BDD Jobs in Scotland

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring BDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BDD over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 160 110
Rank change year-on-year +17 -50 -66
Permanent jobs citing BDD 115 50 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.02% 1.32% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.37% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13 42 96
10th Percentile £53,500 £41,375 £36,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £44,468 £39,837
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +14.78% +21.05%
75th Percentile £73,886 £74,375 £65,313
90th Percentile £94,279 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

BDD
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

BDD
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for BDD in Scotland

BDD
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in Scotland

BDD
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow -5 96 £72,500 +8.21% 9
Edinburgh +11 13 £71,991 +19.99% 1
Scottish Borders - 2 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £52,500 -
BDD
UK

BDD
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.87%) Apache
1 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 75 (65.22%) AWS
2 27 (23.48%) BlazeMeter
3 12 (10.43%) GCP
4 9 (7.83%) Azure
5 5 (4.35%) Serverless
6 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.87%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.87%) Big Data
3 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.87%) MySQL
3 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 63 (54.78%) Selenium
3 60 (52.17%) Jasmine
3 60 (52.17%) JUnit
3 60 (52.17%) Karma Test Runner
3 60 (52.17%) Protractor
3 60 (52.17%) WebDriver
4 27 (23.48%) JMeter
5 17 (14.78%) Jenkins
6 12 (10.43%) Cucumber
7 10 (8.70%) Maven
8 9 (7.83%) Gradle
8 9 (7.83%) JIRA
9 4 (3.48%) Git
10 3 (2.61%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.61%) GoCD
10 3 (2.61%) webpack
11 1 (0.87%) Postman
11 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (85.22%) Finance
2 96 (83.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 93 (80.87%) Law
4 72 (62.61%) Banking
5 66 (57.39%) Investment Banking
6 31 (26.96%) Marketing
7 14 (12.17%) Social Skills
8 12 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Legal
9 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 95 (82.61%) Software Engineer
2 92 (80.00%) Java Engineer
3 90 (78.26%) Java Software Engineer
4 27 (23.48%) Lead
5 24 (20.87%) Lead Software Engineer
6 22 (19.13%) Lead Java Engineer
7 18 (15.65%) Full Stack Engineer
7 18 (15.65%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Developer
8 9 (7.83%) QA Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) QA Software Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Senior
10 3 (2.61%) Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Software Developer
11 2 (1.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (84.35%) React
2 75 (65.22%) Spring
3 65 (56.52%) Node.js
4 64 (55.65%) AngularJS
5 63 (54.78%) Jest
6 62 (53.91%) CSS
6 62 (53.91%) Hibernate
6 62 (53.91%) HTML
7 60 (52.17%) J2EE
7 60 (52.17%) JMS
7 60 (52.17%) jQuery
7 60 (52.17%) JSON
7 60 (52.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 12 (10.43%) Spring Boot
9 9 (7.83%) Ext JS
10 5 (4.35%) Kafka
10 5 (4.35%) Redux
11 4 (3.48%) REST
11 4 (3.48%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (3.48%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 60 (52.17%) Data Structures
2 27 (23.48%) Market Risk
3 23 (20.00%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Credit Derivative
5 3 (2.61%) Derivative
5 3 (2.61%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.61%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.61%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (2.61%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Android
1 2 (1.74%) Linux
1 2 (1.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (100.00%) TDD
2 107 (93.04%) Agile
3 99 (86.09%) CI/CD
4 98 (85.22%) Software Engineering
5 93 (80.87%) SDLC
6 91 (79.13%) Operational Stability
7 81 (70.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 79 (68.70%) Machine Learning
9 62 (53.91%) Multithreading
10 60 (52.17%) Web Development
11 54 (46.96%) Community of Practice
12 35 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (30.43%) Decision-Making
13 32 (27.83%) Visualisation
14 31 (26.96%) Microservices
15 30 (26.09%) Risk Management
16 28 (24.35%) Test Automation
17 27 (23.48%) Electronic Trading
18 24 (20.87%) Full Stack Development
19 22 (19.13%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 103 (89.57%) Java
2 80 (69.57%) JavaScript
3 65 (56.52%) TypeScript
4 13 (11.30%) SQL
5 8 (6.96%) Python
6 4 (3.48%) C#
7 3 (2.61%) Groovy
8 2 (1.74%) Elixir
8 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.74%) Perl
8 2 (1.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.87%) PHP
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.87%) Degree
2 1 (0.87%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) Ansible
3 3 (2.61%) Fortio
3 3 (2.61%) Istio
3 3 (2.61%) Kiali
3 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.61%) Puppet
4 1 (0.87%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (7.83%) TOWER Software
2 4 (3.48%) Oracle
3 3 (2.61%) Google
4 2 (1.74%) Confluent
4 2 (1.74%) IBM
5 1 (0.87%) Databricks
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft