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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 273 212
Rank change year-on-year -73 -61 -65
Permanent jobs citing BDD 70 251 379
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 1.08% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.23% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59 180 330
10th Percentile £47,231 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -
75th Percentile £74,443 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -2.86%

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 15,073 20,325 24,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 87.67% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,550 12,689 19,809
10th Percentile £29,913 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,512 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +2.16%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

BDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BDD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BDD
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BDD over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

BDD salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.29%) CMS
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Drupal
2 2 (2.86%) WordPress
3 1 (1.43%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (2.86%) Elementor
1 2 (2.86%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 39 (55.71%) Azure
2 34 (48.57%) AWS
3 6 (8.57%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.86%) Cloudflare
4 2 (2.86%) Figma
4 2 (2.86%) GitHub
4 2 (2.86%) Vercel
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.43%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.43%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.43%) SaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (44.29%) MongoDB
2 28 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.14%) MySQL
6 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Selenium
2 8 (11.43%) Git
3 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.71%) JIRA
4 4 (5.71%) Postman
5 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.86%) GitLab
6 2 (2.86%) JMeter
6 2 (2.86%) JUnit
6 2 (2.86%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (1.43%) git-flow
7 1 (1.43%) gulp
7 1 (1.43%) Maven
7 1 (1.43%) Mockito
7 1 (1.43%) NUnit
7 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.43%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.43%) Subversion
7 1 (1.43%) Xcode
General
1 23 (32.86%) Finance
2 11 (15.71%) Banking
3 5 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Legal
5 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
5 2 (2.86%) Law
5 2 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (1.43%) Games
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (57.14%) Developer
2 28 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Automation Tester
5 3 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (4.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (4.29%) Lead
5 3 (4.29%) QA Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Test Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Tester
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 2 (2.86%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (48.57%) React
2 33 (47.14%) .NET
3 31 (44.29%) .NET Core
4 29 (41.43%) ASP.NET
4 29 (41.43%) ASP.NET MVC
5 28 (40.00%) Entity Framework
6 26 (37.14%) AngularJS
7 24 (34.29%) Node.js
7 24 (34.29%) Vue
8 22 (31.43%) .NET Framework
8 22 (31.43%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (22.86%) CSS
10 15 (21.43%) HTML
11 11 (15.71%) Spring
12 10 (14.29%) CSS3
12 10 (14.29%) HTML5
12 10 (14.29%) Spring Boot
13 7 (10.00%) Blazor
13 7 (10.00%) RESTful
14 6 (8.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Digital TV
2 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.29%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
1 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (88.57%) TDD
2 57 (81.43%) Agile
3 36 (51.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (50.00%) Microservices
5 29 (41.43%) MVC
6 28 (40.00%) Scrum
7 24 (34.29%) Kanban
8 22 (31.43%) Test Automation
9 16 (22.86%) CI/CD
10 10 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
12 8 (11.43%) Asset Management
12 8 (11.43%) DevOps
12 8 (11.43%) Fintech
12 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
13 7 (10.00%) Wealth Management
14 6 (8.57%) Coaching
14 6 (8.57%) Manual Testing
15 5 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
15 5 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 40 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 38 (54.29%) SQL
3 34 (48.57%) C#
4 30 (42.86%) TypeScript
5 24 (34.29%) Java
6 3 (4.29%) PHP
7 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.86%) Python
8 1 (1.43%) Go
8 1 (1.43%) Swift
8 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.29%) Degree
5 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.43%) QA
2 6 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) GRC
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.86%) Google
2 2 (2.86%) Netlify
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe
3 1 (1.43%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.43%) Revolut
3 1 (1.43%) Tealium
3 1 (1.43%) UiPath