BDD Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 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 114 98 112
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 -1
Permanent jobs citing BDD 6 4 28
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.33% 0.28% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.32% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 26
10th Percentile £63,000 £62,798 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,119 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,876 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% +18.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £86,271 £89,888
90th Percentile £72,000 £90,775 £100,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £73,876 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.63% +28.48% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,473 1,263 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.23% 88.20% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 862 625 1,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

BDD job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

BDD
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing BDD

BDD
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -14 6 £67,500 -8.63% 1
BDD
Yorkshire

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (66.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Apigee
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Node.js
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (66.67%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) Apache Camel
4 2 (33.33%) Kafka
5 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
5 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
5 1 (16.67%) Jest
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) Mustache
5 1 (16.67%) React
5 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Kanban
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Process Management
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Pega
1 3 (50.00%) WSO2