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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 344 177
Rank change year-on-year +47 -167 +57
Permanent jobs citing BDD 133 89 609
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.57% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.60% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 105 76 544
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,231 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,850 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -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 16,791 14,738 29,927
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 94.32% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,235 8,589 23,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 27 June 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 3 (2.26%) Apache Solr
1 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) CMS
2 2 (1.50%) DNN
2 2 (1.50%) EPiServer
2 2 (1.50%) Immediacy CMS
2 2 (1.50%) Kentico
2 2 (1.50%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.50%) Sitefinity
2 2 (1.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 81 (60.90%) AWS
2 71 (53.38%) Azure
3 36 (27.07%) GitHub
4 33 (24.81%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (7.52%) Azure AI
6 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.02%) Serverless
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.76%) Datadog
7 5 (3.76%) dbt
7 5 (3.76%) PaaS
7 5 (3.76%) SaaS
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.50%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.50%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (46.62%) MongoDB
2 49 (36.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (32.33%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (10.53%) MySQL
5 14 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.26%) Flink
6 3 (2.26%) Redis
7 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (11.28%) Git
2 13 (9.77%) Selenium
3 12 (9.02%) Cucumber
4 10 (7.52%) SpecFlow
5 9 (6.77%) JMeter
6 8 (6.02%) Jenkins
7 7 (5.26%) WebDriver
8 5 (3.76%) JIRA
8 5 (3.76%) Locust
8 5 (3.76%) Postman
9 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.01%) GitLab
9 4 (3.01%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.26%) JUnit
11 2 (1.50%) NUnit
11 2 (1.50%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.75%) Maven
12 1 (0.75%) Snyk
General
1 40 (30.08%) Finance
2 21 (15.79%) Banking
3 18 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.52%) Advertising
5 9 (6.77%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.26%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Marketing
8 2 (1.50%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (42.86%) Developer
2 48 (36.09%) .NET Developer
3 34 (25.56%) Software Engineer
4 32 (24.06%) Lead
5 20 (15.04%) Development Engineer
5 20 (15.04%) Lead Software Engineer
5 20 (15.04%) Software Development Engineer
6 12 (9.02%) Java Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Senior
8 8 (6.02%) QA Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Junior
10 6 (4.51%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Test Leader
12 4 (3.01%) Analyst
13 3 (2.26%) Business Analyst
13 3 (2.26%) Lead Developer
13 3 (2.26%) Quality Engineer
13 3 (2.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (47.37%) .NET
2 49 (36.84%) ASP.NET
2 49 (36.84%) ASP.NET Core
3 47 (35.34%) .NET Core
4 40 (30.08%) AngularJS
4 40 (30.08%) Node.js
5 33 (24.81%) REST
5 33 (24.81%) Vue
6 23 (17.29%) React
7 19 (14.29%) .NET Framework
8 16 (12.03%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (10.53%) Playwright
10 12 (9.02%) RESTful
10 12 (9.02%) Spring
11 11 (8.27%) HTML
12 10 (7.52%) CSS
12 10 (7.52%) ML.NET
13 9 (6.77%) Entity Framework
14 8 (6.02%) Kafka
15 7 (5.26%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.80%) Product Ownership
2 20 (15.04%) Public Cloud
3 14 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 12 (9.02%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.50%) Tandem
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) GNSS
7 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Android
2 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (81.20%) TDD
2 102 (76.69%) Agile
3 60 (45.11%) Microservices
4 53 (39.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (37.59%) Scrum
6 44 (33.08%) Kanban
7 42 (31.58%) Test Automation
8 40 (30.08%) Software Engineering
9 36 (27.07%) CI/CD
10 31 (23.31%) OO
11 27 (20.30%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (18.05%) DevOps
13 23 (17.29%) Roadmaps
14 22 (16.54%) Collaborative Working
14 22 (16.54%) SOA
15 21 (15.79%) Coaching
15 21 (15.79%) Mentoring
15 21 (15.79%) Pair Programming
15 21 (15.79%) Product Roadmap
16 20 (15.04%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 69 (51.88%) SQL
2 62 (46.62%) Java
3 60 (45.11%) C#
4 37 (27.82%) TypeScript
5 22 (16.54%) JavaScript
6 17 (12.78%) Python
7 2 (1.50%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.75%) Groovy
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared
1 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.77%) Degree
3 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.29%) QA
2 17 (12.78%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (33.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (32.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.27%) Terraform
3 6 (4.51%) Grafana
4 5 (3.76%) Ansible
5 3 (2.26%) Packer
6 2 (1.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (39.10%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.50%) Alterian
2 2 (1.50%) AppDynamics
2 2 (1.50%) Optimizely
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle
2 2 (1.50%) Sitecore
3 1 (0.75%) Conga
3 1 (0.75%) GoCardless
3 1 (0.75%) IBM
3 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.75%) Veracode