TDD Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 67 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -36
Contract jobs citing TDD 13 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.72% 1.32% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.48% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £288 £505 £403
25th Percentile £480 £538 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% +0.87% -19.30%
75th Percentile £734 £653 £713
90th Percentile £737 £733 £725
Scotland median daily rate £525 £469 £463
% change year-on-year +11.94% +1.41% -13.31%

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 656 677 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.89% 89.67% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 441 538
10th Percentile £299 £306 £348
25th Percentile £381 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TDD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

TDD job vacancy trend in Glasgow

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing TDD

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Glasgow

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) GitHub
3 8 (61.54%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) HBase
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) CircleCI
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) Xcode
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Architect
1 9 (69.23%) Technical Architect
2 8 (61.54%) Lead
2 8 (61.54%) Lead Architect
2 8 (61.54%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) boto
2 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
2 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) NumPy
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OpenCV
2 1 (7.69%) Pandas
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (7.69%) SwiftUI
2 1 (7.69%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) iPad
2 1 (7.69%) iPhone
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (69.23%) Domain-Driven Design
4 8 (61.54%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (61.54%) Roadmaps
4 8 (61.54%) Strategic Roadmap
5 6 (46.15%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (38.46%) IT Strategy
6 5 (38.46%) Line Management
7 4 (30.77%) Agile
7 4 (30.77%) Case Management
8 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
9 2 (15.38%) AI
9 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (15.38%) Scrum
9 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 2 (15.38%) User Experience
10 1 (7.69%) Coaching
10 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Objective-C
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Terraform
3 9 (69.23%) Grafana
4 8 (61.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics