BDD Contracts in Scotland

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BDD 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 107 121 127
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing BDD 9 8 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.36% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.41% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 28
10th Percentile £370 - £414
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £496 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +4.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £500 £526
90th Percentile - £536 £546
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £600
% change year-on-year - -14.58% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

BDD 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BDD in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for BDD in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BDD in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for BDD in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +4 5 £375 -24.70% 2
Edinburgh +6 4 £400 -5.88% 5
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 3 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 3 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 3 (33.33%) WebDriver
2 3 (33.33%) Xcode
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) SwiftUI
1 3 (33.33%) UIKit
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 3 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (33.33%) iPad
2 3 (33.33%) iPhone
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (11.11%) Derivative
3 1 (11.11%) Equities
3 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Android
1 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) SOA
3 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 3 (33.33%) Biometrics
4 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 3 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) MVC
4 3 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
4 3 (33.33%) UX Design
4 3 (33.33%) Validation
4 3 (33.33%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) C++
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Swift
3 3 (33.33%) VBA
3 3 (33.33%) VBScript
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ISEB
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
1 1 (11.11%) Reuters