BDD Contracts in Central London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 130 101
Rank change year-on-year +18 -29 -39
Contract jobs citing BDD 25 44 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.04% 1.19% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.30% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 77
10th Percentile £400 £457 £392
25th Percentile £455 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £706 £738 £719
90th Percentile £738 £781 £785
London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in Central London.

Daily rate trend for BDD in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +26 25 £563 -6.25% 25
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (4.00%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.00%) Datadog
5 1 (4.00%) Figma
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Intranet
1 1 (4.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) Data Mart
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Selenium
2 5 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) Mockito
3 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.00%) Postman
4 3 (12.00%) Appium
4 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.00%) GitLab
4 3 (12.00%) JUnit
4 3 (12.00%) SpecFlow
5 2 (8.00%) Gradle
5 2 (8.00%) JMeter
5 2 (8.00%) Maven
5 2 (8.00%) REST Assured
5 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (4.00%) eggPlant
6 1 (4.00%) SOAtest
6 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (28.00%) Banking
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Back Office
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Tester
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Automation Tester
6 2 (8.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 2 (8.00%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) SharePoint Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) Kafka
3 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (16.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (12.00%) JAX-RS
4 3 (12.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
5 2 (8.00%) HTML
5 2 (8.00%) JSON
5 2 (8.00%) Spring
5 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.00%) XML
6 1 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (4.00%) JPA
6 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Derivative
1 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (4.00%) Online Banking
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
1 5 (20.00%) Unix
2 4 (16.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
2 13 (52.00%) Test Automation
3 11 (44.00%) TDD
4 8 (32.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) Pair Programming
5 6 (24.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (16.00%) SDLC
7 4 (16.00%) User Stories
8 3 (12.00%) Manual Testing
8 3 (12.00%) Mathematics
8 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Test Scripting
8 3 (12.00%) Web Design
8 3 (12.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) C#
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (4.00%) Confluent
4 1 (4.00%) Murex
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce