TDD Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring TDD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 79 89
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -28
Contract jobs citing TDD 27 37 51
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.75% 2.20% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.46% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 34
10th Percentile £393 £413 £400
25th Percentile £473 £420 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £462
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +1.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £642 £494 £502
90th Percentile £734 £580 £557
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -5.45% -6.78% -1.67%

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 1,350 1,502 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.38% 89.35% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 887 1,319
10th Percentile £239 £229 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 44 54
10th Percentile £13.97 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £49.66 £32.66 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Scotland

TDD
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing TDD

TDD
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Scotland

TDD
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing TDD

TDD
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 17 December 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 0 14 £500 +11.11% 6
Glasgow +3 13 £723 +24.57% 7
TDD
UK

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (29.63%) WebLogic
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (44.44%) Serverless
3 11 (40.74%) Amazon S3
4 9 (33.33%) GitHub
5 8 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (22.22%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.70%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Azure
8 1 (3.70%) npm
8 1 (3.70%) PaaS
8 1 (3.70%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.70%) HBase
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) CircleCI
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (14.81%) GitLab
3 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 2 (7.41%) MLflow
6 1 (3.70%) Git
6 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.70%) Storybook
6 1 (3.70%) Xcode
General
1 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Architect
1 9 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Lead
2 8 (29.63%) Lead Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Technical Leader
3 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Digital Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Digital Technical Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) AWS CDK
2 8 (29.63%) OAuth
2 8 (29.63%) PyTorch
3 7 (25.93%) FastAPI
3 7 (25.93%) OpenCV
3 7 (25.93%) Pandas
3 7 (25.93%) REST
3 7 (25.93%) SQLAlchemy
4 6 (22.22%) Hugging Face
4 6 (22.22%) NumPy
5 5 (18.52%) JWT
5 5 (18.52%) React
6 4 (14.81%) boto
6 4 (14.81%) Spring
6 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
7 3 (11.11%) CSS
7 3 (11.11%) HTML
7 3 (11.11%) Node.js
7 3 (11.11%) OAuth2
8 2 (7.41%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) iPad
4 1 (3.70%) iPhone
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Agile
4 10 (37.04%) AI
5 9 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 9 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 8 (29.63%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (29.63%) Machine Learning
6 8 (29.63%) Scrum
6 8 (29.63%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (25.93%) DevOps
7 7 (25.93%) LLM
7 7 (25.93%) Pair Programming
8 6 (22.22%) API Development
8 6 (22.22%) Kanban
8 6 (22.22%) OCR
8 6 (22.22%) OOP
8 6 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) TypeScript
2 10 (37.04%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (59.26%) Grafana
1 16 (59.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (40.74%) Terraform
3 8 (29.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Adobe
2 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics