ATDD Job Trends

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 663 742 757
Rank change year-on-year +79 +15 +201
Permanent jobs citing ATDD 7 44 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.056% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.069% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile - £41,125 £44,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +26.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £155,938 £100,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £175,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £43,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.43% -20.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,994 63,366 59,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.57% 80.78% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,874 36,796 44,284
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,338 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

ATDD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ATDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ATDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ATDD

ATDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ATDD over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Salary histogram for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ATDD within the UK 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
England +90 6 £57,500 -40.26% 8
UK excluding London +78 5 £57,500 +31.43% 10
Work from Home +74 4 £57,500 +35.29% 8
London +72 2 £60,000 -65.71% 3
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Open Source
4 4 (57.14%) Coaching
4 4 (57.14%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (42.86%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 2 (28.57%) SDLC
7 1 (14.29%) Kanban
7 1 (14.29%) OO
7 1 (14.29%) Project Management
7 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
7 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Accessibility
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle