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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 100 73
Rank change year-on-year -85 -27 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 205 504 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 3.30% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 3.47% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 149 380 1,053
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -13.60%
75th Percentile £79,040 £85,253 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 14,012 14,514 25,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.84% 95.01% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,096 8,740 21,398
10th Percentile £30,625 £36,250 £34,757
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
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 £82,500 £76,250
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% -12.00%

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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

TDD
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 23 February 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 3 (1.46%) 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 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.95%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (51.22%) AWS
2 78 (38.05%) Azure
3 34 (16.59%) GCP
4 31 (15.12%) Serverless
5 18 (8.78%) GitHub
6 15 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.83%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.88%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.90%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.41%) Sentry
14 6 (2.93%) SaaS
15 5 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
15 5 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.17%) Broadband
2 6 (2.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (16.59%) MongoDB
3 24 (11.71%) NoSQL
4 18 (8.78%) MySQL
5 16 (7.80%) SQL Server
6 15 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (6.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.41%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.44%) Redis
10 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.49%) Big Data
12 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.49%) Metadata
12 1 (0.49%) Parquet
12 1 (0.49%) Power BI
12 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.10%) Git
3 23 (11.22%) TeamCity
4 16 (7.80%) Selenium
5 12 (5.85%) GitLab
6 10 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.39%) JUnit
8 8 (3.90%) JIRA
9 6 (2.93%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.44%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.44%) 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%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.49%) Maven
12 1 (0.49%) Mockito
12 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.17%) Tech for Good
3 21 (10.24%) Influencing Skills
4 19 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.78%) Finance
6 16 (7.80%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.83%) Publishing
8 8 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.93%) Banking
9 6 (2.93%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.44%) Retail
11 4 (1.95%) Back Office
12 3 (1.46%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.46%) Games
12 3 (1.46%) Law
12 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.98%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 89 (43.41%) Developer
2 74 (36.10%) Senior
3 56 (27.32%) Software Engineer
4 26 (12.68%) Lead
4 26 (12.68%) Senior Developer
5 24 (11.71%) Software Developer
6 22 (10.73%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (8.78%) Python Developer
7 18 (8.78%) React Developer
8 17 (8.29%) .NET Developer
8 17 (8.29%) Lead Developer
9 16 (7.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (7.80%) Java Engineer
10 14 (6.83%) AWS Developer
10 14 (6.83%) Java Software Engineer
10 14 (6.83%) Lead Python Developer
11 12 (5.85%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.85%) Scala Engineer
12 10 (4.88%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (4.39%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.80%) React
2 50 (24.39%) .NET
3 41 (20.00%) RESTful
4 27 (13.17%) AngularJS
5 26 (12.68%) Node.js
6 25 (12.20%) Akka
7 24 (11.71%) Spring Boot
8 23 (11.22%) Spring
9 22 (10.73%) Django
10 20 (9.76%) .NET Core
11 19 (9.27%) CSS
11 19 (9.27%) HTML
12 17 (8.29%) ASP.NET
13 16 (7.80%) Kafka
13 16 (7.80%) REST
13 16 (7.80%) Vue
14 15 (7.32%) .NET Framework
15 13 (6.34%) ASP.NET MVC
15 13 (6.34%) Flask
16 12 (5.85%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.71%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.22%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.85%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.41%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.46%) Digital TV
10 3 (1.46%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
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
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.90%) Linux
2 7 (3.41%) Unix
3 4 (1.95%) Android
4 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (75.12%) Agile
2 105 (51.22%) CI/CD
3 91 (44.39%) Software Engineering
4 76 (37.07%) Microservices
5 74 (36.10%) Mentoring
6 66 (32.20%) DevOps
6 66 (32.20%) Scrum
7 60 (29.27%) BDD
8 51 (24.88%) Test Automation
9 50 (24.39%) Coaching
9 50 (24.39%) Pair Programming
10 47 (22.93%) Open Source
11 46 (22.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 45 (21.95%) Kanban
13 41 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
14 37 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (16.59%) Containerisation
15 34 (16.59%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (13.66%) Analytics
16 28 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.66%) Java
2 48 (23.41%) Python
3 46 (22.44%) C#
4 42 (20.49%) JavaScript
5 39 (19.02%) SQL
6 34 (16.59%) TypeScript
7 25 (12.20%) Scala
8 8 (3.90%) Delphi
9 6 (2.93%) Ruby
10 4 (1.95%) Go
10 4 (1.95%) PHP
11 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.98%) C
11 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.98%) R
11 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) RPG
Qualifications
1 18 (8.78%) Degree
2 16 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.07%) QA
2 22 (10.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (31.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (27.80%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.34%) Terraform
3 8 (3.90%) Grafana
4 5 (2.44%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.95%) Ansible
6 2 (0.98%) Packer
6 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.37%) Oracle
3 9 (4.39%) Google
4 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
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%) IBM
5 1 (0.49%) Pega
5 1 (0.49%) Veracode
5 1 (0.49%) WSO2