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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 220 123
Rank change year-on-year -77 -97 +58
Permanent jobs citing BDD 74 244 583
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 1.49% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.59% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 59 169 518
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £71,750 £73,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £66,508 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.47% +12.50% -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 13,352 15,391 20,337
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 93.78% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,502 9,047 16,467
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,300 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 16 January 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 (4.05%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 40 (54.05%) AWS
2 32 (43.24%) Azure
3 10 (13.51%) GitHub
4 6 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (8.11%) OpenShift
4 6 (8.11%) Serverless
5 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.05%) Datadog
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.35%) GCP
9 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (33.78%) MongoDB
2 20 (27.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (20.27%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (9.46%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.76%) MySQL
6 5 (6.76%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.35%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (31.08%) Selenium
2 15 (20.27%) Cucumber
2 15 (20.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (17.57%) Git
4 12 (16.22%) GitLab
5 10 (13.51%) Postman
6 9 (12.16%) SpecFlow
7 7 (9.46%) JUnit
8 6 (8.11%) Cypress.io
8 6 (8.11%) JIRA
9 5 (6.76%) JMeter
10 4 (5.41%) REST Assured
10 4 (5.41%) WebDriver
11 3 (4.05%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (4.05%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.70%) Maven
12 2 (2.70%) NUnit
12 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
13 1 (1.35%) Jasmine
13 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (18.92%) Finance
2 10 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Tech for Good
4 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.35%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (54.05%) Developer
2 21 (28.38%) .NET Developer
3 19 (25.68%) Senior
4 10 (13.51%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.46%) Software Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Software Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Test Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Application Development Manager
8 5 (6.76%) Applications Development Manager
8 5 (6.76%) Applications Manager
8 5 (6.76%) Automation Tester
8 5 (6.76%) Development Manager
8 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Lead
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Tester
9 4 (5.41%) Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (41.89%) .NET
2 23 (31.08%) React
3 22 (29.73%) Node.js
4 20 (27.03%) .NET Core
4 20 (27.03%) ASP.NET
4 20 (27.03%) ASP.NET MVC
4 20 (27.03%) Entity Framework
5 19 (25.68%) AngularJS
6 18 (24.32%) Spring
7 16 (21.62%) Spring Boot
8 15 (20.27%) .NET Framework
8 15 (20.27%) ASP.NET Web API
8 15 (20.27%) Vue
9 10 (13.51%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (13.51%) REST
10 8 (10.81%) Gherkin
11 7 (9.46%) pytest
11 7 (9.46%) Web Services
12 6 (8.11%) CSS
12 6 (8.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.76%) Digital TV
2 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (74.32%) TDD
2 52 (70.27%) Agile
3 35 (47.30%) Microservices
4 30 (40.54%) Test Automation
5 29 (39.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (33.78%) CI/CD
6 25 (33.78%) DevOps
7 23 (31.08%) Scrum
8 20 (27.03%) MVC
9 19 (25.68%) Kanban
10 16 (21.62%) Mentoring
10 16 (21.62%) Software Engineering
11 10 (13.51%) Coaching
11 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (12.16%) Secure Coding
12 9 (12.16%) Service Delivery
13 8 (10.81%) Performance Testing
13 8 (10.81%) SEO
13 8 (10.81%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.24%) JavaScript
2 30 (40.54%) SQL
3 29 (39.19%) Java
4 28 (37.84%) C#
5 22 (29.73%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.16%) Python
7 6 (8.11%) Delphi
8 3 (4.05%) Go
9 2 (2.70%) PHP
10 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Degree
2 11 (14.86%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) ISTQB
3 9 (12.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) ISEB
5 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) QA
2 12 (16.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.86%) Grafana
3 4 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (2.70%) Terraform
5 1 (1.35%) Argo
5 1 (1.35%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.35%) Kibana
5 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (31.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.46%) Oracle
3 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.35%) Pega
3 1 (1.35%) Splunk
3 1 (1.35%) UiPath
3 1 (1.35%) WSO2