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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 350 213
Rank change year-on-year +52 -137 +18
Permanent jobs citing BDD 146 87 526
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 0.54% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.57% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 118 74 467
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,231 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £79,800 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -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 17,173 15,146 29,476
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.44% 93.69% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,544 8,967 22,622
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 4 July 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 (2.05%) Apache Solr
1 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.05%) CMS
1 3 (2.05%) Confluence
1 3 (2.05%) DNN
1 3 (2.05%) EPiServer
1 3 (2.05%) Immediacy CMS
1 3 (2.05%) Kentico
1 3 (2.05%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (2.05%) Sitefinity
1 3 (2.05%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 90 (61.64%) AWS
2 84 (57.53%) Azure
3 43 (29.45%) GitHub
4 40 (27.40%) GitHub Copilot
5 12 (8.22%) Azure AI
6 8 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.48%) Serverless
7 5 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.42%) Datadog
7 5 (3.42%) dbt
7 5 (3.42%) PaaS
7 5 (3.42%) SaaS
8 4 (2.74%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.37%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.37%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.68%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (51.37%) MongoDB
2 61 (41.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 53 (36.30%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (10.27%) MySQL
5 15 (10.27%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.05%) Flink
6 3 (2.05%) Redis
7 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (10.27%) Git
2 13 (8.90%) Selenium
3 12 (8.22%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.85%) SpecFlow
5 9 (6.16%) JMeter
6 8 (5.48%) Jenkins
7 7 (4.79%) WebDriver
8 5 (3.42%) JIRA
8 5 (3.42%) Locust
8 5 (3.42%) Postman
9 4 (2.74%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.74%) GitLab
9 4 (2.74%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.05%) JUnit
11 2 (1.37%) NUnit
11 2 (1.37%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.37%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.68%) Appium
12 1 (0.68%) Snyk
General
1 43 (29.45%) Finance
2 21 (14.38%) Banking
3 19 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.22%) Advertising
5 9 (6.16%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.05%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Marketing
8 2 (1.37%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (47.26%) Developer
2 60 (41.10%) .NET Developer
3 35 (23.97%) Software Engineer
4 32 (21.92%) Lead
5 20 (13.70%) Development Engineer
5 20 (13.70%) Lead Software Engineer
5 20 (13.70%) Software Development Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Java Engineer
7 11 (7.53%) Senior
8 10 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) QA Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.11%) Junior
11 6 (4.11%) Test Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) Test Leader
13 4 (2.74%) Analyst
14 3 (2.05%) Business Analyst
14 3 (2.05%) Lead Developer
14 3 (2.05%) Quality Engineer
14 3 (2.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (51.37%) .NET
2 61 (41.78%) ASP.NET
2 61 (41.78%) ASP.NET Core
3 59 (40.41%) .NET Core
4 51 (34.93%) Node.js
5 48 (32.88%) AngularJS
6 41 (28.08%) Vue
7 33 (22.60%) REST
8 28 (19.18%) React
9 25 (17.12%) .NET Framework
10 21 (14.38%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (9.59%) Playwright
12 13 (8.90%) HTML
12 13 (8.90%) RESTful
13 12 (8.22%) CSS
13 12 (8.22%) Entity Framework
13 12 (8.22%) ML.NET
13 12 (8.22%) Spring
14 9 (6.16%) Blazor
14 9 (6.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.12%) Product Ownership
2 20 (13.70%) Public Cloud
3 15 (10.27%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (9.59%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.05%) Tandem
6 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) GNSS
7 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.05%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (82.88%) TDD
2 115 (78.77%) Agile
3 71 (48.63%) Microservices
4 65 (44.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 60 (41.10%) Scrum
6 54 (36.99%) Kanban
7 43 (29.45%) Test Automation
8 41 (28.08%) Software Engineering
9 38 (26.03%) CI/CD
10 33 (22.60%) OO
11 28 (19.18%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (16.44%) DevOps
13 23 (15.75%) Roadmaps
14 22 (15.07%) Coaching
14 22 (15.07%) Collaborative Working
14 22 (15.07%) Mentoring
14 22 (15.07%) SOA
15 21 (14.38%) Pair Programming
15 21 (14.38%) Product Roadmap
16 20 (13.70%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 82 (56.16%) SQL
2 72 (49.32%) C#
3 62 (42.47%) Java
4 45 (30.82%) TypeScript
5 28 (19.18%) JavaScript
6 17 (11.64%) Python
7 2 (1.37%) Scala
8 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.68%) Go
8 1 (0.68%) Groovy
8 1 (0.68%) Perl
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (8.22%) SC Cleared
1 12 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.16%) Degree
3 3 (2.05%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.75%) QA
2 17 (11.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (35.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (34.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.53%) Terraform
3 6 (4.11%) Grafana
4 5 (3.42%) Ansible
5 3 (2.05%) Packer
6 2 (1.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (43.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.05%) Alterian
2 3 (2.05%) Optimizely
2 3 (2.05%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.37%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle
4 1 (0.68%) Conga
4 1 (0.68%) GoCardless
4 1 (0.68%) IBM
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.68%) Veracode