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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 324 144
Rank change year-on-year +19 -180 +61
Permanent jobs citing BDD 98 98 716
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.67% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.71% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 75 87 659
10th Percentile £40,615 £48,292 £39,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £56,875 £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 £73,750 £93,778 £75,625
90th Percentile £82,400 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 12 May 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 (3.06%) Apache Solr
1 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.04%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 57 (58.16%) AWS
2 40 (40.82%) Azure
3 16 (16.33%) GitHub
4 13 (13.27%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (10.20%) Serverless
6 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.16%) Datadog
7 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.10%) dbt
8 5 (5.10%) PaaS
8 5 (5.10%) SaaS
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.08%) Azure AI
10 3 (3.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.04%) BrowserStack
12 1 (1.02%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.63%) MongoDB
2 20 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (17.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (17.35%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (16.33%) NoSQL
5 14 (14.29%) MySQL
6 3 (3.06%) Flink
6 3 (3.06%) Redis
7 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (17.35%) Selenium
2 15 (15.31%) Git
3 14 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 11 (11.22%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.22%) SpecFlow
5 10 (10.20%) JMeter
6 9 (9.18%) WebDriver
7 8 (8.16%) Cypress.io
7 8 (8.16%) Postman
8 7 (7.14%) GitLab
8 7 (7.14%) JIRA
9 6 (6.12%) Locust
10 4 (4.08%) REST Assured
10 4 (4.08%) SonarQube
11 3 (3.06%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.04%) Maven
12 2 (2.04%) NUnit
12 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
13 1 (1.02%) JUnit
General
1 27 (27.55%) Finance
2 17 (17.35%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.29%) Banking
4 7 (7.14%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.08%) Advertising
7 3 (3.06%) Digital Healthcare
7 3 (3.06%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.02%) Marketing
8 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (31.63%) Software Engineer
2 28 (28.57%) Developer
2 28 (28.57%) Lead
3 18 (18.37%) .NET Developer
4 17 (17.35%) Development Engineer
4 17 (17.35%) Software Development Engineer
5 14 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
6 12 (12.24%) Java Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Senior
9 8 (8.16%) QA Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.12%) Test Leader
12 5 (5.10%) Test Engineer
13 4 (4.08%) Automation Tester
13 4 (4.08%) Junior
13 4 (4.08%) Lead Developer
13 4 (4.08%) Tester
14 3 (3.06%) Development Manager
14 3 (3.06%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.61%) .NET
1 30 (30.61%) REST
2 19 (19.39%) AngularJS
3 17 (17.35%) .NET Core
3 17 (17.35%) ASP.NET
3 17 (17.35%) ASP.NET Core
3 17 (17.35%) Node.js
4 15 (15.31%) Playwright
5 14 (14.29%) Spring
6 12 (12.24%) RESTful
6 12 (12.24%) Vue
7 11 (11.22%) React
8 9 (9.18%) Gherkin
8 9 (9.18%) JSON
8 9 (9.18%) XML
9 8 (8.16%) Kafka
9 8 (8.16%) Spring Boot
10 7 (7.14%) Web Services
11 6 (6.12%) .NET Framework
12 5 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Product Ownership
2 14 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 13 (13.27%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.02%) GNSS
8 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.02%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Android
2 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (71.43%) Agile
2 69 (70.41%) TDD
3 42 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 35 (35.71%) Microservices
5 34 (34.69%) CI/CD
6 33 (33.67%) Software Engineering
7 30 (30.61%) DevOps
8 26 (26.53%) Scrum
9 22 (22.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (22.45%) Mentoring
10 21 (21.43%) Coaching
10 21 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (19.39%) OO
12 18 (18.37%) Kanban
13 17 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (17.35%) Roadmaps
14 16 (16.33%) SOA
15 15 (15.31%) Continuous Deployment
15 15 (15.31%) Pair Programming
15 15 (15.31%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 56 (57.14%) Java
2 41 (41.84%) SQL
3 26 (26.53%) C#
4 16 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 15 (15.31%) Python
6 13 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.02%) Go
7 1 (1.02%) Groovy
7 1 (1.02%) Perl
7 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.02%) Scala
7 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
1 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.12%) Degree
3 3 (3.06%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.49%) QA
2 17 (17.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.24%) Terraform
3 10 (10.20%) Grafana
4 7 (7.14%) Ansible
5 3 (3.06%) Packer
6 2 (2.04%) Kibana
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.02%) Argo
7 1 (1.02%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.04%) AppDynamics
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.02%) IBM
3 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.02%) Veracode