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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 345 160
Rank change year-on-year +81 -185 -17
Permanent jobs citing BDD 750 519 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 0.88% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.92% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 567 328 935
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,166 £38,600
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +9.99% +1.25%
75th Percentile £71,991 £73,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,975 £76,385
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 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 May 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 20 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
South East +124 241 £60,000 +4.35% 55
North of England +27 151 £56,250 -8.16% 45
Scotland -6 129 £65,996 -4.97% 15
North West +12 83 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Midlands -10 75 £52,500 -10.64% 37
East of England +32 70 £60,000 -17.24% 12
South West -8 62 £55,000 -12.00% 30
West Midlands -9 51 £52,500 -8.70% 30
Yorkshire +47 48 £61,482 -5.41% 11
East Midlands +1 24 £52,500 -12.50% 7
North East +9 20 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Wales +21 17 £45,000 -6.25% 5
Northern Ireland +12 5 £57,500 +35.29% 4
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 35 (4.67%) OpenStack
2 14 (1.87%) Apache
3 12 (1.60%) JBoss
4 10 (1.33%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (1.20%) Confluence
6 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.13%) DNN
8 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.13%) Immediacy CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Kentico
8 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 470 (62.67%) Azure
2 414 (55.20%) AWS
3 55 (7.33%) Serverless
4 46 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
4 46 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (4.13%) GCP
6 27 (3.60%) BlazeMeter
7 22 (2.93%) GitHub
8 16 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.20%) SaaS
10 8 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.07%) Slack
11 7 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.67%) BrowserStack
14 4 (0.53%) IBM Cloud
15 3 (0.40%) Sauce Labs
16 2 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 2 (0.27%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.33%) Internet
2 20 (2.67%) DNS
3 18 (2.40%) Firewall
4 16 (2.13%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.93%) 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 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (47.20%) SQL Server
2 232 (30.93%) MongoDB
3 191 (25.47%) Elasticsearch
4 147 (19.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 80 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
6 72 (9.60%) NoSQL
7 44 (5.87%) Relational Database
8 30 (4.00%) MySQL
9 9 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.07%) Big Data
10 8 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.93%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.40%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.27%) Redis
14 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.13%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.13%) Event Store
14 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.13%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 110 (14.67%) Selenium
2 102 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 100 (13.33%) Git
3 100 (13.33%) JUnit
4 84 (11.20%) Cypress.io
5 75 (10.00%) WebDriver
6 66 (8.80%) Cucumber
7 61 (8.13%) Jasmine
8 60 (8.00%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (8.00%) Protractor
9 39 (5.20%) JMeter
10 36 (4.80%) JIRA
11 26 (3.47%) Maven
12 18 (2.40%) SpecFlow
13 17 (2.27%) REST Assured
14 15 (2.00%) GitLab
15 14 (1.87%) Postman
16 12 (1.60%) TestNG
17 11 (1.47%) TeamCity
18 9 (1.20%) Gradle
General
1 196 (26.13%) Finance
2 114 (15.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 109 (14.53%) Banking
4 99 (13.20%) Law
5 74 (9.87%) Marketing
6 70 (9.33%) Investment Banking
6 70 (9.33%) Social Skills
7 69 (9.20%) Public Sector
8 42 (5.60%) Advertising
9 37 (4.93%) Retail
10 29 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.73%) Games
12 17 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.93%) Legal
14 5 (0.67%) Electronics
14 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Aviation
15 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 448 (59.73%) Developer
2 349 (46.53%) .NET Developer
3 164 (21.87%) Software Engineer
4 135 (18.00%) Java Engineer
5 127 (16.93%) Java Software Engineer
6 113 (15.07%) C# Developer
7 108 (14.40%) C# .NET Developer
8 78 (10.40%) Senior
9 63 (8.40%) Java Developer
10 55 (7.33%) Lead
11 35 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.27%) Internet Developer
13 31 (4.13%) Senior Developer
14 30 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
15 27 (3.60%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
16 26 (3.47%) QA Engineer
16 26 (3.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 24 (3.20%) Azure Developer
18 23 (3.07%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (52.67%) .NET
2 349 (46.53%) .NET Core
3 341 (45.47%) Entity Framework
4 338 (45.07%) ASP.NET
4 338 (45.07%) ASP.NET MVC
5 322 (42.93%) React
6 311 (41.47%) AngularJS
7 305 (40.67%) Node.js
8 232 (30.93%) HTML
9 225 (30.00%) CSS
10 200 (26.67%) .NET Framework
11 192 (25.60%) ASP.NET Web API
11 192 (25.60%) Vue
12 168 (22.40%) Spring
13 153 (20.40%) CSS3
14 151 (20.13%) HTML5
15 147 (19.60%) Blazor
16 104 (13.87%) REST
17 102 (13.60%) JSON
18 97 (12.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.07%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.60%) Market Risk
5 25 (3.33%) Digital TV
6 23 (3.07%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.07%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.93%) Cloud Native
12 7 (0.93%) Credit Derivative
12 7 (0.93%) Derivative
12 7 (0.93%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.93%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.93%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.00%) Linux
2 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (0.67%) ThreadX
4 4 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.27%) Unix
5 2 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (93.33%) Agile
2 674 (89.87%) TDD
3 399 (53.20%) Full Stack Development
4 369 (49.20%) Microservices
5 340 (45.33%) MVC
6 312 (41.60%) Scrum
7 264 (35.20%) Kanban
8 204 (27.20%) CI/CD
9 183 (24.40%) Software Engineering
10 173 (23.07%) Test Automation
11 156 (20.80%) SDLC
12 115 (15.33%) DevOps
13 91 (12.13%) Artificial Intelligence
13 91 (12.13%) Operational Stability
14 83 (11.07%) Machine Learning
15 77 (10.27%) Continuous Integration
16 62 (8.27%) Multithreading
17 61 (8.13%) Mentoring
18 60 (8.00%) Software Testing
18 60 (8.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 527 (70.27%) JavaScript
2 386 (51.47%) C#
3 305 (40.67%) Java
4 286 (38.13%) TypeScript
5 273 (36.40%) SQL
6 60 (8.00%) Python
7 12 (1.60%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.33%) C
9 7 (0.93%) Bash
10 6 (0.80%) Go
11 5 (0.67%) PHP
11 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.53%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.53%) Groovy
12 4 (0.53%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.53%) Swift
13 3 (0.40%) Ruby
14 2 (0.27%) Bicep
14 2 (0.27%) C++
15 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 70 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 65 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.47%) Degree
4 21 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.00%) DBS Check
6 10 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.07%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.53%) CIPD
8 4 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.53%) ISEB
9 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
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 45 (6.00%) QA
2 8 (1.07%) GDPR
2 8 (1.07%) PSD2
3 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (11.87%) Docker
2 27 (3.60%) Hyper-V
3 18 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.53%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 52 (6.93%) Ansible
3 39 (5.20%) Terraform
4 9 (1.20%) Puppet
5 7 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.80%) Kibana
7 5 (0.67%) Argo
8 3 (0.40%) Grafana
9 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) linkerd
9 2 (0.27%) Nagios
9 2 (0.27%) Podman
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 361 (48.13%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.67%) WSO2
3 32 (4.27%) Google
4 21 (2.80%) Oracle
5 18 (2.40%) Facebook
6 9 (1.20%) TOWER Software
7 8 (1.07%) Duck Creek
8 7 (0.93%) Splunk
9 6 (0.80%) IBM
10 5 (0.67%) Databricks
10 5 (0.67%) YouTube
11 4 (0.53%) Confluent
11 4 (0.53%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.53%) VMware
12 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.27%) Brio
12 2 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.27%) Cadence
12 2 (0.27%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.27%) RedGate