BDD Job Trends in Cardiff

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 45 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +17
Permanent jobs citing BDD 2 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.56% 1.59% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.99% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 £41,594 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £45,826 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.92% +1.83% -18.18%
75th Percentile £74,066 £55,541 £50,000
90th Percentile - £59,125 £53,000
South Wales median annual salary £55,539 £47,307 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.40% +5.13% -18.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 302 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 72.07% 79.89% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 177 194 285
10th Percentile £30,150 £28,838 £33,170
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,656 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,503 £78,970 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +0.22%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Cardiff

BDD
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Locust
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle