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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 115 86
Rank change year-on-year -71 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 293 469 994
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 2.84% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 3.05% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 223 248 879
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,688 £50,000
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 £89,750 £131,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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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 16 July 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 (1.37%) CMS
2 3 (1.02%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.02%) DNN
2 3 (1.02%) EPiServer
2 3 (1.02%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (1.02%) Kentico
2 3 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.02%) Sitefinity
2 3 (1.02%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 192 (65.53%) AWS
2 156 (53.24%) Azure
3 60 (20.48%) GitHub
4 52 (17.75%) GitHub Copilot
5 37 (12.63%) Serverless
6 25 (8.53%) GCP
7 17 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.78%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.07%) PaaS
11 8 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.73%) ChatGPT
12 6 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.05%) SaaS
13 5 (1.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.17%) HTTP
2 9 (3.07%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.07%) Modbus
2 9 (3.07%) Profibus
2 9 (3.07%) RS-232
2 9 (3.07%) RS-485
2 9 (3.07%) Wireless
2 9 (3.07%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.68%) Broadband
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (38.23%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (23.21%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (17.41%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (13.31%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.58%) MySQL
7 16 (5.46%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.75%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.07%) Redis
11 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.02%) Flink
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.34%) Db2
13 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.34%) Metadata
13 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (11.95%) Git
2 16 (5.46%) JUnit
3 12 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.07%) Maven
4 9 (3.07%) Mockito
5 6 (2.05%) GitLab
5 6 (2.05%) JIRA
6 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.71%) Selenium
7 4 (1.37%) NUnit
7 4 (1.37%) Postman
8 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.68%) Gatling
9 2 (0.68%) MSTest
9 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.68%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.34%) Appium
10 1 (0.34%) git-flow
10 1 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
General
1 71 (24.23%) Finance
2 47 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.87%) Banking
5 15 (5.12%) Advertising
6 11 (3.75%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.41%) Retail
8 9 (3.07%) Electronics
8 9 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.73%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 4 (1.37%) Publishing
12 3 (1.02%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.02%) Marketing
13 2 (0.68%) Back Office
14 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 139 (47.44%) Developer
2 95 (32.42%) Software Engineer
3 77 (26.28%) .NET Developer
4 76 (25.94%) Senior
5 62 (21.16%) Lead
6 42 (14.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 32 (10.92%) Senior Developer
8 29 (9.90%) Java Developer
9 26 (8.87%) Development Engineer
9 26 (8.87%) Software Development Engineer
10 24 (8.19%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (6.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (6.14%) Senior Java Developer
12 17 (5.80%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.12%) Java Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.75%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
16 10 (3.41%) Java Software Developer
16 10 (3.41%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (35.49%) .NET
2 88 (30.03%) Node.js
3 78 (26.62%) .NET Core
4 73 (24.91%) ASP.NET
5 71 (24.23%) ASP.NET Core
6 70 (23.89%) React
7 61 (20.82%) AngularJS
8 59 (20.14%) Vue
9 47 (16.04%) RESTful
10 43 (14.68%) REST
11 42 (14.33%) Spring
12 30 (10.24%) .NET Framework
13 29 (9.90%) ASP.NET Web API
13 29 (9.90%) Spring Boot
14 20 (6.83%) CSS
14 20 (6.83%) HTML
15 16 (5.46%) WinForms
16 15 (5.12%) Blazor
17 14 (4.78%) Django
17 14 (4.78%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.22%) Product Ownership
3 24 (8.19%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.83%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.07%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.71%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.37%) IoT
9 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.02%) Hackathon
10 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.12%) Linux
2 9 (3.07%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.71%) Android
3 5 (1.71%) Unix
4 3 (1.02%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (72.70%) Agile
2 139 (47.44%) Microservices
3 131 (44.71%) BDD
4 126 (43.00%) Software Engineering
5 116 (39.59%) CI/CD
6 110 (37.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 108 (36.86%) Scrum
8 89 (30.38%) Mentoring
9 78 (26.62%) DevOps
10 72 (24.57%) Test Automation
11 70 (23.89%) Kanban
12 60 (20.48%) AI
13 58 (19.80%) Technical Leadership
14 55 (18.77%) Coaching
15 46 (15.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 43 (14.68%) Clean Code
17 42 (14.33%) OO
18 41 (13.99%) Containerisation
19 39 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
20 38 (12.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.37%) SQL
2 124 (42.32%) Java
3 104 (35.49%) C#
4 80 (27.30%) TypeScript
5 75 (25.60%) JavaScript
6 58 (19.80%) Python
7 12 (4.10%) C++
8 10 (3.41%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.07%) C
10 8 (2.73%) Ruby
11 7 (2.39%) Bash
11 7 (2.39%) PHP
12 5 (1.71%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.37%) Go
13 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.37%) Scala
14 3 (1.02%) Groovy
14 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.34%) RPG
Qualifications
1 34 (11.60%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.14%) Degree
4 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.85%) QA
2 10 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.02%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (36.86%) Docker
2 12 (4.10%) Firmware
3 9 (3.07%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 101 (34.47%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.24%) Terraform
3 6 (2.05%) Ansible
4 5 (1.71%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.71%) Packer
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 87 (29.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.80%) Oracle
3 6 (2.05%) Google
4 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.02%) Alterian
5 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.02%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.02%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.68%) Facebook
6 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.34%) Conga
7 1 (0.34%) Databricks
7 1 (0.34%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.34%) Veracode