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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 117 82
Rank change year-on-year -6 -35 -35
Permanent jobs citing TDD 409 650 907
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.51% 2.77% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 3.16% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 195 467 801
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,630 £43,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.36% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

All Process and 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 15,202 20,599 23,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.21% 87.83% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8,626 12,626 19,362
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,751 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

TDD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

TDD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

TDD
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing TDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing TDD

TDD
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing TDD over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

TDD salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TDD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 158 (38.63%) Confluence
2 13 (3.18%) IIS
2 13 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.20%) CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.49%) Drupal
4 2 (0.49%) Luigi
4 2 (0.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.49%) Elementor
1 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 295 (72.13%) AWS
2 244 (59.66%) Azure
3 204 (49.88%) GCP
4 44 (10.76%) Serverless
5 37 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (7.09%) SaaS
7 20 (4.89%) GitHub
8 12 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.20%) Apigee
9 9 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (1.47%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (0.98%) Figma
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (0.73%) CloudFront
12 3 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.73%) npm
12 3 (0.73%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.49%) IaaS
13 2 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Broadband
2 2 (0.49%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) RFID
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (43.52%) SQL Server
2 48 (11.74%) Elasticsearch
3 36 (8.80%) MongoDB
4 28 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (6.85%) DynamoDB
5 25 (6.11%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.42%) MySQL
8 13 (3.18%) Data Hub
8 13 (3.18%) SQL CLR
9 9 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.71%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.49%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.24%) Redis
12 1 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 169 (41.32%) Maven
1 169 (41.32%) SonarQube
2 167 (40.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 165 (40.34%) JIRA
4 164 (40.10%) Selenium
5 162 (39.61%) GitLab
6 158 (38.63%) Cucumber
7 157 (38.39%) Bitbucket
8 39 (9.54%) Git
9 20 (4.89%) Jenkins
10 13 (3.18%) JUnit
11 5 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.98%) PHPUnit
13 3 (0.73%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.73%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
13 3 (0.73%) Mockito
13 3 (0.73%) Subversion
14 2 (0.49%) Postman
14 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
General
1 223 (54.52%) Finance
2 172 (42.05%) Banking
3 161 (39.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (10.27%) Tech for Good
5 41 (10.02%) Social Skills
6 29 (7.09%) Health Technology
6 29 (7.09%) Publishing
7 23 (5.62%) Front Office
8 13 (3.18%) Back Office
9 12 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.47%) Retail
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.49%) Law
13 2 (0.49%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (54.28%) Software Engineer
2 142 (34.72%) Developer
3 83 (20.29%) Senior
4 48 (11.74%) Senior Developer
5 42 (10.27%) .NET Developer
6 25 (6.11%) Python Developer
7 24 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (5.62%) Software Developer
9 21 (5.13%) Senior Python Developer
10 20 (4.89%) Lead
11 19 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (4.65%) Senior Software Developer
12 17 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (3.91%) C# Developer
14 14 (3.42%) Java Developer
15 13 (3.18%) Head of Development
16 12 (2.93%) C# Developer - Commodities
16 12 (2.93%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 12 (2.93%) Java Engineer
17 11 (2.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (66.99%) React
2 195 (47.68%) Spring
3 188 (45.97%) HTML
4 187 (45.72%) Spring Boot
5 186 (45.48%) CSS
6 173 (42.30%) Redux
7 172 (42.05%) Kafka
8 167 (40.83%) Hibernate
9 160 (39.12%) JPA
10 84 (20.54%) .NET
11 58 (14.18%) .NET Core
12 54 (13.20%) RESTful
13 53 (12.96%) AngularJS
14 42 (10.27%) Entity Framework
15 40 (9.78%) Node.js
16 39 (9.54%) .NET Framework
17 37 (9.05%) Vue
18 36 (8.80%) ASP.NET
19 29 (7.09%) ASP.NET MVC
19 29 (7.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 171 (41.81%) Product Ownership
2 157 (38.39%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (4.89%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.18%) Private Cloud
4 13 (3.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 12 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.69%) Hedge funds
7 10 (2.44%) Equities
7 10 (2.44%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.71%) Digital TV
8 7 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.98%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.49%) IoT
11 2 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.38%) Windows
2 15 (3.67%) Linux
2 15 (3.67%) Unix
3 13 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.22%) Android
4 5 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (78.73%) Agile
2 267 (65.28%) Software Engineering
3 263 (64.30%) Microservices
4 251 (61.37%) CI/CD
5 238 (58.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 224 (54.77%) DevOps
7 195 (47.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 195 (47.68%) Test Automation
8 184 (44.99%) Clean Code
9 176 (43.03%) Containerisation
10 175 (42.79%) SDLC
11 171 (41.81%) Front End Development
12 160 (39.12%) Performance Optimisation
13 65 (15.89%) Scrum
14 59 (14.43%) BDD
15 47 (11.49%) Continuous Delivery
16 45 (11.00%) Pair Programming
17 40 (9.78%) Fintech
18 34 (8.31%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (8.07%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 243 (59.41%) JavaScript
2 240 (58.68%) SQL
3 218 (53.30%) Java
4 98 (23.96%) TypeScript
5 95 (23.23%) C#
6 78 (19.07%) Python
7 12 (2.93%) Go
7 12 (2.93%) PHP
8 9 (2.20%) Ruby
9 6 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.22%) Swift
11 4 (0.98%) Scala
12 2 (0.49%) Bash
12 2 (0.49%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) R
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (3.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (2.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.20%) Degree
4 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.73%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.73%) Postgraduate
5 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.49%) PhD
6 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.24%) ISEB
6 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (48.17%) QA
2 14 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.73%) WCAG
4 1 (0.24%) GRC
4 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 209 (51.10%) Docker
2 14 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) KVM
3 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 199 (48.66%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.11%) Terraform
3 9 (2.20%) Istio
4 4 (0.98%) Ansible
4 4 (0.98%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.73%) Grafana
5 3 (0.73%) Puppet
6 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 157 (38.39%) Solace
2 48 (11.74%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.42%) VMware
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle
5 2 (0.49%) Google
5 2 (0.49%) Netlify
5 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.49%) Splunk
6 1 (0.24%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.24%) Databricks
6 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.24%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.24%) Revolut
6 1 (0.24%) SAP
6 1 (0.24%) Trayport
6 1 (0.24%) UiPath
6 1 (0.24%) Xamarin