BDD Contracts in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 186 134
Rank change year-on-year -82 -52 -35
Contract jobs citing BDD 291 682 1,428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 1.41% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.56% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 498 1,069
10th Percentile £353 £415 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +4.19%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £731
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.17% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 13
10th Percentile - £61.50 £45.25
25th Percentile - £70.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +0.06%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £76.64
90th Percentile - - £79.35
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +58.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in England

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in England

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in England

BDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in England.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in England

BDD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London -37 206 £550 -12.70% 148
South East -13 26 £550 +10.00% 62
North of England -29 26 £500 -11.11% 46
South West -18 17 £590 +18.00% 31
Yorkshire -9 13 £550 -15.38% 12
North West -6 10 £500 -1.96% 30
Midlands +1 6 £425 +13.33% 37
West Midlands +16 5 £450 +18.03% 30
North East +2 3 - - 4
East Midlands +6 1 £398 +41.96% 7
East of England +1 1 £500 -8.59% 15
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (5.84%) Confluence
2 5 (1.72%) Drupal
3 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.69%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Mingle
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.41%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.03%) Endur
3 3 (1.03%) RMDS
4 2 (0.69%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.34%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 81 (27.84%) AWS
2 72 (24.74%) Azure
3 31 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (10.65%) Serverless
4 21 (7.22%) GitHub
5 19 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.50%) GCP
6 16 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (3.78%) PowerApps
9 10 (3.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (3.44%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.75%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.41%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.41%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.47%) HTTP
2 7 (2.41%) SSH
3 5 (1.72%) Internet
4 3 (1.03%) BGP
4 3 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.03%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.69%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.34%) Intranet
6 1 (0.34%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.00%) MongoDB
2 26 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.90%) SQL Server
4 22 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.78%) MySQL
6 10 (3.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.75%) Power BI
9 7 (2.41%) Big Data
9 7 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.41%) OLTP
10 6 (2.06%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.06%) KDB
10 6 (2.06%) Redis
11 4 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.03%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.03%) Tableau
13 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.69%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 66 (22.68%) Git
2 64 (21.99%) Cucumber
3 57 (19.59%) JIRA
4 55 (18.90%) Selenium
5 45 (15.46%) Jenkins
6 35 (12.03%) Postman
7 30 (10.31%) SpecFlow
8 29 (9.97%) JUnit
9 24 (8.25%) Mockito
10 22 (7.56%) JMeter
11 21 (7.22%) WebDriver
12 18 (6.19%) Visual Studio
13 17 (5.84%) Cypress.io
13 17 (5.84%) SoapUI
14 16 (5.50%) REST Assured
15 15 (5.15%) TestNG
16 14 (4.81%) GitLab
17 13 (4.47%) Appium
18 10 (3.44%) Gatling
18 10 (3.44%) NUnit
General
1 70 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 66 (22.68%) Finance
3 41 (14.09%) Banking
4 29 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.47%) Front Office
8 10 (3.44%) Back Office
9 6 (2.06%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.72%) Retail
10 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Electronics
12 3 (1.03%) Law
12 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
12 3 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.69%) Games
13 2 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 125 (42.96%) Developer
2 70 (24.05%) Senior
3 49 (16.84%) Java Developer
4 36 (12.37%) Senior Developer
5 31 (10.65%) Software Engineer
6 28 (9.62%) Tester
7 23 (7.90%) Test Engineer
8 21 (7.22%) Lead
8 21 (7.22%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (5.50%) Full Stack Developer
9 16 (5.50%) Scala Developer
10 15 (5.15%) Analyst
11 13 (4.47%) QA Engineer
12 12 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (4.12%) Automation Tester
12 12 (4.12%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.12%) Test Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.78%) QA Tester
13 11 (3.78%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.44%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (23.02%) .NET
2 53 (18.21%) REST
3 50 (17.18%) React
4 41 (14.09%) Kafka
4 41 (14.09%) Spring
5 37 (12.71%) Web Services
6 36 (12.37%) AngularJS
7 30 (10.31%) RESTful
8 28 (9.62%) .NET Framework
9 26 (8.93%) JSON
10 25 (8.59%) ActiveMQ
11 23 (7.90%) HTML
11 23 (7.90%) XML
12 22 (7.56%) Spring Boot
13 20 (6.87%) CSS
14 19 (6.53%) GraphQL
14 19 (6.53%) JAX-RS
14 19 (6.53%) SOAP
15 18 (6.19%) Node.js
16 17 (5.84%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.50%) Derivative
2 12 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 4 (1.37%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.40%) Unix
2 37 (12.71%) Linux
3 23 (7.90%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.03%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (70.79%) TDD
2 189 (64.95%) Agile
3 137 (47.08%) Test Automation
4 100 (34.36%) CI/CD
5 97 (33.33%) Microservices
6 96 (32.99%) DevOps
7 71 (24.40%) Scrum
8 62 (21.31%) Continuous Integration
9 58 (19.93%) Software Engineering
10 42 (14.43%) Pair Programming
11 41 (14.09%) Kanban
11 41 (14.09%) SDLC
12 40 (13.75%) Full Stack Development
13 38 (13.06%) Continuous Deployment
14 37 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (11.34%) Test Strategy
16 29 (9.97%) User Stories
17 24 (8.25%) Manual Testing
17 24 (8.25%) Non-Functional Testing
17 24 (8.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 149 (51.20%) Java
2 71 (24.40%) SQL
3 54 (18.56%) C#
3 54 (18.56%) JavaScript
4 51 (17.53%) Python
5 45 (15.46%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.93%) Scala
7 18 (6.19%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.12%) Bash
9 9 (3.09%) Go
9 9 (3.09%) Perl
10 6 (2.06%) Groovy
10 6 (2.06%) Ruby
10 6 (2.06%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.72%) C
11 5 (1.72%) PHP
12 4 (1.37%) Bicep
12 4 (1.37%) C++
13 3 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.18%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.56%) Degree
4 8 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.41%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) ISEB
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.84%) QA
2 23 (7.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.37%) WCAG
4 2 (0.69%) HL7
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (17.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
2 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.37%) Terraform
3 13 (4.47%) Grafana
4 12 (4.12%) Ansible
5 7 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.72%) Kibana
6 5 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.72%) Puppet
7 4 (1.37%) Nagios
8 2 (0.69%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 31 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.50%) Oracle
3 7 (2.41%) NEC
3 7 (2.41%) Splunk
4 6 (2.06%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (2.06%) Typelevel
5 4 (1.37%) ION Trading
5 4 (1.37%) New Relic
5 4 (1.37%) Perfecto Mobile
6 3 (1.03%) Cisco
6 3 (1.03%) SAP
6 3 (1.03%) Solace
6 3 (1.03%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.69%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.69%) Google
7 2 (0.69%) Murex
7 2 (0.69%) Planview
7 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.34%) Capita
8 1 (0.34%) Civica