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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 350 148
Rank change year-on-year +39 -202 +72
Permanent jobs citing BDD 106 83 714
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.56% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.59% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 71 654
10th Percentile £39,221 £47,231 £39,125
25th Percentile £48,289 £55,000 £46,250
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 £95,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,750 £115,000 £100,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -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 15,885 14,034 29,900
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.81% 90.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 8,239 23,472
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,450 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +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 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 30 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 (2.83%) Apache Solr
1 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 60 (56.60%) AWS
2 44 (41.51%) Azure
3 18 (16.98%) GitHub
4 15 (14.15%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (9.43%) Serverless
6 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.60%) Datadog
8 6 (5.66%) Azure AI
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.72%) dbt
9 5 (4.72%) PaaS
9 5 (4.72%) SaaS
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.89%) BrowserStack
12 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.94%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (33.96%) MongoDB
2 22 (20.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (18.87%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (15.09%) NoSQL
5 14 (13.21%) MySQL
6 3 (2.83%) Flink
6 3 (2.83%) Redis
7 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (16.04%) Git
2 14 (13.21%) Cucumber
2 14 (13.21%) Selenium
3 10 (9.43%) SpecFlow
4 9 (8.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.49%) JMeter
5 8 (7.55%) WebDriver
6 7 (6.60%) JIRA
6 7 (6.60%) Postman
7 6 (5.66%) Cypress.io
7 6 (5.66%) GitLab
8 5 (4.72%) Locust
9 4 (3.77%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.83%) JUnit
11 2 (1.89%) NUnit
11 2 (1.89%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.94%) Snyk
General
1 31 (29.25%) Finance
2 18 (16.98%) Banking
2 18 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.49%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.66%) Advertising
5 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.83%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.94%) Games
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (31.13%) Developer
1 33 (31.13%) Software Engineer
2 30 (28.30%) Lead
3 23 (21.70%) .NET Developer
4 19 (17.92%) Development Engineer
4 19 (17.92%) Software Development Engineer
5 17 (16.04%) Lead Software Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Java Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Senior
8 8 (7.55%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.55%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Test Leader
10 5 (4.72%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Junior
12 3 (2.83%) Business Analyst
12 3 (2.83%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.83%) Quality Engineer
12 3 (2.83%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.83%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (33.02%) .NET
2 33 (31.13%) REST
3 22 (20.75%) .NET Core
3 22 (20.75%) ASP.NET
3 22 (20.75%) ASP.NET Core
4 20 (18.87%) AngularJS
5 19 (17.92%) Node.js
6 16 (15.09%) React
7 15 (14.15%) Playwright
8 14 (13.21%) Spring
9 13 (12.26%) Vue
10 12 (11.32%) RESTful
11 9 (8.49%) JSON
11 9 (8.49%) Kafka
12 8 (7.55%) Gherkin
12 8 (7.55%) Spring Boot
12 8 (7.55%) XML
13 7 (6.60%) .NET Framework
13 7 (6.60%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (6.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.75%) Product Ownership
2 17 (16.04%) Public Cloud
3 14 (13.21%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.94%) GNSS
7 1 (0.94%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Android
2 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (74.53%) TDD
2 77 (72.64%) Agile
3 42 (39.62%) Test Automation
4 39 (36.79%) Microservices
5 36 (33.96%) CI/CD
5 36 (33.96%) Software Engineering
6 30 (28.30%) Scrum
7 29 (27.36%) DevOps
8 28 (26.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (22.64%) OO
9 24 (22.64%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (21.70%) Kanban
11 21 (19.81%) Coaching
12 20 (18.87%) Mentoring
12 20 (18.87%) Roadmaps
13 19 (17.92%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (17.92%) SOA
14 18 (16.98%) Pair Programming
14 18 (16.98%) Product Roadmap
15 17 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 60 (56.60%) Java
2 44 (41.51%) SQL
3 31 (29.25%) C#
4 17 (16.04%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.04%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.21%) Python
6 2 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (0.94%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.94%) Go
7 1 (0.94%) Groovy
7 1 (0.94%) Perl
7 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
1 13 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.66%) Degree
3 3 (2.83%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.64%) QA
2 17 (16.04%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (27.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (25.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.38%) Terraform
3 8 (7.55%) Grafana
4 7 (6.60%) Ansible
5 3 (2.83%) Packer
6 2 (1.89%) Kibana
7 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.89%) AppDynamics
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle
3 1 (0.94%) Conga
3 1 (0.94%) GoCardless
3 1 (0.94%) IBM
3 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.94%) Veracode