BDD Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales 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 West Wales 2.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% - -
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 - -
Wales median daily rate £531 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +41.67% - -11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 63.38% 17.39% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 4 11
10th Percentile £363 £161 £131
25th Percentile £375 £176 £338
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 £535
Wales median daily rate £490 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +22.50% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £13.86 - £12.70
25th Percentile £14.12 - £14.13
Median hourly rate £14.80 - £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.77%
75th Percentile £15.73 - £21.63
90th Percentile £16.14 - £22.90
Wales median hourly rate £16.61 £20.50 £25.36
% change year-on-year -18.98% -19.16% -4.60%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

BDD job vacancy trend in West Wales

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

BDD
Daily Rate Histogram in West Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for BDD in West Wales

BDD
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. 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
Swansea - 2 £350 - 4
BDD
Wales

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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