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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 110 72
Rank change year-on-year -90 -38 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 211 397 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 3.08% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 3.25% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 144 355 1,163
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,795 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £105,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% +8.00% -10.71%

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 14,197 12,201 28,825
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.51% 94.80% 91.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,910 8,867 23,394
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%

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 5 April 2026.

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 3 (1.42%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.95%) CMS
2 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (54.98%) AWS
2 74 (35.07%) Azure
3 42 (19.91%) Serverless
4 31 (14.69%) GCP
5 22 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.48%) Amazon S3
7 19 (9.00%) GitHub
8 15 (7.11%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (6.64%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.27%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.32%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.32%) SaaS
11 7 (3.32%) Sentry
12 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.37%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (2.37%) dbt
13 5 (2.37%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.85%) Broadband
2 5 (2.37%) HTTP
2 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.47%) Modbus
3 1 (0.47%) Multicast
3 1 (0.47%) Profibus
3 1 (0.47%) RS-232
3 1 (0.47%) RS-485
3 1 (0.47%) Wireless
3 1 (0.47%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.43%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (16.59%) MongoDB
3 25 (11.85%) NoSQL
4 20 (9.48%) SQL Server
5 16 (7.58%) MySQL
6 12 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.84%) Redis
8 6 (2.84%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.47%) Big Data
11 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.47%) Metadata
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.47%) Parquet
11 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (18.01%) Jenkins
2 36 (17.06%) Git
3 23 (10.90%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.69%) GitLab
5 11 (5.21%) Selenium
6 10 (4.74%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.74%) JUnit
7 5 (2.37%) JIRA
7 5 (2.37%) Storybook
8 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.95%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.95%) Vite
10 1 (0.47%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.47%) Appium
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.47%) Postman
10 1 (0.47%) XCUITest
General
1 57 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.64%) Finance
3 23 (10.90%) Tech for Good
4 20 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.64%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.64%) Publishing
8 13 (6.16%) Banking
9 10 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.84%) Retail
11 4 (1.90%) Back Office
12 3 (1.42%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.42%) Games
12 3 (1.42%) Law
13 2 (0.95%) Advertising
14 1 (0.47%) Automotive
14 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (44.08%) Developer
2 83 (39.34%) Senior
3 69 (32.70%) Software Engineer
4 33 (15.64%) Senior Developer
5 32 (15.17%) Lead
6 28 (13.27%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.85%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.00%) Python Developer
9 18 (8.53%) Java Developer
9 18 (8.53%) Lead Developer
10 17 (8.06%) React Developer
11 16 (7.58%) Java Engineer
12 15 (7.11%) .NET Developer
12 15 (7.11%) AWS Developer
12 15 (7.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (6.64%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (6.64%) Lead Python Developer
13 14 (6.64%) Senior Software Developer
14 12 (5.69%) Scala Engineer
15 10 (4.74%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.75%) React
2 47 (22.27%) .NET
3 42 (19.91%) RESTful
4 31 (14.69%) Spring
5 29 (13.74%) AngularJS
5 29 (13.74%) Spring Boot
6 25 (11.85%) Akka
6 25 (11.85%) Node.js
7 24 (11.37%) Django
8 22 (10.43%) REST
9 19 (9.00%) .NET Core
10 18 (8.53%) Vue
11 16 (7.58%) ASP.NET
12 14 (6.64%) CSS
12 14 (6.64%) Flask
12 14 (6.64%) HTML
13 12 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (5.21%) .NET Framework
15 10 (4.74%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.37%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (10.90%) Over-the-Top Content
4 17 (8.06%) Product Ownership
5 16 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.32%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.37%) Mobile Payment
8 5 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.90%) IoT
9 4 (1.90%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.95%) Digital TV
11 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.79%) Linux
2 6 (2.84%) Android
3 5 (2.37%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (71.09%) Agile
2 104 (49.29%) Software Engineering
3 101 (47.87%) CI/CD
4 79 (37.44%) Mentoring
5 77 (36.49%) DevOps
6 76 (36.02%) Microservices
7 71 (33.65%) Scrum
8 61 (28.91%) Test Automation
9 57 (27.01%) BDD
10 53 (25.12%) Pair Programming
11 49 (23.22%) Coaching
12 46 (21.80%) Open Source
13 44 (20.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 42 (19.91%) Acceptance Criteria
14 42 (19.91%) Kanban
15 40 (18.96%) Containerisation
16 38 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
18 29 (13.74%) Code Quality
18 29 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.07%) Java
2 57 (27.01%) Python
3 46 (21.80%) SQL
4 39 (18.48%) C#
4 39 (18.48%) JavaScript
5 32 (15.17%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.85%) Scala
7 8 (3.79%) Delphi
8 6 (2.84%) PHP
9 5 (2.37%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.42%) C
11 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) Go
13 1 (0.47%) Perl
13 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.47%) RPG
13 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (8.53%) Degree
2 15 (7.11%) SC Cleared
2 15 (7.11%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.59%) QA
2 14 (6.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.42%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 80 (37.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (33.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.95%) Terraform
3 8 (3.79%) Grafana
4 6 (2.84%) Ansible
5 5 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.95%) Packer
6 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.69%) Oracle
3 7 (3.32%) Google
4 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.95%) IBM
5 2 (0.95%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.47%) Pega
6 1 (0.47%) Veracode
6 1 (0.47%) WSO2