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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 863 926 979
Rank change year-on-year +63 +53 -172
Permanent jobs citing ATDD 44 21 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.022% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.023% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 120
10th Percentile £33,875 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £53,750 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £153,750 £99,375 £75,313
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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 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
UK excluding London -13 26 £47,500 -20.83% 3
England +43 20 £82,500 +37.50% 6
Scotland -47 20 - -
London +120 14 £175,000 +159.26% 3
Work from Home +43 7 £42,500 -29.17% 6
North of England +33 2 £47,500 -20.83% 1
North West -4 2 £47,500 -20.83% 1
South West - 2 - -
South East -8 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
West 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 (34.09%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (4.55%) CMS
2 2 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Serverless
2 12 (27.27%) AWS
3 11 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 11 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 11 (25.00%) Azure
4 7 (15.91%) GitHub
5 5 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (11.36%) PaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure API Management
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.55%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.27%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 15 (34.09%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (15.91%) Redis
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) Tableau
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Cucumber
1 15 (34.09%) Cypress.io
2 14 (31.82%) Git
3 5 (11.36%) GitLab
3 5 (11.36%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (65.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 29 (65.91%) Law
2 23 (52.27%) Finance
3 22 (50.00%) Banking
3 22 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 11 (25.00%) Front Office
5 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 17 (38.64%) Lead
3 16 (36.36%) Java Engineer
3 16 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
4 15 (34.09%) Full Stack Engineer
4 15 (34.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 15 (34.09%) Lead Java Engineer
4 15 (34.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 14 (31.82%) Senior
6 10 (22.73%) Senior Manager
7 9 (20.45%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (11.36%) Risk Manager
8 5 (11.36%) Senior Risk Manager
8 5 (11.36%) Test Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Scrum Master
10 2 (4.55%) Architect
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
11 1 (2.27%) Developer
11 1 (2.27%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (63.64%) React
2 16 (36.36%) Kafka
3 15 (34.09%) .NET
3 15 (34.09%) CSS
3 15 (34.09%) HTML
3 15 (34.09%) JDBC
3 15 (34.09%) Spring
3 15 (34.09%) Spring Boot
4 13 (29.55%) .NET Framework
5 11 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 11 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
6 7 (15.91%) Node.js
7 5 (11.36%) WebdriverIO
8 4 (9.09%) RESTful
9 3 (6.82%) GraphQL
9 3 (6.82%) REST
10 2 (4.55%) Next.js
11 1 (2.27%) Laravel
11 1 (2.27%) SOAP
11 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (59.09%) Private Cloud
2 11 (25.00%) Blog
2 11 (25.00%) Hedge funds
3 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
4 7 (15.91%) Derivative
4 7 (15.91%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (15.91%) N-Tier
5 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
6 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) TDD
2 36 (81.82%) Agile
3 35 (79.55%) Software Engineering
4 32 (72.73%) Test Automation
5 25 (56.82%) Continuous Integration
6 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
7 23 (52.27%) DevOps
8 19 (43.18%) Coaching
9 18 (40.91%) Analytics
9 18 (40.91%) Containerisation
9 18 (40.91%) Scrum
10 16 (36.36%) Continuous Deployment
10 16 (36.36%) Epics
10 16 (36.36%) Microservices
11 15 (34.09%) Front End Development
11 15 (34.09%) Full Stack Development
11 15 (34.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (27.27%) Asset Management
12 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (27.27%) OO
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 27 (61.36%) Java
3 24 (54.55%) SQL
4 15 (34.09%) C#
5 13 (29.55%) Python
6 11 (25.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.55%) Bash
7 2 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.27%) PHP
8 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) ISO 9000
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Grafana
1 5 (11.36%) Kibana
2 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Bloomberg
3 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.36%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks