BDD Contracts in Wales

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 61 61
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 -6
Contract jobs citing BDD 2 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.54% 0.16% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.19% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £356 - £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £369 - £508
90th Percentile - - £540
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.17% +9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

BDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 532 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 77.66% 87.50% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 411 596
10th Percentile £160 £188 £200
25th Percentile £356 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £575
90th Percentile £676 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 27
10th Percentile £11.63 £14.63 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.36 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.14 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -12.58% -1.19%
75th Percentile £51.75 £22.93 £38.94
90th Percentile £86.36 £49.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in Wales.

Daily rate trend for BDD in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
South Wales +21 2 £363 - 1
BDD
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL