Hybrid/Remote TDD Job Trends

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring TDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 129 111
Rank change year-on-year -84 -18 -29
Permanent jobs citing TDD 290 440 694
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 2.66% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.86% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 203 220 576
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,692 £63,744
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +9.33% -8.21%
75th Percentile £80,750 £82,751 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £102,750 £84,982
UK median annual salary £66,631 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.81% +7.69% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,880 15,403 21,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.36% 93.01% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,612 8,900 15,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TDD and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

TDD job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

TDD salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.72%) Apache
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.38%) CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.03%) DNN
4 3 (1.03%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.03%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Kentico
4 3 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Sitefinity
4 3 (1.03%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (67.24%) AWS
2 157 (54.14%) Azure
3 64 (22.07%) GitHub
4 53 (18.28%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (13.79%) Serverless
6 26 (8.97%) GCP
7 21 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.83%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.10%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.10%) ChatGPT
9 9 (3.10%) Slack
10 8 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.41%) SaaS
12 6 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.28%) HTTP
2 9 (3.10%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.10%) Modbus
2 9 (3.10%) Profibus
2 9 (3.10%) RS-232
2 9 (3.10%) RS-485
2 9 (3.10%) Wireless
2 9 (3.10%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (34.48%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (21.72%) Elasticsearch
4 36 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (9.66%) NoSQL
6 21 (7.24%) MySQL
7 19 (6.55%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.48%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.38%) Redis
11 3 (1.03%) Flink
12 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (14.83%) Git
2 27 (9.31%) JUnit
3 16 (5.52%) Maven
3 16 (5.52%) Mockito
4 10 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.76%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.76%) GitLab
5 8 (2.76%) Selenium
6 7 (2.41%) Postman
7 6 (2.07%) Gatling
8 4 (1.38%) NUnit
9 3 (1.03%) JIRA
10 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.69%) MSTest
11 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.34%) git-flow
11 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 95 (32.76%) Finance
2 46 (15.86%) Social Skills
3 38 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.00%) Banking
5 14 (4.83%) Advertising
6 13 (4.48%) Legal
7 12 (4.14%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.10%) Electronics
8 9 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.10%) Retail
9 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.07%) Local Government
11 5 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.72%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.38%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.38%) Publishing
13 3 (1.03%) Back Office
13 3 (1.03%) Marketing
14 2 (0.69%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 144 (49.66%) Developer
2 85 (29.31%) Senior
2 85 (29.31%) Software Engineer
3 78 (26.90%) .NET Developer
4 71 (24.48%) Lead
5 47 (16.21%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (13.10%) Senior Developer
7 34 (11.72%) Java Developer
8 29 (10.00%) Development Engineer
8 29 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
9 24 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (7.59%) Senior Java Developer
11 17 (5.86%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 11 (3.79%) Senior Software Developer
13 10 (3.45%) Java Software Developer
13 10 (3.45%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.10%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (3.10%) Senior Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (36.55%) .NET
2 89 (30.69%) Node.js
3 82 (28.28%) .NET Core
4 75 (25.86%) ASP.NET
5 72 (24.83%) React
6 71 (24.48%) ASP.NET Core
7 62 (21.38%) AngularJS
8 58 (20.00%) Vue
9 57 (19.66%) REST
10 48 (16.55%) Spring
11 33 (11.38%) RESTful
11 33 (11.38%) Terraform
12 32 (11.03%) .NET Framework
13 29 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (9.66%) Spring Boot
15 25 (8.62%) CSS
16 22 (7.59%) HTML
17 16 (5.52%) Entity Framework
17 16 (5.52%) Kafka
17 16 (5.52%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 29 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (6.21%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.48%) Blog
7 9 (3.10%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.72%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.72%) NHS
9 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.38%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.38%) IoT
10 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.03%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.17%) Linux
2 9 (3.10%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (2.41%) Android
4 3 (1.03%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (71.72%) Agile
2 141 (48.62%) Microservices
3 121 (41.72%) CI/CD
4 120 (41.38%) BDD
5 118 (40.69%) Scrum
5 118 (40.69%) Software Engineering
6 115 (39.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 89 (30.69%) Mentoring
8 77 (26.55%) Kanban
9 75 (25.86%) DevOps
10 66 (22.76%) AI
10 66 (22.76%) Technical Leadership
11 60 (20.69%) Test Automation
12 51 (17.59%) Coaching
13 50 (17.24%) OO
14 49 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (16.21%) Pair Programming
16 42 (14.48%) Containerisation
16 42 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (13.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.76%) SQL
2 119 (41.03%) Java
3 109 (37.59%) C#
4 85 (29.31%) JavaScript
5 79 (27.24%) TypeScript
6 58 (20.00%) Python
7 15 (5.17%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.83%) Bash
9 12 (4.14%) C++
10 10 (3.45%) Ruby
11 9 (3.10%) C
12 6 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.07%) PHP
13 4 (1.38%) Go
13 4 (1.38%) Groovy
13 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.69%) Scala
15 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.14%) Degree
4 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.55%) QA
2 14 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.76%) WCAG
4 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.03%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 110 (37.93%) Docker
2 12 (4.14%) Firmware
3 9 (3.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (36.90%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (1.03%) Packer
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 88 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.28%) Oracle
3 3 (1.03%) Alterian
3 3 (1.03%) Databricks
3 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.03%) Optimizely
3 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.03%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.69%) Facebook
5 1 (0.34%) Conga
5 1 (0.34%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.34%) Google
5 1 (0.34%) IBM
5 1 (0.34%) RedGate
5 1 (0.34%) Splunk
5 1 (0.34%) YouTube