BDD Jobs with Work from Home Options

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 151 220 127
Rank change year-on-year +69 -93 -29
Permanent jobs citing BDD 718 633 2,185
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.12% 1.56% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.62% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 661 520 1,086
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £91,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £93,750
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

BDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BDD trend for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BDD.

BDD salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BDD over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

BDD salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 26 (3.62%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.11%) JBoss
2 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (0.97%) Apache
3 7 (0.97%) CMS
4 6 (0.84%) DNN
4 6 (0.84%) EPiServer
4 6 (0.84%) Immediacy CMS
4 6 (0.84%) Kentico
4 6 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.84%) Sitefinity
4 6 (0.84%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.28%) Confluence
5 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 519 (72.28%) Azure
2 363 (50.56%) AWS
3 45 (6.27%) SaaS
4 38 (5.29%) Serverless
5 33 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (4.46%) GCP
7 31 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (2.65%) GitHub
9 13 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.84%) BrowserStack
13 5 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.70%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (0.56%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (0.56%) PaaS
14 4 (0.56%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.56%) Sauce Labs
15 3 (0.42%) Azure Functions
16 2 (0.28%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.36%) Internet
2 16 (2.23%) Hyperconnected
3 15 (2.09%) DNS
3 15 (2.09%) Firewall
4 5 (0.70%) Bluetooth
4 5 (0.70%) RS-232
4 5 (0.70%) RS-485
4 5 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.70%) VoIP
4 5 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.70%) Wireless
4 5 (0.70%) ZigBee
5 2 (0.28%) Broadband
6 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (54.74%) SQL Server
2 262 (36.49%) MongoDB
3 221 (30.78%) Elasticsearch
4 161 (22.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 71 (9.89%) NoSQL
6 66 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (6.55%) Relational Database
8 41 (5.71%) MySQL
9 4 (0.56%) Big Data
9 4 (0.56%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.56%) Redis
10 3 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.28%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.14%) OLTP
12 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (15.88%) Jenkins
2 91 (12.67%) Cucumber
3 85 (11.84%) Selenium
4 75 (10.45%) Postman
5 66 (9.19%) Git
6 28 (3.90%) Cypress.io
7 24 (3.34%) SpecFlow
8 21 (2.92%) JIRA
8 21 (2.92%) JUnit
9 15 (2.09%) Maven
9 15 (2.09%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.53%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.39%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.25%) JMeter
12 9 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.11%) Appium
13 8 (1.11%) JBehave
14 7 (0.97%) GitLab
15 5 (0.70%) Serenity BDD
15 5 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 89 (12.40%) Finance
2 64 (8.91%) Public Sector
3 55 (7.66%) Social Skills
4 45 (6.27%) Advertising
5 42 (5.85%) Marketing
6 36 (5.01%) Retail
7 35 (4.87%) Games
8 29 (4.04%) Banking
9 15 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.39%) French Language
11 6 (0.84%) Electronics
11 6 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.42%) Aviation
13 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Law
14 2 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Welsh Language
15 1 (0.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 479 (66.71%) Developer
2 391 (54.46%) .NET Developer
3 120 (16.71%) Senior
4 112 (15.60%) C# Developer
5 107 (14.90%) C# .NET Developer
6 69 (9.61%) Software Engineer
7 56 (7.80%) Lead
8 43 (5.99%) Java Developer
8 43 (5.99%) Java Engineer
8 43 (5.99%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (5.71%) Senior Developer
10 39 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (5.15%) Internet Developer
12 34 (4.74%) Full Stack Developer
13 33 (4.60%) Senior Java Engineer
14 32 (4.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 28 (3.90%) QA Engineer
16 24 (3.34%) Azure Developer
17 23 (3.20%) Messaging Developer
18 19 (2.65%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (60.58%) .NET
2 394 (54.87%) ASP.NET
3 390 (54.32%) .NET Core
4 382 (53.20%) ASP.NET MVC
5 380 (52.92%) Entity Framework
6 283 (39.42%) Node.js
7 255 (35.52%) AngularJS
8 249 (34.68%) React
9 227 (31.62%) .NET Framework
10 223 (31.06%) Vue
11 221 (30.78%) ASP.NET Web API
12 193 (26.88%) HTML
13 191 (26.60%) CSS
14 162 (22.56%) CSS3
15 160 (22.28%) Blazor
15 160 (22.28%) HTML5
16 123 (17.13%) REST
17 86 (11.98%) RESTful
18 75 (10.45%) Spring
19 68 (9.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.72%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (3.76%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.48%) Digital TV
3 25 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.25%) Private Cloud
5 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 7 (0.97%) Tandem
8 6 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 6 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.70%) ARM Cortex
9 5 (0.70%) Replication
10 4 (0.56%) NHS
11 3 (0.42%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.42%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.42%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.18%) Linux
2 10 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.25%) Windows
4 8 (1.11%) Unix
5 6 (0.84%) Android
6 5 (0.70%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.70%) ThreadX
7 4 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 610 (84.96%) TDD
2 583 (81.20%) Agile
3 435 (60.58%) Full Stack Development
4 393 (54.74%) MVC
5 340 (47.35%) Microservices
6 310 (43.18%) Scrum
7 270 (37.60%) Kanban
8 157 (21.87%) CI/CD
9 132 (18.38%) Test Automation
10 118 (16.43%) DevOps
10 118 (16.43%) Software Engineering
11 67 (9.33%) API Testing
12 63 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
13 61 (8.50%) OO
14 60 (8.36%) SDET
14 60 (8.36%) Software Testing
15 58 (8.08%) Fintech
16 54 (7.52%) SDLC
17 53 (7.38%) Clean Code
17 53 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 509 (70.89%) JavaScript
2 440 (61.28%) C#
3 248 (34.54%) SQL
4 247 (34.40%) TypeScript
5 239 (33.29%) Java
6 68 (9.47%) Python
7 30 (4.18%) Go
8 9 (1.25%) C
9 8 (1.11%) Ruby
10 6 (0.84%) Bash
10 6 (0.84%) PHP
11 5 (0.70%) Groovy
12 4 (0.56%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.56%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.56%) Swift
13 3 (0.42%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.42%) R
14 2 (0.28%) Rust
14 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 81 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 69 (9.61%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.04%) Degree
4 26 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.09%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.09%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.56%) CIPD
6 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.28%) ISEB
8 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (11.84%) QA
2 24 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.28%) SEPA
4 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (9.05%) Docker
2 21 (2.92%) Hyper-V
3 15 (2.09%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.56%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.85%) Ansible
3 34 (4.74%) Terraform
4 7 (0.97%) Puppet
5 5 (0.70%) Argo
5 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.56%) Grafana
6 4 (0.56%) Kibana
7 2 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 398 (55.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.62%) WSO2
3 19 (2.65%) Google
4 18 (2.51%) Facebook
5 6 (0.84%) Alterian
5 6 (0.84%) Sitecore
6 5 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.56%) IBM
7 4 (0.56%) Splunk
7 4 (0.56%) VMware
8 3 (0.42%) Databricks
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle
9 2 (0.28%) Spotify
10 1 (0.14%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.14%) SAP
10 1 (0.14%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.14%) Zend