Hybrid/Remote BDD Job Trends

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 283 141
Rank change year-on-year -35 -142 +60
Permanent jobs citing BDD 87 119 729
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.90% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.95% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 69 106 666
10th Percentile £42,706 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,300 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,776 12,587 29,780
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.16% 94.78% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,325 8,918 23,667
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BDD and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

BDD job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

BDD
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BDD over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

BDD salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (2.30%) Confluence
1 2 (2.30%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (52.87%) AWS
2 28 (32.18%) Azure
3 12 (13.79%) GitHub
4 8 (9.20%) Datadog
4 8 (9.20%) Serverless
5 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.75%) dbt
7 5 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.75%) PaaS
7 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.75%) SaaS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (1.15%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) HTTP
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) MongoDB
1 22 (25.29%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (19.54%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.79%) MySQL
4 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.30%) Redis
7 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.15%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.15%) Flink
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) Selenium
2 21 (24.14%) Cucumber
3 18 (20.69%) Git
4 14 (16.09%) Jenkins
5 13 (14.94%) GitLab
5 13 (14.94%) SpecFlow
6 10 (11.49%) JMeter
6 10 (11.49%) Postman
7 9 (10.34%) JIRA
7 9 (10.34%) WebDriver
8 7 (8.05%) Cypress.io
8 7 (8.05%) JUnit
9 6 (6.90%) Locust
10 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
11 3 (3.45%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.30%) Maven
12 2 (2.30%) NUnit
12 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (26.44%) Finance
2 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.75%) Tech for Good
6 3 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.15%) Advertising
8 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Games
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) Developer
1 22 (25.29%) Software Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) Lead
3 17 (19.54%) Senior
4 13 (14.94%) Java Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Development Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) QA Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Software Development Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Software Developer
7 7 (8.05%) .NET Developer
7 7 (8.05%) Lead Software Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Java Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Test Leader
9 5 (5.75%) Application Development Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Applications Development Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Applications Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.44%) .NET
2 22 (25.29%) REST
3 19 (21.84%) Spring
4 14 (16.09%) Playwright
4 14 (16.09%) Spring Boot
5 12 (13.79%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.79%) RESTful
6 11 (12.64%) Gherkin
6 11 (12.64%) XML
7 10 (11.49%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (11.49%) React
8 8 (9.20%) JSON
8 8 (9.20%) Node.js
9 7 (8.05%) pytest
9 7 (8.05%) Web Services
10 6 (6.90%) .NET Core
10 6 (6.90%) ASP.NET
10 6 (6.90%) Django
10 6 (6.90%) Flask
10 6 (6.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 12 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.05%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.75%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.15%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) GNSS
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Android
2 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.97%) Agile
2 54 (62.07%) TDD
3 49 (56.32%) Test Automation
4 34 (39.08%) DevOps
4 34 (39.08%) Software Engineering
5 33 (37.93%) Microservices
6 31 (35.63%) CI/CD
7 28 (32.18%) Mentoring
8 22 (25.29%) Coaching
9 19 (21.84%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (17.24%) Containerisation
10 15 (17.24%) Continuous Deployment
10 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (17.24%) Scrum
10 15 (17.24%) Software Testing
11 14 (16.09%) Performance Testing
12 11 (12.64%) AI
12 11 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (12.64%) Open Source
12 11 (12.64%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 53 (60.92%) Java
2 33 (37.93%) SQL
3 17 (19.54%) C#
3 17 (19.54%) Python
4 14 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.90%) Delphi
7 1 (1.15%) Go
7 1 (1.15%) Groovy
7 1 (1.15%) Perl
7 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
2 7 (8.05%) ISTQB
2 7 (8.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) ISEB
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.59%) QA
2 16 (18.39%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (25.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.54%) Grafana
3 10 (11.49%) Terraform
4 5 (5.75%) Ansible
5 3 (3.45%) Kibana
6 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.15%) Argo
7 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.20%) Oracle
3 2 (2.30%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.15%) IBM
4 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.15%) Splunk
4 1 (1.15%) Veracode