BDD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 242 166 128
Rank change year-on-year -76 -38 -19
Contract jobs citing BDD 99 370 942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 1.49% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.67% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 249 690
10th Percentile £356 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £638
90th Percentile £830 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.17% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 11
10th Percentile - £61.25 £45.00
25th Percentile - £63.50 £48.13
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +10.62% +56.05%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £69.65
90th Percentile - - £76.64
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

BDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BDD trend for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD.

BDD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BDD over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

BDD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD.

BDD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) RMDS
2 2 (2.02%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.34%) Azure
2 33 (33.33%) AWS
3 19 (19.19%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.08%) GitHub
4 8 (8.08%) Serverless
5 7 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.06%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.05%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.04%) Azure API Management
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Batch
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Storage
9 3 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) BGP
1 3 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (3.03%) IOS XR
2 1 (1.01%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.07%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.06%) KDB
3 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.04%) MySQL
5 4 (4.04%) OLTP
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.03%) Big Data
6 3 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.02%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.02%) Power BI
7 2 (2.02%) Redis
8 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (25.25%) Git
1 25 (25.25%) Selenium
2 22 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 19 (19.19%) Jenkins
4 14 (14.14%) JIRA
4 14 (14.14%) JMeter
5 12 (12.12%) Postman
6 11 (11.11%) SpecFlow
7 10 (10.10%) WebDriver
8 8 (8.08%) Cypress.io
8 8 (8.08%) Visual Studio
9 7 (7.07%) GitLab
9 7 (7.07%) JUnit
10 6 (6.06%) Bitbucket
10 6 (6.06%) SoapUI
10 6 (6.06%) TestNG
11 5 (5.05%) Mockito
11 5 (5.05%) REST Assured
12 4 (4.04%) Appium
12 4 (4.04%) Moq
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.20%) Finance
3 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.05%) Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Electronics
7 3 (3.03%) Front Office
7 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.03%) Marketing
7 3 (3.03%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Back Office
8 2 (2.02%) Law
9 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Local Government
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (41.41%) Developer
2 25 (25.25%) Senior
3 16 (16.16%) Senior Developer
4 13 (13.13%) Java Developer
5 12 (12.12%) Analyst
5 12 (12.12%) Tester
6 11 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Lead
7 8 (8.08%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.07%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Automation Tester
9 6 (6.06%) C# Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Java Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (6.06%) KDB Developer
10 5 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (4.04%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.26%) REST
2 25 (25.25%) .NET
3 14 (14.14%) Web Services
4 11 (11.11%) React
5 10 (10.10%) .NET Framework
5 10 (10.10%) Spring
6 9 (9.09%) GraphQL
7 8 (8.08%) Kafka
7 8 (8.08%) Playwright
8 7 (7.07%) HTML
8 7 (7.07%) JSON
8 7 (7.07%) OAuth
8 7 (7.07%) RESTful
8 7 (7.07%) SOAP
8 7 (7.07%) Spring Boot
9 6 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.06%) Node.js
9 6 (6.06%) OpenAPI
9 6 (6.06%) Swagger
10 5 (5.05%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.04%) Derivative
3 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.04%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.03%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.01%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.01%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Linux
2 5 (5.05%) Unix
3 3 (3.03%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (61.62%) TDD
2 58 (58.59%) Agile
3 55 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 37 (37.37%) DevOps
5 34 (34.34%) CI/CD
6 24 (24.24%) Microservices
7 23 (23.23%) Scrum
8 19 (19.19%) Software Engineering
9 17 (17.17%) SDLC
10 15 (15.15%) Kanban
10 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (12.12%) Software Testing
12 11 (11.11%) Analytics
12 11 (11.11%) API Development
12 11 (11.11%) API Testing
12 11 (11.11%) Manual Testing
13 10 (10.10%) End-to-End Testing
13 10 (10.10%) OO
13 10 (10.10%) Test Strategy
13 10 (10.10%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 53 (53.54%) Java
2 23 (23.23%) SQL
3 22 (22.22%) C#
3 22 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 19 (19.19%) Python
5 13 (13.13%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.07%) Bash
7 7 (7.07%) Scala
8 5 (5.05%) C
9 4 (4.04%) C++
9 4 (4.04%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.03%) Perl
10 3 (3.03%) Ruby
11 2 (2.02%) Groovy
11 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.01%) Go
12 1 (1.01%) VBA
12 1 (1.01%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) Degree
4 4 (4.04%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) ISEB
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.16%) QA
2 8 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (23.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.16%) Terraform
3 9 (9.09%) Ansible
4 4 (4.04%) Grafana
4 4 (4.04%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.04%) Puppet
5 3 (3.03%) Kibana
5 3 (3.03%) Nagios
6 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.01%) HP ALM
7 1 (1.01%) Istio
7 1 (1.01%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) Oracle
3 6 (6.06%) SAP
3 6 (6.06%) Splunk
4 5 (5.05%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.04%) ION Trading
6 3 (3.03%) Cisco
6 3 (3.03%) New Relic
6 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.03%) Solace
6 3 (3.03%) TOWER Software
7 2 (2.02%) Google
7 2 (2.02%) NEC
7 2 (2.02%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.01%) HP
8 1 (1.01%) OpenLink