BDD Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 3.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £294 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile £406 - -
West Wales median daily rate £350 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 80.77% 17.39% 65.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 4 10
10th Percentile £363 £161 £193
25th Percentile £375 £176 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £333 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% -33.50% +122.22%
75th Percentile £531 £538 -
90th Percentile £538 £628 £537
West Wales median daily rate £425 £333 £500
% change year-on-year +27.82% -33.50% +122.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £12.70
25th Percentile - - £14.13
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.77%
75th Percentile - - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
West Wales median hourly rate £14.80 - £18.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.77%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

BDD job vacancy trend in Swansea

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing BDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing BDD

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Swansea

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BDD in Swansea over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BDD in Swansea

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OneLogin
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle