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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 220 126
Rank change year-on-year -85 -94 +73
Permanent jobs citing BDD 89 215 735
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 1.45% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.53% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 75 146 663
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,903 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £55,313 £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 £76,563 £82,500
90th Percentile £79,387 £93,778 £112,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 14,089 14,066 26,312
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.67% 95.04% 92.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,153 8,711 21,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
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 £82,300 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 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 (3.37%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.19%) AWS
2 33 (37.08%) Azure
3 10 (11.24%) GitHub
4 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (6.74%) Datadog
5 6 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.74%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.74%) Serverless
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.49%) SaaS
7 3 (3.37%) dbt
7 3 (3.37%) PaaS
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.12%) Apigee
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.46%) MongoDB
2 23 (25.84%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (16.85%) NoSQL
4 13 (14.61%) MySQL
5 12 (13.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (11.24%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.12%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (31.46%) Selenium
2 19 (21.35%) Cucumber
3 16 (17.98%) Git
4 15 (16.85%) SpecFlow
5 13 (14.61%) Jenkins
6 12 (13.48%) GitLab
7 10 (11.24%) Postman
8 9 (10.11%) JIRA
8 9 (10.11%) WebDriver
9 8 (8.99%) JMeter
10 7 (7.87%) JUnit
11 6 (6.74%) Cypress.io
12 4 (4.49%) Locust
13 3 (3.37%) REST Assured
13 3 (3.37%) Serenity BDD
13 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
14 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
14 2 (2.25%) Maven
14 2 (2.25%) NUnit
14 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (19.10%) Finance
2 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.24%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.37%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.25%) Games
7 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (33.71%) Developer
2 20 (22.47%) Senior
3 15 (16.85%) Software Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) .NET Developer
4 13 (14.61%) Java Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) QA Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.99%) Lead
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Software Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Application Development Manager
8 6 (6.74%) Applications Development Manager
8 6 (6.74%) Applications Manager
8 6 (6.74%) Development Manager
8 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Analyst
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (34.83%) .NET
2 20 (22.47%) Spring
3 16 (17.98%) React
4 15 (16.85%) AngularJS
4 15 (16.85%) Node.js
4 15 (16.85%) REST
4 15 (16.85%) Spring Boot
5 13 (14.61%) Playwright
5 13 (14.61%) RESTful
6 12 (13.48%) .NET Core
6 12 (13.48%) ASP.NET
6 12 (13.48%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (13.48%) Entity Framework
7 11 (12.36%) Gherkin
8 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (11.24%) Vue
8 10 (11.24%) XML
9 9 (10.11%) .NET Framework
9 9 (10.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (7.87%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.37%) Digital TV
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) GNSS
5 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Android
1 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (71.91%) Agile
2 59 (66.29%) TDD
3 51 (57.30%) Test Automation
4 40 (44.94%) Microservices
5 33 (37.08%) CI/CD
6 32 (35.96%) DevOps
7 30 (33.71%) Mentoring
8 28 (31.46%) Software Engineering
9 25 (28.09%) Coaching
10 21 (23.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (20.22%) Scrum
12 17 (19.10%) Software Testing
13 15 (16.85%) Continuous Deployment
13 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (16.85%) Open Source
14 13 (14.61%) Kanban
15 12 (13.48%) Containerisation
15 12 (13.48%) MVC
16 11 (12.36%) Manual Testing
17 10 (11.24%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (55.06%) Java
2 38 (42.70%) SQL
3 25 (28.09%) C#
3 25 (28.09%) JavaScript
4 16 (17.98%) TypeScript
5 13 (14.61%) Python
6 6 (6.74%) Delphi
7 2 (2.25%) Go
8 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.12%) PHP
8 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Degree
2 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.11%) ISTQB
4 9 (10.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (4.49%) ISEB
6 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.84%) QA
2 20 (22.47%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (22.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.85%) Grafana
3 6 (6.74%) Terraform
4 4 (4.49%) Ansible
5 2 (2.25%) Kibana
5 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.12%) Argo
6 1 (1.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Oracle
3 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.12%) Pega
3 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.12%) Splunk
3 1 (1.12%) Veracode
3 1 (1.12%) WSO2