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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 113 77
Rank change year-on-year -66 -36 -1
Permanent jobs citing TDD 299 482 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.45% 3.06% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 3.26% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 210 261 1,072
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £136,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

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 16,967 14,802 29,888
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.19% 94.02% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,385 8,674 23,017
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 June 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 4 (1.34%) CMS
2 3 (1.00%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.00%) DNN
2 3 (1.00%) EPiServer
2 3 (1.00%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (1.00%) Kentico
2 3 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.00%) Sitefinity
2 3 (1.00%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.67%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 187 (62.54%) AWS
2 144 (48.16%) Azure
3 49 (16.39%) GitHub
4 43 (14.38%) GitHub Copilot
5 37 (12.37%) Serverless
6 23 (7.69%) GCP
7 16 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (4.01%) Azure AI
9 10 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.01%) PaaS
11 8 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.01%) SaaS
13 5 (1.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (1.67%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (1.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.69%) Broadband
2 20 (6.69%) HTTP
3 9 (3.01%) Bluetooth
3 9 (3.01%) Modbus
3 9 (3.01%) Profibus
3 9 (3.01%) RS-232
3 9 (3.01%) RS-485
3 9 (3.01%) Wireless
3 9 (3.01%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (33.44%) MongoDB
2 63 (21.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (20.40%) Elasticsearch
4 49 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (11.71%) NoSQL
6 32 (10.70%) MySQL
7 16 (5.35%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.01%) Redis
10 8 (2.68%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.34%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.00%) Flink
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.33%) Db2
13 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.33%) Metadata
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (11.04%) Jenkins
2 29 (9.70%) Git
3 22 (7.36%) TeamCity
4 16 (5.35%) JUnit
5 9 (3.01%) Maven
5 9 (3.01%) Mockito
6 6 (2.01%) GitLab
6 6 (2.01%) JIRA
7 5 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.67%) Selenium
8 4 (1.34%) NUnit
8 4 (1.34%) Postman
9 3 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.67%) Gatling
10 2 (0.67%) MSTest
10 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.67%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.33%) Appium
11 1 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 64 (21.40%) Finance
2 44 (14.72%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.36%) Banking
5 13 (4.35%) Advertising
6 11 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.01%) Electronics
7 9 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.68%) Retail
8 8 (2.68%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.34%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.34%) Legal
10 4 (1.34%) Publishing
11 3 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.67%) Back Office
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Games
13 1 (0.33%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 131 (43.81%) Developer
2 103 (34.45%) Software Engineer
3 90 (30.10%) Senior
4 66 (22.07%) .NET Developer
5 59 (19.73%) Lead
6 39 (13.04%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (11.71%) Senior Developer
8 31 (10.37%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (9.70%) Java Developer
10 25 (8.36%) Development Engineer
10 25 (8.36%) Software Development Engineer
11 21 (7.02%) Software Developer
12 18 (6.02%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (5.35%) Java Engineer
14 15 (5.02%) Senior Software Developer
15 13 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (4.01%) Scala Engineer
17 11 (3.68%) Python Engineer
18 10 (3.34%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (32.44%) .NET
2 78 (26.09%) Node.js
3 71 (23.75%) .NET Core
4 67 (22.41%) React
5 64 (21.40%) ASP.NET
6 62 (20.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 57 (19.06%) AngularJS
8 52 (17.39%) Vue
9 43 (14.38%) RESTful
10 42 (14.05%) REST
11 40 (13.38%) Spring
12 27 (9.03%) Spring Boot
13 26 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
14 25 (8.36%) .NET Framework
15 23 (7.69%) Akka
16 18 (6.02%) CSS
16 18 (6.02%) HTML
17 14 (4.68%) Django
18 12 (4.01%) Blazor
18 12 (4.01%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 23 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.36%) Over-the-Top Content
5 18 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.01%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.67%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.34%) IoT
10 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.00%) Blog
11 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.00%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.02%) Linux
2 9 (3.01%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.67%) Unix
4 3 (1.00%) Windows
5 2 (0.67%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (74.25%) Agile
2 134 (44.82%) Microservices
3 132 (44.15%) Software Engineering
4 121 (40.47%) BDD
5 119 (39.80%) Scrum
6 110 (36.79%) CI/CD
7 100 (33.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (30.77%) Mentoring
9 84 (28.09%) Kanban
10 76 (25.42%) DevOps
11 65 (21.74%) Test Automation
12 57 (19.06%) Technical Leadership
13 56 (18.73%) Open Source
14 55 (18.39%) Coaching
15 54 (18.06%) Pair Programming
16 51 (17.06%) AI
17 44 (14.72%) Infrastructure as Code
18 41 (13.71%) Containerisation
19 39 (13.04%) Clean Code
20 37 (12.37%) OO
Programming Languages
1 119 (39.80%) Java
2 117 (39.13%) SQL
3 97 (32.44%) C#
4 71 (23.75%) TypeScript
5 69 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 54 (18.06%) Python
7 25 (8.36%) Scala
8 12 (4.01%) C++
9 10 (3.34%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.01%) C
11 8 (2.68%) Ruby
12 7 (2.34%) Bash
12 7 (2.34%) PHP
13 5 (1.67%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.67%) Go
14 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.33%) Groovy
16 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (10.70%) SC Cleared
1 32 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.69%) Degree
3 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.69%) QA
2 10 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 123 (41.14%) Docker
2 12 (4.01%) Firmware
3 9 (3.01%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 114 (38.13%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.70%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.67%) Packer
5 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 76 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.69%) Oracle
3 6 (2.01%) Google
4 5 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.00%) Alterian
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%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.33%) Veracode