Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 478 288 284
Rank change year-on-year -190 -4 -180
Permanent jobs citing BDD 239 1,016 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.98% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.17% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 176 805 840
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £46,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,375 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,996 £56,318 £60,500
% change year-on-year +26.06% -6.91% +8.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD.

Salary trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for BDD in the UK

BDD
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK 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
England -180 213 £73,750 +22.92% 938
London +25 132 £82,500 +1.54% 128
UK excluding London -187 118 £70,996 +26.06% 926
Work from Home -231 83 £67,500 +12.50% 686
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (7.53%) Confluence
2 14 (5.86%) JBoss
2 14 (5.86%) Red Hat Fuse
3 8 (3.35%) nginx
3 8 (3.35%) Tomcat
4 7 (2.93%) CMS
5 6 (2.51%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Drupal
7 1 (0.42%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.42%) Elementor
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.84%) Elite 3E
1 2 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 130 (54.39%) AWS
2 67 (28.03%) Azure
3 42 (17.57%) Serverless
4 31 (12.97%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (11.30%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (10.46%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (10.46%) GCP
7 22 (9.21%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (6.28%) GitHub
10 13 (5.44%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.44%) Power Platform
11 12 (5.02%) PowerApps
12 11 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.60%) AWS KMS
13 10 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (4.18%) Route 53
14 8 (3.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 8 (3.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (2.51%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) DNS
1 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.42%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.42%) RTP
2 1 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (25.10%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.97%) Relational Database
3 29 (12.13%) MongoDB
4 23 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (9.21%) NoSQL
6 21 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (8.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (7.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (6.28%) DynamoDB
10 13 (5.44%) RDBMS
11 8 (3.35%) MySQL
12 7 (2.93%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.26%) Couchbase
13 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.26%) Power BI
14 2 (0.84%) Cloud Spanner
14 2 (0.84%) OLAP
14 2 (0.84%) OLTP
15 1 (0.42%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 79 (33.05%) Git
2 78 (32.64%) Jenkins
3 51 (21.34%) JUnit
4 32 (13.39%) Mockito
5 29 (12.13%) JIRA
6 27 (11.30%) Cucumber
7 25 (10.46%) Maven
8 23 (9.62%) Selenium
9 22 (9.21%) JMeter
10 20 (8.37%) SonarQube
11 13 (5.44%) Postman
12 12 (5.02%) TestNG
13 11 (4.60%) Bitbucket
13 11 (4.60%) DbUnit
13 11 (4.60%) jMock
14 10 (4.18%) Bitbucket Server
15 7 (2.93%) Gradle
15 7 (2.93%) Storybook
16 6 (2.51%) SpecFlow
16 6 (2.51%) webpack
General
1 92 (38.49%) Finance
2 47 (19.67%) Public Sector
3 43 (17.99%) Banking
4 37 (15.48%) Social Skills
5 25 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.46%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.18%) Tech for Good
7 8 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.93%) Front Office
9 6 (2.51%) Law
9 6 (2.51%) Retail
10 4 (1.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Back Office
11 2 (0.84%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.84%) Games
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (43.10%) Developer
2 57 (23.85%) Software Engineer
3 52 (21.76%) Java Developer
4 42 (17.57%) Senior
5 39 (16.32%) Java Engineer
5 39 (16.32%) Lead
6 28 (11.72%) Java Software Engineer
7 26 (10.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (9.62%) .NET Developer
9 15 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (5.44%) Senior Java Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Lead Developer
11 12 (5.02%) Test Engineer
12 11 (4.60%) Senior Developer
13 10 (4.18%) Application Development Manager
13 10 (4.18%) Applications Development Manager
13 10 (4.18%) Applications Manager
13 10 (4.18%) Development Manager
13 10 (4.18%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (38.08%) Spring Boot
2 89 (37.24%) Spring
3 71 (29.71%) REST
4 62 (25.94%) AngularJS
5 49 (20.50%) RESTful
6 44 (18.41%) React
6 44 (18.41%) Web Services
7 42 (17.57%) .NET
7 42 (17.57%) Kafka
8 38 (15.90%) HTML
9 37 (15.48%) Node.js
10 32 (13.39%) SOAP
11 28 (11.72%) CSS
12 27 (11.30%) Apache Camel
13 25 (10.46%) ActiveMQ
13 25 (10.46%) Akka
13 25 (10.46%) Hibernate
14 23 (9.62%) .NET Core
14 23 (9.62%) ASP.NET
14 23 (9.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.83%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (7.11%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.69%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.28%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.44%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.60%) Mobile App
7 10 (4.18%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (3.35%) Equities
9 8 (3.35%) Life Science
10 6 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (2.09%) Digital TV
11 5 (2.09%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.42%) EMC VMAX
14 1 (0.42%) PropTech
14 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.04%) Linux
2 6 (2.51%) Android
3 5 (2.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (82.85%) Agile
2 178 (74.48%) TDD
3 111 (46.44%) Microservices
4 102 (42.68%) CI/CD
5 90 (37.66%) Software Engineering
6 85 (35.56%) DevOps
7 78 (32.64%) Scrum
7 78 (32.64%) Test Automation
8 65 (27.20%) Kanban
9 59 (24.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 49 (20.50%) Mentoring
11 39 (16.32%) Pair Programming
12 37 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (15.06%) Fintech
14 33 (13.81%) Code Quality
15 32 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (12.97%) MVC
17 29 (12.13%) Unit Testing
18 26 (10.88%) Coaching
18 26 (10.88%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 134 (56.07%) Java
2 76 (31.80%) JavaScript
3 62 (25.94%) SQL
4 45 (18.83%) TypeScript
5 41 (17.15%) Python
6 34 (14.23%) C#
7 14 (5.86%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.09%) Go
9 3 (1.26%) Groovy
9 3 (1.26%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.26%) PHP
9 3 (1.26%) Swift
10 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.42%) Ada
11 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.42%) Dart
11 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.42%) SOQL
11 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.32%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.11%) Degree
4 5 (2.09%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) ISEB
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.79%) QA
2 16 (6.69%) SLA
3 14 (5.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) GRC
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.42%) SEPA
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 97 (40.59%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) Postfix
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.88%) Ansible
3 23 (9.62%) Terraform
4 13 (5.44%) Kibana
5 8 (3.35%) Kustomize
5 8 (3.35%) Packer
6 5 (2.09%) Grafana
7 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.26%) Puppet
8 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.84%) Salt
10 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.95%) Google
3 14 (5.86%) Splunk
4 13 (5.44%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.44%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.35%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.93%) Oracle
7 4 (1.67%) Adobe
7 4 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.67%) Tealium
8 3 (1.26%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.42%) Brocade
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco
9 1 (0.42%) Databricks
9 1 (0.42%) EMC
9 1 (0.42%) HP
9 1 (0.42%) Netlify
9 1 (0.42%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.42%) VMware