Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ATDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ATDD over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 854 967 971
Rank change year-on-year +113 +4 -189
Permanent jobs citing ATDD 40 22 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.021% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.022% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 119
10th Percentile £37,375 £47,500 £49,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.87% +1.92% -
75th Percentile £115,625 £75,300 £71,250
90th Percentile £175,000 £99,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ATDD 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ATDD.

Salary trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ATDD over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London +24 25 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Scotland -42 19 - -
England +109 17 £82,500 +22.22% 12
London +125 11 £110,000 +51.83% 8
Work from Home +101 7 £42,500 -22.73% 4
North of England +42 2 £47,500 - 2
North West +13 2 £47,500 - 2
South West - 2 - -
South East +17 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £40,000 -

ATDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (35.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (10.00%) CMS
3 2 (5.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) GitHub
2 7 (17.50%) Serverless
3 6 (15.00%) AWS
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (12.50%) PaaS
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (10.00%) Azure API Management
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (10.00%) Cloudflare
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 14 (35.00%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (22.50%) Redis
4 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.00%) Tableau
7 1 (2.50%) Big Data
7 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 14 (35.00%) Cypress.io
3 8 (20.00%) Git
4 5 (12.50%) GitLab
4 5 (12.50%) Postman
5 2 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.50%) Gatling
6 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.50%) Selenium
6 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (55.00%) Finance
2 21 (52.50%) Banking
2 21 (52.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (52.50%) Investment Banking
2 21 (52.50%) Law
3 4 (10.00%) Front Office
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.50%) Games
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Lead
1 17 (42.50%) Software Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) Java Engineer
2 15 (37.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 14 (35.00%) Full Stack Engineer
3 14 (35.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 14 (35.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 14 (35.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Manager
5 5 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
6 4 (10.00%) Scrum Master
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.50%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (55.00%) React
2 15 (37.50%) Kafka
3 14 (35.00%) CSS
3 14 (35.00%) HTML
3 14 (35.00%) JDBC
3 14 (35.00%) Spring
3 14 (35.00%) Spring Boot
4 12 (30.00%) .NET
5 9 (22.50%) Node.js
6 8 (20.00%) .NET Framework
7 6 (15.00%) RESTful
8 5 (12.50%) .NET Core
8 5 (12.50%) REST
8 5 (12.50%) WebdriverIO
9 4 (10.00%) Next.js
9 4 (10.00%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
11 1 (2.50%) Laravel
11 1 (2.50%) Vue
11 1 (2.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) Private Cloud
2 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (12.50%) Hedge funds
4 5 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 4 (10.00%) Blog
5 4 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) TDD
2 29 (72.50%) Agile
2 29 (72.50%) Software Engineering
3 25 (62.50%) DevOps
3 25 (62.50%) Test Automation
4 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 15 (37.50%) Epics
6 14 (35.00%) Front End Development
6 14 (35.00%) Full Stack Development
6 14 (35.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (32.50%) Analytics
7 13 (32.50%) BDD
7 13 (32.50%) Containerisation
8 12 (30.00%) Coaching
9 11 (27.50%) Scrum
10 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (22.50%) DevSecOps
11 9 (22.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (67.50%) JavaScript
2 19 (47.50%) Java
3 17 (42.50%) SQL
4 12 (30.00%) C#
5 8 (20.00%) Python
6 4 (10.00%) Bash
6 4 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.50%) PHP
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (10.00%) ISO 9000
2 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Grafana
1 5 (12.50%) Kibana
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks