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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 313 210
Rank change year-on-year -117 -103 +46
Permanent jobs citing BDD 76 280 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.78% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.88% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 44 151 407
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,594 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,063 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,066 £86,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -16.08%

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 33,128 31,909 30,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.51% 88.95% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,079 14,313 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -3 25 £57,500 -8.00% 38
North of England 0 23 £65,000 - 25
North West +11 11 £61,250 -5.77% 14
Midlands +13 9 £55,200 -8.00% 10
West Midlands +10 7 £53,850 -12.08% 7
North East +4 6 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Wales +3 6 £55,200 +16.68% 5
Yorkshire -18 6 £67,500 -8.63% 9
Scotland -9 5 £70,079 +12.13% 3
South West -44 4 £67,500 -6.90% 9
East of England -46 3 £65,000 -3.70% 14
East Midlands -7 2 £55,200 +57.71% 3
Northern Ireland -14 1 - - 2
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 5 (6.58%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) JBoss
3 1 (1.32%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 51 (67.11%) AWS
2 25 (32.89%) Serverless
3 19 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (22.37%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (22.37%) Azure
5 15 (19.74%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (17.11%) SaaS
7 9 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (11.84%) GitHub
8 7 (9.21%) Datadog
9 6 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (7.89%) dbt
9 6 (7.89%) PaaS
10 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.58%) GCP
11 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.26%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.32%) Broadband
2 1 (1.32%) RFID
2 1 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (40.79%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (22.37%) Relational Database
3 12 (15.79%) RDBMS
4 9 (11.84%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.95%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.63%) MySQL
8 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.32%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.32%) DB2
8 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (40.79%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.95%) Cucumber
2 22 (28.95%) JMeter
3 20 (26.32%) Selenium
4 19 (25.00%) Git
5 17 (22.37%) JUnit
6 12 (15.79%) Mockito
6 12 (15.79%) SpecFlow
7 8 (10.53%) GitLab
8 6 (7.89%) JIRA
8 6 (7.89%) Locust
9 5 (6.58%) Postman
10 4 (5.26%) Appium
11 3 (3.95%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.95%) TestNG
11 3 (3.95%) WebDriver
12 2 (2.63%) Maven
12 2 (2.63%) MSTest
12 2 (2.63%) NUnit
12 2 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 17 (22.37%) Public Sector
1 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Finance
3 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Advertising
6 1 (1.32%) Games
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (42.11%) Developer
2 21 (27.63%) Java Developer
3 18 (23.68%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (21.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (17.11%) Senior
6 11 (14.47%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 10 (13.16%) Lead
8 7 (9.21%) Test Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) QA Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (7.89%) Test Leader
10 5 (6.58%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.58%) Software Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Analyst
11 4 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
11 4 (5.26%) Informatica Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (40.79%) Spring
2 28 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 27 (35.53%) REST
4 19 (25.00%) Web Services
5 15 (19.74%) Apache Camel
5 15 (19.74%) HTML
6 14 (18.42%) XML
7 13 (17.11%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (15.79%) JSON
8 12 (15.79%) WireMock
9 11 (14.47%) Gherkin
9 11 (14.47%) Hibernate
9 11 (14.47%) jQuery
10 10 (13.16%) Node.js
11 9 (11.84%) AngularJS
11 9 (11.84%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (11.84%) React
12 8 (10.53%) .NET
12 8 (10.53%) Playwright
13 6 (7.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) Agile
2 45 (59.21%) CI/CD
3 42 (55.26%) TDD
4 38 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 34 (44.74%) Microservices
6 30 (39.47%) DevOps
7 23 (30.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (25.00%) Workflow
9 16 (21.05%) SDLC
10 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (19.74%) Process Management
11 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
11 13 (17.11%) Event-Driven
11 13 (17.11%) Mentoring
12 11 (14.47%) API Integration
12 11 (14.47%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (14.47%) Scrum
13 10 (13.16%) Performance Testing
13 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (68.42%) Java
2 29 (38.16%) JavaScript
3 27 (35.53%) Python
4 16 (21.05%) SQL
5 15 (19.74%) Shell Script
6 9 (11.84%) C#
7 8 (10.53%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.26%) Delphi
9 3 (3.95%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.63%) Go
11 1 (1.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
3 6 (7.89%) ISTQB
3 6 (7.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (5.26%) ISEB
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (28.95%) QA
2 11 (14.47%) Accessibility
3 7 (9.21%) WCAG
4 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 32 (42.11%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (40.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.79%) Kibana
3 11 (14.47%) Grafana
3 11 (14.47%) Terraform
4 7 (9.21%) Ansible
5 4 (5.26%) Control-M
6 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.32%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.32%) Nagios
6 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Splunk
2 11 (14.47%) Dynatrace
2 11 (14.47%) Oracle
3 4 (5.26%) Informatica
3 4 (5.26%) Pega
3 4 (5.26%) WSO2
4 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.32%) New Relic
6 1 (1.32%) Red Hat