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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 79 91
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -26
Permanent jobs citing TDD 80 80 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.06% 2.41% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 2.87% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7 33 59
10th Percentile £48,300 £45,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,500 £52,500 £43,937
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £78,880 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year - -2.80% +2.88%

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 2,372 2,792 2,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.60% 84.00% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 1,339 1,957
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,600 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +3 24 £64,250 +42.78% 2
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 1
Edinburgh -30 8 £56,500 -15.36% 6
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 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 & 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 49 (61.25%) Confluence
2 10 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (93.75%) AWS
2 56 (70.00%) GCP
3 54 (67.50%) Azure
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.25%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (11.25%) Serverless
6 8 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.50%) SaaS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.25%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) HTTP
1 1 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (63.75%) SQL Server
2 13 (16.25%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (12.50%) Big Data
4 6 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (6.25%) Apache Hive
5 5 (6.25%) Apache Hudi
5 5 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 5 (6.25%) HBase
5 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.25%) Parquet
5 5 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (75.00%) Maven
2 50 (62.50%) JIRA
2 50 (62.50%) Selenium
3 49 (61.25%) Bitbucket
3 49 (61.25%) Cucumber
3 49 (61.25%) GitLab
3 49 (61.25%) SonarQube
3 49 (61.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (8.75%) JUnit
5 6 (7.50%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.25%) Git
6 5 (6.25%) Gradle
7 1 (1.25%) Ant
7 1 (1.25%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.25%) Protractor
7 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 69 (86.25%) Finance
1 69 (86.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 63 (78.75%) Banking
3 20 (25.00%) Law
4 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Marketing
6 6 (7.50%) Social Skills
7 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.00%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.25%) Games
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 74 (92.50%) Software Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Java Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Developer
3 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.25%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) AWS Software Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Java Software Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Software Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
7 4 (5.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (81.25%) Kafka
1 65 (81.25%) Spring
2 61 (76.25%) Spring Boot
3 60 (75.00%) React
4 58 (72.50%) HTML
5 55 (68.75%) CSS
6 54 (67.50%) JPA
7 50 (62.50%) Hibernate
8 49 (61.25%) Redux
9 7 (8.75%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.75%) REST
10 5 (6.25%) jQuery
10 5 (6.25%) RESTful
11 2 (2.50%) .NET
11 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
11 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (2.50%) J2EE
11 2 (2.50%) JSON
12 1 (1.25%) Bootstrap
12 1 (1.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (63.75%) Product Ownership
2 49 (61.25%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (13.75%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) Agile
2 76 (95.00%) Software Engineering
3 66 (82.50%) SDLC
4 64 (80.00%) Test Automation
5 62 (77.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (76.25%) CI/CD
6 61 (76.25%) Microservices
7 57 (71.25%) Front End Development
8 56 (70.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 55 (68.75%) DevOps
10 50 (62.50%) Clean Code
11 49 (61.25%) Containerisation
11 49 (61.25%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (13.75%) Community of Practice
13 11 (13.75%) Operational Stability
13 11 (13.75%) Visualisation
14 8 (10.00%) Scrum
15 6 (7.50%) AI
15 6 (7.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 75 (93.75%) Java
2 62 (77.50%) JavaScript
3 56 (70.00%) SQL
4 7 (8.75%) Python
5 5 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (61.25%) QA
System Software
1 52 (65.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (61.25%) Solace
2 10 (12.50%) Databricks
3 5 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (3.75%) IBM
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.25%) Splunk