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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 226 134
Rank change year-on-year -79 -92 +63
Permanent jobs citing BDD 80 198 736
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 1.42% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.49% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 67 152 664
10th Percentile £44,700 £47,231 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £71,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £79,080 £98,474 £109,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -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 14,163 13,299 27,577
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.18% 95.33% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,242 8,824 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,415 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 11 March 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 (3.75%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 38 (47.50%) AWS
2 28 (35.00%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) GitHub
4 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.75%) Datadog
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (7.50%) OpenShift
5 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.50%) Serverless
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.00%) dbt
7 4 (5.00%) PaaS
7 4 (5.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.25%) Apigee
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.75%) MongoDB
1 23 (28.75%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 13 (16.25%) MySQL
4 8 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.25%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (31.25%) Selenium
2 20 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 16 (20.00%) Git
4 15 (18.75%) SpecFlow
5 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
6 12 (15.00%) GitLab
7 10 (12.50%) Postman
8 9 (11.25%) JIRA
8 9 (11.25%) JMeter
8 9 (11.25%) WebDriver
9 7 (8.75%) Cypress.io
9 7 (8.75%) JUnit
10 5 (6.25%) Locust
11 3 (3.75%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.75%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.50%) Maven
12 2 (2.50%) NUnit
12 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (20.00%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Tech for Good
5 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.75%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Games
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Senior
3 14 (17.50%) Software Engineer
4 13 (16.25%) Java Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) QA Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) .NET Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Lead
7 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Application Development Manager
8 6 (7.50%) Applications Development Manager
8 6 (7.50%) Applications Manager
8 6 (7.50%) Development Manager
8 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Java Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.50%) .NET
2 18 (22.50%) Spring
3 15 (18.75%) REST
4 14 (17.50%) Spring Boot
5 13 (16.25%) Playwright
5 13 (16.25%) RESTful
6 12 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 12 (15.00%) Gherkin
6 12 (15.00%) Node.js
6 12 (15.00%) React
7 10 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (12.50%) XML
8 8 (10.00%) .NET Core
8 8 (10.00%) ASP.NET
8 8 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (10.00%) Entity Framework
9 7 (8.75%) JSON
9 7 (8.75%) pytest
9 7 (8.75%) Vue
9 7 (8.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.50%) Digital TV
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) GNSS
5 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Android
1 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (72.50%) Agile
2 48 (60.00%) TDD
2 48 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 35 (43.75%) Microservices
4 33 (41.25%) DevOps
5 30 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 29 (36.25%) Mentoring
7 27 (33.75%) Software Engineering
8 21 (26.25%) Coaching
9 17 (21.25%) Software Testing
10 16 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
11 15 (18.75%) Scrum
12 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
13 12 (15.00%) Performance Testing
14 11 (13.75%) Open Source
15 10 (12.50%) Kanban
15 10 (12.50%) Operational Stability
15 10 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (53.75%) Java
2 34 (42.50%) SQL
3 20 (25.00%) C#
3 20 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (17.50%) Python
5 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.50%) Delphi
7 2 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) PHP
8 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (16.25%) Degree
2 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
2 9 (11.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) ISEB
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (26.25%) QA
2 17 (21.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.00%) Grafana
3 7 (8.75%) Terraform
4 4 (5.00%) Ansible
5 2 (2.50%) Kibana
5 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Argo
6 1 (1.25%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Oracle
3 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.25%) Pega
3 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.25%) Splunk
3 1 (1.25%) Veracode
3 1 (1.25%) WSO2