Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 260 112
Rank change year-on-year -20 -148 -4
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,022 1,485 4,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.42% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.48% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 807 994 1,933
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,000 £55,687
% change year-on-year -8.73% +13.13% +1.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
England -14 831 £60,000 -17.24% 261
UK excluding London +57 735 £57,500 -8.73% 163
Work from Home +53 720 £60,000 -14.29% 288
London -91 263 £85,000 +3.03% 104
South East +139 240 £60,000 +4.35% 54
North of England +10 144 £57,500 -6.12% 30
Scotland -19 123 £60,000 -11.29% 5
North West +10 79 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Midlands -16 76 £52,500 -12.50% 27
East of England +33 68 £60,000 -17.24% 25
South West +6 62 £57,500 -8.00% 20
West Midlands -11 54 £52,500 -14.29% 19
Yorkshire +39 46 £65,465 +0.71% 5
East Midlands -2 22 £52,500 -12.50% 8
North East +6 19 £47,500 -17.39% 2
Wales +23 17 £45,000 -10.88% 7
Northern Ireland +13 5 £57,500 +64.29% 1

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 42 (4.11%) OpenStack
2 20 (1.96%) Apache
3 13 (1.27%) JBoss
4 12 (1.17%) CMS
4 12 (1.17%) Confluence
5 11 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.68%) EPiServer
6 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.59%) DNN
7 6 (0.59%) Immediacy CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Kentico
7 6 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Sitefinity
7 6 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.098%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 591 (57.83%) Azure
2 523 (51.17%) AWS
3 80 (7.83%) Serverless
4 59 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
5 56 (5.48%) SaaS
6 50 (4.89%) GCP
7 34 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (3.33%) GitHub
8 26 (2.54%) BlazeMeter
9 17 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (0.98%) PaaS
13 9 (0.88%) Azure Functions
14 8 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (0.78%) BrowserStack
14 8 (0.78%) Power Platform
14 8 (0.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.77%) Internet
2 21 (2.05%) DNS
3 19 (1.86%) Firewall
4 16 (1.57%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.49%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.49%) RS-232
6 5 (0.49%) RS-485
6 5 (0.49%) VoIP
6 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.49%) Wireless
6 5 (0.49%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.39%) SSL
8 3 (0.29%) HTTP
9 2 (0.20%) Broadband
9 2 (0.20%) SSH
10 1 (0.098%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (39.73%) SQL Server
2 269 (26.32%) MongoDB
3 221 (21.62%) Elasticsearch
4 157 (15.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 105 (10.27%) NoSQL
6 102 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
7 74 (7.24%) Relational Database
8 45 (4.40%) MySQL
9 12 (1.17%) Redis
10 11 (1.08%) Big Data
11 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.49%) Power BI
15 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 2 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 192 (18.79%) Selenium
2 185 (18.10%) Jenkins
3 166 (16.24%) Cucumber
4 127 (12.43%) Git
5 118 (11.55%) JUnit
6 110 (10.76%) Cypress.io
7 91 (8.90%) WebDriver
8 89 (8.71%) Postman
9 61 (5.97%) Jasmine
10 60 (5.87%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (5.87%) Protractor
11 59 (5.77%) JIRA
12 46 (4.50%) JMeter
13 30 (2.94%) Maven
14 29 (2.84%) SpecFlow
15 28 (2.74%) REST Assured
16 21 (2.05%) GitLab
17 18 (1.76%) TestNG
18 13 (1.27%) TeamCity
19 11 (1.08%) Appium
General
1 233 (22.80%) Finance
2 129 (12.62%) Social Skills
3 122 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (11.25%) Banking
5 106 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 99 (9.69%) Law
7 78 (7.63%) Marketing
8 71 (6.95%) Investment Banking
9 43 (4.21%) Advertising
9 43 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
10 41 (4.01%) Retail
11 35 (3.42%) Games
12 22 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.17%) French Language
14 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.68%) Legal
16 5 (0.49%) Electronics
16 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 551 (53.91%) Developer
2 390 (38.16%) .NET Developer
3 186 (18.20%) Software Engineer
4 160 (15.66%) Senior
5 146 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 134 (13.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 119 (11.64%) C# Developer
8 113 (11.06%) C# .NET Developer
8 113 (11.06%) Lead
9 85 (8.32%) Java Developer
10 58 (5.68%) Full Stack Developer
11 57 (5.58%) Senior Developer
12 54 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
13 52 (5.09%) QA Engineer
14 37 (3.62%) Internet Developer
15 36 (3.52%) Tester
16 35 (3.42%) Senior Java Engineer
17 33 (3.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 32 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
19 28 (2.74%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (44.81%) .NET
2 387 (37.87%) .NET Core
3 383 (37.48%) ASP.NET
4 378 (36.99%) Entity Framework
5 375 (36.69%) Node.js
6 373 (36.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 365 (35.71%) React
8 348 (34.05%) AngularJS
9 265 (25.93%) HTML
10 259 (25.34%) CSS
11 238 (23.29%) .NET Framework
12 223 (21.82%) ASP.NET Web API
13 221 (21.62%) Vue
14 204 (19.96%) Spring
15 203 (19.86%) REST
16 161 (15.75%) HTML5
17 159 (15.56%) CSS3
18 157 (15.36%) Blazor
19 128 (12.52%) Spring Boot
20 112 (10.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.44%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 53 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.54%) Market Risk
7 25 (2.45%) Digital TV
8 22 (2.15%) Algorithms
8 22 (2.15%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.98%) Derivative
12 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.78%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.68%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.68%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 7 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.31%) Linux
2 19 (1.86%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.57%) Android
4 12 (1.17%) Unix
4 12 (1.17%) Windows
5 5 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.49%) ThreadX
6 4 (0.39%) DC/OS
6 4 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (82.58%) Agile
2 833 (81.51%) TDD
3 480 (46.97%) Full Stack Development
4 438 (42.86%) Microservices
5 395 (38.65%) Scrum
6 382 (37.38%) MVC
7 339 (33.17%) CI/CD
8 316 (30.92%) Kanban
9 263 (25.73%) Software Engineering
10 239 (23.39%) Test Automation
11 199 (19.47%) DevOps
12 177 (17.32%) SDLC
13 113 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
14 107 (10.47%) Software Testing
15 105 (10.27%) API Testing
16 103 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
17 96 (9.39%) Machine Learning
18 91 (8.90%) Fintech
19 89 (8.71%) Operational Stability
20 82 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 637 (62.33%) JavaScript
2 478 (46.77%) C#
3 453 (44.32%) Java
4 331 (32.39%) TypeScript
5 317 (31.02%) SQL
6 117 (11.45%) Python
7 34 (3.33%) Go
8 18 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.08%) Bash
9 11 (1.08%) C
10 9 (0.88%) Ruby
11 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.59%) C++
12 6 (0.59%) PHP
12 6 (0.59%) R
13 5 (0.49%) Groovy
13 5 (0.49%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.39%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 117 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 101 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.21%) Degree
4 28 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.39%) CIPD
10 4 (0.39%) ISEB
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.29%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.098%) PhD
13 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (13.01%) QA
2 31 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.78%) GDPR
3 8 (0.78%) PSD2
4 4 (0.39%) NCSC
5 3 (0.29%) ISO 9000
5 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.20%) SEPA
7 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 130 (12.72%) Docker
2 31 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 19 (1.86%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.098%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 64 (6.26%) Ansible
3 60 (5.87%) Terraform
4 12 (1.17%) Kibana
5 11 (1.08%) Grafana
6 9 (0.88%) Puppet
7 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.49%) Argo
9 4 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.29%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.20%) Istio
11 2 (0.20%) linkerd
11 2 (0.20%) Packer
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.098%) Consul
12 1 (0.098%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.098%) Podman
Vendors
1 417 (40.80%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.11%) WSO2
3 38 (3.72%) Google
4 25 (2.45%) Oracle
5 18 (1.76%) Facebook
6 13 (1.27%) Databricks
6 13 (1.27%) Splunk
7 9 (0.88%) TOWER Software
8 8 (0.78%) Duck Creek
9 6 (0.59%) Alterian
9 6 (0.59%) Confluent
9 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
9 6 (0.59%) YouTube
10 5 (0.49%) IBM
10 5 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.39%) New Relic
11 4 (0.39%) VMware
12 3 (0.29%) Atlassian