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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 77 88
Rank change year-on-year -56 +11 -27
Permanent jobs citing TDD 9 74 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 2.64% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 2.89% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6 42 57
10th Percentile £47,750 £46,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £50,939 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £61,250 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +8.76% -10.04%
75th Percentile £64,750 £74,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £92,925 £85,000
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 2,240 2,561 2,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 82.11% 91.20% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,130 1,718
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%

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 16 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
Edinburgh -42 6 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Glasgow +8 3 £51,000 +7.37% 8
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) 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%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (22.22%) Batch Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Epics
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
5 1 (11.11%) ATDD
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 2 (22.22%) VBA
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
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