ATDD Job Trends in England

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK > England

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 715 727
Rank change year-on-year +76 +12 +169
Permanent jobs citing ATDD 5 26 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.038% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.047% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 11
10th Percentile - £44,375 £43,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £96,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +60.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £175,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,250 - £74,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £78,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -26.98% +26.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

ATDD 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,454 55,909 53,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.60% 81.13% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 22,131 32,747 39,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in England

ATDD
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ATDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ATDD

ATDD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ATDD in England over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Salary histogram for ATDD in England

ATDD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the England region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 2 £57,500 - 4
London +73 1 - - 4
South West +67 1 £72,500 -
Midlands +50 1 £57,500 +43.75% 1
West Midlands +38 1 £57,500 +43.75% 1
ATDD
UK

ATDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle