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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 223 155
Rank change year-on-year -66 -68 +20
Permanent jobs citing BDD 76 243 424
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 1.43% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.53% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 61 167 364
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,968 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £71,750 £73,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,552 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%

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 13,369 15,861 19,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.41% 93.11% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,464 9,489 15,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,957 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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

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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 1 January 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 (3.95%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.95%) AWS
2 37 (48.68%) Azure
3 9 (11.84%) GitHub
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (7.89%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.89%) Serverless
5 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.58%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.95%) Datadog
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.32%) Apigee
9 1 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Broadband
1 1 (1.32%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (36.84%) MongoDB
2 24 (31.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (23.68%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (7.89%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.26%) MySQL
6 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.32%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Selenium
2 15 (19.74%) Jenkins
3 13 (17.11%) Cucumber
4 12 (15.79%) GitLab
5 11 (14.47%) Git
6 8 (10.53%) Postman
7 7 (9.21%) JUnit
8 6 (7.89%) Cypress.io
8 6 (7.89%) JIRA
8 6 (7.89%) SpecFlow
9 3 (3.95%) JMeter
9 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.63%) Maven
10 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.63%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.32%) Jasmine
11 1 (1.32%) Locust
11 1 (1.32%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (19.74%) Finance
2 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Games
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (56.58%) Developer
2 24 (31.58%) .NET Developer
3 18 (23.68%) Senior
4 10 (13.16%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Software Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Application Development Manager
7 5 (6.58%) Applications Development Manager
7 5 (6.58%) Applications Manager
7 5 (6.58%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.58%) Development Manager
7 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Tester
8 4 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Lead
8 4 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (46.05%) .NET
2 25 (32.89%) .NET Core
2 25 (32.89%) Node.js
2 25 (32.89%) React
3 24 (31.58%) ASP.NET
3 24 (31.58%) ASP.NET MVC
3 24 (31.58%) Entity Framework
4 22 (28.95%) AngularJS
5 18 (23.68%) .NET Framework
5 18 (23.68%) ASP.NET Web API
5 18 (23.68%) Vue
6 17 (22.37%) Spring
7 16 (21.05%) Spring Boot
8 10 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (10.53%) CSS
9 8 (10.53%) Gherkin
9 8 (10.53%) HTML
9 8 (10.53%) REST
10 7 (9.21%) CSS3
10 7 (9.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Digital TV
1 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (77.63%) TDD
2 54 (71.05%) Agile
3 36 (47.37%) Microservices
4 32 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (38.16%) Test Automation
6 25 (32.89%) CI/CD
6 25 (32.89%) DevOps
7 24 (31.58%) MVC
7 24 (31.58%) Scrum
8 22 (28.95%) Kanban
9 16 (21.05%) Mentoring
10 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
11 10 (13.16%) Coaching
11 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.84%) Secure Coding
12 9 (11.84%) Service Delivery
13 8 (10.53%) Containerisation
13 8 (10.53%) Manual Testing
13 8 (10.53%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) JavaScript
2 34 (44.74%) SQL
3 30 (39.47%) C#
4 28 (36.84%) Java
5 24 (31.58%) TypeScript
6 9 (11.84%) Python
7 6 (7.89%) Delphi
8 2 (2.63%) Go
8 2 (2.63%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Degree
2 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.53%) ISTQB
4 8 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (5.26%) ISEB
6 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) QA
2 10 (13.16%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (17.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.47%) Grafana
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Terraform
5 1 (1.32%) Argo
5 1 (1.32%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.32%) Kibana
5 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle
3 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.32%) Pega
3 1 (1.32%) Splunk
3 1 (1.32%) UiPath
3 1 (1.32%) WSO2