TDD Contracts in Edinburgh

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 60 74
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 0
Contract jobs citing TDD 18 12 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.88% 1.47% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 1.67% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 35
10th Percentile £403 £413 £433
25th Percentile £406 £415 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £499
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -9.73% -5.05%
75th Percentile £463 £495 £565
90th Percentile £481 £506 £755
Scotland median daily rate £455 £463 £545
% change year-on-year -1.62% -15.14% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for TDD in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 9 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 8 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (44.44%) Serverless
3 5 (27.78%) AWS CodePipeline
3 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (16.67%) Azure
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) IaaS
5 3 (16.67%) PaaS
5 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 3 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.56%) GIS
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
3 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 3 (16.67%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (16.67%) Postman
3 3 (16.67%) Selenium
3 3 (16.67%) Subversion
3 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) React Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 8 (44.44%) React
2 8 (44.44%) REST
3 7 (38.89%) Node.js
3 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
4 4 (22.22%) Spring
5 3 (16.67%) .NET
5 3 (16.67%) Next.js
5 3 (16.67%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) Kanban
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) Scrum
4 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 7 (38.89%) Migration
4 7 (38.89%) Test Automation
5 6 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
5 6 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
6 5 (27.78%) Data Transformation
7 4 (22.22%) Code Coverage
7 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
7 4 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
7 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (22.22%) Pair Programming
7 4 (22.22%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 4 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
5 3 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (16.67%) VBA
5 3 (16.67%) VBScript
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle