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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 123 118
Rank change year-on-year -89 -5 -36
Permanent jobs citing TDD 281 413 642
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.17% 2.55% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 2.74% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 200 198 469
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,259
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £81,385 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,792 £82,750
UK median annual salary £67,249 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% +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 19,495 15,078 20,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.33% 93.14% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,036 8,555 12,692
10th Percentile £34,250 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 15 September 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 (2.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.78%) Apache
2 5 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.07%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.07%) CMS
3 3 (1.07%) DNN
3 3 (1.07%) EPiServer
3 3 (1.07%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (1.07%) Kentico
3 3 (1.07%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.07%) Sitefinity
3 3 (1.07%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) JBoss
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (67.97%) AWS
2 152 (54.09%) Azure
3 60 (21.35%) GitHub
4 48 (17.08%) GitHub Copilot
5 34 (12.10%) Serverless
6 25 (8.90%) GCP
7 16 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.63%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.20%) Slack
10 8 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.49%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.78%) PaaS
13 5 (1.78%) SaaS
14 4 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.42%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.25%) HTTP
2 9 (3.20%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.20%) Modbus
2 9 (3.20%) Profibus
2 9 (3.20%) RS-232
2 9 (3.20%) RS-485
2 9 (3.20%) Wireless
2 9 (3.20%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (34.52%) MongoDB
2 70 (24.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (22.06%) Elasticsearch
4 34 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (9.61%) NoSQL
6 20 (7.12%) MySQL
7 16 (5.69%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.63%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.78%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.07%) Flink
10 3 (1.07%) Redis
11 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (13.17%) Git
2 29 (10.32%) JUnit
3 17 (6.05%) Maven
3 17 (6.05%) Mockito
4 10 (3.56%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.85%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.85%) GitLab
5 8 (2.85%) Selenium
6 7 (2.49%) Postman
7 6 (2.14%) Gatling
8 4 (1.42%) NUnit
9 3 (1.07%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.71%) JIRA
10 2 (0.71%) MSTest
10 2 (0.71%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 97 (34.52%) Finance
2 42 (14.95%) Public Sector
2 42 (14.95%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.74%) Banking
4 13 (4.63%) Advertising
4 13 (4.63%) Legal
5 12 (4.27%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.20%) Electronics
6 9 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.20%) Retail
7 8 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.14%) Local Government
9 5 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.78%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.42%) Back Office
10 4 (1.42%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.42%) Publishing
11 3 (1.07%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 136 (48.40%) Developer
2 84 (29.89%) Software Engineer
3 82 (29.18%) Senior
4 75 (26.69%) .NET Developer
5 72 (25.62%) Lead
6 47 (16.73%) Lead Software Engineer
7 36 (12.81%) Senior Developer
8 31 (11.03%) Development Engineer
8 31 (11.03%) Software Development Engineer
9 29 (10.32%) Java Developer
10 22 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (6.05%) Senior Java Developer
13 14 (4.98%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 9 (3.20%) Embedded Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Lead Developer
15 9 (3.20%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (35.23%) .NET
2 89 (31.67%) Node.js
3 79 (28.11%) .NET Core
4 72 (25.62%) ASP.NET
5 71 (25.27%) React
6 69 (24.56%) ASP.NET Core
7 61 (21.71%) REST
8 60 (21.35%) AngularJS
9 55 (19.57%) Vue
10 48 (17.08%) Spring
11 35 (12.46%) Terraform
12 32 (11.39%) RESTful
13 31 (11.03%) .NET Framework
14 29 (10.32%) ASP.NET Web API
14 29 (10.32%) CSS
15 27 (9.61%) Spring Boot
16 26 (9.25%) HTML
17 18 (6.41%) Kafka
18 16 (5.69%) Entity Framework
18 16 (5.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.03%) Product Ownership
1 31 (11.03%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.76%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.98%) Blog
4 14 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.20%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.78%) Mobile Payment
7 5 (1.78%) NHS
7 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.42%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.07%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.07%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.07%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.98%) Linux
2 9 (3.20%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (2.49%) Android
4 3 (1.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (71.89%) Agile
2 136 (48.40%) Microservices
3 121 (43.06%) BDD
4 116 (41.28%) CI/CD
4 116 (41.28%) Scrum
5 111 (39.50%) Software Engineering
6 106 (37.72%) Full-Stack Development
7 91 (32.38%) Mentoring
8 76 (27.05%) Kanban
9 72 (25.62%) Technical Leadership
10 67 (23.84%) DevOps
11 58 (20.64%) AI
12 57 (20.28%) Test Automation
13 53 (18.86%) Coaching
14 51 (18.15%) Pair Programming
15 50 (17.79%) OO
16 48 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (16.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 40 (14.23%) Roadmaps
19 38 (13.52%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 118 (41.99%) Java
1 118 (41.99%) SQL
2 103 (36.65%) C#
3 86 (30.60%) JavaScript
4 81 (28.83%) TypeScript
5 50 (17.79%) Python
6 15 (5.34%) PL/SQL
7 14 (4.98%) Bash
8 12 (4.27%) C++
9 9 (3.20%) C
9 9 (3.20%) Ruby
10 7 (2.49%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.42%) Go
11 4 (1.42%) Groovy
11 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.07%) PHP
12 3 (1.07%) Scala
13 2 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.56%) Degree
4 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 14 (4.98%) QA
3 13 (4.63%) WCAG
4 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.07%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 103 (36.65%) Docker
2 9 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (3.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 100 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.14%) Ansible
3 5 (1.78%) Packer
4 2 (0.71%) Grafana
4 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 83 (29.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.54%) Oracle
3 3 (1.07%) Alterian
3 3 (1.07%) Databricks
3 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.07%) Optimizely
3 3 (1.07%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.71%) Facebook
4 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.71%) Splunk
5 1 (0.36%) Conga
5 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.36%) Google
5 1 (0.36%) IBM
5 1 (0.36%) RedGate
5 1 (0.36%) YouTube