duck Creek
8 7 (0.94%) Splunk
9 6 (0.81%) IBM
10 5 (0.67%) Databricks
10 5 (0.67%) YouTube
11 4 (0.54%) Confluent
11 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.54%) VMware
12 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.27%) Brio
12 2 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.27%) Cadence
12 2 (0.27%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.27%) RedGate