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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 111 73
Rank change year-on-year -83 -38 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 247 482 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 3.24% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 3.42% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 158 263 1,167
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £136,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 15,830 14,077 30,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.08% 94.70% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,320 8,261 23,558
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 5 June 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 (1.62%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.21%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.21%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.81%) Confluence
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) JBoss
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (59.51%) AWS
2 97 (39.27%) Azure
3 40 (16.19%) Serverless
4 26 (10.53%) GCP
5 23 (9.31%) GitHub
6 18 (7.29%) GitHub Copilot
7 15 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.24%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.83%) SaaS
10 7 (2.83%) Sentry
11 6 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.43%) Azure AI
11 6 (2.43%) PaaS
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (2.02%) ChatGPT
12 5 (2.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.31%) Broadband
2 19 (7.69%) HTTP
3 7 (2.83%) Bluetooth
3 7 (2.83%) Modbus
3 7 (2.83%) Profibus
3 7 (2.83%) RS-232
3 7 (2.83%) RS-485
3 7 (2.83%) Wireless
3 7 (2.83%) ZigBee
4 5 (2.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 45 (18.22%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (14.57%) NoSQL
4 28 (11.34%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (10.53%) MySQL
6 24 (9.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (5.67%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.64%) Redis
9 4 (1.62%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.62%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.21%) Flink
11 1 (0.40%) Big Data
11 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.40%) Db2
11 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.40%) Parquet
11 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.77%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.96%) Git
3 22 (8.91%) TeamCity
4 16 (6.48%) JUnit
5 9 (3.64%) Maven
5 9 (3.64%) Mockito
6 7 (2.83%) Selenium
7 6 (2.43%) GitLab
7 6 (2.43%) JIRA
8 5 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.62%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.62%) Postman
9 4 (1.62%) Storybook
10 2 (0.81%) Gatling
10 2 (0.81%) MSTest
10 2 (0.81%) NUnit
10 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.81%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.81%) Vite
11 1 (0.40%) XCUITest
General
1 57 (23.08%) Finance
2 37 (14.98%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.53%) Banking
5 10 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.24%) Retail
7 8 (3.24%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.83%) Advertising
8 7 (2.83%) Electronics
8 7 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.62%) Back Office
9 4 (1.62%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.62%) Publishing
10 3 (1.21%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.81%) Games
11 2 (0.81%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 96 (38.87%) Developer
2 93 (37.65%) Software Engineer
3 88 (35.63%) Senior
4 53 (21.46%) Lead
5 34 (13.77%) Lead Software Engineer
5 34 (13.77%) Senior Developer
6 29 (11.74%) Java Developer
6 29 (11.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (10.93%) .NET Developer
8 24 (9.72%) Development Engineer
8 24 (9.72%) Software Development Engineer
9 21 (8.50%) Software Developer
10 19 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (7.29%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (6.48%) Java Engineer
13 15 (6.07%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
15 12 (4.86%) Scala Engineer
16 11 (4.45%) Python Engineer
17 10 (4.05%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.27%) .NET
1 55 (22.27%) React
2 44 (17.81%) Node.js
2 44 (17.81%) RESTful
3 43 (17.41%) REST
4 41 (16.60%) Spring
5 31 (12.55%) .NET Core
5 31 (12.55%) AngularJS
6 28 (11.34%) Spring Boot
7 25 (10.12%) ASP.NET
8 23 (9.31%) Akka
8 23 (9.31%) Vue
9 22 (8.91%) ASP.NET Core
10 14 (5.67%) CSS
10 14 (5.67%) Django
10 14 (5.67%) HTML
11 13 (5.26%) Playwright
12 12 (4.86%) Kafka
13 10 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.36%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.34%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (8.91%) Over-the-Top Content
5 19 (7.69%) Public Cloud
6 14 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.83%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.02%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.62%) IoT
10 4 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.21%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.81%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.26%) Linux
2 7 (2.83%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.02%) Android
3 5 (2.02%) Unix
4 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (69.64%) Agile
2 116 (46.96%) Software Engineering
3 105 (42.51%) CI/CD
4 93 (37.65%) Microservices
5 86 (34.82%) Scrum
6 82 (33.20%) Mentoring
7 81 (32.79%) BDD
8 74 (29.96%) DevOps
9 65 (26.32%) Test Automation
10 62 (25.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (22.67%) Open Source
12 54 (21.86%) Pair Programming
13 50 (20.24%) Kanban
14 49 (19.84%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (18.22%) Coaching
16 40 (16.19%) Containerisation
17 37 (14.98%) AI
17 37 (14.98%) Clean Code
17 37 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 33 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 109 (44.13%) Java
2 77 (31.17%) SQL
3 54 (21.86%) JavaScript
4 49 (19.84%) C#
5 46 (18.62%) Python
6 43 (17.41%) TypeScript
7 25 (10.12%) Scala
8 10 (4.05%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.83%) Bash
9 7 (2.83%) C
9 7 (2.83%) C++
9 7 (2.83%) PHP
10 5 (2.02%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.02%) Ruby
11 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.81%) Go
12 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (11.74%) SC Cleared
1 29 (11.74%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.88%) Degree
3 8 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.72%) QA
2 12 (4.86%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.62%) WCAG
4 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.21%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 100 (40.49%) Docker
2 10 (4.05%) Firmware
3 7 (2.83%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (36.44%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.74%) Terraform
3 8 (3.24%) Ansible
4 5 (2.02%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.02%) Packer
5 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.26%) Oracle
3 8 (3.24%) Google
4 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.81%) Facebook
5 2 (0.81%) IBM
5 2 (0.81%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.40%) Conga
6 1 (0.40%) Databricks
6 1 (0.40%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.40%) Veracode