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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 223 207
Rank change year-on-year -93 -16 -54
Permanent jobs citing BDD 79 285 328
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 1.43% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.62% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 66 189 276
10th Percentile £44,375 £41,594 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £97,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,300 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 14,455 17,637 20,651
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.89% 88.60% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,789 10,534 16,696
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £98,150 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -

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 14 November 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 (2.53%) CMS
1 2 (2.53%) Drupal
1 2 (2.53%) WordPress
2 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (2.53%) Elementor
1 2 (2.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 43 (54.43%) AWS
2 40 (50.63%) Azure
3 8 (10.13%) GitHub
4 6 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (7.59%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.80%) Serverless
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.53%) Cloudflare
6 2 (2.53%) Figma
6 2 (2.53%) Vercel
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.27%) GCP
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) RFID
2 1 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (41.77%) MongoDB
2 28 (35.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (26.58%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (16.46%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (8.86%) MySQL
6 6 (7.59%) NoSQL
6 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.27%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Selenium
2 12 (15.19%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.39%) Cucumber
3 9 (11.39%) Git
4 8 (10.13%) GitLab
5 7 (8.86%) JUnit
6 6 (7.59%) Postman
7 5 (6.33%) JIRA
8 4 (5.06%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.53%) JMeter
9 2 (2.53%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.27%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.27%) Maven
10 1 (1.27%) Mockito
10 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (25.32%) Finance
2 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.80%) Legal
3 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.80%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Banking
4 2 (2.53%) Digital Healthcare
4 2 (2.53%) Games
4 2 (2.53%) Law
5 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (59.49%) Developer
2 28 (35.44%) .NET Developer
3 19 (24.05%) Senior
4 10 (12.66%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Software Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Development Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.10%) .NET
2 31 (39.24%) React
3 30 (37.97%) .NET Core
4 28 (35.44%) ASP.NET
4 28 (35.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 28 (35.44%) Entity Framework
5 27 (34.18%) AngularJS
6 25 (31.65%) Node.js
7 23 (29.11%) Vue
8 21 (26.58%) .NET Framework
8 21 (26.58%) ASP.NET Web API
9 18 (22.78%) Spring
10 17 (21.52%) Spring Boot
11 14 (17.72%) CSS
11 14 (17.72%) HTML
12 10 (12.66%) CSS3
12 10 (12.66%) HTML5
13 7 (8.86%) Blazor
13 7 (8.86%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (7.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Digital TV
2 6 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (83.54%) TDD
2 59 (74.68%) Agile
3 42 (53.16%) Microservices
4 37 (46.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (36.71%) Test Automation
6 28 (35.44%) MVC
7 26 (32.91%) Kanban
7 26 (32.91%) Scrum
8 22 (27.85%) CI/CD
9 16 (20.25%) DevOps
10 13 (16.46%) Mentoring
10 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
11 10 (12.66%) Manual Testing
11 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (11.39%) Fintech
12 9 (11.39%) Secure Coding
13 8 (10.13%) Asset Management
13 8 (10.13%) Coaching
13 8 (10.13%) SEO
14 7 (8.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) JavaScript
1 39 (49.37%) SQL
2 37 (46.84%) C#
3 30 (37.97%) Java
4 28 (35.44%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) Python
6 6 (7.59%) Delphi
7 4 (5.06%) PHP
8 2 (2.53%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) ISTQB
2 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.06%) ISEB
6 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.52%) QA
2 8 (10.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (12.66%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.86%) Grafana
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) Kibana
4 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (36.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) Netlify
4 1 (1.27%) Pega
4 1 (1.27%) Revolut
4 1 (1.27%) Splunk
4 1 (1.27%) UiPath
4 1 (1.27%) WSO2