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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 101 76
Rank change year-on-year -103 -25 -9
Permanent jobs citing TDD 209 435 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 3.20% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 3.38% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 140 323 1,145
10th Percentile £48,210 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,475 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% +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 15,065 12,887 29,687
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.73% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,575 8,882 23,564
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% +9.09% -10.57%

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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 3 May 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 4 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.44%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.44%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.96%) CMS
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (56.46%) AWS
2 61 (29.19%) Azure
3 44 (21.05%) Serverless
4 26 (12.44%) GCP
5 23 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.09%) GitHub
7 18 (8.61%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.83%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.35%) Sentry
12 6 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.87%) PaaS
12 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.87%) SaaS
13 5 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.00%) Broadband
2 11 (5.26%) HTTP
3 5 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.91%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.91%) Modbus
4 4 (1.91%) Profibus
4 4 (1.91%) RS-232
4 4 (1.91%) RS-485
4 4 (1.91%) Wireless
4 4 (1.91%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.62%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (13.88%) MongoDB
3 22 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 22 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 17 (8.13%) MySQL
5 15 (7.18%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.31%) Redis
7 8 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.35%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.44%) Flink
10 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.48%) Big Data
11 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Parquet
11 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (18.66%) Jenkins
2 32 (15.31%) Git
3 22 (10.53%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.74%) GitLab
5 11 (5.26%) JUnit
5 11 (5.26%) Selenium
6 9 (4.31%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.39%) JIRA
7 5 (2.39%) Storybook
8 2 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.96%) Vite
9 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) MSTest
9 1 (0.48%) NUnit
9 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 48 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.18%) Finance
3 20 (9.57%) Tech for Good
4 19 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.61%) Banking
6 14 (6.70%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (6.22%) Health Technology
7 13 (6.22%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.22%) Publishing
8 10 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.83%) Retail
10 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.91%) Back Office
12 4 (1.91%) Electronics
12 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.44%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.44%) Law
14 2 (0.96%) Advertising
14 2 (0.96%) Games
Job Titles
1 85 (40.67%) Developer
2 83 (39.71%) Senior
3 73 (34.93%) Software Engineer
4 38 (18.18%) Lead
5 35 (16.75%) Senior Developer
6 27 (12.92%) Senior Software Engineer
6 27 (12.92%) Software Developer
7 19 (9.09%) Java Developer
8 18 (8.61%) Python Developer
8 18 (8.61%) Senior Software Developer
9 17 (8.13%) Java Engineer
10 16 (7.66%) Development Engineer
10 16 (7.66%) Lead Developer
10 16 (7.66%) React Developer
10 16 (7.66%) Software Development Engineer
11 15 (7.18%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (6.70%) AWS Developer
13 13 (6.22%) Java Software Engineer
14 12 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (5.74%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.62%) React
2 40 (19.14%) .NET
2 40 (19.14%) RESTful
3 36 (17.22%) Spring
4 32 (15.31%) Spring Boot
5 29 (13.88%) REST
6 24 (11.48%) Akka
7 23 (11.00%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.53%) Django
9 20 (9.57%) Node.js
10 14 (6.70%) .NET Core
10 14 (6.70%) Kafka
11 12 (5.74%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (5.74%) Flask
11 12 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (5.74%) Vue
12 11 (5.26%) ASP.NET
13 9 (4.31%) pytest
14 8 (3.83%) Playwright
15 7 (3.35%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 23 (11.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 22 (10.53%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.87%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.39%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.91%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.91%) IoT
9 4 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.44%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.35%) Linux
2 6 (2.87%) Android
3 5 (2.39%) Unix
4 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.91%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (66.99%) Agile
2 105 (50.24%) Software Engineering
3 100 (47.85%) CI/CD
4 75 (35.89%) DevOps
5 74 (35.41%) Mentoring
6 69 (33.01%) Microservices
7 68 (32.54%) Scrum
8 61 (29.19%) BDD
8 61 (29.19%) Test Automation
9 57 (27.27%) Pair Programming
10 45 (21.53%) Open Source
11 42 (20.10%) Coaching
11 42 (20.10%) Containerisation
12 39 (18.66%) Kanban
13 38 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (17.70%) Acceptance Criteria
14 37 (17.70%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (14.83%) Clean Code
15 31 (14.83%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (13.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 84 (40.19%) Java
2 60 (28.71%) Python
3 40 (19.14%) SQL
4 33 (15.79%) C#
5 27 (12.92%) TypeScript
6 24 (11.48%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.48%) Scala
7 8 (3.83%) Delphi
8 6 (2.87%) PHP
8 6 (2.87%) Ruby
9 5 (2.39%) C
10 4 (1.91%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.91%) C++
11 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.48%) Go
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) RPG
13 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (8.61%) SC Cleared
1 18 (8.61%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.18%) Degree
3 6 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.79%) QA
2 9 (4.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (37.32%) Docker
2 7 (3.35%) Firmware
3 4 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (32.54%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.48%) Terraform
3 8 (3.83%) Ansible
3 8 (3.83%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.39%) Packer
5 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.70%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Google
4 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.96%) IBM
5 2 (0.96%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Facebook
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode