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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 298 105
Rank change year-on-year +4 -193 +11
Permanent jobs citing BDD 1,010 1,141 5,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.23% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.28% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 790 810 1,933
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,563 £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 £97,082
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 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 9 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 -10 811 £60,000 -14.29% 202
UK excluding London +82 739 £55,000 -8.33% 142
Work from Home +80 705 £60,000 -14.29% 184
London -101 236 £80,000 -0.37% 84
South East +94 230 £60,000 +4.35% 31
North of England +44 157 £55,000 -9.09% 31
Scotland +1 124 £60,000 -14.29% 15
North West +16 89 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Midlands -13 74 £52,500 -16.00% 24
East of England +13 69 £60,000 -17.24% 9
South West -9 63 £55,000 -12.00% 22
West Midlands -14 49 £53,750 -17.31% 18
Yorkshire +53 48 £57,500 -8.73% 3
East Midlands -11 25 £52,500 -8.70% 6
North East -6 20 £47,500 -25.49% 2
Wales +27 17 £45,000 -6.25% 4
Northern Ireland 0 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 34 (3.37%) OpenStack
2 19 (1.88%) Apache
3 12 (1.19%) JBoss
4 11 (1.09%) Confluence
5 10 (0.99%) CMS
5 10 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (0.79%) 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 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.30%) nginx
8 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.099%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.099%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 592 (58.61%) Azure
2 512 (50.69%) AWS
3 68 (6.73%) Serverless
4 49 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
5 46 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (4.55%) GCP
6 45 (4.46%) SaaS
7 27 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (2.67%) BlazeMeter
8 26 (2.57%) GitHub
9 17 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (0.99%) PaaS
13 9 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (0.69%) BrowserStack
15 7 (0.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.94%) Internet
2 22 (2.18%) DNS
3 20 (1.98%) Firewall
4 16 (1.58%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.50%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.50%) RS-232
6 5 (0.50%) RS-485
6 5 (0.50%) VoIP
6 5 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.50%) Wireless
6 5 (0.50%) ZigBee
7 4 (0.40%) SSL
8 3 (0.30%) HTTP
8 3 (0.30%) SSH
9 2 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (41.68%) SQL Server
2 280 (27.72%) MongoDB
3 229 (22.67%) Elasticsearch
4 162 (16.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 103 (10.20%) NoSQL
6 95 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
7 80 (7.92%) Relational Database
8 48 (4.75%) MySQL
9 12 (1.19%) Big Data
10 10 (0.99%) Redis
11 9 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.59%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.50%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.30%) Hadoop
16 1 (0.099%) Apache Cassandra
16 1 (0.099%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 169 (16.73%) Selenium
2 144 (14.26%) Jenkins
3 134 (13.27%) Cucumber
4 121 (11.98%) Git
5 120 (11.88%) JUnit
6 103 (10.20%) Cypress.io
7 93 (9.21%) WebDriver
8 68 (6.73%) Postman
9 61 (6.04%) Jasmine
10 60 (5.94%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (5.94%) Protractor
11 52 (5.15%) JIRA
11 52 (5.15%) JMeter
12 31 (3.07%) SpecFlow
13 29 (2.87%) REST Assured
14 24 (2.38%) Maven
15 22 (2.18%) GitLab
16 17 (1.68%) TestNG
17 14 (1.39%) TeamCity
18 12 (1.19%) Gradle
General
1 222 (21.98%) Finance
2 131 (12.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 128 (12.67%) Social Skills
4 111 (10.99%) Banking
5 104 (10.30%) Public Sector
6 101 (10.00%) Law
7 81 (8.02%) Marketing
8 73 (7.23%) Investment Banking
9 45 (4.46%) Advertising
10 44 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
11 39 (3.86%) 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 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
19 4 (0.40%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 565 (55.94%) Developer
2 414 (40.99%) .NET Developer
3 191 (18.91%) Software Engineer
4 150 (14.85%) Senior
5 148 (14.65%) Java Engineer
6 135 (13.37%) Java Software Engineer
7 132 (13.07%) C# Developer
8 123 (12.18%) C# .NET Developer
9 99 (9.80%) Lead
10 68 (6.73%) Java Developer
11 61 (6.04%) Full Stack Developer
12 58 (5.74%) Senior Developer
13 53 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 41 (4.06%) QA Engineer
15 37 (3.66%) Internet Developer
16 35 (3.47%) Senior Java Engineer
17 33 (3.27%) Azure Developer
17 33 (3.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 31 (3.07%) Full Stack Engineer
18 31 (3.07%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (47.62%) .NET
2 404 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 403 (39.90%) .NET Core
4 389 (38.51%) Entity Framework
5 387 (38.32%) ASP.NET MVC
6 377 (37.33%) React
7 374 (37.03%) Node.js
8 348 (34.46%) AngularJS
9 278 (27.52%) HTML
10 274 (27.13%) CSS
11 246 (24.36%) .NET Framework
12 231 (22.87%) ASP.NET Web API
12 231 (22.87%) Vue
13 187 (18.51%) Spring
14 168 (16.63%) CSS3
15 165 (16.34%) HTML5
16 161 (15.94%) REST
17 160 (15.84%) Blazor
18 126 (12.48%) RESTful
19 112 (11.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.72%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (6.24%) Data Structures
3 44 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.77%) Market Risk
6 26 (2.57%) Algorithms
6 26 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.48%) Digital TV
8 23 (2.28%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 17 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.79%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.69%) Credit Derivative
14 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.69%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.75%) Linux
2 19 (1.88%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.49%) Unix
3 15 (1.49%) Windows
4 14 (1.39%) Android
5 5 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.50%) 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
1 849 (84.06%) TDD
2 836 (82.77%) Agile
3 496 (49.11%) Full Stack Development
4 434 (42.97%) Microservices
5 407 (40.30%) MVC
6 391 (38.71%) Scrum
7 316 (31.29%) CI/CD
8 307 (30.40%) Kanban
9 267 (26.44%) Software Engineering
10 220 (21.78%) Test Automation
11 184 (18.22%) SDLC
12 180 (17.82%) DevOps
13 113 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
14 110 (10.89%) Software Testing
15 108 (10.69%) Artificial Intelligence
16 95 (9.41%) Machine Learning
17 93 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
18 91 (9.01%) Operational Stability
19 83 (8.22%) Mentoring
20 80 (7.92%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 645 (63.86%) JavaScript
2 493 (48.81%) C#
3 423 (41.88%) Java
4 332 (32.87%) TypeScript
5 315 (31.19%) SQL
6 123 (12.18%) Python
7 34 (3.37%) Go
8 16 (1.58%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.29%) 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%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.59%) Perl
14 5 (0.50%) Groovy
15 4 (0.40%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.40%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (11.19%) Security Cleared
2 92 (9.11%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.16%) Degree
4 31 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (2.18%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.29%) DBS Check
6 13 (1.29%) ISTQB
7 8 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.40%) CIPD
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
1 108 (10.69%) QA
2 35 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.69%) GDPR
3 7 (0.69%) 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
1 113 (11.19%) Docker
2 22 (2.18%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.50%) 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
1 119 (11.78%) Kubernetes
2 53 (5.25%) Ansible
3 49 (4.85%) Terraform
4 15 (1.49%) 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
1 425 (42.08%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.37%) Google
2 34 (3.37%) WSO2
3 26 (2.57%) Oracle
4 18 (1.78%) Facebook
5 13 (1.29%) Splunk
6 11 (1.09%) Databricks
7 9 (0.89%) TOWER Software
8 7 (0.69%) Duck Creek
8 7 (0.69%) YouTube
9 6 (0.59%) Alterian
9 6 (0.59%) Confluent
9 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.40%) IBM
11 4 (0.40%) VMware
12 3 (0.30%) New Relic
12 3 (0.30%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.20%) Spotify