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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 341 263
Rank change year-on-year +29 -78 -28
Permanent jobs citing BDD 144 81 269
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.49% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.53% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 106 67 225
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -0.71% +0.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,375 £109,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.57% -2.29%

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 18,830 15,402 21,672
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.54% 92.96% 87.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,568 8,927 15,410
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 15 August 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 (5.56%) CMS
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) DNN
2 3 (2.08%) EPiServer
2 3 (2.08%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (2.08%) Kentico
2 3 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.08%) Sitefinity
2 3 (2.08%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 90 (62.50%) AWS
2 83 (57.64%) Azure
3 47 (32.64%) GitHub
4 46 (31.94%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (9.72%) Azure AI
6 8 (5.56%) Serverless
7 6 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.47%) Datadog
8 5 (3.47%) dbt
8 5 (3.47%) PaaS
8 5 (3.47%) SaaS
9 4 (2.78%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.39%) GCP
12 1 (0.69%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.69%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 70 (48.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 59 (40.97%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.78%) MySQL
7 3 (2.08%) Flink
7 3 (2.08%) Redis
7 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Git
2 9 (6.25%) Selenium
3 8 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 8 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.56%) JIRA
4 6 (4.17%) JMeter
5 5 (3.47%) Locust
5 5 (3.47%) SpecFlow
6 4 (2.78%) JUnit
7 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.39%) GitLab
8 2 (1.39%) Maven
8 2 (1.39%) Mockito
8 2 (1.39%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.39%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.69%) Postman
9 1 (0.69%) Snyk
9 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (32.64%) Finance
2 24 (16.67%) Banking
3 14 (9.72%) Advertising
4 8 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 4 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Marketing
7 2 (1.39%) Back Office
7 2 (1.39%) Games
7 2 (1.39%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
8 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 77 (53.47%) Developer
2 68 (47.22%) .NET Developer
3 33 (22.92%) Lead
4 29 (20.14%) Software Engineer
5 23 (15.97%) Development Engineer
5 23 (15.97%) Lead Software Engineer
5 23 (15.97%) Software Development Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Senior
7 9 (6.25%) Analyst
8 8 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Tester
10 6 (4.17%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.47%) Graduate
11 5 (3.47%) Junior
11 5 (3.47%) Software Tester
11 5 (3.47%) Test Leader
12 4 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Test Engineer
13 3 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
13 3 (2.08%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (54.17%) .NET
2 70 (48.61%) ASP.NET
2 70 (48.61%) ASP.NET Core
3 68 (47.22%) .NET Core
4 58 (40.28%) Node.js
5 51 (35.42%) AngularJS
6 46 (31.94%) Vue
7 31 (21.53%) REST
8 30 (20.83%) .NET Framework
9 28 (19.44%) React
10 24 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (10.42%) HTML
12 14 (9.72%) CSS
12 14 (9.72%) Entity Framework
12 14 (9.72%) Gherkin
12 14 (9.72%) ML.NET
13 11 (7.64%) WinForms
13 11 (7.64%) WPF
14 10 (6.94%) Blazor
14 10 (6.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 23 (15.97%) Public Cloud
3 17 (11.81%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (2.78%) Online Gambling
4 4 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.08%) Tandem
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.69%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) Smart Home
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (81.94%) TDD
2 106 (73.61%) Agile
3 71 (49.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (46.53%) Scrum
5 65 (45.14%) Microservices
6 62 (43.06%) Kanban
7 37 (25.69%) OO
8 36 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 33 (22.92%) Software Engineering
10 31 (21.53%) Technical Leadership
11 28 (19.44%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (18.06%) SOLID
13 25 (17.36%) AI
13 25 (17.36%) Roadmaps
14 24 (16.67%) Test Automation
15 23 (15.97%) Pair Programming
15 23 (15.97%) Product Management
15 23 (15.97%) Product Roadmap
15 23 (15.97%) SOA
16 20 (13.89%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 78 (54.17%) C#
1 78 (54.17%) SQL
2 51 (35.42%) Java
3 48 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 28 (19.44%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.69%) Groovy
6 1 (0.69%) Perl
6 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.69%) Scala
6 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (6.94%) SC Cleared
1 10 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.89%) QA
2 15 (10.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (36.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.33%) Terraform
3 5 (3.47%) Ansible
3 5 (3.47%) Grafana
4 3 (2.08%) Packer
5 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 73 (50.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.08%) Alterian
2 3 (2.08%) Optimizely
2 3 (2.08%) Oracle
2 3 (2.08%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.39%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.69%) Conga
4 1 (0.69%) GoCardless
4 1 (0.69%) IBM
4 1 (0.69%) RedGate
4 1 (0.69%) Salesforce