TDD Contracts in Scotland

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 75 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 -23
Contract jobs citing TDD 26 94 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.21% 3.52% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 3.83% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 76 81
10th Percentile £415 £413 £428
25th Percentile £421 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -7.79% +22.35%
75th Percentile £492 £738 £570
90th Percentile £506 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £601 £575
% change year-on-year -8.52% +4.57% +9.52%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Edinburgh +1 11 £440 -8.14% 17
Glasgow -6 10 £481 -34.85% 11
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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 (7.69%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) AWS
2 13 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 12 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (46.15%) Serverless
4 8 (30.77%) OpenShift
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.54%) Azure
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) IaaS
6 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (26.92%) Oracle Database
4 5 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
6 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 8 (30.77%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) Subversion
4 3 (11.54%) Cypress.io
4 3 (11.54%) JUnit
5 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.69%) JIRA
5 2 (7.69%) Selenium
5 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 2 (7.69%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.85%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) Gradle
General
1 13 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 3 (11.54%) UI Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (61.54%) React
2 14 (53.85%) REST
2 14 (53.85%) Spring
2 14 (53.85%) Spring Boot
3 13 (50.00%) AWS CDK
3 13 (50.00%) CSS
4 9 (34.62%) HTML
5 8 (30.77%) Node.js
6 6 (23.08%) Kafka
7 5 (19.23%) Spring Security
8 4 (15.38%) OAuth
8 4 (15.38%) OAuth2
9 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (11.54%) Spring MVC
9 3 (11.54%) Spring Web Flow
9 3 (11.54%) Thymeleaf
10 2 (7.69%) .NET
10 2 (7.69%) JSON
10 2 (7.69%) XML
11 1 (3.85%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Agile
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 16 (61.54%) Microservices
4 14 (53.85%) Pair Programming
5 13 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
6 12 (46.15%) DevOps
6 12 (46.15%) Inclusive Design
6 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (42.31%) Code Quality
8 10 (38.46%) Analytics
8 10 (38.46%) Test Automation
9 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing
10 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
10 8 (30.77%) User Experience
11 7 (26.92%) Code Coverage
11 7 (26.92%) Community of Practice
11 7 (26.92%) Kanban
11 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
12 6 (23.08%) Product Roadmap
12 6 (23.08%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Java
2 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 10 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 6 (23.08%) Python
5 4 (15.38%) Bash
5 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.69%) C#
6 2 (7.69%) C++
6 2 (7.69%) VBA
6 2 (7.69%) VBScript
7 1 (3.85%) C
7 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) ISEB
1 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
1 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Packer
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) IBM