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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 231 203
Rank change year-on-year -59 -28 -35
Permanent jobs citing BDD 78 249 336
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 1.41% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.53% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 62 172 283
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £50,313 £51,109 £50,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +3.50%
75th Percentile £71,750 £73,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,925 £112,500
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% - -3.57%

All Process and 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 13,685 16,295 18,758
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.13% 92.57% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,775 9,910 15,077
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,549 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 17 December 2025.

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 (3.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (55.13%) AWS
2 37 (47.44%) Azure
3 9 (11.54%) GitHub
4 6 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.69%) Serverless
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.85%) Datadog
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.28%) Apigee
8 1 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) RFID
2 1 (1.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.18%) MongoDB
2 24 (30.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
6 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.41%) MySQL
8 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (26.92%) Selenium
2 15 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 13 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 12 (15.38%) GitLab
5 11 (14.10%) Git
6 9 (11.54%) Postman
7 7 (8.97%) JUnit
8 6 (7.69%) Cypress.io
8 6 (7.69%) JIRA
8 6 (7.69%) SpecFlow
9 3 (3.85%) JMeter
9 3 (3.85%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.56%) Maven
10 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.56%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.28%) Jasmine
11 1 (1.28%) Locust
11 1 (1.28%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (20.51%) Finance
2 10 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.56%) Banking
5 2 (2.56%) Games
6 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (56.41%) Developer
2 24 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 18 (23.08%) Senior
4 10 (12.82%) Senior Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (6.41%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Tester
8 4 (5.13%) Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Application Development Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Development Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (43.59%) .NET
2 26 (33.33%) React
3 25 (32.05%) .NET Core
3 25 (32.05%) Node.js
4 24 (30.77%) ASP.NET
4 24 (30.77%) ASP.NET MVC
4 24 (30.77%) Entity Framework
5 22 (28.21%) AngularJS
6 18 (23.08%) .NET Framework
6 18 (23.08%) ASP.NET Web API
6 18 (23.08%) Spring
6 18 (23.08%) Vue
7 17 (21.79%) Spring Boot
8 10 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (11.54%) REST
10 8 (10.26%) CSS
10 8 (10.26%) Gherkin
10 8 (10.26%) HTML
11 7 (8.97%) CSS3
11 7 (8.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Digital TV
1 6 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (76.92%) TDD
2 54 (69.23%) Agile
3 38 (48.72%) Microservices
4 32 (41.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (39.74%) Test Automation
6 25 (32.05%) CI/CD
6 25 (32.05%) DevOps
7 24 (30.77%) MVC
7 24 (30.77%) Scrum
8 22 (28.21%) Kanban
9 15 (19.23%) Mentoring
10 14 (17.95%) Software Engineering
11 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (11.54%) Coaching
12 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.54%) Secure Coding
13 8 (10.26%) Fintech
13 8 (10.26%) Manual Testing
13 8 (10.26%) Service Delivery
13 8 (10.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 36 (46.15%) SQL
2 30 (38.46%) C#
2 30 (38.46%) Java
3 24 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 9 (11.54%) Python
5 6 (7.69%) Delphi
6 2 (2.56%) Go
6 2 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.10%) Degree
3 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.54%) ISTQB
4 9 (11.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (5.13%) ISEB
6 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.51%) QA
2 9 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.10%) Grafana
3 4 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (2.56%) Terraform
5 1 (1.28%) Argo
5 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.28%) Kibana
5 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Oracle
3 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.28%) Pega
3 1 (1.28%) Revolut
3 1 (1.28%) Splunk
3 1 (1.28%) UiPath
3 1 (1.28%) WSO2