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 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 278 278 105
Rank change year-on-year 0 -173 +10
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,022 1,315 5,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 1.32% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.38% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 812 890 1,971
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 £100,000 £102,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £55,687
% change year-on-year -6.12% +9.99% +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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

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 20 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 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
England -15 821 £60,000 -15.25% 309
UK excluding London +81 750 £57,500 -6.12% 203
Work from Home +69 718 £60,000 -14.29% 329
London -102 243 £82,500 - 147
South East +124 241 £60,000 +4.35% 57
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
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 42 (4.11%) OpenStack
2 20 (1.96%) Apache
3 13 (1.27%) JBoss
4 11 (1.08%) Confluence
4 11 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (0.98%) CMS
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
2 524 (51.27%) AWS
3 77 (7.53%) Serverless
4 59 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (5.19%) GCP
7 50 (4.89%) SaaS
8 33 (3.23%) GitHub
9 27 (2.64%) BlazeMeter
10 25 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (0.98%) PaaS
15 9 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (0.78%) BrowserStack
16 8 (0.78%) Slack
17 6 (0.59%) 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
1 419 (41.00%) SQL Server
2 279 (27.30%) MongoDB
3 228 (22.31%) Elasticsearch
4 162 (15.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 107 (10.47%) NoSQL
6 103 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (7.93%) 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
1 180 (17.61%) Selenium
2 176 (17.22%) Jenkins
3 151 (14.77%) Cucumber
4 134 (13.11%) Git
5 118 (11.55%) JUnit
6 107 (10.47%) Cypress.io
7 91 (8.90%) WebDriver
8 80 (7.83%) 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 17 (1.66%) TestNG
17 13 (1.27%) TeamCity
18 11 (1.08%) Gradle
General
1 230 (22.50%) Finance
2 125 (12.23%) Social Skills
3 124 (12.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (11.35%) Banking
5 109 (10.67%) Public Sector
6 101 (9.88%) Law
7 81 (7.93%) Marketing
8 72 (7.05%) Investment Banking
9 45 (4.40%) Advertising
10 43 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
11 39 (3.82%) Retail
12 36 (3.52%) Games
13 21 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.08%) French Language
15 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.68%) Legal
17 6 (0.59%) Electronics
17 6 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.39%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 568 (55.58%) Developer
2 406 (39.73%) .NET Developer
3 191 (18.69%) Software Engineer
4 152 (14.87%) Java Engineer
4 152 (14.87%) Senior
5 138 (13.50%) Java Software Engineer
6 126 (12.33%) C# Developer
7 119 (11.64%) C# .NET Developer
8 106 (10.37%) Lead
9 82 (8.02%) Java Developer
10 60 (5.87%) Full Stack Developer
11 59 (5.77%) Senior Developer
12 52 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 45 (4.40%) QA Engineer
14 37 (3.62%) Internet Developer
15 35 (3.42%) Senior Java Engineer
16 33 (3.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 32 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
18 31 (3.03%) Azure Developer
18 31 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (46.38%) .NET
2 401 (39.24%) .NET Core
3 400 (39.14%) ASP.NET
4 389 (38.06%) Entity Framework
5 387 (37.87%) ASP.NET MVC
6 385 (37.67%) Node.js
7 375 (36.69%) React
8 357 (34.93%) AngularJS
9 273 (26.71%) HTML
10 269 (26.32%) CSS
11 243 (23.78%) .NET Framework
12 230 (22.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 229 (22.41%) Vue
14 202 (19.77%) Spring
15 186 (18.20%) REST
16 167 (16.34%) CSS3
17 165 (16.14%) HTML5
18 160 (15.66%) Blazor
19 125 (12.23%) Spring Boot
20 119 (11.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 52 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.74%) Market Risk
5 28 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.45%) Digital TV
7 23 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 22 (2.15%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.86%) Mobile App
10 17 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.68%) Credit Derivative
15 7 (0.68%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.68%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.68%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.11%) Linux
2 17 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.37%) Windows
4 13 (1.27%) Android
5 12 (1.17%) Unix
6 5 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.49%) ThreadX
7 4 (0.39%) DC/OS
7 4 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (83.07%) TDD
2 848 (82.97%) Agile
3 493 (48.24%) Full Stack Development
4 449 (43.93%) Microservices
5 401 (39.24%) MVC
6 396 (38.75%) Scrum
7 330 (32.29%) CI/CD
8 316 (30.92%) Kanban
9 266 (26.03%) Software Engineering
10 235 (22.99%) Test Automation
11 189 (18.49%) DevOps
12 183 (17.91%) SDLC
13 118 (11.55%) Continuous Integration
14 107 (10.47%) Artificial Intelligence
14 107 (10.47%) Software Testing
15 95 (9.30%) Machine Learning
16 91 (8.90%) API Testing
16 91 (8.90%) Operational Stability
17 84 (8.22%) Mentoring
17 84 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 652 (63.80%) JavaScript
2 484 (47.36%) C#
3 449 (43.93%) Java
4 336 (32.88%) TypeScript
5 322 (31.51%) 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 98 (9.59%) 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 8 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.39%) CIPD
10 4 (0.39%) ISEB
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.29%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.098%) PhD
12 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.45%) QA
2 33 (3.23%) 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
1 126 (12.33%) 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 65 (6.36%) Ansible
3 59 (5.77%) 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 42 (4.11%) 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