BDD Contracts in Wales

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 41 61
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.69% 1.02% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.29% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £356 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -40.63% +41.18%
UK median daily rate £516 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +0.71% -14.58% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 309 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.63% 78.63% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 210 421
10th Percentile £185 £165 £183
25th Percentile £285 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £525 £574 £573
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in Wales.

Daily rate trend for BDD in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South Wales +5 2 - - 8
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google