BDD Contracts

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 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 279 200 132
Rank change year-on-year -79 -68 -32
Contract jobs citing BDD 346 743 1,764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 1.33% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.48% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 524 1,317
10th Percentile £350 £413 £406
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £653
90th Percentile £740 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.89% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 21 14
10th Percentile - £62.50 £45.38
25th Percentile - £70.00 £51.63
Median hourly rate £56.25 £75.00 £61.91
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.14% +6.74%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - - £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year -22.41% +25.00% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the UK

BDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the UK

BDD
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -83 293 £540 -10.00% 234
London -32 205 £550 -12.00% 108
Work from Home -71 96 £498 -11.07% 184
UK excluding London -85 87 £500 - 145
North of England -26 29 £500 -11.19% 32
South East -19 23 £475 -5.00% 32
South West -15 18 £590 +31.11% 26
Yorkshire -2 14 £550 -18.52% 4
North West +1 11 £500 -3.85% 26
Midlands +9 6 £425 +13.33% 26
Scotland +17 5 £496 +4.42% 13
West Midlands +8 5 £450 +18.03% 21
North East +3 4 - - 2
East of England -2 4 £500 -8.59% 7
Wales - 2 £363 - 5
East Midlands +5 1 £398 +41.96% 5

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 20 (5.78%) Confluence
2 5 (1.45%) Drupal
3 4 (1.16%) Appian
3 4 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) JBoss
5 1 (0.29%) LiveLink
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Mingle
2 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.31%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.87%) Endur
3 3 (0.87%) RMDS
4 2 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.29%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.29%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 93 (26.88%) AWS
2 90 (26.01%) Azure
3 35 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (10.12%) GitHub
4 31 (8.96%) Serverless
5 19 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (5.49%) GCP
6 15 (4.34%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (2.89%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.89%) Power Automate
9 10 (2.89%) PowerApps
10 9 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.60%) BrowserStack
11 8 (2.31%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.02%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.76%) HTTP
2 9 (2.60%) SSH
3 5 (1.45%) Internet
4 3 (0.87%) BGP
4 3 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.87%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.58%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) Intranet
6 1 (0.29%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.83%) MongoDB
2 27 (7.80%) SQL Server
3 26 (7.51%) NoSQL
4 25 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.91%) MySQL
6 12 (3.47%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.31%) Power BI
10 7 (2.02%) Big Data
10 7 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.02%) OLTP
11 6 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.73%) KDB
12 5 (1.45%) Redis
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.87%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.87%) Tableau
15 2 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (27.46%) Cucumber
2 75 (21.68%) Git
3 70 (20.23%) Selenium
4 65 (18.79%) JIRA
5 52 (15.03%) Jenkins
6 42 (12.14%) Postman
7 39 (11.27%) JUnit
8 37 (10.69%) SpecFlow
9 30 (8.67%) WebDriver
10 26 (7.51%) JMeter
10 26 (7.51%) Mockito
11 21 (6.07%) Cypress.io
12 20 (5.78%) Visual Studio
13 19 (5.49%) REST Assured
13 19 (5.49%) TestNG
14 18 (5.20%) SoapUI
15 17 (4.91%) GitLab
16 14 (4.05%) Appium
16 14 (4.05%) Gatling
17 11 (3.18%) Maven
General
1 88 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.52%) Finance
3 64 (18.50%) Banking
4 37 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (9.25%) Investment Banking
5 32 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.05%) Front Office
7 10 (2.89%) Back Office
8 6 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.73%) Retail
8 6 (1.73%) Tech for Good
8 6 (1.73%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.87%) Electronics
10 3 (0.87%) Law
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.87%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Games
11 2 (0.58%) Legal
Job Titles
1 152 (43.93%) Developer
2 78 (22.54%) Senior
3 56 (16.18%) Java Developer
4 38 (10.98%) Senior Developer
5 34 (9.83%) Software Engineer
6 32 (9.25%) Scala Developer
7 31 (8.96%) Tester
8 24 (6.94%) Analyst
8 24 (6.94%) Test Engineer
9 23 (6.65%) Lead
9 23 (6.65%) Senior Java Developer
10 16 (4.62%) Automation Tester
10 16 (4.62%) Test Automation Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) Full Stack Developer
12 13 (3.76%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.47%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Java Engineer
13 12 (3.47%) Senior Test Engineer
14 11 (3.18%) C# Developer
14 11 (3.18%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (20.81%) .NET
2 61 (17.63%) REST
3 54 (15.61%) React
4 45 (13.01%) Web Services
5 44 (12.72%) Kafka
5 44 (12.72%) Spring
6 41 (11.85%) AngularJS
7 40 (11.56%) RESTful
8 30 (8.67%) .NET Framework
9 28 (8.09%) HTML
9 28 (8.09%) JSON
9 28 (8.09%) SOAP
9 28 (8.09%) XML
10 26 (7.51%) ActiveMQ
10 26 (7.51%) Spring Boot
11 25 (7.23%) CSS
12 21 (6.07%) JAX-RS
13 20 (5.78%) GraphQL
13 20 (5.78%) Node.js
14 18 (5.20%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.34%) Derivative
2 13 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.16%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.16%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 4 (1.16%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (13.01%) Linux
2 42 (12.14%) Unix
3 24 (6.94%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.87%) Windows
5 2 (0.58%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (65.90%) TDD
2 214 (61.85%) Agile
3 159 (45.95%) Test Automation
4 113 (32.66%) DevOps
5 110 (31.79%) CI/CD
6 104 (30.06%) Microservices
7 74 (21.39%) Scrum
8 68 (19.65%) Continuous Integration
9 63 (18.21%) Software Engineering
10 47 (13.58%) Pair Programming
11 46 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (13.01%) Kanban
12 45 (13.01%) SDLC
13 44 (12.72%) Full Stack Development
14 39 (11.27%) Continuous Deployment
15 36 (10.40%) OO
15 36 (10.40%) Test Strategy
16 34 (9.83%) ATDD
17 33 (9.54%) User Stories
18 30 (8.67%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 169 (48.84%) Java
2 78 (22.54%) SQL
3 68 (19.65%) JavaScript
4 65 (18.79%) C#
5 55 (15.90%) Python
6 48 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 42 (12.14%) Scala
8 18 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.18%) Bash
10 10 (2.89%) Perl
11 9 (2.60%) Go
12 8 (2.31%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.02%) C
14 6 (1.73%) C++
14 6 (1.73%) Groovy
14 6 (1.73%) Ruby
15 5 (1.45%) PHP
16 4 (1.16%) Bicep
16 4 (1.16%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 63 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.09%) Degree
4 10 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.31%) ISTQB
5 8 (2.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.58%) ISEB
7 2 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) OCP
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (16.76%) QA
2 26 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.73%) WCAG
4 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.58%) HL7
5 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (15.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (15.61%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.27%) Terraform
3 29 (8.38%) Ansible
4 13 (3.76%) Grafana
5 7 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.45%) Puppet
7 4 (1.16%) Kibana
7 4 (1.16%) Nagios
8 3 (0.87%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.58%) logstash
10 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.65%) Oracle
3 8 (2.31%) NEC
3 8 (2.31%) SAP
4 7 (2.02%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.02%) Splunk
5 6 (1.73%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (1.73%) Typelevel
6 5 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.45%) New Relic
6 5 (1.45%) Perfecto Mobile
7 4 (1.16%) Google
7 4 (1.16%) IBM
7 4 (1.16%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.16%) OpenText
7 4 (1.16%) Pega
8 3 (0.87%) Cisco
8 3 (0.87%) Solace
8 3 (0.87%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.58%) Planview