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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 290 144
Rank change year-on-year -11 -146 +59
Permanent jobs citing BDD 91 111 721
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.82% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.87% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 71 98 661
10th Percentile £44,250 £47,419 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £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 £74,066 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -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 14,989 12,756 29,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 94.75% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,524 8,871 23,569
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,930
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 April 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%) Apache Solr
1 3 (3.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 53 (58.24%) AWS
2 27 (29.67%) Azure
3 11 (12.09%) GitHub
4 10 (10.99%) Serverless
5 8 (8.79%) Datadog
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.59%) Amazon S3
6 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.49%) dbt
7 5 (5.49%) PaaS
7 5 (5.49%) SaaS
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.10%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) HTTP
2 1 (1.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.47%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (24.18%) MongoDB
3 16 (17.58%) NoSQL
4 14 (15.38%) MySQL
5 8 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.30%) Flink
8 3 (3.30%) Redis
9 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Selenium
2 20 (21.98%) Cucumber
3 18 (19.78%) Git
4 15 (16.48%) Jenkins
5 13 (14.29%) GitLab
6 12 (13.19%) SpecFlow
7 9 (9.89%) JMeter
7 9 (9.89%) Postman
7 9 (9.89%) WebDriver
8 8 (8.79%) JIRA
9 7 (7.69%) Cypress.io
9 7 (7.69%) JUnit
10 6 (6.59%) Locust
11 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.30%) Serenity BDD
13 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
13 2 (2.20%) Maven
13 2 (2.20%) NUnit
13 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (26.37%) Finance
2 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.40%) Tech for Good
7 3 (3.30%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Advertising
9 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Games
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Software Engineer
2 24 (26.37%) Lead
3 23 (25.27%) Developer
4 17 (18.68%) Senior
5 13 (14.29%) Development Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Software Development Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) QA Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Software Developer
9 7 (7.69%) .NET Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (6.59%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.40%) Application Development Manager
11 4 (4.40%) Applications Development Manager
11 4 (4.40%) Junior
11 4 (4.40%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) REST
2 21 (23.08%) .NET
2 21 (23.08%) Spring
3 15 (16.48%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.38%) Playwright
5 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.19%) RESTful
6 10 (10.99%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (10.99%) Gherkin
6 10 (10.99%) React
6 10 (10.99%) XML
7 9 (9.89%) Kafka
8 8 (8.79%) JSON
8 8 (8.79%) Node.js
9 7 (7.69%) pytest
9 7 (7.69%) Web Services
10 6 (6.59%) ASP.NET
10 6 (6.59%) Django
10 6 (6.59%) Flask
10 6 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.68%) Product Ownership
2 13 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.99%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.10%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.10%) GNSS
7 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Android
2 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (67.03%) TDD
2 60 (65.93%) Agile
3 47 (51.65%) Test Automation
4 38 (41.76%) Software Engineering
5 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
5 34 (37.36%) DevOps
6 32 (35.16%) Microservices
7 28 (30.77%) Mentoring
8 23 (25.27%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (23.08%) Coaching
10 17 (18.68%) Containerisation
10 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (17.58%) Scrum
12 15 (16.48%) Continuous Deployment
13 14 (15.38%) Software Testing
14 13 (14.29%) OO
14 13 (14.29%) Performance Testing
14 13 (14.29%) Roadmaps
15 12 (13.19%) Pair Programming
15 12 (13.19%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 58 (63.74%) Java
2 31 (34.07%) SQL
3 21 (23.08%) Python
4 16 (17.58%) C#
5 14 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.99%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.59%) Delphi
8 1 (1.10%) Go
8 1 (1.10%) Groovy
8 1 (1.10%) Perl
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.10%) Scala
8 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) Degree
3 5 (5.49%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.10%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.27%) QA
2 15 (16.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (26.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (24.18%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.58%) Grafana
3 12 (13.19%) Terraform
4 7 (7.69%) Ansible
5 3 (3.30%) Packer
6 2 (2.20%) Kibana
6 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) Argo
7 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Oracle
3 2 (2.20%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.10%) IBM
4 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.10%) Veracode