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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 223 210
Rank change year-on-year -102 -13 -58
Permanent jobs citing BDD 79 278 333
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 1.39% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.58% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 66 184 280
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -2.86%
75th Percentile £71,313 £78,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 14,816 17,600 20,873
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.52% 88.21% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,697 10,499 16,904
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 7 November 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 2 (2.53%) CMS
1 2 (2.53%) Drupal
1 2 (2.53%) WordPress
2 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (2.53%) Elementor
1 2 (2.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 43 (54.43%) AWS
2 40 (50.63%) Azure
3 8 (10.13%) GitHub
4 6 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.80%) Serverless
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.53%) Cloudflare
6 2 (2.53%) Figma
6 2 (2.53%) Vercel
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.27%) GCP
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) RFID
2 1 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (41.77%) MongoDB
2 28 (35.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (26.58%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (16.46%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (8.86%) MySQL
5 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
6 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.27%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Selenium
2 12 (15.19%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.39%) Cucumber
3 9 (11.39%) Git
4 8 (10.13%) GitLab
5 7 (8.86%) JUnit
6 5 (6.33%) Postman
7 4 (5.06%) JIRA
7 4 (5.06%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.53%) JMeter
8 2 (2.53%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.27%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.27%) Maven
9 1 (1.27%) Mockito
9 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (25.32%) Finance
2 9 (11.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.80%) Legal
3 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.80%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Banking
4 2 (2.53%) Digital Healthcare
4 2 (2.53%) Games
4 2 (2.53%) Law
5 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (60.76%) Developer
2 28 (35.44%) .NET Developer
3 19 (24.05%) Senior
4 10 (12.66%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Software Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Development Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Development Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.10%) .NET
2 31 (39.24%) React
3 30 (37.97%) .NET Core
4 28 (35.44%) ASP.NET
4 28 (35.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 28 (35.44%) Entity Framework
5 27 (34.18%) AngularJS
6 25 (31.65%) Node.js
7 23 (29.11%) Vue
8 21 (26.58%) .NET Framework
8 21 (26.58%) ASP.NET Web API
9 19 (24.05%) Spring
10 18 (22.78%) Spring Boot
11 14 (17.72%) CSS
11 14 (17.72%) HTML
12 10 (12.66%) CSS3
12 10 (12.66%) HTML5
13 7 (8.86%) Blazor
13 7 (8.86%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (7.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Digital TV
2 6 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (84.81%) TDD
2 59 (74.68%) Agile
3 43 (54.43%) Microservices
4 37 (46.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (35.44%) MVC
5 28 (35.44%) Test Automation
6 26 (32.91%) Kanban
6 26 (32.91%) Scrum
7 23 (29.11%) CI/CD
8 16 (20.25%) DevOps
9 13 (16.46%) Mentoring
9 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.39%) Fintech
11 9 (11.39%) Manual Testing
11 9 (11.39%) Secure Coding
12 8 (10.13%) Asset Management
12 8 (10.13%) Coaching
12 8 (10.13%) SEO
13 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) JavaScript
1 39 (49.37%) SQL
2 37 (46.84%) C#
3 31 (39.24%) Java
4 28 (35.44%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) Python
6 6 (7.59%) Delphi
7 4 (5.06%) PHP
8 2 (2.53%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) ISTQB
3 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (5.06%) ISEB
6 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.25%) QA
2 8 (10.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.86%) Grafana
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) Kibana
4 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (36.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) Netlify
4 1 (1.27%) Pega
4 1 (1.27%) Revolut
4 1 (1.27%) Splunk
4 1 (1.27%) UiPath
4 1 (1.27%) WSO2