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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 81 94
Rank change year-on-year -34 +13 -31
Permanent jobs citing TDD 33 67 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.22% 2.06% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.45% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7 32 52
10th Percentile £48,300 £45,175 £31,875
25th Percentile £51,500 £51,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £63,750 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% +13.20% -6.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £73,125
90th Percentile £72,000 £79,053 £80,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.48% - -2.80%

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 2,425 2,739 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.52% 84.35% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,295 1,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +6.28% -5.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,100 £82,548
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing TDD in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 November 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 5 November 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 +1 23 £64,250 +42.78% 3
Edinburgh -31 10 £56,500 -14.23% 5
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 10 (30.30%) Apache Spark
2 5 (15.15%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 26 (78.79%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) Amazon S3
3 9 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (27.27%) Serverless
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (21.21%) GCP
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (15.15%) Azure
6 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (12.12%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (6.06%) SaaS
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.03%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) HTTP
1 1 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (30.30%) Big Data
3 6 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (15.15%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (15.15%) Apache Hive
4 5 (15.15%) Apache Hudi
4 5 (15.15%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (15.15%) Hadoop
4 5 (15.15%) HBase
4 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
4 5 (15.15%) Parquet
4 5 (15.15%) RDBMS
4 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
5 4 (12.12%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Maven
2 7 (21.21%) JUnit
3 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 5 (15.15%) Git
4 5 (15.15%) Gradle
5 1 (3.03%) Ant
5 1 (3.03%) IntelliJ
5 1 (3.03%) Jasmine
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (3.03%) Protractor
5 1 (3.03%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 20 (60.61%) Finance
1 20 (60.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 20 (60.61%) Law
2 16 (48.48%) Banking
3 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (21.21%) Marketing
5 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
6 5 (15.15%) Investment Banking
7 4 (12.12%) Tech for Good
8 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (6.06%) Legal
8 2 (6.06%) Retail
9 1 (3.03%) Games
9 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (75.76%) Software Engineer
2 15 (45.45%) Java Engineer
2 15 (45.45%) Java Software Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) Developer
3 10 (30.30%) Java Developer
4 9 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (27.27%) AWS Software Engineer
4 9 (27.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 9 (27.27%) Java Software Developer
4 9 (27.27%) Software Developer
5 8 (24.24%) Senior
6 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 6 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (15.15%) Python Engineer
7 5 (15.15%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (12.12%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (12.12%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) Kafka
1 16 (48.48%) Spring
2 12 (36.36%) Spring Boot
3 11 (33.33%) React
4 9 (27.27%) HTML
5 7 (21.21%) AngularJS
5 7 (21.21%) REST
6 6 (18.18%) CSS
7 5 (15.15%) JPA
7 5 (15.15%) jQuery
7 5 (15.15%) RESTful
8 2 (6.06%) .NET
8 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
8 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (6.06%) J2EE
8 2 (6.06%) JSON
9 1 (3.03%) Bootstrap
9 1 (3.03%) JMS
9 1 (3.03%) PySpark
9 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (15.15%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Mobile App
5 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (93.94%) Agile
2 27 (81.82%) Software Engineering
3 17 (51.52%) SDLC
3 17 (51.52%) Test Automation
4 15 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 12 (36.36%) Microservices
7 11 (33.33%) Community of Practice
7 11 (33.33%) Operational Stability
7 11 (33.33%) Visualisation
8 8 (24.24%) Front End Development
8 8 (24.24%) Scrum
9 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (18.18%) AI
10 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
10 6 (18.18%) DevOps
10 6 (18.18%) Kanban
10 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
11 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) Java
2 13 (39.39%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.21%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) C#
6 2 (6.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.03%) PMP
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) HDFS
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.15%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Databricks
2 5 (15.15%) Cloudera
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) Blue Prism
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Pega
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk