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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 257 135
Rank change year-on-year -34 -122 +67
Permanent jobs citing BDD 91 139 734
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 1.08% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.14% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 74 127 669
10th Percentile £43,169 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £56,250 £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 £72,500 £90,995 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £107,000 £107,500
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 14,100 12,183 28,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.68% 94.83% 91.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,815 8,806 23,283
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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

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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 2 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%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 48 (52.75%) AWS
2 33 (36.26%) Azure
3 12 (13.19%) GitHub
4 8 (8.79%) Datadog
4 8 (8.79%) Serverless
5 6 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.49%) dbt
6 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.49%) PaaS
6 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.49%) SaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.10%) Apigee
9 1 (1.10%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) HTTP
2 1 (1.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.67%) MongoDB
2 24 (26.37%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (19.78%) NoSQL
4 13 (14.29%) MySQL
5 10 (10.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (8.79%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.10%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Selenium
2 21 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 20 (21.98%) Git
4 15 (16.48%) Jenkins
4 15 (16.48%) SpecFlow
5 13 (14.29%) GitLab
6 10 (10.99%) JMeter
6 10 (10.99%) Postman
7 9 (9.89%) JIRA
7 9 (9.89%) WebDriver
8 7 (7.69%) Cypress.io
8 7 (7.69%) JUnit
9 6 (6.59%) Locust
10 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
11 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.30%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.20%) Maven
12 2 (2.20%) NUnit
12 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (25.27%) Finance
2 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.49%) Tech for Good
5 4 (4.40%) Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Games
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Developer
2 19 (20.88%) Software Engineer
3 17 (18.68%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Lead
5 13 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 11 (12.09%) .NET Developer
7 10 (10.99%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (10.99%) QA Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Java Developer
9 8 (8.79%) Software Developer
10 7 (7.69%) Development Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 7 (7.69%) Software Development Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) Analyst
11 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (6.59%) Test Leader
12 5 (5.49%) Applications Development Manager
12 5 (5.49%) Applications Manager
12 5 (5.49%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (30.77%) .NET
2 21 (23.08%) REST
3 20 (21.98%) Spring
4 17 (18.68%) AngularJS
5 15 (16.48%) Spring Boot
6 13 (14.29%) Gherkin
6 13 (14.29%) Node.js
6 13 (14.29%) Playwright
6 13 (14.29%) React
6 13 (14.29%) RESTful
7 11 (12.09%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (12.09%) XML
8 10 (10.99%) .NET Core
8 10 (10.99%) ASP.NET
9 8 (8.79%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (8.79%) Entity Framework
9 8 (8.79%) JSON
9 8 (8.79%) Vue
9 8 (8.79%) Web Services
10 7 (7.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
1 12 (13.19%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.20%) Digital TV
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.10%) GNSS
8 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
8 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 65 (71.43%) Agile
2 57 (62.64%) TDD
3 51 (56.04%) Test Automation
4 39 (42.86%) Microservices
5 34 (37.36%) DevOps
6 31 (34.07%) CI/CD
6 31 (34.07%) Software Engineering
7 28 (30.77%) Mentoring
8 21 (23.08%) Coaching
9 20 (21.98%) Scrum
10 18 (19.78%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (18.68%) Software Testing
12 16 (17.58%) Continuous Deployment
12 16 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (16.48%) Containerisation
14 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (14.29%) Kanban
15 13 (14.29%) Performance Testing
16 11 (12.09%) Open Source
17 10 (10.99%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 52 (57.14%) Java
2 38 (41.76%) SQL
3 23 (25.27%) C#
4 19 (20.88%) JavaScript
5 16 (17.58%) Python
6 12 (13.19%) 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 13 (14.29%) Degree
2 9 (9.89%) ISTQB
2 9 (9.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) ISEB
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.27%) QA
2 16 (17.58%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (27.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.68%) Grafana
3 10 (10.99%) Terraform
4 6 (6.59%) Ansible
5 3 (3.30%) Kibana
6 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) Argo
7 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) 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%) Pega
4 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.10%) Splunk
4 1 (1.10%) Veracode
4 1 (1.10%) WSO2