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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 367 167
Rank change year-on-year +102 -200 -24
Permanent jobs citing BDD 739 462 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.83% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.87% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 553 307 908
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,166 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,728
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.77% +3.14%
75th Percentile £71,991 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,875
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 63,849 53,205 71,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.12% 95.49% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 43,309 28,441 41,725
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £80,250
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 8 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 8 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 +97 230 £60,000 +4.35% 31
North of England +30 157 £55,000 -9.09% 31
Scotland +5 124 £60,000 -12.46% 15
North West +16 89 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Midlands -20 74 £52,500 -16.00% 24
East of England +13 69 £60,000 -17.24% 9
South West -15 63 £55,000 -12.00% 22
West Midlands -8 49 £53,750 -17.31% 18
Yorkshire +56 48 £57,500 -8.73% 3
East Midlands -11 25 £52,500 -10.64% 6
North East -7 20 £47,500 -25.49% 2
Wales +22 17 £45,000 -6.25% 4
Northern Ireland +3 5 £57,500 +15.00% 7
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 28 (3.79%) OpenStack
2 13 (1.76%) Apache
3 11 (1.49%) JBoss
4 9 (1.22%) Confluence
4 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
5 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) CMS
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.14%) DNN
7 1 (0.14%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Kentico
7 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 459 (62.11%) Azure
2 399 (53.99%) AWS
3 48 (6.50%) Serverless
4 37 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
4 37 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (3.65%) BlazeMeter
6 23 (3.11%) GCP
7 17 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.03%) GitHub
9 11 (1.49%) SaaS
10 9 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.95%) Slack
12 6 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.68%) BrowserStack
14 3 (0.41%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.41%) Sauce Labs
15 2 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.44%) Internet
2 22 (2.98%) DNS
3 20 (2.71%) Firewall
4 16 (2.17%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.68%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.68%) RS-232
6 5 (0.68%) RS-485
6 5 (0.68%) VoIP
6 5 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.68%) Wireless
6 5 (0.68%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (48.04%) SQL Server
2 233 (31.53%) MongoDB
3 191 (25.85%) Elasticsearch
4 147 (19.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (8.66%) NoSQL
7 40 (5.41%) Relational Database
8 31 (4.19%) MySQL
9 8 (1.08%) Big Data
9 8 (1.08%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.41%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.27%) Redis
13 1 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.14%) Event Store
13 1 (0.14%) LogicBlox
13 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.14%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 107 (14.48%) Selenium
2 99 (13.40%) JUnit
3 86 (11.64%) Git
4 85 (11.50%) Cypress.io
5 82 (11.10%) Jenkins
6 77 (10.42%) WebDriver
7 61 (8.25%) Jasmine
8 60 (8.12%) Cucumber
8 60 (8.12%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (8.12%) Protractor
9 43 (5.82%) JMeter
10 34 (4.60%) JIRA
11 19 (2.57%) SpecFlow
12 18 (2.44%) Maven
13 16 (2.17%) REST Assured
14 14 (1.89%) GitLab
14 14 (1.89%) Postman
15 12 (1.62%) TeamCity
16 11 (1.49%) TestNG
16 11 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 188 (25.44%) Finance
2 120 (16.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 102 (13.80%) Banking
4 99 (13.40%) Law
5 74 (10.01%) Marketing
6 70 (9.47%) Investment Banking
6 70 (9.47%) Social Skills
7 64 (8.66%) Public Sector
8 42 (5.68%) Advertising
9 37 (5.01%) Retail
10 28 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (3.79%) Games
11 15 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.95%) Legal
13 5 (0.68%) Electronics
14 4 (0.54%) Aviation
14 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 442 (59.81%) Developer
2 353 (47.77%) .NET Developer
3 161 (21.79%) Software Engineer
4 130 (17.59%) Java Engineer
5 123 (16.64%) Java Software Engineer
6 119 (16.10%) C# Developer
7 112 (15.16%) C# .NET Developer
8 80 (10.83%) Senior
9 50 (6.77%) Lead
10 48 (6.50%) Java Developer
11 36 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.33%) Internet Developer
13 31 (4.19%) Senior Developer
14 29 (3.92%) Full Stack Engineer
15 27 (3.65%) Senior Java Engineer
16 26 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
16 26 (3.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 24 (3.25%) Azure Developer
17 24 (3.25%) QA Engineer
18 23 (3.11%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (53.86%) .NET
2 351 (47.50%) .NET Core
3 341 (46.14%) Entity Framework
4 338 (45.74%) ASP.NET
4 338 (45.74%) ASP.NET MVC
5 323 (43.71%) React
6 303 (41.00%) AngularJS
7 293 (39.65%) Node.js
8 234 (31.66%) HTML
9 227 (30.72%) CSS
10 203 (27.47%) .NET Framework
11 194 (26.25%) Vue
12 192 (25.98%) ASP.NET Web API
13 154 (20.84%) CSS3
14 151 (20.43%) HTML5
15 150 (20.30%) Spring
16 147 (19.89%) Blazor
17 90 (12.18%) REST
18 88 (11.91%) JSON
19 82 (11.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.20%) Greenfield Project
2 60 (8.12%) Data Structures
3 33 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.65%) Market Risk
5 25 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.38%) Digital TV
6 15 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.08%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.95%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (0.95%) Derivative
11 7 (0.95%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.95%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.60%) Linux
2 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (0.68%) ThreadX
4 4 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.41%) Unix
5 3 (0.41%) Windows
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (92.42%) Agile
2 662 (89.58%) TDD
3 400 (54.13%) Full Stack Development
4 353 (47.77%) Microservices
5 340 (46.01%) MVC
6 307 (41.54%) Scrum
7 256 (34.64%) Kanban
8 196 (26.52%) CI/CD
9 181 (24.49%) Software Engineering
10 157 (21.24%) Test Automation
11 151 (20.43%) SDLC
12 103 (13.94%) DevOps
13 92 (12.45%) Artificial Intelligence
14 91 (12.31%) Operational Stability
15 83 (11.23%) Machine Learning
16 68 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
17 62 (8.39%) Multithreading
18 61 (8.25%) Software Testing
19 60 (8.12%) Web Development
20 57 (7.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 522 (70.64%) JavaScript
2 393 (53.18%) C#
3 282 (38.16%) TypeScript
4 281 (38.02%) Java
5 259 (35.05%) SQL
6 59 (7.98%) Python
7 12 (1.62%) C
8 10 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.81%) PHP
10 5 (0.68%) Bash
11 4 (0.54%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.54%) Groovy
11 4 (0.54%) Objective-C
11 4 (0.54%) Ruby
11 4 (0.54%) Swift
12 3 (0.41%) C++
12 3 (0.41%) Go
12 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.27%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 63 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 59 (7.98%) SC Cleared
3 23 (3.11%) Degree
4 19 (2.57%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.76%) DBS Check
5 13 (1.76%) ISTQB
6 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.54%) CIPD
7 4 (0.54%) ISEB
7 4 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PhD
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.36%) QA
2 7 (0.95%) GDPR
2 7 (0.95%) PSD2
3 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 73 (9.88%) Docker
2 20 (2.71%) Virtual Servers
3 19 (2.57%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.54%) Firmware
4 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.41%) Ansible
3 29 (3.92%) Terraform
4 7 (0.95%) Kibana
4 7 (0.95%) Puppet
5 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.41%) Argo
6 3 (0.41%) Grafana
6 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) NetIQ Identity Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 359 (48.58%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.79%) WSO2
3 26 (3.52%) Google
4 21 (2.84%) Oracle
5 18 (2.44%) Facebook
6 9 (1.22%) TOWER Software
7 8 (1.08%) Splunk
8 7 (0.95%) Duck Creek
9 6 (0.81%) YouTube
10 5 (0.68%) Databricks
10 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.54%) Confluent
11 4 (0.54%) IBM
11 4 (0.54%) VMware
12 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.27%) Brio
12 2 (0.27%) Cadence
12 2 (0.27%) New Relic
12 2 (0.27%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.27%) RedGate