Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 286 104
Rank change year-on-year -7 -182 +15
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,016 1,170 5,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 1.24% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.29% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 803 824 1,933
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,625 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,318 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.14% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in the UK

BDD
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -9 816 £60,000 -14.29% 234
UK excluding London +101 744 £56,318 -6.14% 145
Work from Home +78 714 £60,000 -14.29% 184
London -80 239 £81,250 -1.52% 108
South East +100 236 £60,000 +4.35% 32
North of England +43 153 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Scotland 0 126 £60,000 -13.60% 13
North West +14 86 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Midlands +2 75 £52,500 -16.00% 26
East of England +25 69 £60,000 -17.24% 7
South West -10 63 £55,000 -12.00% 26
West Midlands -21 49 £53,750 -17.31% 21
Yorkshire +45 47 £61,482 +0.79% 4
East Midlands +4 26 £52,500 -10.64% 5
North East 0 20 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Wales +23 17 £45,000 -6.25% 5
Northern Ireland +2 5 £57,500 +15.00% 6

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (3.54%) OpenStack
2 20 (1.97%) Apache
3 12 (1.18%) JBoss
4 11 (1.08%) Confluence
5 10 (0.98%) CMS
5 10 (0.98%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.59%) DNN
7 6 (0.59%) EPiServer
7 6 (0.59%) Immediacy CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Kentico
7 6 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Sitefinity
7 6 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.30%) nginx
8 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.098%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 596 (58.66%) Azure
2 519 (51.08%) AWS
3 70 (6.89%) Serverless
4 52 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
5 51 (5.02%) GCP
6 49 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (4.63%) SaaS
8 27 (2.66%) BlazeMeter
8 27 (2.66%) GitHub
9 26 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (0.98%) PaaS
13 9 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.79%) BrowserStack
14 8 (0.79%) Slack
15 6 (0.59%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.91%) Internet
2 22 (2.17%) DNS
3 20 (1.97%) Firewall
4 16 (1.57%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.49%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.49%) RS-232
6 5 (0.49%) RS-485
6 5 (0.49%) VoIP
6 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.49%) Wireless
6 5 (0.49%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.39%) SSL
8 3 (0.30%) HTTP
8 3 (0.30%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (41.24%) SQL Server
2 279 (27.46%) MongoDB
3 229 (22.54%) Elasticsearch
4 162 (15.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 105 (10.33%) NoSQL
6 97 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
7 78 (7.68%) Relational Database
8 48 (4.72%) MySQL
9 12 (1.18%) Big Data
10 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.98%) Redis
11 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.59%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.30%) Hadoop
16 2 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
16 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
17 1 (0.098%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 174 (17.13%) Selenium
2 155 (15.26%) Jenkins
3 143 (14.07%) Cucumber
4 121 (11.91%) Git
4 121 (11.91%) JUnit
5 104 (10.24%) Cypress.io
6 92 (9.06%) WebDriver
7 73 (7.19%) Postman
8 61 (6.00%) Jasmine
9 60 (5.91%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (5.91%) Protractor
10 53 (5.22%) JIRA
11 51 (5.02%) JMeter
12 31 (3.05%) SpecFlow
13 30 (2.95%) REST Assured
14 26 (2.56%) Maven
15 23 (2.26%) GitLab
16 17 (1.67%) TestNG
17 14 (1.38%) TeamCity
18 12 (1.18%) Gradle
General
1 227 (22.34%) Finance
2 128 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 126 (12.40%) Social Skills
4 114 (11.22%) Banking
5 106 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 101 (9.94%) Law
7 81 (7.97%) Marketing
8 73 (7.19%) Investment Banking
9 45 (4.43%) Advertising
9 45 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
10 40 (3.94%) Retail
11 36 (3.54%) Games
12 20 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.08%) French Language
14 9 (0.89%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.69%) Legal
16 6 (0.59%) Electronics
17 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.39%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 566 (55.71%) Developer
2 411 (40.45%) .NET Developer
3 189 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 150 (14.76%) Java Engineer
5 149 (14.67%) Senior
6 136 (13.39%) Java Software Engineer
7 129 (12.70%) C# Developer
8 122 (12.01%) C# .NET Developer
9 104 (10.24%) Lead
10 74 (7.28%) Java Developer
11 60 (5.91%) Full Stack Developer
12 58 (5.71%) Senior Developer
13 52 (5.12%) Senior Software Engineer
14 44 (4.33%) QA Engineer
15 37 (3.64%) Internet Developer
16 35 (3.44%) Senior Java Engineer
17 33 (3.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 32 (3.15%) Azure Developer
18 32 (3.15%) Full Stack Engineer
19 30 (2.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (47.15%) .NET
2 402 (39.57%) .NET Core
2 402 (39.57%) ASP.NET
3 389 (38.29%) Entity Framework
4 388 (38.19%) ASP.NET MVC
5 377 (37.11%) Node.js
5 377 (37.11%) React
6 350 (34.45%) AngularJS
7 277 (27.26%) HTML
8 273 (26.87%) CSS
9 245 (24.11%) .NET Framework
10 230 (22.64%) ASP.NET Web API
10 230 (22.64%) Vue
11 193 (19.00%) Spring
12 170 (16.73%) REST
13 168 (16.54%) CSS3
14 165 (16.24%) HTML5
15 160 (15.75%) Blazor
16 124 (12.20%) RESTful
17 117 (11.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.68%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 49 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.76%) Market Risk
6 27 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 25 (2.46%) Digital TV
8 23 (2.26%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.87%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.79%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.69%) Credit Derivative
14 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.69%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.63%) Linux
2 19 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.48%) Unix
3 15 (1.48%) Windows
4 14 (1.38%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.49%) ThreadX
6 4 (0.39%) DC/OS
6 4 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (83.46%) TDD
2 840 (82.68%) Agile
3 495 (48.72%) Full Stack Development
4 442 (43.50%) Microservices
5 405 (39.86%) MVC
6 391 (38.48%) Scrum
7 325 (31.99%) CI/CD
8 309 (30.41%) Kanban
9 265 (26.08%) Software Engineering
10 229 (22.54%) Test Automation
11 185 (18.21%) DevOps
12 184 (18.11%) SDLC
13 113 (11.12%) Continuous Integration
14 110 (10.83%) Software Testing
15 109 (10.73%) Artificial Intelligence
16 97 (9.55%) Machine Learning
17 91 (8.96%) Operational Stability
18 90 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
19 84 (8.27%) Mentoring
20 83 (8.17%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 645 (63.48%) JavaScript
2 487 (47.93%) C#
3 436 (42.91%) Java
4 333 (32.78%) TypeScript
5 318 (31.30%) SQL
6 121 (11.91%) Python
7 35 (3.44%) Go
8 17 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.18%) C
10 11 (1.08%) Ruby
11 9 (0.89%) Bash
12 8 (0.79%) PHP
13 6 (0.59%) C++
13 6 (0.59%) Perl
14 5 (0.49%) Groovy
15 4 (0.39%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 114 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 94 (9.25%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.04%) Degree
4 31 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 10 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.98%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.39%) CIPD
9 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.39%) ISEB
9 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.098%) PhD
11 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.02%) QA
2 33 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 8 (0.79%) PSD2
4 4 (0.39%) NCSC
5 2 (0.20%) ISO 9000
5 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.20%) SEPA
6 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 119 (11.71%) Docker
2 25 (2.46%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.97%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.39%) Firmware
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.098%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 56 (5.51%) Ansible
3 53 (5.22%) Terraform
4 15 (1.48%) Kibana
5 12 (1.18%) Grafana
6 8 (0.79%) Puppet
7 6 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.30%) Argo
8 3 (0.30%) Nagios
8 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.20%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) linkerd
9 2 (0.20%) Packer
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.098%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.098%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 426 (41.93%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.74%) Google
3 36 (3.54%) WSO2
4 25 (2.46%) Oracle
5 18 (1.77%) Facebook
6 13 (1.28%) Splunk
7 11 (1.08%) Databricks
8 9 (0.89%) TOWER Software
9 8 (0.79%) Duck Creek
10 6 (0.59%) Alterian
10 6 (0.59%) Confluent
10 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.59%) YouTube
11 5 (0.49%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.49%) IBM
12 4 (0.39%) VMware
13 3 (0.30%) New Relic
13 3 (0.30%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.20%) RedGate