BDD Jobs in the UK excluding London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 267 368 158
Rank change year-on-year +101 -210 -13
Permanent jobs citing BDD 744 469 1,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.83% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.87% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 561 308 913
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,166 £38,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,318 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,991 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,975 £82,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the UK excluding London region 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
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
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 30 (4.03%) OpenStack
2 14 (1.88%) Apache
3 11 (1.48%) JBoss
4 9 (1.21%) Confluence
4 9 (1.21%) Red Hat Fuse
5 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.13%) DNN
7 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.13%) Kentico
7 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 466 (62.63%) Azure
2 407 (54.70%) AWS
3 50 (6.72%) Serverless
4 40 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
4 40 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (3.76%) GCP
6 27 (3.63%) BlazeMeter
7 17 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (2.15%) GitHub
9 10 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (1.34%) SaaS
10 8 (1.08%) Slack
11 7 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.67%) BrowserStack
14 3 (0.40%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.40%) Sauce Labs
15 2 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.39%) Internet
2 22 (2.96%) DNS
3 20 (2.69%) Firewall
4 16 (2.15%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.67%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.67%) RS-232
6 5 (0.67%) RS-485
6 5 (0.67%) VoIP
6 5 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.67%) Wireless
6 5 (0.67%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (47.58%) SQL Server
2 232 (31.18%) MongoDB
3 191 (25.67%) Elasticsearch
4 147 (19.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 71 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (9.14%) NoSQL
7 40 (5.38%) Relational Database
8 31 (4.17%) MySQL
9 9 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.08%) Big Data
10 8 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.40%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.27%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.27%) Redis
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.13%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.13%) Event Store
13 1 (0.13%) LogicBlox
13 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 108 (14.52%) Selenium
2 100 (13.44%) JUnit
3 89 (11.96%) Jenkins
4 87 (11.69%) Git
5 84 (11.29%) Cypress.io
6 76 (10.22%) WebDriver
7 63 (8.47%) Cucumber
8 61 (8.20%) Jasmine
9 60 (8.06%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (8.06%) Protractor
10 42 (5.65%) JMeter
11 34 (4.57%) JIRA
12 20 (2.69%) Maven
13 19 (2.55%) SpecFlow
14 16 (2.15%) REST Assured
15 15 (2.02%) GitLab
16 14 (1.88%) Postman
17 12 (1.61%) TeamCity
18 11 (1.48%) TestNG
18 11 (1.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 192 (25.81%) Finance
2 117 (15.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 105 (14.11%) Banking
4 99 (13.31%) Law
5 74 (9.95%) Marketing
6 70 (9.41%) Investment Banking
7 69 (9.27%) Social Skills
8 66 (8.87%) Public Sector
9 42 (5.65%) Advertising
10 38 (5.11%) Retail
11 29 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.76%) Games
13 16 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.94%) Legal
15 5 (0.67%) Electronics
16 4 (0.54%) Aviation
16 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 444 (59.68%) Developer
2 352 (47.31%) .NET Developer
3 160 (21.51%) Software Engineer
4 132 (17.74%) Java Engineer
5 124 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
6 116 (15.59%) C# Developer
7 111 (14.92%) C# .NET Developer
8 79 (10.62%) Senior
9 55 (7.39%) Lead
10 54 (7.26%) Java Developer
11 35 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.30%) Internet Developer
13 31 (4.17%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.03%) Full Stack Engineer
15 27 (3.63%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (3.49%) Lead Software Engineer
16 26 (3.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 25 (3.36%) QA Engineer
18 24 (3.23%) Azure Developer
19 23 (3.09%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (53.63%) .NET
2 350 (47.04%) .NET Core
3 341 (45.83%) Entity Framework
4 339 (45.56%) ASP.NET
4 339 (45.56%) ASP.NET MVC
5 324 (43.55%) React
6 305 (40.99%) AngularJS
7 296 (39.78%) Node.js
8 234 (31.45%) HTML
9 227 (30.51%) CSS
10 202 (27.15%) .NET Framework
11 193 (25.94%) Vue
12 192 (25.81%) ASP.NET Web API
13 156 (20.97%) Spring
14 154 (20.70%) CSS3
15 151 (20.30%) HTML5
16 147 (19.76%) Blazor
17 95 (12.77%) REST
18 93 (12.50%) JSON
19 87 (11.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.14%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (8.06%) Data Structures
3 38 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.63%) Market Risk
5 25 (3.36%) Digital TV
6 24 (3.23%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.94%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (0.94%) Derivative
11 7 (0.94%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.94%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (0.94%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.44%) Linux
2 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (0.67%) ThreadX
4 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.40%) Unix
5 3 (0.40%) Windows
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (92.74%) Agile
2 667 (89.65%) TDD
3 400 (53.76%) Full Stack Development
4 361 (48.52%) Microservices
5 341 (45.83%) MVC
6 308 (41.40%) Scrum
7 259 (34.81%) Kanban
8 203 (27.28%) CI/CD
9 180 (24.19%) Software Engineering
10 165 (22.18%) Test Automation
11 154 (20.70%) SDLC
12 110 (14.78%) DevOps
13 92 (12.37%) Artificial Intelligence
14 91 (12.23%) Operational Stability
15 84 (11.29%) Machine Learning
16 70 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
17 62 (8.33%) Multithreading
17 62 (8.33%) Software Testing
18 60 (8.06%) Web Development
19 59 (7.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 522 (70.16%) JavaScript
2 389 (52.28%) C#
3 291 (39.11%) Java
4 283 (38.04%) TypeScript
5 265 (35.62%) SQL
6 58 (7.80%) Python
7 11 (1.48%) C
7 11 (1.48%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.81%) PHP
9 5 (0.67%) Bash
10 4 (0.54%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.54%) Go
10 4 (0.54%) Groovy
10 4 (0.54%) Objective-C
10 4 (0.54%) Ruby
10 4 (0.54%) Swift
11 3 (0.40%) C++
11 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.27%) Perl
12 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 61 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 22 (2.96%) Degree
4 20 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.02%) DBS Check
6 10 (1.34%) ISTQB
7 7 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.54%) CIPD
8 4 (0.54%) ISEB
9 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) PhD
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.18%) QA
2 8 (1.08%) GDPR
2 8 (1.08%) PSD2
3 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 79 (10.62%) Docker
2 22 (2.96%) Hyper-V
3 20 (2.69%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 43 (5.78%) Ansible
3 33 (4.44%) Terraform
4 7 (0.94%) Kibana
4 7 (0.94%) Puppet
5 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.40%) Argo
6 3 (0.40%) Grafana
6 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.27%) linkerd
7 2 (0.27%) Nagios
7 2 (0.27%) Podman
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 361 (48.52%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.03%) Google
2 30 (4.03%) WSO2
3 20 (2.69%) Oracle
4 18 (2.42%) Facebook
5 9 (1.21%) TOWER Software
6 8 (1.08%) Duck Creek
6 8 (1.08%) Splunk
7 5 (0.67%) Databricks
7 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.67%) IBM
7 5 (0.67%) YouTube
8 4 (0.54%) Confluent
8 4 (0.54%) VMware
9 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.27%) Brio
9 2 (0.27%) Cadence
9 2 (0.27%) New Relic
9 2 (0.27%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.27%) RedGate