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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 102 74
Rank change year-on-year -76 -28 -8
Permanent jobs citing TDD 208 519 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.32% 3.20% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 3.39% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 149 385 969
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,750 £96,500 £90,250
UK median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.48% +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 13,702 15,325 24,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.77% 94.40% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,707 9,051 20,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

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 30 January 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 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.44%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.96%) Confluence
2 2 (0.96%) Luigi
2 2 (0.96%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) CMS
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Shopify
2 3 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (52.88%) AWS
2 76 (36.54%) Azure
3 42 (20.19%) Serverless
4 33 (15.87%) GCP
5 25 (12.02%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (10.10%) GitHub
7 16 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.73%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.81%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.85%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.88%) SaaS
14 5 (2.40%) Figma
15 4 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.92%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.98%) Broadband
2 1 (0.48%) HTTP
2 1 (0.48%) Multicast
2 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 30 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (10.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (8.17%) NoSQL
6 16 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.81%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.81%) MySQL
8 9 (4.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.48%) Big Data
11 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Parquet
11 1 (0.48%) Power BI
11 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.90%) Git
3 23 (11.06%) TeamCity
4 17 (8.17%) Selenium
5 13 (6.25%) GitLab
6 11 (5.29%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.81%) JUnit
8 8 (3.85%) JIRA
9 7 (3.37%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.40%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.40%) Storybook
11 2 (0.96%) Mocha
11 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.96%) Vite
11 2 (0.96%) webpack
12 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.48%) JMeter
12 1 (0.48%) Mockito
12 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Tech for Good
3 24 (11.54%) Health Technology
4 22 (10.58%) Publishing
5 21 (10.10%) Finance
5 21 (10.10%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.40%) Banking
8 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.92%) Retail
10 3 (1.44%) Back Office
10 3 (1.44%) Games
10 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.44%) Law
10 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.96%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (52.88%) Developer
2 84 (40.38%) Senior
3 42 (20.19%) Software Engineer
4 41 (19.71%) Senior Developer
5 28 (13.46%) .NET Developer
6 27 (12.98%) Python Developer
7 26 (12.50%) Lead
7 26 (12.50%) Software Developer
8 23 (11.06%) React Developer
8 23 (11.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (8.65%) AWS Developer
10 16 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (7.69%) Lead Developer
11 15 (7.21%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.73%) Lead Python Developer
12 14 (6.73%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Scala Engineer
14 9 (4.33%) Lead Software Developer
15 8 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (3.85%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (36.06%) React
2 62 (29.81%) .NET
3 41 (19.71%) RESTful
4 34 (16.35%) AngularJS
4 34 (16.35%) Node.js
5 30 (14.42%) .NET Core
6 25 (12.02%) ASP.NET
7 24 (11.54%) Akka
8 23 (11.06%) Spring Boot
9 22 (10.58%) HTML
9 22 (10.58%) Spring
9 22 (10.58%) Vue
10 21 (10.10%) .NET Framework
10 21 (10.10%) ASP.NET MVC
10 21 (10.10%) CSS
11 20 (9.62%) Entity Framework
12 19 (9.13%) REST
13 17 (8.17%) Django
13 17 (8.17%) Kafka
14 16 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.54%) Video\Live Streaming
2 23 (11.06%) Over-the-Top Content
3 15 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.73%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.29%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.37%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.40%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.40%) Digital TV
10 4 (1.92%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.44%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.44%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.96%) Social Media
13 1 (0.48%) IoT
13 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.92%) Android
2 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.44%) Linux
3 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (75.96%) Agile
2 101 (48.56%) CI/CD
3 78 (37.50%) Scrum
4 77 (37.02%) Software Engineering
5 75 (36.06%) Microservices
6 61 (29.33%) DevOps
6 61 (29.33%) Mentoring
7 59 (28.37%) BDD
8 58 (27.88%) Pair Programming
9 56 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 49 (23.56%) Kanban
11 38 (18.27%) Acceptance Criteria
11 38 (18.27%) Test Automation
12 36 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (16.83%) Coaching
14 32 (15.38%) Open Source
15 30 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (13.46%) Analytics
17 26 (12.50%) Containerisation
17 26 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.85%) C#
2 54 (25.96%) Java
3 51 (24.52%) JavaScript
3 51 (24.52%) Python
3 51 (24.52%) TypeScript
4 39 (18.75%) SQL
5 27 (12.98%) Scala
6 8 (3.85%) Delphi
7 5 (2.40%) Go
7 5 (2.40%) PHP
8 4 (1.92%) Ruby
9 2 (0.96%) C
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.96%) R
9 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (8.65%) Degree
2 12 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (20.19%) QA
2 23 (11.06%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.92%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (27.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (25.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.33%) Terraform
3 8 (3.85%) Grafana
4 6 (2.88%) Ansible
5 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.29%) Oracle
3 4 (1.92%) Google
4 2 (0.96%) SendGrid
4 2 (0.96%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe
5 1 (0.48%) Databricks
5 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.48%) Pega
5 1 (0.48%) UiPath
5 1 (0.48%) Veracode
5 1 (0.48%) WSO2