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

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 293 106
Rank change year-on-year +7 -187 +11
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,012 1,167 5,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.24% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.30% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 797 824 1,939
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,159 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +4.35% +4.55%

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 88,299 89,649 163,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.45% 95.47% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,362 54,142 83,553
10th Percentile £29,290 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +9.10%

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 4 June 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 4 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
England -4 813 £60,000 -14.29% 235
UK excluding London +85 742 £56,159 -6.40% 159
Work from Home +68 709 £60,000 -14.29% 197
London -77 237 £80,000 -0.37% 97
South East +98 234 £60,000 +4.35% 31
North of England +41 154 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Scotland +4 125 £60,000 -13.60% 14
North West +14 87 £55,000 -8.33% 28
Midlands +6 75 £52,500 -12.50% 28
East of England +13 69 £60,000 -17.24% 10
South West -20 63 £55,000 -12.00% 29
West Midlands -9 49 £55,000 -15.38% 21
Yorkshire +50 47 £61,482 +0.79% 6
East Midlands -3 26 £52,500 -10.64% 7
North East -2 20 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Wales +23 17 £45,000 -6.25% 6
Northern Ireland +5 5 £57,500 +15.00% 7

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 36 (3.56%) OpenStack
2 19 (1.88%) Apache
3 12 (1.19%) Confluence
3 12 (1.19%) JBoss
4 10 (0.99%) CMS
4 10 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
5 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.59%) DNN
6 6 (0.59%) EPiServer
6 6 (0.59%) Immediacy CMS
6 6 (0.59%) Kentico
6 6 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (0.59%) Sitefinity
6 6 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.099%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.099%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 593 (58.60%) Azure
2 514 (50.79%) AWS
3 69 (6.82%) Serverless
4 51 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
5 49 (4.84%) GCP
6 48 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (4.45%) SaaS
8 27 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (2.67%) BlazeMeter
9 26 (2.57%) GitHub
10 18 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (0.99%) PaaS
13 9 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.79%) BrowserStack
14 8 (0.79%) Slack
15 6 (0.59%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.93%) Internet
2 21 (2.08%) DNS
3 19 (1.88%) Firewall
4 16 (1.58%) 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 (0.40%) SSL
8 3 (0.30%) HTTP
8 3 (0.30%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (41.50%) SQL Server
2 279 (27.57%) MongoDB
3 229 (22.63%) Elasticsearch
4 162 (16.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 104 (10.28%) NoSQL
6 96 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
7 76 (7.51%) Relational Database
8 48 (4.74%) MySQL
9 12 (1.19%) Big Data
10 10 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.99%) Redis
11 9 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.59%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.40%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.30%) Hadoop
17 2 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
18 1 (0.099%) Apache Cassandra
18 1 (0.099%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 171 (16.90%) Selenium
2 151 (14.92%) Jenkins
3 140 (13.83%) Cucumber
4 122 (12.06%) Git
5 121 (11.96%) JUnit
6 104 (10.28%) Cypress.io
7 92 (9.09%) WebDriver
8 71 (7.02%) Postman
9 61 (6.03%) Jasmine
10 60 (5.93%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (5.93%) Protractor
11 54 (5.34%) JIRA
12 51 (5.04%) JMeter
13 31 (3.06%) SpecFlow
14 30 (2.96%) REST Assured
15 25 (2.47%) Maven
16 23 (2.27%) GitLab
17 17 (1.68%) TestNG
18 14 (1.38%) TeamCity
19 12 (1.19%) Gradle
General
1 225 (22.23%) Finance
2 127 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 126 (12.45%) Social Skills
4 113 (11.17%) Banking
5 105 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 101 (9.98%) Law
7 81 (8.00%) Marketing
8 73 (7.21%) Investment Banking
9 45 (4.45%) Advertising
10 44 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (3.95%) Retail
12 36 (3.56%) Games
13 19 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.09%) French Language
15 9 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.69%) Legal
17 6 (0.59%) Electronics
18 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
19 4 (0.40%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 565 (55.83%) Developer
2 411 (40.61%) .NET Developer
3 190 (18.77%) Software Engineer
4 149 (14.72%) Java Engineer
5 148 (14.62%) Senior
6 135 (13.34%) Java Software Engineer
7 129 (12.75%) C# Developer
8 122 (12.06%) C# .NET Developer
9 103 (10.18%) Lead
10 73 (7.21%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.03%) Full Stack Developer
12 58 (5.73%) Senior Developer
13 52 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
14 43 (4.25%) QA Engineer
15 37 (3.66%) Internet Developer
16 35 (3.46%) Senior Java Engineer
17 33 (3.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 32 (3.16%) Azure Developer
18 32 (3.16%) Full Stack Engineer
19 30 (2.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (47.43%) .NET
2 403 (39.82%) ASP.NET
3 402 (39.72%) .NET Core
4 389 (38.44%) Entity Framework
5 388 (38.34%) ASP.NET MVC
6 378 (37.35%) React
7 376 (37.15%) Node.js
8 349 (34.49%) AngularJS
9 277 (27.37%) HTML
10 273 (26.98%) CSS
11 245 (24.21%) .NET Framework
12 231 (22.83%) ASP.NET Web API
13 230 (22.73%) Vue
14 190 (18.77%) Spring
15 168 (16.60%) CSS3
16 165 (16.30%) HTML5
16 165 (16.30%) REST
17 160 (15.81%) Blazor
18 123 (12.15%) RESTful
19 114 (11.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.71%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (6.23%) Data Structures
3 49 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.77%) Market Risk
6 26 (2.57%) Algorithms
6 26 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.47%) Digital TV
8 23 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.79%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.69%) Credit Derivative
14 7 (0.69%) Derivative
14 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.69%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.64%) Linux
2 19 (1.88%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.48%) Unix
3 15 (1.48%) Windows
4 14 (1.38%) Android
5 5 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.49%) ThreadX
6 4 (0.40%) DC/OS
6 4 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 846 (83.60%) TDD
2 838 (82.81%) Agile
3 496 (49.01%) Full Stack Development
4 438 (43.28%) Microservices
5 406 (40.12%) MVC
6 391 (38.64%) Scrum
7 324 (32.02%) CI/CD
8 308 (30.43%) Kanban
9 266 (26.28%) Software Engineering
10 226 (22.33%) Test Automation
11 186 (18.38%) SDLC
12 184 (18.18%) DevOps
13 114 (11.26%) Continuous Integration
14 110 (10.87%) Software Testing
15 108 (10.67%) Artificial Intelligence
16 95 (9.39%) Machine Learning
17 91 (8.99%) Operational Stability
17 91 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
18 84 (8.30%) Mentoring
19 82 (8.10%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 645 (63.74%) JavaScript
2 488 (48.22%) C#
3 430 (42.49%) Java
4 333 (32.91%) TypeScript
5 316 (31.23%) SQL
6 122 (12.06%) Python
7 34 (3.36%) Go
8 17 (1.68%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.28%) C
10 11 (1.09%) Ruby
11 9 (0.89%) Bash
12 8 (0.79%) PHP
13 6 (0.59%) C++
13 6 (0.59%) Perl
14 5 (0.49%) Groovy
15 4 (0.40%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 112 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 93 (9.19%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.05%) Degree
4 31 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 9 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.40%) CIPD
11 4 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.40%) ISEB
11 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.099%) PhD
12 1 (0.099%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (10.87%) QA
2 34 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 8 (0.79%) PSD2
4 4 (0.40%) 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 (0.099%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (11.66%) Docker
2 24 (2.37%) Hyper-V
3 19 (1.88%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.49%) Firmware
5 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.40%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.099%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.099%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (12.25%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.43%) Ansible
3 53 (5.24%) Terraform
4 15 (1.48%) Kibana
5 12 (1.19%) Grafana
6 8 (0.79%) Puppet
7 6 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.30%) Argo
8 3 (0.30%) Nagios
8 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.20%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) linkerd
9 2 (0.20%) Packer
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
10 1 (0.099%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.099%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 427 (42.19%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.66%) Google
3 36 (3.56%) WSO2
4 25 (2.47%) Oracle
5 18 (1.78%) Facebook
6 13 (1.28%) Splunk
7 11 (1.09%) Databricks
8 9 (0.89%) TOWER Software
9 8 (0.79%) Duck Creek
10 6 (0.59%) Alterian
10 6 (0.59%) Confluent
10 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.59%) YouTube
11 5 (0.49%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.40%) IBM
12 4 (0.40%) VMware
13 3 (0.30%) New Relic
13 3 (0.30%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.20%) Atlassian