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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 104 74
Rank change year-on-year -87 -30 -9
Permanent jobs citing TDD 206 418 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 3.26% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 3.43% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 142 375 1,144
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,403 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,790 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £105,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £69,305 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% +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 14,184 12,193 28,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.28% 95.04% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,612 8,760 23,196
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 27 March 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 (1.46%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.97%) CMS
2 2 (0.97%) Confluence
2 2 (0.97%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.97%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (53.40%) AWS
2 69 (33.50%) Azure
3 39 (18.93%) Serverless
4 29 (14.08%) GCP
5 21 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.71%) GitHub
7 18 (8.74%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.28%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.37%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.88%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.40%) SaaS
13 7 (3.40%) Sentry
14 5 (2.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.62%) Broadband
2 6 (2.91%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.49%) Modbus
4 1 (0.49%) Multicast
4 1 (0.49%) Profibus
4 1 (0.49%) RS-232
4 1 (0.49%) RS-485
4 1 (0.49%) Wireless
4 1 (0.49%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.42%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (16.50%) MongoDB
3 25 (12.14%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.22%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.25%) MySQL
6 12 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.91%) Redis
8 6 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.97%) 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%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) Metadata
11 1 (0.49%) Parquet
11 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (17.96%) Jenkins
2 34 (16.50%) Git
3 23 (11.17%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.34%) GitLab
4 11 (5.34%) Selenium
5 10 (4.85%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.85%) JUnit
6 6 (2.91%) JIRA
7 5 (2.43%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.43%) Storybook
8 2 (0.97%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.97%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.97%) Vite
9 1 (0.49%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.49%) Appium
9 1 (0.49%) git-flow
9 1 (0.49%) Mocha
9 1 (0.49%) Protractor
9 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 57 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.59%) Finance
3 24 (11.65%) Tech for Good
4 18 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.77%) Health Technology
5 16 (7.77%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (7.28%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.80%) Publishing
8 10 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.37%) Banking
10 6 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.43%) Retail
12 4 (1.94%) Back Office
13 3 (1.46%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.46%) Games
13 3 (1.46%) Law
13 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.97%) Advertising
15 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (44.66%) Developer
2 81 (39.32%) Senior
3 64 (31.07%) Software Engineer
4 33 (16.02%) Senior Developer
5 29 (14.08%) Lead
6 26 (12.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (11.65%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.22%) Java Developer
9 18 (8.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (8.74%) Python Developer
9 18 (8.74%) React Developer
10 16 (7.77%) Java Engineer
10 16 (7.77%) Lead Developer
11 15 (7.28%) .NET Developer
11 15 (7.28%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.80%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.80%) Lead Python Developer
12 14 (6.80%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (5.83%) Scala Engineer
14 10 (4.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.82%) .NET
1 47 (22.82%) React
2 40 (19.42%) RESTful
3 29 (14.08%) Spring Boot
4 28 (13.59%) Spring
5 25 (12.14%) Akka
5 25 (12.14%) Node.js
6 24 (11.65%) AngularJS
7 23 (11.17%) Django
8 19 (9.22%) .NET Core
9 18 (8.74%) REST
10 17 (8.25%) Vue
11 16 (7.77%) ASP.NET
12 15 (7.28%) CSS
12 15 (7.28%) HTML
13 14 (6.80%) Flask
14 11 (5.34%) .NET Framework
14 11 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (4.85%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.65%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.17%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.31%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.40%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.91%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.94%) IoT
10 4 (1.94%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.46%) Mobile Payment
11 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.97%) Digital TV
12 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.88%) Linux
2 6 (2.91%) Android
2 6 (2.91%) Unix
3 4 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (70.39%) Agile
2 100 (48.54%) Software Engineering
3 99 (48.06%) CI/CD
4 77 (37.38%) Mentoring
5 73 (35.44%) DevOps
6 72 (34.95%) Microservices
7 67 (32.52%) Scrum
8 57 (27.67%) Test Automation
9 53 (25.73%) BDD
10 51 (24.76%) Pair Programming
11 49 (23.79%) Coaching
12 45 (21.84%) Open Source
13 44 (21.36%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (19.90%) Acceptance Criteria
15 40 (19.42%) Kanban
16 37 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (17.48%) Containerisation
18 35 (16.99%) Continuous Integration
19 29 (14.08%) Code Quality
20 28 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 71 (34.47%) Java
2 55 (26.70%) Python
3 43 (20.87%) SQL
4 38 (18.45%) C#
4 38 (18.45%) JavaScript
5 31 (15.05%) TypeScript
6 25 (12.14%) Scala
7 8 (3.88%) Delphi
8 6 (2.91%) PHP
8 6 (2.91%) Ruby
9 4 (1.94%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) Go
11 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.49%) RPG
12 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (9.22%) Degree
2 12 (5.83%) SC Cleared
2 12 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.48%) QA
2 15 (7.28%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.46%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (36.41%) Docker
2 4 (1.94%) Firmware
3 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (31.55%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.22%) Terraform
3 8 (3.88%) Grafana
4 5 (2.43%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.94%) Ansible
6 2 (0.97%) Packer
6 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.34%) Oracle
3 8 (3.88%) Google
4 4 (1.94%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.97%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.97%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.49%) IBM
6 1 (0.49%) Pega
6 1 (0.49%) Veracode
6 1 (0.49%) WSO2