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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 262 137
Rank change year-on-year -44 -125 +59
Permanent jobs citing BDD 88 134 731
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 1.04% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.10% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 71 122 667
10th Percentile £42,706 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,125 £93,331 £78,125
90th Percentile £82,250 £109,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -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 14,363 12,178 28,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.42% 94.80% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,040 8,855 23,360
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 8 April 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%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (52.27%) AWS
2 28 (31.82%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) GitHub
4 9 (10.23%) Serverless
5 8 (9.09%) Datadog
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.82%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.68%) dbt
7 5 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.68%) PaaS
7 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.68%) SaaS
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) HTTP
2 1 (1.14%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 17 (19.32%) NoSQL
4 12 (13.64%) MySQL
5 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.27%) Redis
7 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.14%) Flink
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (27.27%) Selenium
2 21 (23.86%) Cucumber
3 20 (22.73%) Git
4 16 (18.18%) Jenkins
5 15 (17.05%) SpecFlow
6 13 (14.77%) GitLab
7 10 (11.36%) JMeter
7 10 (11.36%) Postman
8 9 (10.23%) JIRA
8 9 (10.23%) WebDriver
9 7 (7.95%) Cypress.io
9 7 (7.95%) JUnit
10 6 (6.82%) Locust
11 4 (4.55%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.41%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.41%) Serenity BDD
13 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
13 2 (2.27%) Maven
13 2 (2.27%) NUnit
13 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (26.14%) Finance
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Banking
4 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.68%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.41%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Games
7 1 (1.14%) Marketing
7 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Developer
2 20 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 17 (19.32%) Lead
3 17 (19.32%) Senior
4 13 (14.77%) Java Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (11.36%) QA Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Development Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Software Development Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.95%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Analyst
8 6 (6.82%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (6.82%) Test Leader
9 5 (5.68%) Application Development Manager
9 5 (5.68%) Applications Development Manager
9 5 (5.68%) Applications Manager
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.27%) .NET
2 22 (25.00%) REST
3 21 (23.86%) Spring
4 16 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 14 (15.91%) AngularJS
6 13 (14.77%) Gherkin
6 13 (14.77%) Playwright
7 12 (13.64%) RESTful
8 11 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (12.50%) XML
9 10 (11.36%) Node.js
9 10 (11.36%) React
10 8 (9.09%) JSON
10 8 (9.09%) Web Services
11 7 (7.95%) pytest
12 6 (6.82%) .NET Core
12 6 (6.82%) ASP.NET
12 6 (6.82%) Django
12 6 (6.82%) Flask
12 6 (6.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Product Ownership
2 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.14%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) GNSS
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
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 54 (61.36%) TDD
3 50 (56.82%) Test Automation
4 35 (39.77%) DevOps
4 35 (39.77%) Microservices
5 32 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 32 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 28 (31.82%) Mentoring
7 21 (23.86%) Coaching
8 17 (19.32%) Scrum
8 17 (19.32%) Software Testing
8 17 (19.32%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (17.05%) Containerisation
9 15 (17.05%) Continuous Deployment
9 15 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (14.77%) Performance Testing
11 11 (12.50%) Open Source
12 10 (11.36%) Kanban
12 10 (11.36%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 53 (60.23%) Java
2 33 (37.50%) SQL
3 19 (21.59%) C#
4 17 (19.32%) Python
5 15 (17.05%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.82%) Delphi
8 1 (1.14%) Go
8 1 (1.14%) Groovy
8 1 (1.14%) Perl
8 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.14%) Scala
8 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) ISTQB
2 9 (10.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) ISEB
5 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (26.14%) QA
2 16 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (28.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (26.14%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.32%) Grafana
3 11 (12.50%) Terraform
4 7 (7.95%) Ansible
5 3 (3.41%) Kibana
6 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.14%) Argo
7 1 (1.14%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (2.27%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) Pega
4 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.14%) Splunk
4 1 (1.14%) Veracode
4 1 (1.14%) WSO2