BDD Contracts in the West Midlands

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 111 120
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing BDD 17 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.14% 0.24% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.30% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £411 £390 -
25th Percentile £455 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +16.13% -22.50%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile £508 - £540
England median daily rate £500 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -22.41% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,322 1,667 1,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.90% 81.28% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 1,096 1,327
10th Percentile £202 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £734 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 120 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.12 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.96 £14.22 £14.43
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +32.35%
75th Percentile £31.57 £40.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £47.50
England median hourly rate £27.13 £37.88 £35.03
% change year-on-year -28.38% +8.12% +36.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for BDD in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. 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
Birmingham +8 5 £500 +11.11% 33
Solihull - 4 £500 -
Shropshire - 4 £463 - 28
Warwickshire - 1 - - 3
Coventry - 1 £413 - 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (64.71%) Amazon S3
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon SQS
2 10 (58.82%) AWS KMS
2 10 (58.82%) Route 53
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (64.71%) DynamoDB
1 11 (64.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Jenkins
2 10 (58.82%) JUnit
2 10 (58.82%) Maven
2 10 (58.82%) Mockito
3 8 (47.06%) Git
4 7 (41.18%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (41.18%) DbUnit
4 7 (41.18%) jMock
4 7 (41.18%) SonarQube
5 2 (11.76%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) Appium
6 1 (5.88%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (58.82%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 13 (76.47%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.88%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) Spring
2 12 (70.59%) Spring Boot
3 11 (64.71%) REST
3 11 (64.71%) Web Services
4 10 (58.82%) Hibernate
5 8 (47.06%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (47.06%) AngularJS
5 8 (47.06%) SOAP
6 7 (41.18%) Bootstrap
6 7 (41.18%) JPA
6 7 (41.18%) PowerMock
6 7 (41.18%) RESTful
6 7 (41.18%) Spring Batch
6 7 (41.18%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (41.18%) Spring Integration
7 5 (29.41%) HTML
8 3 (17.65%) jQuery
8 3 (17.65%) React
8 3 (17.65%) WireMock
9 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 16 (94.12%) Microservices
3 14 (82.35%) TDD
4 11 (64.71%) Scrum
5 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (58.82%) DevOps
5 10 (58.82%) Kanban
6 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
7 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
7 7 (41.18%) Open Source
8 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
9 4 (23.53%) Business Analysis
9 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
9 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
9 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
10 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
10 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
10 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Docker
2 7 (41.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Grafana
2 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Atlassian
1 7 (41.18%) Jaspersoft
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