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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 123 104
Rank change year-on-year -68 -19 -24
Permanent jobs citing TDD 299 439 711
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.32% 2.67% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.88% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 214 219 594
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £108,150 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 18,751 15,258 21,879
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.66% 92.88% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,547 8,951 15,627
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £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 £77,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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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 12 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 (2.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.67%) Apache
2 5 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.34%) CMS
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.00%) DNN
4 3 (1.00%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.00%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (1.00%) Kentico
4 3 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.00%) Sitefinity
4 3 (1.00%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 202 (67.56%) AWS
2 167 (55.85%) Azure
3 63 (21.07%) GitHub
4 53 (17.73%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (13.38%) Serverless
6 31 (10.37%) GCP
7 20 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.68%) Azure AI
9 12 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.01%) ChatGPT
11 9 (3.01%) PaaS
12 8 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.68%) Slack
13 7 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.34%) SaaS
14 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.69%) HTTP
2 9 (3.01%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.01%) Modbus
2 9 (3.01%) Profibus
2 9 (3.01%) RS-232
2 9 (3.01%) RS-485
2 9 (3.01%) Wireless
2 9 (3.01%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (35.12%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.74%) Elasticsearch
4 47 (15.72%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (11.37%) NoSQL
6 26 (8.70%) MySQL
7 19 (6.35%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.35%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.01%) Redis
11 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.00%) Flink
13 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.33%) Db2
14 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (14.05%) Git
2 25 (8.36%) JUnit
3 15 (5.02%) Maven
3 15 (5.02%) Mockito
4 10 (3.34%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.68%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.68%) GitLab
5 8 (2.68%) Postman
5 8 (2.68%) Selenium
6 6 (2.01%) Gatling
7 4 (1.34%) JIRA
7 4 (1.34%) NUnit
8 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.67%) MSTest
9 1 (0.33%) Appium
9 1 (0.33%) git-flow
9 1 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (30.43%) Finance
2 49 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.36%) Banking
5 14 (4.68%) Advertising
6 12 (4.01%) Legal
6 12 (4.01%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.34%) Retail
8 9 (3.01%) Electronics
8 9 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.01%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.67%) Local Government
11 4 (1.34%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.34%) Publishing
12 3 (1.00%) Marketing
12 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Back Office
13 2 (0.67%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 143 (47.83%) Developer
2 92 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 86 (28.76%) Senior
4 78 (26.09%) .NET Developer
5 69 (23.08%) Lead
6 46 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
7 36 (12.04%) Senior Developer
8 33 (11.04%) Java Developer
9 28 (9.36%) Development Engineer
9 28 (9.36%) Software Development Engineer
10 24 (8.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (7.36%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (6.02%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (3.68%) Senior Software Developer
14 10 (3.34%) Java Software Developer
14 10 (3.34%) Lead Developer
14 10 (3.34%) Python Engineer
15 9 (3.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (35.79%) .NET
2 87 (29.10%) Node.js
3 82 (27.42%) .NET Core
4 75 (25.08%) ASP.NET
5 73 (24.41%) React
6 71 (23.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 62 (20.74%) AngularJS
8 59 (19.73%) Vue
9 55 (18.39%) REST
10 47 (15.72%) Spring
11 39 (13.04%) RESTful
12 32 (10.70%) .NET Framework
13 29 (9.70%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (9.36%) Spring Boot
15 22 (7.36%) CSS
16 20 (6.69%) HTML
17 16 (5.35%) Entity Framework
17 16 (5.35%) WinForms
18 15 (5.02%) Blazor
18 15 (5.02%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.70%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.36%) Public Cloud
3 24 (8.03%) Cloud Native
4 20 (6.69%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.68%) Blog
7 9 (3.01%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.67%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.34%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.34%) IoT
10 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.34%) NHS
10 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.69%) Linux
2 9 (3.01%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (2.01%) Android
4 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (72.91%) Agile
2 144 (48.16%) Microservices
3 127 (42.47%) CI/CD
4 125 (41.81%) Software Engineering
5 123 (41.14%) BDD
6 118 (39.46%) Scrum
7 115 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 90 (30.10%) Mentoring
9 81 (27.09%) DevOps
10 76 (25.42%) Kanban
11 67 (22.41%) Test Automation
12 66 (22.07%) AI
13 64 (21.40%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
15 53 (17.73%) Coaching
16 48 (16.05%) Containerisation
16 48 (16.05%) OO
17 44 (14.72%) Pair Programming
18 43 (14.38%) Clean Code
19 40 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 131 (43.81%) SQL
2 126 (42.14%) Java
3 109 (36.45%) C#
4 83 (27.76%) JavaScript
5 78 (26.09%) TypeScript
6 63 (21.07%) Python
7 15 (5.02%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.68%) Bash
9 12 (4.01%) C++
10 10 (3.34%) Ruby
11 9 (3.01%) C
12 6 (2.01%) PHP
13 5 (1.67%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.34%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.34%) Go
14 4 (1.34%) Groovy
14 4 (1.34%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.33%) Scala
16 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.68%) Degree
4 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.69%) QA
2 11 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.01%) WCAG
4 5 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (39.46%) Docker
2 12 (4.01%) Firmware
3 9 (3.01%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (36.12%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.04%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.34%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (29.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.03%) Oracle
3 6 (2.01%) Google
4 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.00%) Alterian
5 3 (1.00%) Databricks
5 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.00%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.00%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.67%) Facebook
6 2 (0.67%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.33%) RedGate