TDD Job Trends in Scotland

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 77 85
Rank change year-on-year -50 +8 -15
Permanent jobs citing TDD 16 78 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.58% 2.50% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 2.83% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6 44 57
10th Percentile £47,750 £46,439 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,445 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +11.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £73,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £91,220 £82,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

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 2,311 2,759 2,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.43% 88.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 1,261 1,757
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,750 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

TDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

TDD job vacancy trend in Scotland

TDD
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing TDD

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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +10 10 £51,000 +7.37% 8
Edinburgh -48 6 £57,500 -11.54% 6
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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.25%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (12.50%) HBase
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Parquet
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Gradle
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Ant
3 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.25%) Jasmine
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (6.25%) Protractor
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
3 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
1 7 (43.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (43.75%) Law
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Tech for Good
3 4 (25.00%) Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Legal
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Games
6 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Java Software Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Kafka
1 7 (43.75%) React
2 6 (37.50%) Spring
3 5 (31.25%) CSS
3 5 (31.25%) HTML
3 5 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (18.75%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) JPA
5 2 (12.50%) jQuery
5 2 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
6 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 1 (6.25%) HTML5
6 1 (6.25%) J2EE
6 1 (6.25%) JMS
6 1 (6.25%) JSON
6 1 (6.25%) Node.js
6 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
3 7 (43.75%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) SDLC
3 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 5 (31.25%) Front End Development
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Community of Practice
6 4 (25.00%) Operational Stability
6 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 3 (18.75%) AI
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
7 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
7 3 (18.75%) User Experience
7 3 (18.75%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) VBA
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.25%) PMP
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Blue Prism
2 2 (12.50%) Cloudera
2 2 (12.50%) Pega
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk