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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 315 147
Rank change year-on-year +15 -168 +57
Permanent jobs citing BDD 96 105 716
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.72% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.76% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 74 93 659
10th Percentile £42,706 £47,284 £39,750
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 £73,750 £93,778 £75,625
90th Percentile £82,425 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -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 15,256 13,894 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,822 8,909 23,455
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 11 May 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 (3.13%) Apache Solr
1 3 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.08%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.33%) AWS
2 39 (40.63%) Azure
3 16 (16.67%) GitHub
4 13 (13.54%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (10.42%) Serverless
6 8 (8.33%) Datadog
7 7 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.21%) dbt
9 5 (5.21%) PaaS
9 5 (5.21%) SaaS
10 4 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.17%) Azure AI
11 3 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.08%) BrowserStack
13 1 (1.04%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (32.29%) MongoDB
2 20 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (17.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (17.71%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 14 (14.58%) MySQL
6 3 (3.13%) Flink
6 3 (3.13%) Redis
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Selenium
2 14 (14.58%) Cucumber
2 14 (14.58%) Git
3 11 (11.46%) SpecFlow
4 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (10.42%) JMeter
5 9 (9.38%) WebDriver
6 8 (8.33%) Postman
7 7 (7.29%) Cypress.io
7 7 (7.29%) GitLab
7 7 (7.29%) JIRA
8 6 (6.25%) Locust
9 4 (4.17%) REST Assured
9 4 (4.17%) SonarQube
10 3 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.08%) Maven
11 2 (2.08%) NUnit
11 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
12 1 (1.04%) JUnit
General
1 26 (27.08%) Finance
2 16 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.54%) Banking
4 7 (7.29%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.17%) Advertising
7 3 (3.13%) Digital Healthcare
7 3 (3.13%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 28 (29.17%) Developer
3 27 (28.13%) Lead
4 18 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 16 (16.67%) Development Engineer
5 16 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
6 13 (13.54%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (12.50%) Java Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (9.38%) Senior
10 8 (8.33%) QA Engineer
11 7 (7.29%) Java Developer
12 6 (6.25%) Test Leader
13 5 (5.21%) Test Engineer
14 4 (4.17%) Junior
14 4 (4.17%) Lead Developer
15 3 (3.13%) Development Manager
15 3 (3.13%) Quality Engineer
15 3 (3.13%) Test Development Engineer
15 3 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (31.25%) .NET
2 29 (30.21%) REST
3 19 (19.79%) AngularJS
4 17 (17.71%) .NET Core
4 17 (17.71%) ASP.NET
4 17 (17.71%) ASP.NET Core
4 17 (17.71%) Node.js
5 14 (14.58%) Playwright
5 14 (14.58%) Spring
6 12 (12.50%) RESTful
6 12 (12.50%) Vue
7 11 (11.46%) React
8 9 (9.38%) Gherkin
8 9 (9.38%) JSON
8 9 (9.38%) XML
9 8 (8.33%) Kafka
9 8 (8.33%) Spring Boot
10 7 (7.29%) Web Services
11 6 (6.25%) .NET Framework
12 5 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.79%) Product Ownership
2 13 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.54%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.04%) GNSS
7 1 (1.04%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Android
2 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (71.88%) Agile
2 67 (69.79%) TDD
3 41 (42.71%) Test Automation
4 35 (36.46%) Microservices
5 33 (34.38%) CI/CD
6 32 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 29 (30.21%) DevOps
8 26 (27.08%) Scrum
9 22 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (22.92%) Mentoring
10 21 (21.88%) Coaching
11 20 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (18.75%) Kanban
12 18 (18.75%) OO
13 17 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (16.67%) Roadmaps
15 15 (15.63%) Continuous Deployment
15 15 (15.63%) SOA
16 14 (14.58%) Pair Programming
16 14 (14.58%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (57.29%) Java
2 41 (42.71%) SQL
3 26 (27.08%) C#
4 16 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 15 (15.63%) Python
6 13 (13.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) Go
7 1 (1.04%) Groovy
7 1 (1.04%) Perl
7 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.04%) Scala
7 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 12 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (3.13%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.96%) QA
2 16 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.50%) Terraform
3 10 (10.42%) Grafana
4 7 (7.29%) Ansible
5 3 (3.13%) Packer
6 2 (2.08%) Kibana
6 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.04%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.08%) AppDynamics
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.04%) IBM
3 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.04%) Veracode