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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 112 72
Rank change year-on-year -77 -40 -1
Permanent jobs citing TDD 248 478 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 3.20% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 3.38% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 161 259 1,173
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,250 £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 £81,250 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £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 15,882 14,159 29,959
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.77% 89.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,378 8,323 23,497
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,250 £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 31 May 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 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.21%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.21%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) JBoss
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (59.27%) AWS
2 99 (39.92%) Azure
3 42 (16.94%) Serverless
4 26 (10.48%) GCP
5 23 (9.27%) GitHub
6 18 (7.26%) GitHub Copilot
7 17 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.82%) SaaS
12 7 (2.82%) Sentry
13 6 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.42%) Azure AI
13 6 (2.42%) PaaS
14 5 (2.02%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.02%) ChatGPT
14 5 (2.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.27%) Broadband
2 17 (6.85%) HTTP
3 6 (2.42%) Bluetooth
3 6 (2.42%) Modbus
3 6 (2.42%) Profibus
3 6 (2.42%) RS-232
3 6 (2.42%) RS-485
3 6 (2.42%) Wireless
3 6 (2.42%) ZigBee
4 5 (2.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (22.98%) MongoDB
2 45 (18.15%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (14.52%) NoSQL
4 28 (11.29%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (10.48%) MySQL
6 24 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (6.05%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.63%) Redis
9 4 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.61%) 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 (13.71%) Jenkins
2 33 (13.31%) Git
3 22 (8.87%) TeamCity
4 16 (6.45%) JUnit
5 9 (3.63%) Maven
5 9 (3.63%) Mockito
6 7 (2.82%) GitLab
6 7 (2.82%) JIRA
6 7 (2.82%) Selenium
7 5 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.02%) Storybook
8 4 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.61%) Postman
9 2 (0.81%) Gatling
9 2 (0.81%) MSTest
9 2 (0.81%) NUnit
9 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.81%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.81%) Vite
10 1 (0.40%) XCUITest
General
1 56 (22.58%) Finance
2 39 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.11%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.68%) Banking
5 10 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.03%) Tech for Good
6 9 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.23%) Retail
8 7 (2.82%) Advertising
9 6 (2.42%) Electronics
9 6 (2.42%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.42%) Publishing
10 4 (1.61%) Back Office
11 3 (1.21%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Games
12 2 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 100 (40.32%) Developer
2 90 (36.29%) Software Engineer
3 88 (35.48%) Senior
4 53 (21.37%) Lead
5 35 (14.11%) Senior Developer
6 32 (12.90%) Lead Software Engineer
7 29 (11.69%) Java Developer
8 28 (11.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (10.89%) .NET Developer
10 22 (8.87%) Development Engineer
10 22 (8.87%) Software Developer
10 22 (8.87%) Software Development Engineer
11 19 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (7.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (6.45%) Java Engineer
14 15 (6.05%) Senior Software Developer
15 13 (5.24%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (4.84%) Lead Developer
16 12 (4.84%) Scala Engineer
17 11 (4.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.58%) React
2 55 (22.18%) .NET
3 47 (18.95%) RESTful
4 44 (17.74%) Node.js
5 41 (16.53%) REST
5 41 (16.53%) Spring
6 31 (12.50%) .NET Core
6 31 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 28 (11.29%) Spring Boot
8 25 (10.08%) ASP.NET
9 23 (9.27%) Akka
9 23 (9.27%) Vue
10 22 (8.87%) ASP.NET Core
11 16 (6.45%) HTML
12 15 (6.05%) CSS
13 14 (5.65%) Django
14 13 (5.24%) Playwright
15 12 (4.84%) Kafka
16 10 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
17 9 (3.63%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.31%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.48%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.27%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (8.87%) Over-the-Top Content
5 17 (6.85%) Public Cloud
6 14 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.42%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.02%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.61%) IoT
10 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.61%) 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 (5.24%) Linux
2 6 (2.42%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.02%) Android
3 5 (2.02%) Unix
4 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (70.56%) Agile
2 113 (45.56%) Software Engineering
3 108 (43.55%) CI/CD
4 93 (37.50%) Microservices
5 89 (35.89%) Scrum
6 84 (33.87%) Mentoring
7 79 (31.85%) BDD
8 76 (30.65%) DevOps
9 66 (26.61%) Test Automation
10 62 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (22.58%) Open Source
12 54 (21.77%) Pair Programming
13 50 (20.16%) Kanban
14 48 (19.35%) Coaching
15 47 (18.95%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (16.13%) Containerisation
17 37 (14.92%) AI
17 37 (14.92%) Clean Code
17 37 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 107 (43.15%) Java
2 77 (31.05%) SQL
3 55 (22.18%) JavaScript
4 49 (19.76%) C#
5 48 (19.35%) Python
6 44 (17.74%) TypeScript
7 25 (10.08%) Scala
8 10 (4.03%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.82%) Bash
9 7 (2.82%) PHP
10 6 (2.42%) C
10 6 (2.42%) C++
11 5 (2.02%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.02%) Ruby
12 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.81%) Go
13 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.40%) Perl
14 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (11.69%) SC Cleared
1 29 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.85%) Degree
3 8 (3.23%) 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 26 (10.48%) QA
2 12 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.61%) WCAG
4 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.21%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 100 (40.32%) Docker
2 9 (3.63%) Firmware
3 6 (2.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (36.29%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.69%) Terraform
3 8 (3.23%) 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 36 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.65%) Oracle
3 8 (3.23%) 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%) Adobe
6 1 (0.40%) Conga
6 1 (0.40%) Databricks
6 1 (0.40%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.40%) Veracode