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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 307 146
Rank change year-on-year -5 -161 +62
Permanent jobs citing BDD 88 107 714
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 0.75% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.79% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 67 94 657
10th Percentile £42,706 £47,311 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £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 £74,066 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,246 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +20.41% -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 15,172 13,521 29,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.63% 94.90% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10,708 8,881 23,561
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +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 7 May 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 (3.41%) Apache Solr
1 3 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.82%) AWS
2 31 (35.23%) Azure
3 10 (11.36%) Serverless
4 8 (9.09%) Datadog
4 8 (9.09%) GitHub
5 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.68%) dbt
6 5 (5.68%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (5.68%) PaaS
6 5 (5.68%) SaaS
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.27%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 19 (21.59%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 14 (15.91%) MySQL
5 11 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.41%) Flink
7 3 (3.41%) Redis
8 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (17.05%) Selenium
2 13 (14.77%) Cucumber
2 13 (14.77%) Git
3 11 (12.50%) SpecFlow
4 10 (11.36%) Jenkins
5 9 (10.23%) JMeter
5 9 (10.23%) Postman
5 9 (10.23%) WebDriver
6 8 (9.09%) JIRA
7 7 (7.95%) Cypress.io
7 7 (7.95%) GitLab
8 6 (6.82%) Locust
9 4 (4.55%) SonarQube
10 3 (3.41%) REST Assured
10 3 (3.41%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.27%) Maven
11 2 (2.27%) NUnit
11 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
12 1 (1.14%) JUnit
General
1 24 (27.27%) Finance
2 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.64%) Banking
4 7 (7.95%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.41%) Digital Healthcare
6 3 (3.41%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.14%) Marketing
8 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) Software Engineer
2 26 (29.55%) Lead
3 21 (23.86%) Developer
4 15 (17.05%) Development Engineer
4 15 (17.05%) Software Development Engineer
5 12 (13.64%) Java Engineer
5 12 (13.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) .NET Developer
7 10 (11.36%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (10.23%) QA Engineer
8 9 (10.23%) Senior
9 7 (7.95%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.55%) Junior
11 4 (4.55%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) Development Manager
12 3 (3.41%) Quality Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) Test Development Engineer
12 3 (3.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.82%) REST
2 23 (26.14%) .NET
3 14 (15.91%) AngularJS
3 14 (15.91%) Playwright
3 14 (15.91%) Spring
4 12 (13.64%) RESTful
5 11 (12.50%) Node.js
5 11 (12.50%) React
6 10 (11.36%) .NET Core
6 10 (11.36%) ASP.NET
6 10 (11.36%) XML
7 9 (10.23%) Gherkin
8 8 (9.09%) JSON
8 8 (9.09%) Kafka
8 8 (9.09%) Spring Boot
9 7 (7.95%) Vue
9 7 (7.95%) Web Services
10 6 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (5.68%) .NET Framework
11 5 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.45%) Product Ownership
2 13 (14.77%) Cloud Native
3 12 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.14%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.14%) GNSS
7 1 (1.14%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Android
2 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (70.45%) Agile
2 59 (67.05%) TDD
3 41 (46.59%) Test Automation
4 31 (35.23%) Software Engineering
5 30 (34.09%) CI/CD
6 28 (31.82%) DevOps
6 28 (31.82%) Microservices
7 21 (23.86%) Mentoring
8 20 (22.73%) Coaching
9 19 (21.59%) Scrum
9 19 (21.59%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (17.05%) Continuous Deployment
11 15 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (17.05%) OO
11 15 (17.05%) Roadmaps
12 14 (15.91%) SOA
13 13 (14.77%) Pair Programming
13 13 (14.77%) Performance Testing
13 13 (14.77%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (60.23%) Java
2 35 (39.77%) SQL
3 19 (21.59%) C#
4 15 (17.05%) Python
5 14 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.14%) Go
7 1 (1.14%) Groovy
7 1 (1.14%) Perl
7 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.14%) Scala
7 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.82%) Degree
3 4 (4.55%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.27%) QA
2 15 (17.05%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.64%) Terraform
3 10 (11.36%) Grafana
4 7 (7.95%) Ansible
5 3 (3.41%) Packer
6 2 (2.27%) Kibana
6 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.14%) Argo
7 1 (1.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.27%) AppDynamics
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.14%) IBM
3 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.14%) Veracode