TDD Job Trends in Edinburgh

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 48 64
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 -11
Permanent jobs citing TDD 9 51 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.05% 4.11% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 4.61% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 25 34
10th Percentile £48,000 £49,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% -0.27% -3.44%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,036
90th Percentile - £92,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £56,500 £62,500 £56,318
% change year-on-year -9.60% +10.98% -6.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 781 1,107 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.35% 89.27% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 345 448 774
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £30,889
25th Percentile £29,500 £45,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,875 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

TDD
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing TDD

TDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Tech for Good
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Operations Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) React
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (22.22%) Batch Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 2 (22.22%) MVC
6 2 (22.22%) SOLID
6 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Coaching
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 1 (11.11%) Extreme Programming
7 1 (11.11%) Scrum
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) VBA
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Blue Prism
1 2 (22.22%) Pega
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft