BDD Contract Job Trends in Wales

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring BDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing BDD 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.28% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.60% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% -11.69%
UK median daily rate £510 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -2.39% -5.00% -4.35%

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 302 331 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 84.83% 78.25% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 178 312
10th Percentile £190 £142 £184
25th Percentile £284 £213 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £548 £582
90th Percentile £673 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 49 23
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.15 £20.12 £19.13
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.36 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% -2.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.75 £45.63
90th Percentile - £53.75 £54.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%

BDD
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

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing BDD

BDD
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing BDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing BDD

BDD
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 19 September 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 +8 1 £375 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA