Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 461 356
Rank change year-on-year -47 -105 -93
Permanent jobs citing BDD 319 224 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.45% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.51% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 178 145 296
10th Percentile £39,080 £50,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £109,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% +8.70%

All Process & 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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BDD job vacancy trend in the UK

BDD
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

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 5 October 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
England -45 288 £60,000 -17.24% 236
UK excluding London -48 179 £60,000 -12.73% 153
Work from Home +32 139 £57,500 -4.17% 118
London -81 133 £80,000 +6.67% 113
South East -25 64 £58,750 -18.97% 31
North of England -28 41 £57,500 -16.36% 43
Midlands -40 31 £60,000 -17.24% 29
West Midlands -30 24 £60,000 -17.24% 20
North West -24 22 £42,500 -39.29% 20
Wales -48 20 £45,000 -40.00% 3
South West -69 12 £53,750 -10.42% 15
Yorkshire -32 11 £57,500 - 11
North East -56 8 £72,153 +8.91% 12
East of England -30 7 £67,500 +12.50% 8
East Midlands -35 7 - - 9
Scotland +1 2 £75,000 -6.25% 16
Northern Ireland -83 2 £80,000 +45.45% 9

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 23 (7.21%) Confluence
2 8 (2.51%) CMS
3 5 (1.57%) Apache
3 5 (1.57%) JBoss
3 5 (1.57%) nginx
4 4 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.94%) DNN
5 3 (0.94%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.94%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.94%) Kentico
5 3 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.94%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.94%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.63%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 198 (62.07%) AWS
2 124 (38.87%) Azure
3 75 (23.51%) GitHub
4 49 (15.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (14.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 44 (13.79%) Serverless
7 29 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (6.90%) Amazon S3
10 18 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.08%) Azure AI
14 12 (3.76%) SaaS
15 10 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.13%) GCP
16 7 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 5 (1.57%) AWS Fargate
17 5 (1.57%) Azure Functions
17 5 (1.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.46%) HTTP
2 6 (1.88%) MQTT
2 6 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.88%) Wireless
2 6 (1.88%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.57%) SSL
4 4 (1.25%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.63%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (26.33%) MongoDB
2 69 (21.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 60 (18.81%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 24 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.70%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.82%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.19%) MySQL
9 6 (1.88%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.25%) Redis
12 3 (0.94%) Flink
12 3 (0.94%) KDB
12 3 (0.94%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.63%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.63%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.63%) Weaviate
14 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 78 (24.45%) Cucumber
2 68 (21.32%) GitLab
3 57 (17.87%) Jenkins
4 54 (16.93%) Git
5 39 (12.23%) JIRA
6 30 (9.40%) Selenium
7 28 (8.78%) JUnit
8 21 (6.58%) JMeter
9 17 (5.33%) Postman
10 15 (4.70%) Mockito
11 13 (4.08%) Maven
12 12 (3.76%) Cypress.io
13 10 (3.13%) Bitbucket
14 9 (2.82%) REST Assured
14 9 (2.82%) Zephyr
15 6 (1.88%) Claude Code
15 6 (1.88%) GDB
15 6 (1.88%) SpecFlow
16 5 (1.57%) Robot Framework
16 5 (1.57%) SoapUI
General
1 109 (34.17%) Finance
2 48 (15.05%) Banking
3 44 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 44 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 23 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (5.96%) Financial Institution
6 15 (4.70%) Advertising
7 14 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.57%) Aviation
9 5 (1.57%) Marketing
9 5 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.25%) Publishing
11 3 (0.94%) Back Office
11 3 (0.94%) Front Office
11 3 (0.94%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.63%) Electronics
12 2 (0.63%) Games
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 109 (34.17%) Developer
2 66 (20.69%) .NET Developer
3 61 (19.12%) Java Engineer
4 57 (17.87%) Senior
5 52 (16.30%) Software Engineer
6 51 (15.99%) Lead
7 31 (9.72%) Development Engineer
7 31 (9.72%) Software Development Engineer
8 29 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
9 28 (8.78%) Lead Software Engineer
10 26 (8.15%) Principal Java Engineer
10 26 (8.15%) Senior Java Engineer
11 20 (6.27%) Test Engineer
12 19 (5.96%) Java Developer
13 15 (4.70%) Analyst
14 14 (4.39%) Test Automation Engineer
15 13 (4.08%) Senior Developer
16 10 (3.13%) Tester
17 8 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
17 8 (2.51%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (30.09%) Spring
1 96 (30.09%) Spring Boot
2 88 (27.59%) .NET
3 73 (22.88%) Node.js
4 68 (21.32%) ASP.NET
4 68 (21.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 68 (21.32%) Kafka
5 66 (20.69%) .NET Core
6 61 (19.12%) AngularJS
7 55 (17.24%) React
8 50 (15.67%) REST
9 48 (15.05%) Vue
10 44 (13.79%) HTML
11 35 (10.97%) CSS
12 34 (10.66%) .NET Framework
13 28 (8.78%) Gherkin
14 27 (8.46%) Playwright
15 25 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web API
16 19 (5.96%) RESTful
17 15 (4.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 70 (21.94%) Public Cloud
2 63 (19.75%) Cloud Native
3 60 (18.81%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (18.50%) Product Ownership
5 44 (13.79%) e-Learning
6 29 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
9 9 (2.82%) Life Science
10 6 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.88%) ARM Cortex
10 6 (1.88%) Device Driver
10 6 (1.88%) IoT
10 6 (1.88%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.57%) Social Media
12 4 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.82%) Linux
2 6 (1.88%) AIX
3 5 (1.57%) Windows
4 4 (1.25%) Android
5 2 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (72.10%) Agile
2 189 (59.25%) TDD
3 164 (51.41%) CI/CD
4 161 (50.47%) Microservices
5 154 (48.28%) Test Automation
6 100 (31.35%) Scrum
7 91 (28.53%) Software Engineering
8 85 (26.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 82 (25.71%) Mentoring
10 80 (25.08%) Kanban
11 69 (21.63%) Event-Driven
12 62 (19.44%) Coaching
13 61 (19.12%) AI
14 60 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 60 (18.81%) Performance Testing
15 58 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 56 (17.55%) DevOps
17 48 (15.05%) CQRS
18 46 (14.42%) Test Strategy
19 41 (12.85%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 170 (53.29%) Java
2 142 (44.51%) SQL
3 89 (27.90%) C#
4 67 (21.00%) JavaScript
5 66 (20.69%) Python
6 63 (19.75%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.64%) Ruby
8 13 (4.08%) C
9 9 (2.82%) C++
10 8 (2.51%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.57%) Bash
13 4 (1.25%) Go
14 3 (0.94%) PHP
14 3 (0.94%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (15.36%) AWS Certification
2 44 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 36 (11.29%) Degree
4 34 (10.66%) Security Cleared
5 32 (10.03%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.39%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.51%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.57%) CSPO
9 5 (1.57%) ISEB
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.73%) QA
2 36 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.70%) WCAG
4 6 (1.88%) JTAG
5 3 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.94%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (26.02%) Docker
2 5 (1.57%) Firmware
2 5 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.94%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 81 (25.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.13%) Kibana
3 6 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (1.57%) Ansible
4 5 (1.57%) Grafana
4 5 (1.57%) Nagios
5 3 (0.94%) Packer
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (24.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.27%) Splunk
3 13 (4.08%) Oracle
4 10 (3.13%) OneLogin
5 9 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.57%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.57%) New Relic
6 5 (1.57%) Pega
6 5 (1.57%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.57%) SAP
7 4 (1.25%) Adobe
8 3 (0.94%) Alterian
8 3 (0.94%) Google
8 3 (0.94%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.94%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.31%) Conga
10 1 (0.31%) GoCardless
10 1 (0.31%) RedGate
10 1 (0.31%) YouTube