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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 368 253
Rank change year-on-year +39 -115 -33
Permanent jobs citing BDD 138 62 267
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.37% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.40% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 97 52 170
10th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,583 £80,000 £87,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -

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 20,082 15,514 20,012
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.02% 93.49% 88.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 8,545 11,983
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,600
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 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 (5.80%) CMS
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.17%) DNN
2 3 (2.17%) EPiServer
2 3 (2.17%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (2.17%) Kentico
2 3 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.17%) Sitefinity
2 3 (2.17%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.45%) Camunda
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 89 (64.49%) AWS
2 81 (58.70%) Azure
3 45 (32.61%) GitHub
4 44 (31.88%) GitHub Copilot
5 13 (9.42%) Azure AI
6 10 (7.25%) Serverless
7 8 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.17%) GCP
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.72%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (20.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (49.28%) Azure SQL Database
1 68 (49.28%) MongoDB
2 58 (42.03%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.17%) Flink
4 3 (2.17%) MySQL
4 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.17%) Redis
4 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Git
2 10 (7.25%) JUnit
3 8 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.80%) JIRA
4 6 (4.35%) Selenium
5 5 (3.62%) Mockito
6 3 (2.17%) Android Studio
6 3 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.17%) Maven
6 3 (2.17%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.45%) GitLab
7 2 (1.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.72%) JMeter
8 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.72%) Postman
8 1 (0.72%) Snyk
8 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (34.06%) Finance
2 28 (20.29%) Banking
3 13 (9.42%) Advertising
4 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.07%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.17%) Back Office
8 3 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.45%) Games
9 2 (1.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (53.62%) Developer
2 66 (47.83%) .NET Developer
3 33 (23.91%) Lead
4 31 (22.46%) Software Engineer
5 24 (17.39%) Development Engineer
5 24 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
5 24 (17.39%) Software Development Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Analyst
7 7 (5.07%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.07%) Senior
7 7 (5.07%) Tester
8 5 (3.62%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.62%) Software Tester
8 5 (3.62%) Test Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Graduate
9 4 (2.90%) Junior
10 3 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.17%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (52.90%) .NET
2 68 (49.28%) ASP.NET
2 68 (49.28%) ASP.NET Core
3 66 (47.83%) .NET Core
4 57 (41.30%) Node.js
5 49 (35.51%) AngularJS
6 45 (32.61%) Vue
7 31 (22.46%) REST
8 29 (21.01%) .NET Framework
9 28 (20.29%) React
10 24 (17.39%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (10.14%) Entity Framework
11 14 (10.14%) HTML
12 13 (9.42%) CSS
12 13 (9.42%) ML.NET
12 13 (9.42%) Spring
13 11 (7.97%) WinForms
13 11 (7.97%) WPF
14 10 (7.25%) Spring Boot
14 10 (7.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.29%) Product Ownership
2 24 (17.39%) Public Cloud
3 16 (11.59%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.90%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.90%) Online Gambling
5 4 (2.90%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.17%) Tandem
7 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) Smart Home
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Android
2 2 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (86.96%) TDD
2 94 (68.12%) Agile
3 71 (51.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (48.55%) Microservices
5 65 (47.10%) Scrum
6 61 (44.20%) Kanban
7 37 (26.81%) OO
8 35 (25.36%) Software Engineering
9 33 (23.91%) CI/CD
10 30 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
11 29 (21.01%) Collaborative Working
12 28 (20.29%) SOLID
13 27 (19.57%) Pair Programming
14 25 (18.12%) Roadmaps
15 24 (17.39%) Product Management
15 24 (17.39%) Product Roadmap
15 24 (17.39%) SOA
16 21 (15.22%) AI
17 20 (14.49%) Test Automation
18 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 73 (52.90%) C#
2 72 (52.17%) SQL
3 49 (35.51%) Java
4 47 (34.06%) TypeScript
5 28 (20.29%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.97%) Python
7 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.72%) Groovy
8 1 (0.72%) Perl
8 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.72%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 12 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.07%) Degree
3 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.70%) QA
2 11 (7.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (35.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.62%) Ansible
3 3 (2.17%) Packer
4 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 70 (50.72%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.17%) Alterian
2 3 (2.17%) Optimizely
2 3 (2.17%) Oracle
2 3 (2.17%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.45%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.72%) Conga
4 1 (0.72%) GoCardless
4 1 (0.72%) IBM
4 1 (0.72%) RedGate
4 1 (0.72%) Salesforce