BDD Jobs in England

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 281 106
Rank change year-on-year -7 -175 +9
Permanent jobs citing BDD 821 1,121 4,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.95% 1.27% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.33% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 725 754 1,721
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% +10.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +7.79%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,550 84,427 129,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.14% 95.61% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 53,945 50,142 73,031
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for BDD in England

BDD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in England

BDD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -91 246 £82,500 - 132
South East +116 239 £60,000 +4.35% 45
North of England +34 150 £55,000 -10.20% 36
North West +9 82 £55,000 -8.33% 25
Midlands -12 75 £52,500 -12.50% 36
East of England +38 70 £60,000 -17.24% 12
South West -7 61 £56,250 -10.00% 29
West Midlands -7 52 £52,500 -14.29% 28
Yorkshire +36 48 £61,482 -5.41% 8
East Midlands +8 23 £52,500 -12.50% 8
North East +7 20 £47,500 -20.83% 3
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 40 (4.87%) OpenStack
2 20 (2.44%) Apache
3 12 (1.46%) JBoss
4 11 (1.34%) Confluence
5 10 (1.22%) CMS
5 10 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.73%) DNN
7 6 (0.73%) EPiServer
7 6 (0.73%) Immediacy CMS
7 6 (0.73%) Kentico
7 6 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.73%) Sitefinity
7 6 (0.73%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.24%) IIS
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 542 (66.02%) Azure
2 421 (51.28%) AWS
3 70 (8.53%) Serverless
4 56 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
5 54 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (5.12%) SaaS
7 28 (3.41%) GCP
8 25 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.05%) GitHub
9 10 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (0.97%) Slack
12 7 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (0.85%) Azure Functions
12 7 (0.85%) BrowserStack
13 6 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.73%) PaaS
13 6 (0.73%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.61%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.06%) Internet
2 20 (2.44%) DNS
3 18 (2.19%) Firewall
4 16 (1.95%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.61%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.61%) RS-232
6 5 (0.61%) RS-485
6 5 (0.61%) VoIP
6 5 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.61%) Wireless
6 5 (0.61%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.49%) SSL
8 3 (0.37%) HTTP
9 2 (0.24%) Broadband
9 2 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (48.84%) SQL Server
2 261 (31.79%) MongoDB
3 216 (26.31%) Elasticsearch
4 158 (19.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 101 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
6 97 (11.81%) NoSQL
7 56 (6.82%) Relational Database
8 45 (5.48%) MySQL
9 11 (1.34%) Big Data
10 10 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.85%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.73%) Redis
13 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.24%) Hadoop
16 2 (0.24%) Power BI
17 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 154 (18.76%) Jenkins
2 138 (16.81%) Cucumber
3 115 (14.01%) Git
4 109 (13.28%) Selenium
5 71 (8.65%) Postman
6 55 (6.70%) JUnit
7 38 (4.63%) JIRA
8 30 (3.65%) REST Assured
8 30 (3.65%) WebDriver
9 28 (3.41%) Cypress.io
10 26 (3.17%) SpecFlow
11 20 (2.44%) JMeter
12 18 (2.19%) TestNG
13 15 (1.83%) GitLab
14 13 (1.58%) Maven
14 13 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 10 (1.22%) Appium
16 9 (1.10%) CircleCI
17 8 (0.97%) JBehave
17 8 (0.97%) SonarQube
General
1 108 (13.15%) Finance
2 84 (10.23%) Public Sector
3 67 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 45 (5.48%) Advertising
5 42 (5.12%) Marketing
6 39 (4.75%) Retail
7 34 (4.14%) Games
8 30 (3.65%) Banking
9 27 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.73%) Electronics
13 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Law
15 4 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.37%) Aviation
16 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.24%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 508 (61.88%) Developer
2 379 (46.16%) .NET Developer
3 121 (14.74%) Senior
4 119 (14.49%) C# Developer
5 112 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
6 84 (10.23%) Software Engineer
7 80 (9.74%) Lead
8 73 (8.89%) Java Developer
9 54 (6.58%) Java Engineer
10 50 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (5.36%) Java Software Engineer
12 37 (4.51%) Internet Developer
13 35 (4.26%) Senior Developer
13 35 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
14 34 (4.14%) Full Stack Developer
15 33 (4.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 31 (3.78%) QA Engineer
17 30 (3.65%) Azure Developer
18 29 (3.53%) Tester
19 26 (3.17%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (52.98%) .NET
2 383 (46.65%) .NET Core
3 374 (45.55%) Entity Framework
4 371 (45.19%) ASP.NET
5 369 (44.95%) ASP.NET MVC
6 276 (33.62%) AngularJS
7 274 (33.37%) Node.js
8 265 (32.28%) React
9 230 (28.01%) .NET Framework
10 218 (26.55%) ASP.NET Web API
10 218 (26.55%) Vue
11 181 (22.05%) HTML
12 175 (21.32%) CSS
13 167 (20.34%) REST
14 161 (19.61%) CSS3
14 161 (19.61%) HTML5
15 156 (19.00%) Blazor
16 105 (12.79%) Spring
17 92 (11.21%) Spring Boot
18 88 (10.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.50%) Greenfield Project
2 50 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.05%) Digital TV
4 23 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 15 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.85%) Tandem
12 6 (0.73%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.73%) Hackathon
12 6 (0.73%) Social Media
13 5 (0.61%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (0.61%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.61%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.61%) PropTech
14 4 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.38%) Linux
2 13 (1.58%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.10%) Android
3 9 (1.10%) Windows
4 6 (0.73%) Unix
5 5 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.61%) ThreadX
6 4 (0.49%) DC/OS
6 4 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (84.53%) Agile
2 669 (81.49%) TDD
3 426 (51.89%) Full Stack Development
4 382 (46.53%) Microservices
5 372 (45.31%) MVC
6 364 (44.34%) Scrum
7 304 (37.03%) Kanban
8 197 (24.00%) CI/CD
9 176 (21.44%) Test Automation
10 147 (17.90%) DevOps
11 120 (14.62%) Software Engineering
12 79 (9.62%) API Testing
13 73 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
13 73 (8.89%) SDLC
14 72 (8.77%) Coaching
15 71 (8.65%) Mentoring
16 70 (8.53%) SDET
17 67 (8.16%) Fintech
18 65 (7.92%) OO
19 62 (7.55%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 505 (61.51%) JavaScript
2 435 (52.98%) C#
3 303 (36.91%) Java
4 288 (35.08%) SQL
5 255 (31.06%) TypeScript
6 83 (10.11%) Python
7 17 (2.07%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.71%) Go
9 11 (1.34%) Bash
9 11 (1.34%) C
10 6 (0.73%) PHP
10 6 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.61%) C++
11 5 (0.61%) Groovy
12 4 (0.49%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.49%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.49%) R
12 4 (0.49%) Swift
13 3 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (10.35%) Security Cleared
2 77 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.38%) Degree
4 24 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.83%) DBS Check
6 13 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.61%) ISEB
10 4 (0.49%) CIPD
10 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.12%) PhD
12 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.69%) QA
2 10 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.97%) GDPR
3 8 (0.97%) PSD2
4 4 (0.49%) NCSC
5 2 (0.24%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.24%) SEPA
6 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 105 (12.79%) Docker
2 30 (3.65%) Hyper-V
3 18 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.49%) Firmware
4 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.49%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 110 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.67%) Ansible
3 58 (7.06%) Terraform
4 10 (1.22%) Kibana
4 10 (1.22%) Puppet
5 8 (0.97%) Grafana
5 8 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.61%) Argo
7 3 (0.37%) Nagios
7 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.24%) Istio
8 2 (0.24%) linkerd
8 2 (0.24%) Podman
8 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 407 (49.57%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.87%) WSO2
3 31 (3.78%) Google
4 18 (2.19%) Facebook
5 16 (1.95%) Oracle
6 10 (1.22%) Databricks
7 8 (0.97%) Duck Creek
7 8 (0.97%) Splunk
8 6 (0.73%) Alterian
8 6 (0.73%) Sitecore
8 6 (0.73%) YouTube
9 4 (0.49%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.49%) VMware
10 3 (0.37%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.37%) New Relic
11 2 (0.24%) Brio
11 2 (0.24%) Cadence
11 2 (0.24%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.24%) SAP
11 2 (0.24%) Spotify