TDD Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring TDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing TDD 12 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.93% 2.14% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.52% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 30
10th Percentile £404 £410 £400
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £440 £477
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -7.76% -2.15%
75th Percentile £497 £480 £490
90th Percentile £512 £517 £510
Scotland median daily rate £488 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.15% -3.99%
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 586 675 1,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.06% 85.12% 91.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 361 648
10th Percentile £309 £213 £213
25th Percentile £413 £350 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 6
10th Percentile - £13.09 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.66 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.19 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -61.71% +160.49%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.25 £55.25 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £19.06
% change year-on-year +7.02% -1.93% -6.71%

TDD
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

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing TDD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing TDD

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing TDD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing TDD

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) IaaS
5 2 (16.67%) PaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (8.33%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Postman
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Subversion
3 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) React
1 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (41.67%) Spring
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 4 (33.33%) Node.js
3 4 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (16.67%) HTML
5 2 (16.67%) Next.js
5 2 (16.67%) OAuth
5 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
5 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
5 2 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (16.67%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (8.33%) FHIR
6 1 (8.33%) Playwright
6 1 (8.33%) pytest
6 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
6 1 (8.33%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) API Development
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Feature Driven Development
6 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Observability
6 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) C++
5 2 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 2 (16.67%) VBA
5 2 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISEB
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) DICOM
2 1 (8.33%) HL7
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform