TDD Contracts in Glasgow

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 62 68 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 -27 +7
Contract jobs citing TDD 17 14 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.13% 1.60% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.74% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 40
10th Percentile £466 £417 £455
25th Percentile £550 £450 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £486 £750
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -35.20% +50.00%
75th Percentile £639 £506 -
90th Percentile £731 £585 -
Scotland median daily rate £455 £463 £545
% change year-on-year -1.62% -15.14% +3.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) MariaDB
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) CockroachDB
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Xcode
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Lead Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Mobile Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Team Leader
5 2 (11.76%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Django Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Python/Django Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Spring
1 9 (52.94%) Spring Boot
2 3 (17.65%) SwiftUI
2 3 (17.65%) UIKit
3 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (11.76%) Django
3 2 (11.76%) React
3 2 (11.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Credit Risk
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (17.65%) iPad
2 3 (17.65%) iPhone
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Android
2 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
1 11 (64.71%) Microservices
2 9 (52.94%) Knowledge Transfer
2 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) SOA
6 4 (23.53%) BDD
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 4 (23.53%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) iOS Development
7 3 (17.65%) Mobile Development
7 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (17.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) TypeScript
4 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
5 3 (17.65%) Objective-C
5 3 (17.65%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) Swift
6 2 (11.76%) SQL
7 1 (5.88%) C#
7 1 (5.88%) C++
7 1 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics