BDD Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring BDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 52 84
Rank change year-on-year -3 +32 -12
Contract jobs citing BDD 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.30% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £475 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £425 £590
% change year-on-year +23.53% -27.97% +21.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 649 409 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 84.29% 88.91% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 271 534
10th Percentile £347 £308 £362
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £543
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +5.99% -3.73%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 15 14
10th Percentile - £18.65 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £22.00 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +72.01% -80.91%
75th Percentile £85.25 £25.15 £15.64
90th Percentile - - £30.25
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -58.08% -7.69%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

BDD
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing BDD

BDD
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Swindon -2 10 £525 +10.53%
BDD
South West

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (10.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Cucumber
2 7 (70.00%) Postman
2 7 (70.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) Ant
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (10.00%) Maven
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Playwright
2 6 (60.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) API Testing
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) TDD
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 7 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (70.00%) Software Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Coaching
3 6 (60.00%) Defect Tracking
3 6 (60.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Integration Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) Apex Code
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (60.00%) Conga
2 6 (60.00%) GoCardless
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Thales