BDD Job Trends in Newport

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newport requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Permanent jobs citing BDD 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Newport 1.92% 1.64% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,500 £46,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £48,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% - -
75th Percentile £41,500 £50,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 124 43 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 79.49% 70.49% 83.10%
Number of salaries quoted 73 32 50
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,275 £37,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £43,036
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,518 £50,552
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -4.02% +0.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £91,125 £67,500
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 Newport

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Newport

BDD
Salary Trend in Newport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing BDD

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft