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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 273 105
Rank change year-on-year -21 -168 +10
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,022 1,322 5,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.33% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.39% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 813 895 1,956
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £55,687
% change year-on-year -6.50% +10.44% +1.25%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 18 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
England -18 821 £60,000 -15.49% 280
UK excluding London +68 746 £57,500 -6.50% 182
Work from Home +65 719 £60,000 -14.29% 320
London -93 246 £82,500 - 135
South East +117 239 £60,000 +4.35% 47
North of England +41 150 £55,000 -10.20% 36
Scotland -4 129 £65,996 -3.71% 15
North West +17 82 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Midlands -14 75 £52,500 -10.64% 37
East of England +30 70 £60,000 -17.24% 12
South West -14 61 £56,250 -10.00% 29
West Midlands -11 52 £52,500 -8.70% 29
Yorkshire +46 48 £61,482 -5.41% 7
East Midlands +10 23 £52,500 -12.50% 8
North East +4 20 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Wales +19 17 £45,000 -6.25% 4
Northern Ireland +2 5 £57,500 +35.29% 4

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 41 (4.01%) OpenStack
2 20 (1.96%) Apache
3 12 (1.17%) JBoss
4 11 (1.08%) Confluence
5 10 (0.98%) CMS
5 10 (0.98%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (0.78%) 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 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.098%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 598 (58.51%) Azure
2 526 (51.47%) AWS
3 77 (7.53%) Serverless
4 58 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
5 55 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
6 54 (5.28%) GCP
7 50 (4.89%) SaaS
8 33 (3.23%) GitHub
9 27 (2.64%) BlazeMeter
10 26 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (0.98%) PaaS
14 9 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (0.78%) BrowserStack
15 8 (0.78%) Slack
16 7 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (0.68%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.87%) Internet
2 20 (1.96%) DNS
3 18 (1.76%) Firewall
4 16 (1.57%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.68%) 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 (0.29%) HTTP
9 2 (0.20%) Broadband
9 2 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (40.80%) SQL Server
2 278 (27.20%) MongoDB
3 228 (22.31%) Elasticsearch
4 162 (15.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 107 (10.47%) NoSQL
6 102 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (7.83%) Relational Database
8 45 (4.40%) MySQL
9 12 (1.17%) Big Data
10 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.98%) Redis
11 7 (0.68%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.49%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.29%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.20%) Power BI
16 1 (0.098%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 181 (17.71%) Selenium
2 175 (17.12%) Jenkins
3 154 (15.07%) Cucumber
4 133 (13.01%) Git
5 117 (11.45%) JUnit
6 108 (10.57%) Cypress.io
7 91 (8.90%) WebDriver
8 81 (7.93%) Postman
9 61 (5.97%) Jasmine
10 60 (5.87%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (5.87%) Protractor
11 54 (5.28%) JIRA
12 48 (4.70%) JMeter
13 31 (3.03%) REST Assured
14 30 (2.94%) Maven
14 30 (2.94%) SpecFlow
15 22 (2.15%) GitLab
16 18 (1.76%) TestNG
17 13 (1.27%) TeamCity
18 11 (1.08%) Appium
General
1 231 (22.60%) Finance
2 125 (12.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 125 (12.23%) Social Skills
3 116 (11.35%) Banking
4 109 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 101 (9.88%) Law
6 81 (7.93%) Marketing
7 72 (7.05%) Investment Banking
8 45 (4.40%) Advertising
9 44 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (3.82%) Retail
11 36 (3.52%) Games
12 21 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.08%) French Language
14 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.68%) Legal
16 6 (0.59%) Electronics
16 6 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 565 (55.28%) Developer
2 405 (39.63%) .NET Developer
3 191 (18.69%) Software Engineer
4 152 (14.87%) Java Engineer
5 150 (14.68%) Senior
6 138 (13.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 124 (12.13%) C# Developer
8 117 (11.45%) C# .NET Developer
9 107 (10.47%) Lead
10 81 (7.93%) Java Developer
11 59 (5.77%) Full Stack Developer
12 57 (5.58%) Senior Developer
13 52 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
14 46 (4.50%) QA Engineer
15 37 (3.62%) Internet Developer
16 35 (3.42%) Senior Java Engineer
17 33 (3.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 32 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
18 32 (3.13%) Tester
19 31 (3.03%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (46.28%) .NET
2 400 (39.14%) .NET Core
3 398 (38.94%) ASP.NET
4 389 (38.06%) Entity Framework
5 385 (37.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 383 (37.48%) Node.js
7 374 (36.59%) React
8 354 (34.64%) AngularJS
9 272 (26.61%) HTML
10 266 (26.03%) CSS
11 243 (23.78%) .NET Framework
12 230 (22.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 229 (22.41%) Vue
14 203 (19.86%) Spring
15 187 (18.30%) REST
16 165 (16.14%) CSS3
16 165 (16.14%) HTML5
17 160 (15.66%) Blazor
18 126 (12.33%) Spring Boot
19 117 (11.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 51 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.74%) Market Risk
7 25 (2.45%) Digital TV
8 23 (2.25%) Algorithms
9 22 (2.15%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
16 7 (0.68%) Credit Derivative
16 7 (0.68%) Fixed Income
16 7 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (0.68%) Reference Data
16 7 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.11%) Linux
2 17 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.27%) Android
3 13 (1.27%) Windows
4 12 (1.17%) Unix
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
1 849 (83.07%) TDD
2 848 (82.97%) Agile
3 492 (48.14%) Full Stack Development
4 449 (43.93%) Microservices
5 399 (39.04%) MVC
6 395 (38.65%) Scrum
7 334 (32.68%) CI/CD
8 316 (30.92%) Kanban
9 265 (25.93%) Software Engineering
10 236 (23.09%) Test Automation
11 189 (18.49%) DevOps
12 181 (17.71%) SDLC
13 117 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
14 107 (10.47%) Artificial Intelligence
14 107 (10.47%) Software Testing
15 95 (9.30%) Machine Learning
16 92 (9.00%) API Testing
17 91 (8.90%) Operational Stability
18 84 (8.22%) Mentoring
18 84 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 648 (63.41%) JavaScript
2 484 (47.36%) C#
3 452 (44.23%) Java
4 336 (32.88%) TypeScript
5 323 (31.60%) SQL
6 119 (11.64%) Python
7 35 (3.42%) Go
8 18 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.08%) Bash
9 11 (1.08%) C
10 9 (0.88%) Ruby
11 7 (0.68%) PHP
12 6 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.49%) C++
13 5 (0.49%) Groovy
14 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
14 4 (0.39%) Perl
14 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.39%) R
14 4 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 118 (11.55%) Security Cleared
2 99 (9.69%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.40%) Degree
4 30 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.88%) ISTQB
9 8 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.49%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) CIPD
12 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.29%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.098%) PhD
14 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.74%) QA
2 34 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.78%) GDPR
3 8 (0.78%) 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
1 127 (12.43%) Docker
2 31 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 18 (1.76%) 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%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 64 (6.26%) Ansible
3 60 (5.87%) Terraform
4 14 (1.37%) Kibana
5 12 (1.17%) Grafana
6 10 (0.98%) Puppet
7 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.49%) Argo
9 3 (0.29%) Nagios
9 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.20%) Istio
10 2 (0.20%) linkerd
10 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.098%) Packer
Vendors
1 427 (41.78%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.01%) WSO2
3 39 (3.82%) Google
4 26 (2.54%) Oracle
5 18 (1.76%) Facebook
6 12 (1.17%) Splunk
7 11 (1.08%) Databricks
8 9 (0.88%) TOWER Software
9 8 (0.78%) Duck Creek
10 6 (0.59%) Alterian
10 6 (0.59%) Confluent
10 6 (0.59%) IBM
10 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.59%) YouTube
11 4 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.39%) VMware
12 3 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.29%) New Relic
13 2 (0.20%) Spotify