BDD Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 272 356
Rank change year-on-year -187 +84 -201
Permanent jobs citing BDD 118 743 504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 1.00% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.21% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 68 561 320
10th Percentile £47,231 £38,750 £39,124
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,996 £56,318 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.06% -6.91% +8.64%
75th Percentile £90,944 £71,991 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £83,750 £86,825
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +7.69%

All Process and 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 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
South East -79 46 £70,000 +16.67% 247
North of England -67 28 £70,000 +27.27% 220
North West -60 17 £82,500 +50.00% 116
Midlands +24 13 £72,500 +38.10% 176
West Midlands +20 11 £72,500 +34.88% 97
Scotland +10 11 £85,253 +42.09% 37
Yorkshire +23 10 £48,507 -21.10% 78
South West +52 9 £58,750 +6.82% 112
Northern Ireland +44 6 £55,000 -4.35% 10
Wales +34 4 £75,000 +66.67% 29
East Midlands +22 2 £57,500 +9.52% 68
North East +28 1 - - 26
East of England -21 1 £55,000 -8.33% 129
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 16 (13.56%) Confluence
2 14 (11.86%) JBoss
2 14 (11.86%) Red Hat Fuse
3 5 (4.24%) nginx
3 5 (4.24%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.54%) CMS
5 2 (1.69%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.85%) Drupal
6 1 (0.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.85%) Elementor
1 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 61 (51.69%) AWS
2 30 (25.42%) Serverless
3 28 (23.73%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (22.88%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (21.19%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (15.25%) GCP
7 16 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (11.02%) Azure
9 11 (9.32%) Amazon S3
9 11 (9.32%) AWS KMS
10 10 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.47%) Route 53
11 6 (5.08%) GitHub
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (3.39%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.39%) Google Analytics
14 3 (2.54%) BrowserStack
14 3 (2.54%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (43.22%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (22.88%) Relational Database
3 18 (15.25%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (13.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (11.86%) NoSQL
6 13 (11.02%) RDBMS
7 12 (10.17%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.08%) MySQL
9 5 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.69%) Cloud Spanner
12 2 (1.69%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 69 (58.47%) Jenkins
2 55 (46.61%) Git
3 47 (39.83%) JUnit
4 29 (24.58%) Mockito
5 20 (16.95%) JMeter
5 20 (16.95%) Maven
6 19 (16.10%) JIRA
7 17 (14.41%) SonarQube
8 16 (13.56%) Cucumber
9 15 (12.71%) Selenium
10 11 (9.32%) DbUnit
10 11 (9.32%) jMock
11 10 (8.47%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (6.78%) TestNG
13 7 (5.93%) Bitbucket
13 7 (5.93%) Postman
14 5 (4.24%) REST Assured
14 5 (4.24%) webpack
15 4 (3.39%) Storybook
16 3 (2.54%) XCUITest
General
1 44 (37.29%) Public Sector
2 39 (33.05%) Finance
3 26 (22.03%) Banking
4 15 (12.71%) Social Skills
5 14 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (50.00%) Developer
2 44 (37.29%) Java Developer
3 31 (26.27%) Lead
4 18 (15.25%) Senior
4 18 (15.25%) Software Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Lead Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Lead Java Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Test Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.93%) Lead Test Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) QA Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (4.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (4.24%) QA Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (53.39%) Spring Boot
2 59 (50.00%) Spring
3 55 (46.61%) REST
4 42 (35.59%) RESTful
5 40 (33.90%) Web Services
6 29 (24.58%) SOAP
7 27 (22.88%) Apache Camel
8 25 (21.19%) ActiveMQ
8 25 (21.19%) Hibernate
9 21 (17.80%) React
10 20 (16.95%) HTML
11 18 (15.25%) WireMock
12 14 (11.86%) AngularJS
12 14 (11.86%) J2EE
12 14 (11.86%) jQuery
13 12 (10.17%) JPA
13 12 (10.17%) Node.js
14 11 (9.32%) Bootstrap
14 11 (9.32%) Kafka
14 11 (9.32%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 35 (29.66%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.47%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (4.24%) Life Science
6 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.71%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
3 2 (1.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (77.12%) Agile
2 90 (76.27%) TDD
3 57 (48.31%) Microservices
4 54 (45.76%) Scrum
5 51 (43.22%) CI/CD
5 51 (43.22%) Test Automation
6 42 (35.59%) Kanban
7 38 (32.20%) DevOps
8 31 (26.27%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (21.19%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (21.19%) Mentoring
9 25 (21.19%) Software Engineering
10 22 (18.64%) Code Quality
11 18 (15.25%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (12.71%) Architectural Design
12 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (12.71%) Workflow
13 14 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (11.02%) Containerisation
14 13 (11.02%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (68.64%) Java
2 45 (38.14%) JavaScript
3 27 (22.88%) Python
4 19 (16.10%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.25%) SQL
6 14 (11.86%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.08%) C#
8 4 (3.39%) Go
9 3 (2.54%) Groovy
9 3 (2.54%) Swift
10 1 (0.85%) Dart
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.85%) ISEB
5 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) SLA
2 11 (9.32%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) GRC
3 1 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (52.54%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 54 (45.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.95%) Ansible
3 13 (11.02%) Kibana
4 10 (8.47%) Terraform
5 5 (4.24%) Kustomize
5 5 (4.24%) Packer
6 3 (2.54%) Grafana
6 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) Dynatrace
1 13 (11.02%) Splunk
2 12 (10.17%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.63%) Google
4 5 (4.24%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.39%) Adobe
5 4 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (3.39%) Tealium
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) Brocade
7 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco
7 1 (0.85%) EMC
7 1 (0.85%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.85%) HP
7 1 (0.85%) Netlify
7 1 (0.85%) VMware