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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.34% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £371 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.20%
75th Percentile £472 - £588
90th Percentile £489 - -
South West median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% -15.91%

All Process and 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 490 418 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 84.34% 85.31% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 283 507
10th Percentile £375 £340 £340
25th Percentile £511 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £711 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £737 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 14
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £13.75 - £25.21
Median hourly rate £22.27 £12.79 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +74.08% -74.03% -24.81%
75th Percentile £24.50 £48.20 £67.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £60.00 £74.75
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%

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 6 December 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
Swindon - 2 £425 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce