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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 79 82
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -14
Permanent jobs citing TDD 95 321 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.21% 4.73% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 5.18% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 26 72 98
10th Percentile £52,875 £31,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £41,250 £59,161
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £56,318 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -18.91% +20.78%
75th Percentile £146,300 £79,700 £83,355
90th Percentile - £91,934 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +4.21%

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 2,745 6,197 4,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.61% 91.25% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 2,442 2,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +21 36 £122,773 +104.62% 13
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 1
Glasgow +18 13 £55,000 +57.14% 19
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 10
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
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 (51.58%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 64 (67.37%) AWS
1 64 (67.37%) GCP
2 57 (60.00%) Azure
3 8 (8.42%) SaaS
4 5 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.21%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (4.21%) Google Analytics
5 4 (4.21%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.16%) Serverless
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.11%) Apigee
7 2 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.11%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) Internet
2 2 (2.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (55.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.32%) Big Data
3 5 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.11%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.11%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (2.11%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.11%) DB2
6 2 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.11%) HBase
6 2 (2.11%) Parquet
7 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (66.32%) Maven
2 51 (53.68%) SonarQube
2 51 (53.68%) Sonatype Nexus
3 49 (51.58%) Bitbucket
3 49 (51.58%) Cucumber
3 49 (51.58%) GitLab
3 49 (51.58%) JIRA
3 49 (51.58%) Selenium
4 21 (22.11%) Jenkins
5 7 (7.37%) Git
6 4 (4.21%) JUnit
6 4 (4.21%) webpack
7 3 (3.16%) Xcode
7 3 (3.16%) XCTest
7 3 (3.16%) XCUITest
8 2 (2.11%) Gradle
General
1 76 (80.00%) Finance
2 75 (78.95%) Banking
3 56 (58.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.37%) Law
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Social Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Games
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (81.05%) Software Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) Lead
3 13 (13.68%) Senior
4 12 (12.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Android Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (5.26%) Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Java Software Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) PHP Software Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (63.16%) Spring
2 59 (62.11%) Kafka
3 57 (60.00%) Spring Boot
4 56 (58.95%) React
5 53 (55.79%) HTML
5 53 (55.79%) Redux
6 51 (53.68%) CSS
6 51 (53.68%) Hibernate
6 51 (53.68%) JPA
7 15 (15.79%) RESTful
8 8 (8.42%) Android Jetpack
8 8 (8.42%) Jetpack Compose
9 6 (6.32%) REST
10 5 (5.26%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.21%) Enzyme
11 4 (4.21%) Jest
12 3 (3.16%) .NET
12 3 (3.16%) .NET Core
13 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET Web API
13 2 (2.11%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 58 (61.05%) Product Ownership
2 49 (51.58%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (9.47%) Public Cloud
4 8 (8.42%) Mobile App
4 8 (8.42%) Online Banking
4 8 (8.42%) Virtual Team
5 5 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.21%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.11%) AS400
8 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.11%) iSeries
8 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.11%) Replication
9 1 (1.05%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Android
2 5 (5.26%) Unix
3 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (85.26%) Software Engineering
2 76 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 74 (77.89%) Agile
4 71 (74.74%) CI/CD
4 71 (74.74%) Microservices
5 66 (69.47%) DevOps
6 60 (63.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 57 (60.00%) Containerisation
8 54 (56.84%) SDLC
9 53 (55.79%) Clean Code
9 53 (55.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (53.68%) Front End Development
11 49 (51.58%) Performance Optimisation
12 23 (24.21%) Unit Testing
13 17 (17.89%) Pair Programming
14 14 (14.74%) Mentoring
15 13 (13.68%) Roadmaps
16 11 (11.58%) Line Management
16 11 (11.58%) User Experience
17 10 (10.53%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 70 (73.68%) JavaScript
2 67 (70.53%) Java
3 57 (60.00%) SQL
4 11 (11.58%) Python
5 8 (8.42%) Kotlin
6 5 (5.26%) C#
7 4 (4.21%) Go
8 3 (3.16%) PHP
8 3 (3.16%) Swift
8 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.11%) Elixir
9 2 (2.11%) F#
9 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.11%) RPG
9 2 (2.11%) RPG IV
9 2 (2.11%) Ruby
9 2 (2.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (56.84%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 60 (63.16%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 72 (75.79%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.74%) Terraform
3 2 (2.11%) Istio
4 1 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (51.58%) Solace
2 6 (6.32%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) Adobe
3 4 (4.21%) Google
3 4 (4.21%) IBM
3 4 (4.21%) Tealium
4 2 (2.11%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.11%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow