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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 255 136
Rank change year-on-year -45 -119 +65
Permanent jobs citing BDD 89 145 738
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 1.13% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.19% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 72 133 671
10th Percentile £42,860 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £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 £72,500 £90,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £78,722 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £69,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% +16.67% -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 13,978 12,164 28,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.76% 94.81% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 8,801 23,226
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 31 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 (3.37%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.69%) AWS
2 33 (37.08%) Azure
3 12 (13.48%) GitHub
4 8 (8.99%) Datadog
5 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.74%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.74%) Serverless
7 5 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.62%) dbt
7 5 (5.62%) PaaS
7 5 (5.62%) SaaS
8 4 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.12%) Apigee
10 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.12%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.34%) MongoDB
2 24 (26.97%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (20.22%) NoSQL
4 13 (14.61%) MySQL
5 10 (11.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (8.99%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.12%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (26.97%) Selenium
2 21 (23.60%) Cucumber
3 18 (20.22%) Git
4 15 (16.85%) SpecFlow
5 13 (14.61%) Jenkins
6 12 (13.48%) GitLab
7 10 (11.24%) JMeter
7 10 (11.24%) Postman
8 9 (10.11%) JIRA
8 9 (10.11%) WebDriver
9 7 (7.87%) Cypress.io
9 7 (7.87%) JUnit
10 6 (6.74%) Locust
11 3 (3.37%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.37%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.25%) Maven
12 2 (2.25%) NUnit
12 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (25.84%) Finance
2 13 (14.61%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Tech for Good
5 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.49%) Banking
7 3 (3.37%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Advertising
9 1 (1.12%) Games
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (31.46%) Developer
2 19 (21.35%) Software Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) Senior
4 15 (16.85%) Lead
5 13 (14.61%) Java Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) .NET Developer
7 10 (11.24%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (11.24%) QA Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Java Developer
8 8 (8.99%) Software Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Development Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Software Development Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Application Development Manager
10 6 (6.74%) Applications Development Manager
10 6 (6.74%) Applications Manager
10 6 (6.74%) Development Manager
10 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.58%) .NET
2 20 (22.47%) REST
3 18 (20.22%) Spring
4 15 (16.85%) AngularJS
5 14 (15.73%) Spring Boot
6 13 (14.61%) Gherkin
6 13 (14.61%) Node.js
6 13 (14.61%) Playwright
6 13 (14.61%) RESTful
7 11 (12.36%) React
8 10 (11.24%) .NET Core
8 10 (11.24%) ASP.NET
8 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (11.24%) XML
9 8 (8.99%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (8.99%) Entity Framework
9 8 (8.99%) Vue
10 7 (7.87%) JSON
10 7 (7.87%) pytest
10 7 (7.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Cloud Native
1 12 (13.48%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.25%) Digital TV
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) GNSS
6 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.12%) Android
2 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (70.79%) Agile
2 56 (62.92%) TDD
3 50 (56.18%) Test Automation
4 37 (41.57%) Microservices
5 33 (37.08%) DevOps
6 32 (35.96%) Software Engineering
7 31 (34.83%) CI/CD
8 29 (32.58%) Mentoring
9 22 (24.72%) Coaching
10 18 (20.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (20.22%) Scrum
11 17 (19.10%) Software Testing
12 16 (17.98%) Continuous Deployment
12 16 (17.98%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (14.61%) Containerisation
14 13 (14.61%) Performance Testing
15 11 (12.36%) Kanban
15 11 (12.36%) Open Source
16 10 (11.24%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 51 (57.30%) Java
2 37 (41.57%) SQL
3 23 (25.84%) C#
4 19 (21.35%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.85%) Python
6 12 (13.48%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.74%) Delphi
8 1 (1.12%) Go
8 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Degree
2 9 (10.11%) ISTQB
2 9 (10.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.49%) ISEB
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.84%) QA
2 17 (19.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (25.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (23.60%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.10%) Grafana
3 8 (8.99%) Terraform
4 4 (4.49%) Ansible
5 2 (2.25%) Kibana
5 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.12%) Argo
6 1 (1.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Oracle
3 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.12%) Pega
3 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.12%) Splunk
3 1 (1.12%) Veracode
3 1 (1.12%) WSO2