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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 226 197
Rank change year-on-year -73 -29 -30
Permanent jobs citing BDD 78 265 333
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 1.41% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.54% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63 179 279
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,690 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £70,875 £75,625 £102,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,402 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.57%

All Process and 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 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 8 December 2025.

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 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 44 (56.41%) AWS
2 41 (52.56%) Azure
3 9 (11.54%) GitHub
4 6 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.13%) Serverless
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.56%) Datadog
6 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.28%) GCP
7 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) RFID
2 1 (1.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (42.31%) MongoDB
2 28 (35.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (26.92%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.41%) MySQL
6 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (25.64%) Selenium
2 13 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.38%) Cucumber
4 11 (14.10%) GitLab
5 9 (11.54%) Git
6 8 (10.26%) Postman
7 7 (8.97%) JUnit
8 6 (7.69%) SpecFlow
9 5 (6.41%) Cypress.io
9 5 (6.41%) JIRA
10 3 (3.85%) JMeter
10 3 (3.85%) SonarQube
11 2 (2.56%) Maven
11 2 (2.56%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.56%) WebDriver
12 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.28%) Locust
12 1 (1.28%) Mockito
12 1 (1.28%) Serenity BDD
12 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (21.79%) Finance
2 10 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.56%) Banking
5 2 (2.56%) Games
6 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (58.97%) Developer
2 28 (35.90%) .NET Developer
3 18 (23.08%) Senior
4 10 (12.82%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.41%) QA Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Tester
8 4 (5.13%) Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Application Development Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Development Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Development Manager
8 4 (5.13%) Test Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (48.72%) .NET
2 29 (37.18%) .NET Core
3 28 (35.90%) ASP.NET
3 28 (35.90%) ASP.NET MVC
3 28 (35.90%) Entity Framework
4 27 (34.62%) React
5 26 (33.33%) Node.js
6 25 (32.05%) AngularJS
7 21 (26.92%) .NET Framework
7 21 (26.92%) ASP.NET Web API
7 21 (26.92%) Vue
8 16 (20.51%) Spring
9 15 (19.23%) Spring Boot
10 9 (11.54%) CSS
10 9 (11.54%) HTML
11 8 (10.26%) CSS3
11 8 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (10.26%) HTML5
12 7 (8.97%) Gherkin
12 7 (8.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Digital TV
2 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (78.21%) TDD
2 56 (71.79%) Agile
3 39 (50.00%) Microservices
4 34 (43.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 28 (35.90%) MVC
7 25 (32.05%) Scrum
8 23 (29.49%) Kanban
9 22 (28.21%) CI/CD
9 22 (28.21%) DevOps
10 15 (19.23%) Mentoring
11 14 (17.95%) Software Engineering
12 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (11.54%) Coaching
13 9 (11.54%) Fintech
13 9 (11.54%) Secure Coding
14 8 (10.26%) Asset Management
14 8 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (10.26%) Manual Testing
14 8 (10.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.00%) SQL
2 37 (47.44%) JavaScript
3 34 (43.59%) C#
4 27 (34.62%) Java
4 27 (34.62%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.54%) Python
6 6 (7.69%) Delphi
7 2 (2.56%) Go
7 2 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.10%) Degree
3 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.54%) ISTQB
4 9 (11.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (5.13%) ISEB
6 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.23%) QA
2 9 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (12.82%) Grafana
1 10 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Ansible
2 2 (2.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.28%) Argo
3 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.28%) Kibana
3 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (39.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.97%) Oracle
3 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.28%) Pega
3 1 (1.28%) Revolut
3 1 (1.28%) Splunk
3 1 (1.28%) UiPath
3 1 (1.28%) WSO2