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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 345 281
Rank change year-on-year +25 -64 -59
Permanent jobs citing BDD 143 74 235
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.46% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.49% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 102 62 183
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,063 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £104,347 £90,000
UK median annual salary £66,750 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.49% +13.46% -

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 19,307 15,056 20,685
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 92.97% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,921 8,679 13,447
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 6 September 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 8 (5.59%) CMS
2 3 (2.10%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.10%) DNN
2 3 (2.10%) EPiServer
2 3 (2.10%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (2.10%) Kentico
2 3 (2.10%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.10%) Sitefinity
2 3 (2.10%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 92 (64.34%) AWS
2 84 (58.74%) Azure
3 47 (32.87%) GitHub
4 46 (32.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (9.79%) Azure AI
6 8 (5.59%) Serverless
7 6 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (2.10%) GCP
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.40%) Datadog
10 2 (1.40%) dbt
10 2 (1.40%) PaaS
10 2 (1.40%) SaaS
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (20.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (50.35%) MongoDB
2 70 (48.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (41.26%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.80%) MySQL
7 3 (2.10%) Flink
7 3 (2.10%) Redis
7 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.09%) Git
2 8 (5.59%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.59%) JIRA
3 7 (4.90%) JUnit
3 7 (4.90%) Selenium
4 5 (3.50%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.10%) JMeter
5 3 (2.10%) Maven
5 3 (2.10%) Mockito
5 3 (2.10%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.40%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.40%) GitLab
6 2 (1.40%) Locust
6 2 (1.40%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.70%) Appium
7 1 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.70%) Postman
7 1 (0.70%) Snyk
7 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (34.97%) Finance
2 28 (19.58%) Banking
3 14 (9.79%) Advertising
4 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.59%) Social Skills
5 7 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.10%) Back Office
7 3 (2.10%) Marketing
7 3 (2.10%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.40%) Games
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (54.55%) Developer
2 68 (47.55%) .NET Developer
3 34 (23.78%) Lead
4 31 (21.68%) Software Engineer
5 25 (17.48%) Development Engineer
5 25 (17.48%) Lead Software Engineer
5 25 (17.48%) Software Development Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Senior
7 9 (6.29%) Java Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Analyst
9 7 (4.90%) Tester
10 5 (3.50%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.50%) Graduate
10 5 (3.50%) Junior
10 5 (3.50%) Software Tester
11 4 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Test Engineer
12 3 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
12 3 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
12 3 (2.10%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (53.15%) .NET
2 70 (48.95%) ASP.NET
2 70 (48.95%) ASP.NET Core
3 68 (47.55%) .NET Core
4 58 (40.56%) Node.js
5 51 (35.66%) AngularJS
6 46 (32.17%) Vue
7 32 (22.38%) REST
8 30 (20.98%) .NET Framework
9 28 (19.58%) React
10 24 (16.78%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (10.49%) HTML
12 14 (9.79%) CSS
12 14 (9.79%) Entity Framework
12 14 (9.79%) ML.NET
13 11 (7.69%) Gherkin
13 11 (7.69%) Spring
13 11 (7.69%) WinForms
13 11 (7.69%) WPF
14 10 (6.99%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.98%) Product Ownership
2 25 (17.48%) Public Cloud
3 17 (11.89%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.80%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.80%) Online Gambling
5 4 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.10%) Tandem
7 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.70%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (86.01%) TDD
2 101 (70.63%) Agile
3 71 (49.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (46.85%) Scrum
5 66 (46.15%) Microservices
6 62 (43.36%) Kanban
7 39 (27.27%) OO
8 35 (24.48%) Software Engineering
9 34 (23.78%) CI/CD
10 30 (20.98%) Collaborative Working
10 30 (20.98%) Technical Leadership
11 29 (20.28%) SOLID
12 27 (18.88%) Pair Programming
12 27 (18.88%) Roadmaps
13 25 (17.48%) Product Management
13 25 (17.48%) Product Roadmap
13 25 (17.48%) SOA
14 23 (16.08%) AI
15 21 (14.69%) Test Automation
16 17 (11.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (53.15%) C#
2 75 (52.45%) SQL
3 51 (35.66%) Java
4 48 (33.57%) TypeScript
5 28 (19.58%) JavaScript
6 14 (9.79%) Python
7 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.70%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) Perl
8 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.70%) Scala
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (6.99%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.99%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.59%) Degree
3 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.49%) QA
2 12 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (35.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (34.97%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.50%) Ansible
3 3 (2.10%) Packer
4 2 (1.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 73 (51.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.10%) Alterian
2 3 (2.10%) Optimizely
2 3 (2.10%) Oracle
2 3 (2.10%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.40%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.70%) Conga
4 1 (0.70%) GoCardless
4 1 (0.70%) IBM
4 1 (0.70%) RedGate
4 1 (0.70%) Salesforce