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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 76 74
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 93 335 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.15% 5.01% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 5.43% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 32 75 108
10th Percentile £52,500 £31,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £41,250 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £56,318 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -18.91% +20.78%
75th Percentile £142,083 £79,800 £81,952
90th Percentile £146,300 £91,934 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.93%

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 2,735 6,175 4,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.71% 92.38% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,389 2,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,133
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,650 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +13 39 £85,253 +42.09% 16
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 2
Glasgow +22 8 £55,000 +57.14% 27
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 13
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +8 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 (52.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (70.97%) GCP
2 61 (65.59%) Azure
3 57 (61.29%) AWS
4 9 (9.68%) SaaS
5 4 (4.30%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (4.30%) Google Analytics
6 3 (3.23%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.15%) Apigee
7 2 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.60%) Internet
2 2 (2.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (58.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.15%) Big Data
4 2 (2.15%) DB2
4 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (63.44%) Maven
2 51 (54.84%) SonarQube
2 51 (54.84%) Sonatype Nexus
3 49 (52.69%) Bitbucket
3 49 (52.69%) Cucumber
3 49 (52.69%) GitLab
3 49 (52.69%) JIRA
3 49 (52.69%) Selenium
4 19 (20.43%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.38%) Git
5 5 (5.38%) webpack
6 3 (3.23%) Xcode
6 3 (3.23%) XCTest
6 3 (3.23%) XCUITest
7 2 (2.15%) JUnit
General
1 73 (78.49%) Banking
2 72 (77.42%) Finance
3 49 (52.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.38%) Games
5 4 (4.30%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (80.65%) Software Engineer
2 17 (18.28%) Senior
3 16 (17.20%) Lead
3 16 (17.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) Android Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (4.30%) Software Team Leader
6 4 (4.30%) Team Leader
7 2 (2.15%) Architect
7 2 (2.15%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.15%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.15%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.08%) Developer
8 1 (1.08%) Senior Developer
8 1 (1.08%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (1.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (62.37%) Spring
2 57 (61.29%) Kafka
2 57 (61.29%) Spring Boot
3 54 (58.06%) CSS
3 54 (58.06%) HTML
3 54 (58.06%) React
3 54 (58.06%) Redux
4 51 (54.84%) Hibernate
5 49 (52.69%) JPA
6 16 (17.20%) RESTful
7 8 (8.60%) Android Jetpack
7 8 (8.60%) Jetpack Compose
8 4 (4.30%) .NET
8 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
8 4 (4.30%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.30%) Enzyme
8 4 (4.30%) Jest
8 4 (4.30%) REST
9 2 (2.15%) JSON
9 2 (2.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (62.37%) Product Ownership
2 49 (52.69%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.60%) Mobile App
3 8 (8.60%) Online Banking
3 8 (8.60%) Public Cloud
3 8 (8.60%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.15%) AS400
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.15%) iSeries
5 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.15%) Replication
6 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Android
2 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (84.95%) Software Engineering
2 74 (79.57%) Microservices
3 73 (78.49%) Test Automation
4 72 (77.42%) Agile
5 70 (75.27%) CI/CD
6 69 (74.19%) DevOps
7 59 (63.44%) Containerisation
7 59 (63.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 56 (60.22%) Clean Code
9 50 (53.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (53.76%) SDLC
10 49 (52.69%) Front End Development
10 49 (52.69%) Performance Optimisation
11 26 (27.96%) Unit Testing
12 18 (19.35%) Pair Programming
13 16 (17.20%) Mentoring
14 12 (12.90%) Line Management
14 12 (12.90%) Roadmaps
15 11 (11.83%) BDD
15 11 (11.83%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 69 (74.19%) JavaScript
2 62 (66.67%) Java
3 54 (58.06%) SQL
4 8 (8.60%) Kotlin
4 8 (8.60%) Python
5 6 (6.45%) C#
6 5 (5.38%) Go
6 5 (5.38%) PHP
7 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.23%) Swift
9 2 (2.15%) Elixir
9 2 (2.15%) F#
9 2 (2.15%) RPG
9 2 (2.15%) RPG IV
9 2 (2.15%) Ruby
9 2 (2.15%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (60.22%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (79.57%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.90%) Terraform
3 2 (2.15%) Istio
4 1 (1.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (52.69%) Solace
2 4 (4.30%) Adobe
2 4 (4.30%) Google
2 4 (4.30%) Tealium
3 3 (3.23%) IBM
4 2 (2.15%) Databricks
5 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow