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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 268 106
Rank change year-on-year -19 -162 +5
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,021 1,367 5,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.35% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.42% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 810 922 1,953
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% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,687
% change year-on-year -8.00% +12.23% +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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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% +9.38%

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 10 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 10 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 -7 825 £60,000 -17.24% 225
UK excluding London +61 743 £57,500 -8.00% 135
Work from Home +59 716 £60,000 -14.29% 273
London -94 254 £82,500 - 99
South East +121 241 £60,000 +4.35% 30
North of England +31 148 £57,500 -5.74% 28
Scotland 0 128 £60,000 -11.29% 8
North West +13 82 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Midlands -21 75 £52,500 -12.50% 26
East of England +43 70 £60,000 -17.24% 13
South West -12 59 £56,250 -10.00% 25
West Midlands -24 53 £52,500 -14.29% 19
Yorkshire +45 46 £65,465 +0.71% 6
East Midlands +3 22 £52,500 -12.50% 7
North East +3 20 £47,500 -19.15% 2
Wales +19 17 £45,000 -6.25% 4
Northern Ireland +3 5 £57,500 +35.29% 2

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 7 (0.69%) 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 593 (58.08%) Azure
2 526 (51.52%) AWS
3 78 (7.64%) Serverless
4 59 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
6 55 (5.39%) GCP
7 52 (5.09%) SaaS
8 34 (3.33%) GitHub
9 29 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (2.64%) BlazeMeter
11 17 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (0.98%) PaaS
14 8 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.78%) BrowserStack
14 8 (0.78%) Slack
15 7 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (0.69%) Azure Functions
16 6 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.78%) Internet
2 20 (1.96%) DNS
3 18 (1.76%) Firewall
4 16 (1.57%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.69%) 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
1 414 (40.55%) SQL Server
2 277 (27.13%) MongoDB
3 227 (22.23%) Elasticsearch
4 161 (15.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 107 (10.48%) NoSQL
6 101 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
7 77 (7.54%) Relational Database
8 45 (4.41%) MySQL
9 12 (1.18%) Big Data
10 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.98%) Redis
11 7 (0.69%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
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
1 185 (18.12%) Selenium
2 181 (17.73%) Jenkins
3 159 (15.57%) Cucumber
4 133 (13.03%) Git
5 118 (11.56%) JUnit
6 107 (10.48%) Cypress.io
7 91 (8.91%) WebDriver
8 82 (8.03%) Postman
9 61 (5.97%) Jasmine
10 60 (5.88%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (5.88%) Protractor
11 55 (5.39%) JIRA
12 46 (4.51%) JMeter
13 30 (2.94%) Maven
14 29 (2.84%) REST Assured
15 28 (2.74%) SpecFlow
16 22 (2.15%) GitLab
17 18 (1.76%) TestNG
18 13 (1.27%) TeamCity
19 11 (1.08%) Gradle
General
1 233 (22.82%) Finance
2 125 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 122 (11.95%) Social Skills
4 119 (11.66%) Banking
5 107 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 101 (9.89%) Law
7 81 (7.93%) Marketing
8 73 (7.15%) Investment Banking
9 45 (4.41%) Advertising
10 44 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
11 41 (4.02%) Retail
12 35 (3.43%) Games
13 21 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.98%) French Language
15 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.69%) Legal
17 6 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.49%) Electronics
18 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
19 4 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 560 (54.85%) Developer
2 400 (39.18%) .NET Developer
3 188 (18.41%) Software Engineer
4 152 (14.89%) Senior
5 151 (14.79%) Java Engineer
6 137 (13.42%) Java Software Engineer
7 123 (12.05%) C# Developer
8 117 (11.46%) C# .NET Developer
9 106 (10.38%) Lead
10 82 (8.03%) Java Developer
11 56 (5.48%) Full Stack Developer
11 56 (5.48%) Senior Developer
12 52 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 49 (4.80%) QA Engineer
14 37 (3.62%) Internet Developer
15 35 (3.43%) Senior Java Engineer
15 35 (3.43%) Tester
16 33 (3.23%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 32 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
18 30 (2.94%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (45.35%) .NET
2 397 (38.88%) .NET Core
3 392 (38.39%) ASP.NET
4 387 (37.90%) Entity Framework
5 383 (37.51%) ASP.NET MVC
6 380 (37.22%) Node.js
7 372 (36.43%) React
8 354 (34.67%) AngularJS
9 268 (26.25%) HTML
10 262 (25.66%) CSS
11 242 (23.70%) .NET Framework
12 228 (22.33%) ASP.NET Web API
12 228 (22.33%) Vue
13 205 (20.08%) Spring
14 192 (18.81%) REST
15 164 (16.06%) CSS3
15 164 (16.06%) HTML5
16 159 (15.57%) Blazor
17 128 (12.54%) Spring Boot
18 114 (11.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.64%) Greenfield Project
2 64 (6.27%) Data Structures
3 52 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 32 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.74%) Market Risk
6 25 (2.45%) Digital TV
7 23 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.06%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 17 (1.67%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 7 (0.69%) Derivative
15 7 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
15 7 (0.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 7 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.11%) Linux
2 19 (1.86%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.57%) Android
4 13 (1.27%) Windows
5 12 (1.18%) 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
1 847 (82.96%) Agile
2 842 (82.47%) TDD
3 487 (47.70%) Full Stack Development
4 445 (43.58%) Microservices
5 394 (38.59%) Scrum
6 393 (38.49%) MVC
7 332 (32.52%) CI/CD
8 316 (30.95%) Kanban
9 260 (25.47%) Software Engineering
10 236 (23.11%) Test Automation
11 189 (18.51%) DevOps
12 178 (17.43%) SDLC
13 113 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
14 105 (10.28%) Artificial Intelligence
15 104 (10.19%) Software Testing
16 96 (9.40%) API Testing
16 96 (9.40%) Machine Learning
17 91 (8.91%) Operational Stability
18 84 (8.23%) Fintech
19 81 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 643 (62.98%) JavaScript
2 479 (46.91%) C#
3 453 (44.37%) Java
4 336 (32.91%) TypeScript
5 320 (31.34%) SQL
6 117 (11.46%) Python
7 33 (3.23%) Go
8 18 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.08%) Bash
10 10 (0.98%) C
11 9 (0.88%) Ruby
12 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.59%) PHP
14 5 (0.49%) C++
14 5 (0.49%) Groovy
14 5 (0.49%) R
15 4 (0.39%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.39%) Perl
15 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 115 (11.26%) Security Cleared
2 98 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.31%) Degree
4 27 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.69%) 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
12 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.098%) PhD
13 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (11.95%) QA
2 30 (2.94%) 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
1 128 (12.54%) Docker
2 31 (3.04%) Hyper-V
3 18 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (12.83%) Kubernetes
2 65 (6.37%) Ansible
3 61 (5.97%) Terraform
4 14 (1.37%) Kibana
5 13 (1.27%) Grafana
6 10 (0.98%) Puppet
7 8 (0.78%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.49%) Argo
9 4 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.29%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.20%) Istio
11 2 (0.20%) linkerd
11 2 (0.20%) Podman
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.098%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.098%) Packer
Vendors
1 423 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.11%) WSO2
3 39 (3.82%) Google
4 26 (2.55%) Oracle
5 18 (1.76%) Facebook
6 13 (1.27%) Splunk
7 12 (1.18%) 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%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.59%) YouTube
11 5 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.39%) New Relic
12 4 (0.39%) VMware
13 3 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
14 2 (0.20%) Spotify