TDD Contracts in Scotland

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for TDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TDD over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 81 76
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 -31
Contract jobs citing TDD 27 95 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.26% 3.53% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 3.81% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 79 77
10th Percentile £413 £413 £404
25th Percentile £415 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £500 £750 £550
90th Percentile £550 - £753
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for TDD in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TDD in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TDD in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -16 11 £481 -35.93% 15
Edinburgh +6 9 £430 -10.23% 6
West Lothian - 3 £540 -
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UK

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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 2 (7.41%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Amazon S3
2 10 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (37.04%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (37.04%) Serverless
3 6 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 4 (14.81%) Azure
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (25.93%) Oracle Database
4 5 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
6 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Git
2 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.81%) Cucumber
3 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) JUnit
3 4 (14.81%) Subversion
4 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 2 (7.41%) Postman
5 2 (7.41%) Selenium
5 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.70%) GitLab
6 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
General
1 10 (37.04%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Software Developer
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Developer
5 3 (11.11%) UI Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) Spring
1 15 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 14 (51.85%) React
2 14 (51.85%) REST
3 12 (44.44%) AWS CDK
4 11 (40.74%) CSS
5 9 (33.33%) Node.js
6 8 (29.63%) Kafka
7 7 (25.93%) HTML
8 5 (18.52%) Spring Security
9 3 (11.11%) OAuth
9 3 (11.11%) OAuth2
9 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (7.41%) .NET
10 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
10 2 (7.41%) J2EE
10 2 (7.41%) JSON
10 2 (7.41%) Spring MVC
10 2 (7.41%) Spring Web Flow
10 2 (7.41%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) Agile
2 16 (59.26%) Microservices
3 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 12 (44.44%) Pair Programming
5 11 (40.74%) Human-Centred Design
5 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 9 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
7 8 (29.63%) Analytics
7 8 (29.63%) DevOps
7 8 (29.63%) Kanban
7 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
8 7 (25.93%) Coaching
8 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
9 6 (22.22%) Code Coverage
9 6 (22.22%) Community of Practice
9 6 (22.22%) Roadmaps
9 6 (22.22%) Unit Testing
9 6 (22.22%) User Experience
10 5 (18.52%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 11 (40.74%) SQL
4 10 (37.04%) TypeScript
5 6 (22.22%) Python
6 4 (14.81%) Bash
6 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.41%) C#
7 2 (7.41%) C++
7 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (7.41%) VBA
7 2 (7.41%) VBScript
8 1 (3.70%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) ISEB
1 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
1 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Grafana
2 3 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) IBM