BDD Contracts in the South East

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 151 179
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 -42
Contract jobs citing BDD 27 60 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 1.06% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.19% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 54
10th Percentile - £453 £356
25th Percentile £325 £458 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.36% +2.38%
75th Percentile £644 £564 £558
90th Percentile £695 £587 £638
England median daily rate £550 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.38
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - +53.85% -25.57%
75th Percentile - - £53.89
90th Percentile - - £60.88
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -22.41% +10.62% +0.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,597 5,024 6,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.24% 89.08% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,677 3,483 4,695
10th Percentile £250 £248 £230
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £596
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.90
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the South East.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the South East over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hampshire -9 10 £394 -26.74% 7
Thames Valley -12 8 £550 +18.92% 7
Berkshire -26 6 £569 +23.31% 4
Surrey +16 4 £638 - 4
Buckinghamshire +28 2 £513 -2.38% 1
West Sussex -4 2 - - 3
Middlesex - 2 - -
BDD
England

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (18.52%) Drupal
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
2 1 (3.70%) JBoss
2 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.11%) Datadog
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) BGP
1 3 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (11.11%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (18.52%) MySQL
2 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.81%) JIRA
4 3 (11.11%) Subversion
5 2 (7.41%) GitLab
5 2 (7.41%) JUnit
5 2 (7.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.70%) Android Studio
6 1 (3.70%) JMeter
6 1 (3.70%) Mockito
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (3.70%) Postman
6 1 (3.70%) Selenium
6 1 (3.70%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.70%) Xcode
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Drupal Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Tester
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) IAM Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Java Scala Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Scala Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Tester
7 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) REST
2 6 (22.22%) .NET
2 6 (22.22%) CSS
3 5 (18.52%) RESTful
3 5 (18.52%) Sass
4 4 (14.81%) JSON
4 4 (14.81%) Web Services
5 3 (11.11%) Django
5 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 3 (11.11%) gRPC
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) Kafka
5 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (11.11%) YANG
6 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
6 2 (7.41%) OpenID
6 2 (7.41%) React
6 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (11.11%) Private Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Agile
2 18 (66.67%) TDD
3 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 10 (37.04%) Scrum
4 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 8 (29.63%) DevOps
5 8 (29.63%) Full Stack Development
5 8 (29.63%) Microservices
6 7 (25.93%) Kanban
7 6 (22.22%) Open Source
7 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) High Availability
8 5 (18.52%) SDLC
9 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (14.81%) Waterfall
10 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (11.11%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 12 (44.44%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) Python
4 7 (25.93%) SQL
5 6 (22.22%) Bash
6 5 (18.52%) C#
6 5 (18.52%) PHP
7 3 (11.11%) C
7 3 (11.11%) C++
7 3 (11.11%) Go
7 3 (11.11%) Perl
7 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (11.11%) Ruby
7 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
8 2 (7.41%) Scala
9 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Terminal Services
2 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Nagios
3 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (11.11%) Puppet
3 3 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) Kibana
4 1 (3.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 3 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco
2 3 (11.11%) New Relic
2 3 (11.11%) TOWER Software
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) VMware