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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 103 71
Rank change year-on-year -86 -32 -5
Permanent jobs citing TDD 204 508 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 3.24% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 3.42% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 145 380 1,054
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £102,250 £98,025 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +9.76% -12.14%

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 13,929 14,866 25,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.27% 94.76% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,007 8,893 21,194
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.09% -7.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,700 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 February 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 (1.47%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.98%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.96%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (51.96%) AWS
2 75 (36.76%) Azure
3 35 (17.16%) Serverless
4 29 (14.22%) GCP
5 19 (9.31%) GitHub
6 18 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.35%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.86%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.90%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.92%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.94%) SaaS
14 5 (2.45%) Figma
15 4 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.96%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.24%) Broadband
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Multicast
2 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 33 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 18 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (7.84%) MySQL
5 16 (7.84%) SQL Server
6 15 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.47%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.49%) Big Data
11 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.49%) Metadata
11 1 (0.49%) Parquet
11 1 (0.49%) Power BI
11 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (19.61%) Jenkins
2 32 (15.69%) Git
3 23 (11.27%) TeamCity
4 16 (7.84%) Selenium
5 12 (5.88%) GitLab
6 10 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.41%) JUnit
8 8 (3.92%) JIRA
9 6 (2.94%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.45%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.45%) Storybook
11 2 (0.98%) Mocha
11 2 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.98%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.98%) Vite
11 2 (0.98%) webpack
12 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.49%) Mockito
12 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 58 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.22%) Tech for Good
3 21 (10.29%) Influencing Skills
4 19 (9.31%) Finance
5 18 (8.82%) Health Technology
6 16 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.84%) Publishing
7 14 (6.86%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.45%) Banking
10 4 (1.96%) Back Office
10 4 (1.96%) Retail
11 3 (1.47%) Games
11 3 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.47%) Law
11 3 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.98%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (48.04%) Developer
2 75 (36.76%) Senior
3 50 (24.51%) Software Engineer
4 32 (15.69%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.75%) Lead
6 23 (11.27%) Software Developer
7 22 (10.78%) .NET Developer
7 22 (10.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (10.29%) Python Developer
9 20 (9.80%) React Developer
10 17 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (8.33%) Lead Developer
11 15 (7.35%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.86%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.86%) Lead Python Developer
13 13 (6.37%) Java Engineer
14 12 (5.88%) Scala Engineer
15 11 (5.39%) Senior Software Developer
16 10 (4.90%) Java Software Engineer
17 9 (4.41%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (31.86%) React
2 56 (27.45%) .NET
3 40 (19.61%) RESTful
4 31 (15.20%) AngularJS
4 31 (15.20%) Node.js
5 25 (12.25%) .NET Core
5 25 (12.25%) Akka
5 25 (12.25%) Spring Boot
6 24 (11.76%) Spring
7 21 (10.29%) ASP.NET
8 20 (9.80%) CSS
8 20 (9.80%) HTML
9 18 (8.82%) .NET Framework
9 18 (8.82%) Vue
10 17 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
10 17 (8.33%) REST
11 16 (7.84%) Django
11 16 (7.84%) Entity Framework
11 16 (7.84%) Kafka
12 13 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.76%) Video\Live Streaming
2 23 (11.27%) Over-the-Top Content
3 22 (10.78%) Cloud Native
4 15 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.39%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.43%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.96%) Digital TV
10 3 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.47%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.98%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.98%) Social Media
11 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.96%) Android
2 3 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.47%) Linux
3 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (75.00%) Agile
2 100 (49.02%) CI/CD
3 84 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 79 (38.73%) Microservices
5 71 (34.80%) Mentoring
5 71 (34.80%) Scrum
6 63 (30.88%) BDD
7 62 (30.39%) DevOps
8 53 (25.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 52 (25.49%) Pair Programming
10 47 (23.04%) Kanban
11 46 (22.55%) Test Automation
12 45 (22.06%) Coaching
13 40 (19.61%) Acceptance Criteria
14 38 (18.63%) Open Source
15 37 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (14.22%) Continuous Integration
17 28 (13.73%) Analytics
17 28 (13.73%) Containerisation
18 27 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.39%) Java
2 53 (25.98%) C#
3 47 (23.04%) JavaScript
4 45 (22.06%) Python
5 42 (20.59%) TypeScript
6 38 (18.63%) SQL
7 25 (12.25%) Scala
8 8 (3.92%) Delphi
9 5 (2.45%) Go
9 5 (2.45%) PHP
9 5 (2.45%) Ruby
10 2 (0.98%) C
10 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.98%) R
10 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (8.33%) Degree
2 12 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.65%) QA
2 23 (11.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.47%) WCAG
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (28.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.41%) Terraform
3 8 (3.92%) Grafana
4 4 (1.96%) Ansible
5 2 (0.98%) Packer
5 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.39%) Oracle
3 4 (1.96%) Google
4 2 (0.98%) SendGrid
4 2 (0.98%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe
5 1 (0.49%) Databricks
5 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.49%) Pega
5 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.49%) Veracode
5 1 (0.49%) WSO2