BDD Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BDD 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 2.74% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 92 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 81.51% 92.00% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 59 48
10th Percentile £305 £308 £143
25th Percentile £350 £388 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.29% -12.86%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £725 £650 £620
Wiltshire median daily rate £538 £563 £539
% change year-on-year -4.44% +4.36% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £23.83 £22.01 £15.52
% change year-on-year +8.25% +41.82% -77.23%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Swindon

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Ant
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Conga
1 1 (25.00%) GoCardless
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) Thales