BDD Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 24 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing BDD 4 3 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.01% 1.80% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.10% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 18
10th Percentile £330 £540 £444
25th Percentile £366 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £600 £660
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -9.09% +25.71%
75th Percentile £491 £669 £728
90th Percentile £527 £710 £754
North East median daily rate £430 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -28.33% - +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 184 143 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 92.46% 85.63% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 105 370
10th Percentile £312 £225 £355
25th Percentile £361 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.95% +6.57%
75th Percentile £584 £580 £638
90th Percentile £657 £716 £715
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 3
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.40 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.44 £17.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +39.29% -17.04%
75th Percentile £50.00 £26.13 £19.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £32.70 £21.90
North East median hourly rate £29.77 £32.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.97% +82.86% +29.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for BDD in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Tyne and Wear

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 4 £430 -28.33% 2
BDD
North East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Next.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Akka
2 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP