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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 238 130
Rank change year-on-year -59 -108 +67
Permanent jobs citing BDD 84 190 731
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 1.37% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.44% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 71 149 662
10th Percentile £42,706 £47,231 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £55,000 £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 £71,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £78,467 £105,000 £112,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -15.00%

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 14,330 13,188 27,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.21% 95.33% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,436 8,773 22,841
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,281 £34,000
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 £75,772
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% -11.86%

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 14 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 (3.57%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.62%) AWS
2 31 (36.90%) Azure
3 12 (14.29%) GitHub
4 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.33%) Datadog
5 6 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.14%) Serverless
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.76%) dbt
7 4 (4.76%) PaaS
7 4 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.19%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (30.95%) MongoDB
2 24 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (19.05%) NoSQL
4 14 (16.67%) MySQL
5 10 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.19%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (29.76%) Selenium
2 20 (23.81%) Cucumber
3 16 (19.05%) Git
4 15 (17.86%) SpecFlow
5 13 (15.48%) Jenkins
6 12 (14.29%) GitLab
7 10 (11.90%) Postman
8 9 (10.71%) JIRA
8 9 (10.71%) JMeter
8 9 (10.71%) WebDriver
9 7 (8.33%) Cypress.io
9 7 (8.33%) JUnit
10 5 (5.95%) Locust
11 3 (3.57%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.57%) Serenity BDD
11 3 (3.57%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.38%) Maven
12 2 (2.38%) NUnit
12 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (20.24%) Finance
2 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.10%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.19%) Advertising
8 1 (1.19%) Games
8 1 (1.19%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (32.14%) Developer
2 17 (20.24%) Senior
3 15 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 13 (15.48%) Java Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) .NET Developer
6 10 (11.90%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) QA Engineer
7 9 (10.71%) Lead
8 7 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Software Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Application Development Manager
9 6 (7.14%) Applications Development Manager
9 6 (7.14%) Applications Manager
9 6 (7.14%) Development Manager
9 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Analyst
10 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (34.52%) .NET
2 18 (21.43%) Spring
3 15 (17.86%) REST
4 14 (16.67%) RESTful
4 14 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 13 (15.48%) AngularJS
5 13 (15.48%) Node.js
5 13 (15.48%) Playwright
6 12 (14.29%) Gherkin
6 12 (14.29%) React
7 10 (11.90%) .NET Core
7 10 (11.90%) ASP.NET
7 10 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (11.90%) XML
8 8 (9.52%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (9.52%) Entity Framework
8 8 (9.52%) Vue
9 7 (8.33%) .NET Framework
9 7 (8.33%) pytest
9 7 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.38%) Digital TV
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) GNSS
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (73.81%) Agile
2 52 (61.90%) TDD
3 49 (58.33%) Test Automation
4 37 (44.05%) Microservices
5 33 (39.29%) DevOps
6 31 (36.90%) CI/CD
7 30 (35.71%) Mentoring
8 28 (33.33%) Software Engineering
9 22 (26.19%) Coaching
10 18 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (20.24%) Software Testing
12 16 (19.05%) Continuous Deployment
12 16 (19.05%) Scrum
13 14 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (14.29%) Containerisation
14 12 (14.29%) Open Source
14 12 (14.29%) Performance Testing
15 11 (13.10%) Kanban
16 10 (11.90%) AI
16 10 (11.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (53.57%) Java
2 37 (44.05%) SQL
3 23 (27.38%) C#
4 20 (23.81%) JavaScript
5 15 (17.86%) Python
6 13 (15.48%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.14%) Delphi
8 2 (2.38%) Go
9 1 (1.19%) PHP
9 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) ISTQB
2 9 (10.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) ISEB
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.00%) QA
2 17 (20.24%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (26.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 16 (19.05%) Grafana
3 7 (8.33%) Terraform
4 4 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (2.38%) Kibana
5 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.19%) Argo
6 1 (1.19%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.19%) Pega
3 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.19%) Splunk
3 1 (1.19%) Veracode
3 1 (1.19%) WSO2