TDD Contracts in Scotland

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 82 90 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 -19 -2
Contract jobs citing TDD 35 39 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.15% 1.76% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.99% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 89
10th Percentile £402 £415 £425
25th Percentile £406 £431 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £463 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -15.14% +3.81%
75th Percentile £544 £506 £750
90th Percentile £601 £552 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +2.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 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 TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for TDD in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for TDD 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 TDD 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
Edinburgh +11 18 £425 -5.56% 16
Glasgow +6 17 £581 +19.44% 9
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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 20 (57.14%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon S3
3 8 (22.86%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (22.86%) Serverless
4 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
5 5 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
5 5 (14.29%) Azure
6 4 (11.43%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (11.43%) PaaS
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) IaaS
7 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
7 3 (8.57%) SaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (22.86%) MySQL
3 7 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.57%) MariaDB
5 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.71%) CockroachDB
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.86%) GIS
7 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Cypress.io
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.57%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) JIRA
3 3 (8.57%) Postman
3 3 (8.57%) Selenium
3 3 (8.57%) Subversion
3 3 (8.57%) TeamCity
3 3 (8.57%) WebDriver
3 3 (8.57%) Xcode
4 1 (2.86%) Gradle
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 22 (62.86%) Public Sector
2 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Lead
3 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Lead Developer
4 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Team Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) Spring Boot
2 13 (37.14%) Spring
3 10 (28.57%) React
3 10 (28.57%) REST
4 9 (25.71%) AWS CDK
5 7 (20.00%) Node.js
6 3 (8.57%) .NET
6 3 (8.57%) Next.js
6 3 (8.57%) PostGIS
6 3 (8.57%) SwiftUI
6 3 (8.57%) UIKit
7 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.71%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Public Cloud
2 6 (17.14%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.57%) Client/Server
3 3 (8.57%) Credit Risk
3 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.57%) iPad
3 3 (8.57%) iPhone
3 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Android
2 3 (8.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 13 (37.14%) Microservices
4 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
4 12 (34.29%) DevOps
4 12 (34.29%) Scrum
5 11 (31.43%) Kanban
5 11 (31.43%) Migration
6 9 (25.71%) Knowledge Transfer
6 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
7 8 (22.86%) Human-Centred Design
7 8 (22.86%) Inclusive Design
7 8 (22.86%) SOA
8 7 (20.00%) BDD
8 7 (20.00%) Design Patterns
8 7 (20.00%) User Experience
9 6 (17.14%) Cost Reduction
9 6 (17.14%) Pair Programming
9 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
9 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Java
2 18 (51.43%) JavaScript
3 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
4 10 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 10 (28.57%) SQL
5 7 (20.00%) Python
6 4 (11.43%) C#
6 4 (11.43%) C++
7 3 (8.57%) Objective-C
7 3 (8.57%) Swift
7 3 (8.57%) VBA
7 3 (8.57%) VBScript
8 1 (2.86%) Bash
8 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) ISEB
2 3 (8.57%) ISTQB
2 3 (8.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics