BDD Jobs in Scotland

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 165 146 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 -68 +4
Permanent jobs citing BDD 123 77 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.83% 1.63% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.72% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 22 56 81
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,527
25th Percentile £50,686 £58,882 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,634 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +50.30% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,934 £77,715 £61,650
90th Percentile - £119,168 £65,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

BDD
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

BDD
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for BDD in Scotland

BDD
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in Scotland

BDD
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -25 95 - - 2
Edinburgh -6 17 £83,577 +23.57% 2
Scottish Borders +9 5 - -
Aberdeen - 5 £52,500 - 1
BDD
UK

BDD
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 76 (61.79%) AWS
2 26 (21.14%) BlazeMeter
3 11 (8.94%) Azure
4 10 (8.13%) GCP
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.25%) GitHub
5 4 (3.25%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) SaaS
5 4 (3.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.81%) Big Data
3 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 71 (57.72%) Cypress.io
2 64 (52.03%) Selenium
3 62 (50.41%) JUnit
4 60 (48.78%) Jasmine
4 60 (48.78%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (48.78%) Protractor
4 60 (48.78%) WebDriver
5 26 (21.14%) JMeter
6 17 (13.82%) Jenkins
6 17 (13.82%) Maven
7 9 (7.32%) Cucumber
7 9 (7.32%) Gradle
7 9 (7.32%) JIRA
8 6 (4.88%) Git
9 3 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 112 (91.06%) Finance
2 95 (77.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 95 (77.24%) Law
3 82 (66.67%) Banking
4 69 (56.10%) Investment Banking
5 34 (27.64%) Marketing
6 28 (22.76%) Social Skills
7 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (5.69%) Legal
8 7 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.81%) Games
Job Titles
1 100 (81.30%) Software Engineer
2 96 (78.05%) Java Engineer
3 92 (74.80%) Java Software Engineer
4 24 (19.51%) Lead
5 22 (17.89%) Lead Java Engineer
5 22 (17.89%) Lead Software Engineer
6 19 (15.45%) Full Stack Engineer
6 19 (15.45%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 10 (8.13%) Developer
8 9 (7.32%) QA Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) QA Software Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Analyst
9 7 (5.69%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.07%) .NET Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Onboarding Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.25%) Technical Business Analyst
12 1 (0.81%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (77.24%) React
2 92 (74.80%) Spring
3 73 (59.35%) Node.js
4 70 (56.91%) AngularJS
5 68 (55.28%) JSON
6 65 (52.85%) Hibernate
7 63 (51.22%) CSS
7 63 (51.22%) HTML
8 60 (48.78%) J2EE
8 60 (48.78%) Jest
8 60 (48.78%) JMS
8 60 (48.78%) jQuery
8 60 (48.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 26 (21.14%) Spring Boot
10 14 (11.38%) Kafka
11 12 (9.76%) REST
12 10 (8.13%) .NET
13 9 (7.32%) Ext JS
14 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (4.07%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 60 (48.78%) Data Structures
2 26 (21.14%) Market Risk
3 22 (17.89%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.69%) Credit Derivative
4 7 (5.69%) Derivative
4 7 (5.69%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.69%) Hedge funds
4 7 (5.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 7 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.69%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.25%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Linux
1 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (100.00%) Agile
1 123 (100.00%) TDD
2 102 (82.93%) Software Engineering
3 93 (75.61%) SDLC
4 89 (72.36%) CI/CD
5 88 (71.54%) Operational Stability
6 82 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 78 (63.41%) Machine Learning
8 61 (49.59%) Multithreading
9 60 (48.78%) Web Development
10 53 (43.09%) Community of Practice
11 48 (39.02%) Microservices
12 35 (28.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (27.64%) Decision-Making
13 34 (27.64%) Test Automation
14 33 (26.83%) Risk Management
15 31 (25.20%) Visualisation
16 26 (21.14%) Electronic Trading
16 26 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
17 22 (17.89%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 111 (90.24%) Java
2 80 (65.04%) JavaScript
3 65 (52.85%) TypeScript
4 23 (18.70%) SQL
5 10 (8.13%) C#
6 6 (4.88%) Python
7 1 (0.81%) Elixir
7 1 (0.81%) Perl
7 1 (0.81%) Ruby
7 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (4.07%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (10.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.32%) TOWER Software
2 7 (5.69%) Oracle
3 5 (4.07%) IBM
3 5 (4.07%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.25%) Confluent
4 4 (3.25%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) Databricks