BDD Contracts in Scotland

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 128 134
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -51
Contract jobs citing BDD 8 36 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 1.26% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.36% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 20
10th Percentile - £414 £401
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +2.70% +10.12%
75th Percentile £500 £526 £641
90th Percentile £536 £546 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for BDD in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for BDD in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Glasgow +1 4 £498 +4.84% 2
Edinburgh +15 3 £425 -10.53% 2
West Lothian - 1 £540 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MariaDB
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (75.00%) Selenium
2 5 (62.50%) WebDriver
3 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
3 3 (37.50%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (25.00%) Subversion
4 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (12.50%) Gatling
5 1 (12.50%) JMeter
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (25.00%) Functional Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Gherkin
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) Redux
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) SDET
3 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) ATDD
4 2 (25.00%) Feature Driven Development
4 2 (25.00%) Kanban
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) V-Model
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) VBA
3 2 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle