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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 361 249
Rank change year-on-year +34 -112 -35
Permanent jobs citing BDD 138 63 277
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.37% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.40% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 97 53 180
10th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £41,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,457 £80,000 £87,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -

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 20,083 15,814 19,645
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.74% 93.84% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14,322 8,472 11,653
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,460 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%

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

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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 4 October 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 8 (5.80%) CMS
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.17%) DNN
2 3 (2.17%) EPiServer
2 3 (2.17%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (2.17%) Kentico
2 3 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.17%) Sitefinity
2 3 (2.17%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.45%) Camunda
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 88 (63.77%) AWS
2 83 (60.14%) Azure
3 45 (32.61%) GitHub
4 44 (31.88%) GitHub Copilot
5 13 (9.42%) Azure AI
6 9 (6.52%) Serverless
7 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.17%) GCP
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.72%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (50.72%) MongoDB
2 68 (49.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (42.03%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.62%) MySQL
5 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.17%) Flink
7 3 (2.17%) Redis
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (7.25%) Git
1 10 (7.25%) JUnit
2 8 (5.80%) JIRA
3 7 (5.07%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.35%) Selenium
5 5 (3.62%) Mockito
6 3 (2.17%) Android Studio
6 3 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.17%) Maven
6 3 (2.17%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.72%) GitLab
8 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.72%) JMeter
8 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.72%) Postman
8 1 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 45 (32.61%) Finance
2 27 (19.57%) Banking
3 13 (9.42%) Advertising
4 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.07%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.17%) Back Office
8 3 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.45%) Games
9 2 (1.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 73 (52.90%) Developer
2 66 (47.83%) .NET Developer
3 33 (23.91%) Lead
4 32 (23.19%) Software Engineer
5 23 (16.67%) Development Engineer
5 23 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 23 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
6 7 (5.07%) Analyst
6 7 (5.07%) Java Developer
6 7 (5.07%) Test Engineer
6 7 (5.07%) Tester
7 6 (4.35%) Senior
8 5 (3.62%) Software Tester
9 4 (2.90%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.90%) Graduate
9 4 (2.90%) Junior
9 4 (2.90%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (2.17%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.17%) EPiServer Developer
10 3 (2.17%) Graduate Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (52.90%) .NET
2 68 (49.28%) ASP.NET
2 68 (49.28%) ASP.NET Core
3 66 (47.83%) .NET Core
4 57 (41.30%) Node.js
5 46 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 45 (32.61%) Vue
7 29 (21.01%) .NET Framework
8 28 (20.29%) REST
9 26 (18.84%) React
10 24 (17.39%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (10.14%) Entity Framework
11 14 (10.14%) HTML
12 13 (9.42%) CSS
12 13 (9.42%) ML.NET
13 12 (8.70%) Spring
14 11 (7.97%) WinForms
14 11 (7.97%) WPF
15 10 (7.25%) Blazor
15 10 (7.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.84%) Product Ownership
2 23 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 16 (11.59%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.90%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (2.90%) Online Gambling
4 4 (2.90%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.17%) Tandem
6 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Smart Home
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (86.23%) TDD
2 95 (68.84%) Agile
3 72 (52.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 69 (50.00%) Microservices
5 63 (45.65%) Scrum
6 60 (43.48%) Kanban
7 37 (26.81%) CI/CD
8 36 (26.09%) OO
8 36 (26.09%) Software Engineering
9 30 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
10 28 (20.29%) Collaborative Working
11 27 (19.57%) SOLID
12 26 (18.84%) Pair Programming
13 24 (17.39%) Roadmaps
14 23 (16.67%) Product Management
14 23 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
14 23 (16.67%) SOA
15 22 (15.94%) Mentoring
15 22 (15.94%) Test Automation
16 21 (15.22%) AI
Programming Languages
1 73 (52.90%) C#
1 73 (52.90%) SQL
2 51 (36.96%) Java
3 47 (34.06%) TypeScript
4 28 (20.29%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.42%) Python
6 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (7.97%) SC Cleared
1 11 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.07%) Degree
3 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.97%) QA
System Software
1 48 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.90%) Ansible
3 3 (2.17%) Packer
4 1 (0.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 70 (50.72%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.17%) Alterian
2 3 (2.17%) Optimizely
2 3 (2.17%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle
4 1 (0.72%) Conga
4 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.72%) GoCardless
4 1 (0.72%) RedGate
4 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow