BDD Contracts in London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 163 124
Rank change year-on-year -42 -39 -42
Contract jobs citing BDD 204 410 903
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.63% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.79% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 302 711
10th Percentile £350 £463 £425
25th Percentile £450 £522 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £675
90th Percentile £755 £743 £743
England median daily rate £540 £600 £552
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.65% +5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £68.35 £58.51
25th Percentile - £73.75 £61.52
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £68.06
Median % change year-on-year - +10.19% +166.91%
75th Percentile - £87.42 £74.64
90th Percentile - £90.00 £77.67
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year -22.41% +25.00% -11.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in London

BDD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in London

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in London

BDD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for BDD in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +17 24 £563 -6.25% 24
South London +2 7 £395 -21.00%
West London +14 6 £350 -45.53% 1
East London -1 6 £540 +8.00% 1
BDD
England

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (4.90%) Confluence
2 3 (1.47%) Apache
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.49%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) LiveLink
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Mingle
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.94%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.47%) Endur
2 3 (1.47%) RMDS
3 2 (0.98%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.49%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.49%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.49%) AWS
2 48 (23.53%) Azure
3 21 (10.29%) Serverless
4 20 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.86%) GitHub
5 14 (6.86%) Power Platform
6 13 (6.37%) GCP
7 12 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (4.41%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (4.41%) Power Automate
10 9 (4.41%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.92%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.43%) Azure Functions
12 7 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.94%) Azure Storage
13 6 (2.94%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.41%) SSH
2 8 (3.92%) HTTP
3 5 (2.45%) Internet
4 2 (0.98%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.49%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.31%) MongoDB
1 19 (9.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.35%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 11 (5.39%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.92%) Big Data
5 8 (3.92%) Power BI
6 7 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.94%) KDB
7 6 (2.94%) OLTP
8 5 (2.45%) Redis
9 3 (1.47%) Tableau
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.98%) OLAP
10 2 (0.98%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 49 (24.02%) Cucumber
2 44 (21.57%) Git
3 42 (20.59%) JIRA
4 37 (18.14%) Selenium
5 34 (16.67%) JUnit
6 25 (12.25%) Postman
6 25 (12.25%) SpecFlow
7 22 (10.78%) Jenkins
7 22 (10.78%) Mockito
8 16 (7.84%) REST Assured
8 16 (7.84%) WebDriver
9 15 (7.35%) JMeter
10 14 (6.86%) TestNG
11 13 (6.37%) SoapUI
12 11 (5.39%) Appium
13 10 (4.90%) Visual Studio
14 9 (4.41%) eggPlant
14 9 (4.41%) SOAtest
15 8 (3.92%) Gatling
15 8 (3.92%) Maven
General
1 62 (30.39%) Finance
2 49 (24.02%) Social Skills
3 44 (21.57%) Banking
4 33 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.35%) Front Office
5 15 (7.35%) Investment Banking
5 15 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.39%) Back Office
7 6 (2.94%) Retail
8 3 (1.47%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.47%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (0.98%) Electronics
9 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.98%) Games
9 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Legal
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (48.53%) Developer
2 54 (26.47%) Senior
3 44 (21.57%) Java Developer
4 33 (16.18%) Senior Developer
5 23 (11.27%) Tester
6 19 (9.31%) Senior Java Developer
7 17 (8.33%) Lead
8 15 (7.35%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.88%) Scala Developer
10 11 (5.39%) Analyst
11 10 (4.90%) Automation Tester
11 10 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (4.90%) QA Tester
12 9 (4.41%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.92%) Business Analyst
13 8 (3.92%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.43%) Automation Engineer
14 7 (3.43%) Java Engineer
14 7 (3.43%) QA Engineer
15 6 (2.94%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (24.51%) .NET
2 39 (19.12%) REST
3 32 (15.69%) Spring
4 31 (15.20%) Kafka
5 29 (14.22%) React
5 29 (14.22%) Web Services
6 25 (12.25%) XML
7 24 (11.76%) .NET Framework
7 24 (11.76%) JSON
8 23 (11.27%) AngularJS
9 22 (10.78%) RESTful
10 19 (9.31%) SOAP
11 18 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (8.82%) Hibernate
11 18 (8.82%) Spring Boot
12 17 (8.33%) HTML
12 17 (8.33%) JPA
13 15 (7.35%) JAX-RS
14 12 (5.88%) .NET Core
15 11 (5.39%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.88%) Derivative
2 10 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.45%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.96%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.98%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (0.98%) Replication
8 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.49%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.67%) Unix
2 32 (15.69%) Linux
3 16 (7.84%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (71.08%) TDD
2 126 (61.76%) Agile
3 98 (48.04%) Test Automation
4 78 (38.24%) Microservices
5 71 (34.80%) DevOps
6 59 (28.92%) CI/CD
7 54 (26.47%) Scrum
8 50 (24.51%) Continuous Integration
9 38 (18.63%) Pair Programming
10 30 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (14.22%) Continuous Deployment
11 29 (14.22%) SDLC
11 29 (14.22%) Software Engineering
12 27 (13.24%) Kanban
13 26 (12.75%) User Stories
14 23 (11.27%) Unit Testing
15 22 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
15 22 (10.78%) Test Strategy
16 21 (10.29%) Full Stack Development
16 21 (10.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 109 (53.43%) Java
2 47 (23.04%) C#
2 47 (23.04%) SQL
3 31 (15.20%) Python
4 28 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 25 (12.25%) TypeScript
6 19 (9.31%) Scala
7 13 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.94%) Perl
9 5 (2.45%) Bash
10 4 (1.96%) Bicep
10 4 (1.96%) Go
11 3 (1.47%) Haskell
11 3 (1.47%) Ruby
12 2 (0.98%) Dart
12 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.49%) Solidity
13 1 (0.49%) VC++
Qualifications
1 39 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.84%) Degree
4 6 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 6 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.49%) OCP
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.63%) QA
2 12 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.96%) WCAG
4 2 (0.98%) HL7
5 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (13.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.78%) Terraform
3 6 (2.94%) Grafana
3 6 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.96%) Ansible
4 4 (1.96%) Kibana
5 2 (0.98%) logstash
6 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.86%) Oracle
3 6 (2.94%) NEC
3 6 (2.94%) Typelevel
4 4 (1.96%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.47%) Solace
6 2 (0.98%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (0.98%) Planview
6 2 (0.98%) SAP
6 2 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.49%) Capita
7 1 (0.49%) Civica
7 1 (0.49%) Google
7 1 (0.49%) HP
7 1 (0.49%) New Relic
7 1 (0.49%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.49%) Spotify
7 1 (0.49%) WSO2