BDD Jobs in Scotland

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for BDD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BDD over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 154 86
Rank change year-on-year -9 -68 -3
Permanent jobs citing BDD 125 55 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.82% 1.27% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.34% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 22 42 78
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,375 £36,527
25th Percentile £50,686 £60,295 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +29.81% +7.00%
75th Percentile £88,326 £77,715 £62,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £119,168 £71,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

BDD 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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,209 4,095 5,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.63% 94.38% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 2,059 2,878
10th Percentile £28,025 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing BDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for BDD in Scotland

BDD
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BDD in Scotland.

Salary trend for BDD in Scotland

BDD
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing BDD in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BDD in Scotland

BDD
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -31 98 £75,000 +11.94% 8
Edinburgh +13 17 £71,991 +2.84% 3
Aberdeen - 5 £52,500 -
Scottish Borders +8 4 - -
BDD
UK

BDD
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 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 76 (60.80%) AWS
2 27 (21.60%) BlazeMeter
3 12 (9.60%) GCP
4 9 (7.20%) Azure
5 4 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.20%) Serverless
6 2 (1.60%) SaaS
7 1 (0.80%) GitHub
7 1 (0.80%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.80%) Big Data
4 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 71 (56.80%) Cypress.io
2 62 (49.60%) JUnit
3 61 (48.80%) Selenium
4 60 (48.00%) Jasmine
4 60 (48.00%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (48.00%) Protractor
4 60 (48.00%) WebDriver
5 27 (21.60%) JMeter
6 16 (12.80%) Jenkins
7 13 (10.40%) Maven
8 9 (7.20%) Cucumber
8 9 (7.20%) Gradle
8 9 (7.20%) JIRA
9 6 (4.80%) Git
9 6 (4.80%) webpack
General
1 110 (88.00%) Finance
2 97 (77.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 97 (77.60%) Law
3 82 (65.60%) Banking
4 70 (56.00%) Investment Banking
5 35 (28.00%) Marketing
6 24 (19.20%) Social Skills
7 16 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (5.60%) Legal
8 7 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 98 (78.40%) Software Engineer
2 95 (76.00%) Java Engineer
3 91 (72.80%) Java Software Engineer
4 25 (20.00%) Lead
5 22 (17.60%) Lead Java Engineer
5 22 (17.60%) Lead Software Engineer
6 20 (16.00%) Full Stack Engineer
6 20 (16.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 13 (10.40%) Developer
8 9 (7.20%) QA Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) QA Software Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Analyst
9 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) .NET Developer
11 4 (3.20%) Onboarding Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) Technical Business Analyst
12 3 (2.40%) Backend Developer
12 3 (2.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 3 (2.40%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (80.00%) React
2 88 (70.40%) Spring
3 73 (58.40%) Node.js
4 69 (55.20%) AngularJS
5 64 (51.20%) CSS
5 64 (51.20%) Hibernate
5 64 (51.20%) HTML
5 64 (51.20%) JSON
6 63 (50.40%) Jest
7 60 (48.00%) J2EE
7 60 (48.00%) JMS
7 60 (48.00%) jQuery
7 60 (48.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 22 (17.60%) Spring Boot
9 11 (8.80%) Kafka
10 9 (7.20%) .NET
10 9 (7.20%) Ext JS
11 8 (6.40%) Redux
11 8 (6.40%) REST
12 6 (4.80%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 60 (48.00%) Data Structures
2 27 (21.60%) Market Risk
3 23 (18.40%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.60%) Credit Derivative
4 7 (5.60%) Derivative
4 7 (5.60%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.60%) Hedge funds
4 7 (5.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 7 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.60%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Mobile Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Linux
1 2 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) TDD
2 121 (96.80%) Agile
3 100 (80.00%) Software Engineering
4 94 (75.20%) CI/CD
5 92 (73.60%) SDLC
6 90 (72.00%) Operational Stability
7 83 (66.40%) Artificial Intelligence
8 79 (63.20%) Machine Learning
9 62 (49.60%) Multithreading
10 60 (48.00%) Web Development
11 54 (43.20%) Community of Practice
12 45 (36.00%) Microservices
13 35 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (28.00%) Decision-Making
14 34 (27.20%) Risk Management
15 32 (25.60%) Visualisation
16 31 (24.80%) Test Automation
17 28 (22.40%) Full Stack Development
18 27 (21.60%) Electronic Trading
19 22 (17.60%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 109 (87.20%) Java
2 85 (68.00%) JavaScript
3 68 (54.40%) TypeScript
4 19 (15.20%) SQL
5 9 (7.20%) C#
6 6 (4.80%) Python
7 2 (1.60%) Elixir
7 2 (1.60%) Perl
7 2 (1.60%) Ruby
8 1 (0.80%) PHP
8 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (3.20%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.80%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.20%) TOWER Software
2 7 (5.60%) Oracle
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.20%) Confluent
4 4 (3.20%) Google
5 3 (2.40%) IBM
6 1 (0.80%) Databricks