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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 224 124
Rank change year-on-year -75 -100 +70
Permanent jobs citing BDD 91 223 724
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 1.42% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.50% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 76 151 656
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £56,250 £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 £70,000 £75,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,991 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 13,967 14,891 25,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.23% 94.81% 92.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,062 8,864 21,322
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 February 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 (3.30%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) AWS
2 38 (41.76%) Azure
3 10 (10.99%) GitHub
4 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.69%) Serverless
5 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.30%) Datadog
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.10%) Apigee
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.10%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (35.16%) MongoDB
2 23 (25.27%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (17.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (16.48%) NoSQL
5 14 (15.38%) MySQL
6 13 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.10%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (28.57%) Selenium
2 17 (18.68%) Git
3 16 (17.58%) Cucumber
4 14 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 13 (14.29%) GitLab
5 13 (14.29%) SpecFlow
6 10 (10.99%) Postman
7 9 (9.89%) JIRA
8 7 (7.69%) JUnit
8 7 (7.69%) WebDriver
9 6 (6.59%) Cypress.io
10 5 (5.49%) JMeter
11 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.30%) Maven
12 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.30%) Serenity BDD
13 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
13 2 (2.20%) NUnit
13 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
14 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
General
1 16 (17.58%) Finance
2 14 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.30%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.20%) Games
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (40.66%) Developer
2 22 (24.18%) Senior
3 17 (18.68%) .NET Developer
4 15 (16.48%) Software Engineer
5 14 (15.38%) Java Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
7 8 (8.79%) Java Developer
7 8 (8.79%) QA Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.59%) Application Development Manager
9 6 (6.59%) Applications Development Manager
9 6 (6.59%) Applications Manager
9 6 (6.59%) Development Manager
9 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (6.59%) Test Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Lead
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (36.26%) .NET
2 22 (24.18%) React
2 22 (24.18%) Spring
3 20 (21.98%) Node.js
4 18 (19.78%) AngularJS
5 17 (18.68%) Spring Boot
6 16 (17.58%) .NET Core
6 16 (17.58%) ASP.NET
6 16 (17.58%) ASP.NET MVC
6 16 (17.58%) Entity Framework
7 15 (16.48%) RESTful
8 13 (14.29%) REST
8 13 (14.29%) Vue
9 12 (13.19%) .NET Framework
9 12 (13.19%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (12.09%) Playwright
11 10 (10.99%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (8.79%) Gherkin
12 8 (8.79%) XML
13 7 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.40%) Digital TV
5 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) GNSS
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Android
1 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (73.63%) Agile
1 67 (73.63%) TDD
2 47 (51.65%) Test Automation
3 44 (48.35%) Microservices
4 32 (35.16%) CI/CD
5 31 (34.07%) Mentoring
6 30 (32.97%) DevOps
7 29 (31.87%) Software Engineering
8 26 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (27.47%) Coaching
10 21 (23.08%) Scrum
11 16 (17.58%) Kanban
11 16 (17.58%) MVC
12 15 (16.48%) Continuous Deployment
12 15 (16.48%) Open Source
12 15 (16.48%) Software Testing
13 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (12.09%) Manual Testing
15 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (10.99%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (50.55%) Java
2 39 (42.86%) SQL
3 31 (34.07%) JavaScript
4 27 (29.67%) C#
5 21 (23.08%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.99%) Python
7 6 (6.59%) Delphi
8 3 (3.30%) Go
9 2 (2.20%) PHP
10 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Degree
2 12 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.89%) ISTQB
4 9 (9.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (4.40%) ISEB
6 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.88%) QA
2 17 (18.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.48%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.19%) Grafana
3 4 (4.40%) Ansible
4 3 (3.30%) Terraform
5 2 (2.20%) Kibana
5 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.10%) Argo
6 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.10%) Pega
3 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.10%) Splunk
3 1 (1.10%) Veracode
3 1 (1.10%) WSO2