BDD Contracts in the UK excluding London

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 238 177
Rank change year-on-year -73 -61 -35
Contract jobs citing BDD 87 229 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.00% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.12% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 154 296
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £428 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% +11.17%
75th Percentile £590 £616 £603
90th Percentile £683 £684 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 9
10th Percentile - £61.63 £44.50
25th Percentile - £70.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +25.00% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - £76.64
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £73.75 £58.28
% change year-on-year -23.73% +26.54% +0.48%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the UK excluding London

BDD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England -18 29 £500 -11.19% 35
South East -21 23 £475 -5.00% 47
South West -12 18 £590 +31.11% 26
Yorkshire +1 14 £550 -18.52% 6
North West -4 11 £500 -3.85% 27
Midlands +10 6 £425 +13.33% 28
Scotland +20 5 £496 +4.42% 13
West Midlands +8 5 £450 +16.13% 23
North East +3 4 - - 2
East of England +1 4 £500 -8.59% 6
Wales - 2 £363 - 5
East Midlands +3 1 £398 +41.96% 5
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 5 (5.75%) Drupal
2 4 (4.60%) Appian
3 3 (3.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) IIS
4 1 (1.15%) JBoss
4 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.08%) AWS
2 24 (27.59%) Azure
3 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.64%) GitHub
4 9 (10.34%) Serverless
5 7 (8.05%) BrowserStack
6 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.75%) GCP
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.60%) Unqork
8 3 (3.45%) Datadog
8 3 (3.45%) SaaS
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.30%) CloudBees
9 2 (2.30%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.30%) IaaS
9 2 (2.30%) PaaS
9 2 (2.30%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) HTTP
2 3 (3.45%) BGP
2 3 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (3.45%) IOS XR
3 1 (1.15%) DNS
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
1 13 (14.94%) MySQL
2 11 (12.64%) NoSQL
3 10 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.45%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Jenkins
2 24 (27.59%) Git
2 24 (27.59%) Selenium
3 17 (19.54%) Cucumber
4 15 (17.24%) JIRA
5 12 (13.79%) Cypress.io
6 11 (12.64%) Postman
7 10 (11.49%) JMeter
7 10 (11.49%) WebDriver
8 8 (9.20%) Visual Studio
9 6 (6.90%) GitLab
9 6 (6.90%) NUnit
10 5 (5.75%) Gatling
10 5 (5.75%) Subversion
11 4 (4.60%) Mockito
11 4 (4.60%) SpecFlow
12 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
12 3 (3.45%) JUnit
12 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
13 2 (2.30%) Appium
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.34%) Finance
4 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Tech for Good
5 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) Law
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Developer
2 22 (25.29%) Senior
3 15 (17.24%) Test Engineer
4 14 (16.09%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Java Developer
6 11 (12.64%) Senior Test Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Full Stack Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Architect
9 6 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Drupal Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Software Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Appian Architect
11 4 (4.60%) Lead
11 4 (4.60%) Scala Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.69%) React
2 17 (19.54%) RESTful
3 15 (17.24%) Web Services
4 14 (16.09%) AngularJS
5 13 (14.94%) .NET
5 13 (14.94%) REST
6 12 (13.79%) Kafka
7 10 (11.49%) CSS
8 9 (10.34%) GraphQL
9 8 (9.20%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (9.20%) HTML
9 8 (9.20%) Spring
10 7 (8.05%) Playwright
11 6 (6.90%) Node.js
11 6 (6.90%) SOAP
12 5 (5.75%) Gherkin
12 5 (5.75%) Next.js
12 5 (5.75%) Sass
12 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
13 4 (4.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Public Cloud
1 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.64%) Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Mac OS X
2 7 (8.05%) Unix
3 2 (2.30%) Android
4 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.15%) Windows
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (75.86%) Agile
2 64 (73.56%) TDD
3 44 (50.57%) Test Automation
4 43 (49.43%) CI/CD
5 26 (29.89%) DevOps
6 25 (28.74%) Microservices
6 25 (28.74%) Software Engineering
7 21 (24.14%) Full Stack Development
8 18 (20.69%) Scrum
9 17 (19.54%) Kanban
10 16 (18.39%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (17.24%) SDLC
12 13 (14.94%) Test Strategy
13 12 (13.79%) Manual Testing
13 12 (13.79%) Waterfall
14 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
15 9 (10.34%) Open Source
16 8 (9.20%) Computer Science
16 8 (9.20%) Continuous Deployment
16 8 (9.20%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (57.47%) Java
2 35 (40.23%) JavaScript
3 26 (29.89%) SQL
4 17 (19.54%) Python
5 16 (18.39%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.20%) Scala
7 7 (8.05%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.90%) Bash
8 6 (6.90%) C#
8 6 (6.90%) Groovy
9 5 (5.75%) C++
9 5 (5.75%) Go
9 5 (5.75%) PHP
10 4 (4.60%) C
11 3 (3.45%) Perl
11 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
11 3 (3.45%) Ruby
11 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
12 2 (2.30%) VBA
12 2 (2.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.60%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.30%) ISEB
6 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.05%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (25.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.94%) Terraform
3 9 (10.34%) Ansible
4 6 (6.90%) Grafana
5 3 (3.45%) Nagios
5 3 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.45%) Puppet
6 1 (1.15%) Kibana
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) IBM
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.60%) OpenText
1 4 (4.60%) Oracle
1 4 (4.60%) Pega
1 4 (4.60%) Splunk
2 3 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.45%) Cisco
2 3 (3.45%) New Relic
2 3 (3.45%) TOWER Software
3 2 (2.30%) Google
3 2 (2.30%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.15%) SAP
4 1 (1.15%) VMware