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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 74 85
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -23
Permanent jobs citing TDD 83 155 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.31% 3.51% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 4.10% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7 31 65
10th Percentile £49,950 £46,750 £39,731
25th Percentile £64,060 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.10% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,264 £73,886 £77,715
90th Percentile £112,537 £79,225 £92,941
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

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 2,253 3,780 2,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.83% 85.71% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 986 1,604 2,002
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,209 £41,938 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,850 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 23 £77,500 +72.22% 1
Lanarkshire - 18 - -
Edinburgh -17 12 £78,810 +21.25% 15
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 1
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 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 (59.04%) Confluence
2 10 (12.05%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.02%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (87.95%) AWS
2 57 (68.67%) GCP
3 52 (62.65%) Azure
4 14 (16.87%) Amazon S3
5 9 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.84%) Serverless
6 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.02%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.41%) Apigee
10 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.20%) BlazeMeter
11 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) FTP
2 1 (1.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (60.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (15.66%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (12.05%) Big Data
4 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (6.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (6.02%) Apache Hive
4 5 (6.02%) Apache Hudi
4 5 (6.02%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (6.02%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.02%) HBase
4 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.02%) Parquet
4 5 (6.02%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.82%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.41%) DB2
Development Applications
1 62 (74.70%) Maven
2 51 (61.45%) SonarQube
2 51 (61.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 50 (60.24%) JIRA
3 50 (60.24%) Selenium
4 49 (59.04%) Bitbucket
4 49 (59.04%) Cucumber
4 49 (59.04%) GitLab
5 10 (12.05%) Jenkins
6 9 (10.84%) JUnit
7 8 (9.64%) Git
8 5 (6.02%) Gradle
9 2 (2.41%) webpack
10 1 (1.20%) Ant
10 1 (1.20%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.20%) Protractor
10 1 (1.20%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.20%) XCTest
10 1 (1.20%) XCUITest
General
1 73 (87.95%) Finance
2 69 (83.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (80.72%) Banking
4 20 (24.10%) Law
5 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.43%) Marketing
7 6 (7.23%) Social Skills
8 5 (6.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Games
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 77 (92.77%) Software Engineer
2 15 (18.07%) Java Engineer
2 15 (18.07%) Java Software Engineer
3 11 (13.25%) Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Software Developer
5 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) AWS Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Java Software Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Senior
6 8 (9.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Lead
7 6 (7.23%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (80.72%) Spring
2 62 (74.70%) Kafka
3 61 (73.49%) Spring Boot
4 58 (69.88%) React
5 55 (66.27%) HTML
6 54 (65.06%) JPA
7 52 (62.65%) CSS
7 52 (62.65%) Hibernate
8 50 (60.24%) Redux
9 7 (8.43%) REST
10 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
10 6 (7.23%) RESTful
11 5 (6.02%) jQuery
12 2 (2.41%) J2EE
12 2 (2.41%) JSON
13 1 (1.20%) .NET
13 1 (1.20%) HTML5
13 1 (1.20%) JMS
13 1 (1.20%) Node.js
13 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (61.45%) Product Ownership
2 49 (59.04%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (14.46%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) AS400
6 2 (2.41%) iSeries
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Unix
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (95.18%) Agile
1 79 (95.18%) Software Engineering
2 69 (83.13%) Test Automation
3 66 (79.52%) SDLC
4 65 (78.31%) CI/CD
5 62 (74.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (72.29%) Microservices
7 57 (68.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 56 (67.47%) DevOps
9 55 (66.27%) Front End Development
10 50 (60.24%) Clean Code
11 49 (59.04%) Containerisation
11 49 (59.04%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (13.25%) Community of Practice
13 11 (13.25%) Operational Stability
13 11 (13.25%) Visualisation
14 8 (9.64%) Decision-Making
14 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
14 8 (9.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 75 (90.36%) Java
2 62 (74.70%) JavaScript
3 61 (73.49%) SQL
4 10 (12.05%) Python
5 5 (6.02%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Go
6 2 (2.41%) RPG
6 2 (2.41%) RPG IV
6 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) C#
7 1 (1.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.82%) Degree
2 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (59.04%) QA
System Software
1 53 (63.86%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (69.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.43%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Istio
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (59.04%) Solace
2 10 (12.05%) Databricks
3 5 (6.02%) Cloudera
3 5 (6.02%) IBM
3 5 (6.02%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.20%) Adobe
5 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.20%) Google
5 1 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (1.20%) Tealium