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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 94 89
Rank change year-on-year -86 -5 -34
Permanent jobs citing TDD 214 618 720
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.40% 3.14% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 3.48% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 169 464 608
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% -3.57% -

All Process and 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 13,869 17,760 19,877
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.80% 90.35% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,747 10,711 16,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

TDD
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

TDD
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

TDD salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

TDD
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 5 (2.34%) CMS
2 4 (1.87%) IIS
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.40%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.40%) WordPress
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) Drupal
4 2 (0.93%) Luigi
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.93%) Elementor
1 2 (0.93%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (56.54%) AWS
2 88 (41.12%) Azure
3 44 (20.56%) Serverless
4 32 (14.95%) GCP
5 30 (14.02%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (10.28%) GitHub
7 15 (7.01%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.07%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.61%) SaaS
10 11 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.14%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.80%) Figma
12 6 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.34%) npm
13 5 (2.34%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Broadband
2 2 (0.93%) AMQP
2 2 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Multicast
3 1 (0.47%) RFID
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (18.22%) MongoDB
2 34 (15.89%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (14.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (13.55%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (10.28%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.94%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.54%) DynamoDB
8 13 (6.07%) MySQL
9 12 (5.61%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.87%) Data Hub
10 4 (1.87%) SQL CLR
11 3 (1.40%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.93%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.47%) Power BI
13 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (14.49%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.54%) Selenium
4 10 (4.67%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.67%) GitLab
5 9 (4.21%) JUnit
6 8 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.27%) JIRA
8 6 (2.80%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.40%) Mocha
9 3 (1.40%) webpack
10 2 (0.93%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.93%) Protractor
11 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.47%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.47%) Mockito
11 1 (0.47%) Postman
11 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.76%) Tech for Good
3 33 (15.42%) Finance
4 27 (12.62%) Health Technology
5 25 (11.68%) Publishing
6 20 (9.35%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.07%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.67%) Front Office
8 10 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.34%) Back Office
10 4 (1.87%) Retail
11 3 (1.40%) Banking
11 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.40%) Law
11 3 (1.40%) Legal
11 3 (1.40%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (59.81%) Developer
2 71 (33.18%) Senior
3 41 (19.16%) Senior Developer
4 38 (17.76%) .NET Developer
5 37 (17.29%) Software Engineer
6 30 (14.02%) Python Developer
7 28 (13.08%) Software Developer
8 27 (12.62%) Lead
9 23 (10.75%) React Developer
10 19 (8.88%) AWS Developer
11 18 (8.41%) Lead Developer
12 16 (7.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (7.01%) Senior Software Developer
14 14 (6.54%) Java Developer
15 13 (6.07%) Lead Python Developer
16 12 (5.61%) Senior Python Developer
17 11 (5.14%) C# Developer
17 11 (5.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 9 (4.21%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (43.93%) React
2 74 (34.58%) .NET
3 46 (21.50%) AngularJS
4 44 (20.56%) .NET Core
5 40 (18.69%) Node.js
5 40 (18.69%) RESTful
6 36 (16.82%) ASP.NET
7 34 (15.89%) Vue
8 33 (15.42%) Entity Framework
9 32 (14.95%) .NET Framework
10 28 (13.08%) ASP.NET MVC
10 28 (13.08%) CSS
10 28 (13.08%) HTML
11 27 (12.62%) Spring Boot
12 23 (10.75%) ASP.NET Web API
12 23 (10.75%) Spring
13 20 (9.35%) REST
14 16 (7.48%) Django
14 16 (7.48%) Kafka
15 15 (7.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.74%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.27%) Digital TV
7 5 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.87%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.87%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.87%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.40%) Equities
9 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.40%) Social Media
10 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.93%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.80%) Windows
2 4 (1.87%) Android
2 4 (1.87%) Linux
2 4 (1.87%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (73.36%) Agile
2 97 (45.33%) CI/CD
3 83 (38.79%) Microservices
4 78 (36.45%) Software Engineering
5 65 (30.37%) BDD
5 65 (30.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (29.91%) Scrum
7 62 (28.97%) DevOps
8 54 (25.23%) Mentoring
9 42 (19.63%) Pair Programming
10 41 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (16.82%) Kanban
13 34 (15.89%) Coaching
13 34 (15.89%) Test Automation
14 33 (15.42%) MVC
15 27 (12.62%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (12.62%) SOLID
16 26 (12.15%) Code Quality
16 26 (12.15%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.38%) C#
2 70 (32.71%) TypeScript
3 69 (32.24%) JavaScript
4 65 (30.37%) Python
5 56 (26.17%) SQL
6 53 (24.77%) Java
7 9 (4.21%) PHP
8 8 (3.74%) Delphi
9 7 (3.27%) Ruby
10 6 (2.80%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.34%) Scala
12 4 (1.87%) Go
13 3 (1.40%) R
14 2 (0.93%) C
14 2 (0.93%) Swift
15 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 14 (6.54%) Degree
1 14 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.40%) Postgraduate
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (19.16%) QA
2 20 (9.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (15.89%) Docker
2 4 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (14.02%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.21%) Grafana
2 9 (4.21%) Terraform
3 4 (1.87%) Ansible
4 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle
3 4 (1.87%) VMware
4 3 (1.40%) Google
4 3 (1.40%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.93%) Netlify
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.47%) Pega
6 1 (0.47%) Revolut
6 1 (0.47%) UiPath
6 1 (0.47%) WSO2