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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 235 210
Rank change year-on-year -120 -25 -66
Permanent jobs citing BDD 66 278 346
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 1.35% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.53% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 54 184 298
10th Percentile £46,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +1.92% -
75th Percentile £71,313 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -3.89%

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 15,402 18,187 22,106
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.81% 88.00% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,401 10,957 17,963
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,498 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 16 October 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 (3.03%) CMS
1 2 (3.03%) Drupal
1 2 (3.03%) WordPress
2 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (3.03%) Elementor
1 2 (3.03%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 40 (60.61%) Azure
2 37 (56.06%) AWS
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (4.55%) Serverless
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.03%) Cloudflare
4 2 (3.03%) Figma
4 2 (3.03%) GCP
4 2 (3.03%) GitHub
4 2 (3.03%) Vercel
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.52%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (48.48%) MongoDB
2 28 (42.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (31.82%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (10.61%) MySQL
4 7 (10.61%) NoSQL
5 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Selenium
2 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.06%) Git
3 4 (6.06%) Postman
4 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.03%) GitLab
4 2 (3.03%) JIRA
4 2 (3.03%) JMeter
4 2 (3.03%) JUnit
4 2 (3.03%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (3.03%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.52%) git-flow
5 1 (1.52%) Maven
5 1 (1.52%) Mockito
5 1 (1.52%) NUnit
5 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (22.73%) Finance
2 3 (4.55%) Legal
2 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.03%) Banking
3 2 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
3 2 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (1.52%) Games
4 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (65.15%) Developer
2 28 (42.42%) .NET Developer
3 12 (18.18%) Senior
4 8 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Automation Tester
7 3 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (4.55%) QA Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Tester
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Lead
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (50.00%) .NET
2 31 (46.97%) React
3 30 (45.45%) .NET Core
4 28 (42.42%) ASP.NET
4 28 (42.42%) ASP.NET MVC
4 28 (42.42%) Entity Framework
5 27 (40.91%) AngularJS
6 25 (37.88%) Node.js
7 23 (34.85%) Vue
8 21 (31.82%) .NET Framework
8 21 (31.82%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (21.21%) CSS
9 14 (21.21%) HTML
10 11 (16.67%) Spring
11 10 (15.15%) CSS3
11 10 (15.15%) HTML5
11 10 (15.15%) Spring Boot
12 7 (10.61%) Blazor
13 6 (9.09%) RESTful
14 5 (7.58%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Digital TV
2 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Linux
1 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (89.39%) TDD
2 52 (78.79%) Agile
3 38 (57.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (53.03%) Microservices
5 28 (42.42%) MVC
6 27 (40.91%) Scrum
7 26 (39.39%) Kanban
8 19 (28.79%) Test Automation
9 17 (25.76%) CI/CD
10 9 (13.64%) DevOps
11 8 (12.12%) Asset Management
11 8 (12.12%) Fintech
12 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.61%) Manual Testing
12 7 (10.61%) Wealth Management
13 6 (9.09%) Coaching
14 5 (7.58%) Mentoring
14 5 (7.58%) Non-Functional Testing
14 5 (7.58%) Open Source
14 5 (7.58%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 37 (56.06%) SQL
3 35 (53.03%) C#
4 28 (42.42%) TypeScript
5 23 (34.85%) Java
6 4 (6.06%) PHP
7 3 (4.55%) Python
8 2 (3.03%) Go
9 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 4 (6.06%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (3.03%) ISEB
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.73%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (43.94%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.03%) Netlify
3 1 (1.52%) Pega
3 1 (1.52%) Revolut
3 1 (1.52%) UiPath
3 1 (1.52%) WSO2