BDD Job Trends in Wales

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 55 102
Rank change year-on-year -36 +47 +9
Permanent jobs citing BDD 12 5 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.64% 0.95% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.12% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 17
10th Percentile £39,221 £49,259 -
25th Percentile £46,688 £57,975 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,289 £75,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +66.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £69,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.33% +25.00% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,229 445 1,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.90% 84.60% 71.70%
Number of salaries quoted 844 273 1,171
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,850 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,728 £32,951 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,841 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

BDD job vacancy trend in Wales

BDD
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing BDD

BDD
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Wales over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for BDD in Wales

BDD
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -26 9 £70,079 -6.56% 2
West Wales - 3 £72,500 -
BDD
UK

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) dbt
2 4 (33.33%) PaaS
2 4 (33.33%) SaaS
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) JMeter
3 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (16.67%) GitLab
4 2 (16.67%) JUnit
4 2 (16.67%) Zephyr
5 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
5 1 (8.33%) Gatling
5 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
5 1 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (8.33%) Locust
5 1 (8.33%) Mocha
5 1 (8.33%) Pa11y
5 1 (8.33%) Postman
5 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (8.33%) RSpec
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
1 4 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) HTML5
2 3 (25.00%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) Playwright
2 3 (25.00%) React
2 3 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS3
3 2 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (8.33%) JPA
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) PySpark
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) TDD
4 5 (41.67%) Test Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (25.00%) Observability
6 3 (25.00%) OWASP
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Test Management
7 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 3 (25.00%) WCAG
3 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) OneLogin
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle