Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ATDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ATDD over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 938 984
Rank change year-on-year +80 +46 -179
Permanent jobs citing ATDD 43 21 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.021% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.022% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 117
10th Percentile £34,750 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% +1.92% -
75th Percentile £142,500 £99,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £175,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ATDD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ATDD.

Salary trend for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ATDD over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ATDD in the UK

ATDD
Top 11 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 12 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +14 26 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Scotland -34 20 - -
England +90 19 £85,000 +30.77% 5
London +132 13 £142,500 +115.09% 2
Work from Home +84 7 £42,500 -29.17% 3
North of England +52 2 £47,500 -
North West +5 2 £47,500 -
South West - 2 - -
South East +6 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
Midlands - 1 £40,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (34.88%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (4.65%) CMS
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) Azure
1 12 (27.91%) Serverless
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 9 (20.93%) Amazon S3
3 9 (20.93%) Amazon SQS
3 9 (20.93%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (20.93%) AWS Step Functions
4 7 (16.28%) GitHub
5 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (11.63%) PaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.65%) Azure API Management
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.65%) Cloudflare
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
8 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) MongoDB
2 15 (34.88%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (23.26%) NoSQL
4 7 (16.28%) Redis
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Tableau
6 1 (2.33%) Big Data
6 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Cucumber
1 15 (34.88%) Cypress.io
2 12 (27.91%) Git
3 5 (11.63%) GitLab
3 5 (11.63%) Postman
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (62.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 27 (62.79%) Law
2 23 (53.49%) Finance
3 22 (51.16%) Banking
3 22 (51.16%) Investment Banking
4 9 (20.93%) Front Office
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Games
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Software Engineer
2 18 (41.86%) Lead
3 16 (37.21%) Java Engineer
3 16 (37.21%) Java Software Engineer
4 15 (34.88%) Full Stack Engineer
4 15 (34.88%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 15 (34.88%) Lead Java Engineer
4 15 (34.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 12 (27.91%) Senior
6 8 (18.60%) Senior Manager
7 7 (16.28%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (11.63%) Test Engineer
9 4 (9.30%) Scrum Master
10 3 (6.98%) Risk Manager
10 3 (6.98%) Senior Risk Manager
11 2 (4.65%) Architect
11 2 (4.65%) Developer
11 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
12 1 (2.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) React
2 16 (37.21%) Kafka
3 15 (34.88%) CSS
3 15 (34.88%) HTML
3 15 (34.88%) JDBC
3 15 (34.88%) Spring
3 15 (34.88%) Spring Boot
4 14 (32.56%) .NET
5 11 (25.58%) .NET Framework
6 10 (23.26%) .NET Core
7 9 (20.93%) Unity DI Container
8 7 (16.28%) Node.js
9 5 (11.63%) WebdriverIO
10 4 (9.30%) RESTful
11 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
11 3 (6.98%) REST
12 2 (4.65%) Next.js
13 1 (2.33%) Laravel
13 1 (2.33%) SOAP
13 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (55.81%) Private Cloud
2 9 (20.93%) Blog
2 9 (20.93%) Hedge funds
3 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
4 6 (13.95%) Product Ownership
5 5 (11.63%) Derivative
5 5 (11.63%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (11.63%) N-Tier
5 5 (11.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) TDD
2 35 (81.40%) Agile
3 33 (76.74%) Software Engineering
4 30 (69.77%) Test Automation
5 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
5 25 (58.14%) Continuous Integration
6 24 (55.81%) DevOps
7 17 (39.53%) Coaching
8 16 (37.21%) Analytics
8 16 (37.21%) Containerisation
8 16 (37.21%) Continuous Deployment
8 16 (37.21%) Epics
8 16 (37.21%) Scrum
9 15 (34.88%) Front End Development
9 15 (34.88%) Full Stack Development
9 15 (34.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (32.56%) Microservices
11 10 (23.26%) Asset Management
11 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) JavaScript
2 25 (58.14%) Java
3 23 (53.49%) SQL
4 14 (32.56%) C#
5 11 (25.58%) Python
6 9 (20.93%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.65%) Bash
7 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.33%) PHP
8 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 5 (11.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) ISO 9000
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Grafana
1 5 (11.63%) Kibana
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Bloomberg
2 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks