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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 252 134
Rank change year-on-year -51 -118 +61
Permanent jobs citing BDD 86 151 741
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 1.18% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.24% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 71 139 674
10th Percentile £42,706 £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 £72,125 £87,626 £81,563
90th Percentile £78,467 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £69,500 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.09% +14.58% -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 14,184 12,193 28,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.28% 95.04% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,612 8,760 23,196
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 £75,250
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% -11.29%

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 27 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 (3.49%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 43 (50.00%) AWS
2 32 (37.21%) Azure
3 12 (13.95%) GitHub
4 8 (9.30%) Datadog
5 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
6 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.98%) Serverless
7 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.81%) dbt
7 5 (5.81%) PaaS
7 5 (5.81%) SaaS
8 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.16%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (1.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.40%) MongoDB
2 24 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (19.77%) NoSQL
4 13 (15.12%) MySQL
5 10 (11.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.16%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Selenium
2 21 (24.42%) Cucumber
3 17 (19.77%) Git
4 15 (17.44%) SpecFlow
5 13 (15.12%) Jenkins
6 12 (13.95%) GitLab
7 10 (11.63%) JMeter
7 10 (11.63%) Postman
8 9 (10.47%) JIRA
8 9 (10.47%) WebDriver
9 7 (8.14%) Cypress.io
9 7 (8.14%) JUnit
10 6 (6.98%) Locust
11 3 (3.49%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.49%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (3.49%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.33%) Maven
12 2 (2.33%) NUnit
12 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (23.26%) Finance
2 13 (15.12%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Tech for Good
5 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.49%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) Advertising
8 1 (1.16%) Games
8 1 (1.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (31.40%) Developer
2 17 (19.77%) Software Engineer
3 16 (18.60%) Senior
4 13 (15.12%) Java Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Lead
6 11 (12.79%) .NET Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) QA Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Java Developer
9 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
9 7 (8.14%) Software Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Application Development Manager
10 6 (6.98%) Applications Development Manager
10 6 (6.98%) Applications Manager
10 6 (6.98%) Development Manager
10 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Test Leader
11 5 (5.81%) Development Engineer
11 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (33.72%) .NET
2 18 (20.93%) Spring
3 17 (19.77%) REST
4 14 (16.28%) AngularJS
4 14 (16.28%) Spring Boot
5 13 (15.12%) Gherkin
5 13 (15.12%) Node.js
5 13 (15.12%) Playwright
5 13 (15.12%) RESTful
6 11 (12.79%) React
7 10 (11.63%) .NET Core
7 10 (11.63%) ASP.NET
7 10 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (11.63%) XML
8 8 (9.30%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (9.30%) Entity Framework
8 8 (9.30%) Vue
9 7 (8.14%) .NET Framework
9 7 (8.14%) JSON
9 7 (8.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.47%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.98%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.33%) Digital TV
5 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.16%) GNSS
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Android
2 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.09%) Agile
2 53 (61.63%) TDD
3 49 (56.98%) Test Automation
4 37 (43.02%) Microservices
5 33 (38.37%) DevOps
6 30 (34.88%) CI/CD
6 30 (34.88%) Software Engineering
7 29 (33.72%) Mentoring
8 22 (25.58%) Coaching
9 18 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (19.77%) Scrum
10 17 (19.77%) Software Testing
11 16 (18.60%) Continuous Deployment
12 14 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (15.12%) Containerisation
13 13 (15.12%) Performance Testing
13 13 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (12.79%) Kanban
14 11 (12.79%) Open Source
15 10 (11.63%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.81%) Java
2 37 (43.02%) SQL
3 23 (26.74%) C#
4 19 (22.09%) JavaScript
5 15 (17.44%) Python
6 12 (13.95%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.98%) Delphi
8 1 (1.16%) Go
8 1 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (16.28%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) ISTQB
2 9 (10.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) ISEB
5 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (25.58%) QA
2 17 (19.77%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (26.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.77%) Grafana
3 8 (9.30%) Terraform
4 4 (4.65%) Ansible
5 2 (2.33%) Kibana
5 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.16%) Argo
6 1 (1.16%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) Oracle
3 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.16%) Pega
3 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.16%) Splunk
3 1 (1.16%) Veracode
3 1 (1.16%) WSO2