TDD Jobs in Scotland

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -20
Permanent jobs citing TDD 106 253 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.28% 4.05% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.57% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 24 52 85
10th Percentile £52,725 £41,325 £42,874
25th Percentile £67,500 £48,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £61,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.19% -12.50% +16.67%
75th Percentile £146,300 £79,700 £81,250
90th Percentile - £96,250 £93,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,820 5,537 3,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.20% 88.55% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 2,386 2,028
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £31,871
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

TDD
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

TDD
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for TDD in Scotland

TDD
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for TDD in Scotland

TDD
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Edinburgh +12 33 £85,253 +31.16% 10
Glasgow +5 25 £55,000 -5.98% 6
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 1
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
TDD
UK

TDD
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 49 (46.23%) Confluence
2 10 (9.43%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.72%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 74 (69.81%) AWS
2 60 (56.60%) GCP
3 55 (51.89%) Azure
4 14 (13.21%) Amazon S3
5 9 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (8.49%) Serverless
6 8 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.72%) SaaS
8 4 (3.77%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.77%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (3.77%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.83%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.89%) Apigee
10 2 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.94%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.49%) Internet
2 2 (1.89%) FTP
3 1 (0.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (50.94%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.26%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (11.32%) Big Data
4 7 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (4.72%) Apache Hive
6 5 (4.72%) Apache Hudi
6 5 (4.72%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.72%) HBase
6 5 (4.72%) Parquet
6 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.77%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.89%) DB2
9 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 70 (66.04%) Maven
2 51 (48.11%) SonarQube
2 51 (48.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 50 (47.17%) JIRA
3 50 (47.17%) Selenium
4 49 (46.23%) Bitbucket
4 49 (46.23%) Cucumber
4 49 (46.23%) GitLab
5 23 (21.70%) Jenkins
6 10 (9.43%) Git
7 9 (8.49%) JUnit
8 5 (4.72%) Gradle
8 5 (4.72%) webpack
9 3 (2.83%) Xcode
9 3 (2.83%) XCTest
9 3 (2.83%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.94%) Ant
10 1 (0.94%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.94%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 87 (82.08%) Finance
2 82 (77.36%) Banking
3 69 (65.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (18.87%) Law
5 11 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.60%) Marketing
7 6 (5.66%) Social Skills
8 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.83%) Games
10 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (82.08%) Software Engineer
2 17 (16.04%) Lead
3 15 (14.15%) Java Engineer
3 15 (14.15%) Java Software Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Senior
5 13 (12.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.38%) Developer
7 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
7 10 (9.43%) Software Developer
8 9 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) AWS Software Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Java Software Developer
9 8 (7.55%) Android Engineer
9 8 (7.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (63.21%) Spring
2 65 (61.32%) Kafka
3 62 (58.49%) Spring Boot
4 61 (57.55%) React
5 56 (52.83%) HTML
6 54 (50.94%) JPA
7 53 (50.00%) CSS
7 53 (50.00%) Redux
8 52 (49.06%) Hibernate
9 17 (16.04%) RESTful
10 8 (7.55%) Android Jetpack
10 8 (7.55%) Jetpack Compose
11 7 (6.60%) AngularJS
11 7 (6.60%) REST
12 5 (4.72%) jQuery
13 4 (3.77%) Enzyme
13 4 (3.77%) Jest
14 2 (1.89%) .NET Core
14 2 (1.89%) gRPC
14 2 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 60 (56.60%) Product Ownership
2 49 (46.23%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (11.32%) Algorithms
4 10 (9.43%) Public Cloud
5 8 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (7.55%) Mobile App
5 8 (7.55%) Online Banking
5 8 (7.55%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.89%) AS400
9 2 (1.89%) iSeries
9 2 (1.89%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.89%) Replication
10 1 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Android
1 8 (7.55%) Unix
2 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (85.85%) Software Engineering
2 89 (83.96%) Agile
3 85 (80.19%) Test Automation
4 78 (73.58%) CI/CD
5 75 (70.75%) Microservices
6 68 (64.15%) DevOps
7 66 (62.26%) SDLC
8 65 (61.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 63 (59.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (53.77%) Containerisation
11 55 (51.89%) Front End Development
12 52 (49.06%) Clean Code
13 49 (46.23%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (20.75%) Unit Testing
15 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (14.15%) Mentoring
16 15 (14.15%) Pair Programming
17 13 (12.26%) User Experience
18 12 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
18 12 (11.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 78 (73.58%) Java
2 74 (69.81%) JavaScript
3 61 (57.55%) SQL
4 12 (11.32%) Python
5 8 (7.55%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.72%) PL/SQL
6 5 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.77%) C#
7 4 (3.77%) Go
8 3 (2.83%) Swift
9 2 (1.89%) Elixir
9 2 (1.89%) F#
9 2 (1.89%) PHP
9 2 (1.89%) RPG
9 2 (1.89%) RPG IV
9 2 (1.89%) Ruby
9 2 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.77%) Degree
2 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
2 1 (0.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (48.11%) QA
System Software
1 61 (57.55%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 72 (67.92%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.04%) Terraform
3 2 (1.89%) Grafana
3 2 (1.89%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (46.23%) Solace
2 10 (9.43%) Databricks
3 5 (4.72%) Cloudera
3 5 (4.72%) IBM
3 5 (4.72%) Oracle
4 4 (3.77%) Adobe
4 4 (3.77%) Google
4 4 (3.77%) Tealium
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.94%) Splunk