ATDD Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ATDD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 623 597
Rank change year-on-year +78 -26 +187
Permanent jobs citing ATDD 5 29 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.052% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.067% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - £40,625 £42,800
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,563 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -20.45% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £46,563 £64,375
90th Percentile £74,250 £47,875 £66,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £78,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -26.98% +26.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ATDD 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,904 43,604 34,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.51% 78.15% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 16,238 24,252 24,073
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in the UK excluding London

ATDD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATDD

ATDD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ATDD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Salary histogram for ATDD in the UK excluding London

ATDD
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East - 2 £57,500 - 4
South West +68 1 £72,500 -
Midlands +56 1 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Scotland +52 1 - - 3
West Midlands +44 1 £57,500 +43.75% 1
ATDD
UK

ATDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Games
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Feature Driven Development
5 1 (20.00%) Kanban
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (80.00%) QA