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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 117 82
Rank change year-on-year -70 -35 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 305 474 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 2.92% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 3.11% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 226 253 995
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £48,750
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 £89,375 £135,000 £85,750
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 17,480 15,224 29,144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 93.65% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,756 9,023 22,315
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 8 July 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 (1.31%) CMS
2 3 (0.98%) Apache Solr
2 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.98%) DNN
2 3 (0.98%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.98%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.98%) Kentico
2 3 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.98%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.98%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 196 (64.26%) AWS
2 157 (51.48%) Azure
3 58 (19.02%) GitHub
4 51 (16.72%) GitHub Copilot
5 38 (12.46%) Serverless
6 26 (8.52%) GCP
7 17 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.59%) Azure AI
9 12 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.95%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.95%) PaaS
12 8 (2.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.30%) ChatGPT
14 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.97%) SaaS
15 5 (1.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.56%) HTTP
2 12 (3.93%) Broadband
3 9 (2.95%) Bluetooth
3 9 (2.95%) Modbus
3 9 (2.95%) Profibus
3 9 (2.95%) RS-232
3 9 (2.95%) RS-485
3 9 (2.95%) Wireless
3 9 (2.95%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (36.72%) MongoDB
2 72 (23.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.30%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (16.72%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (12.46%) NoSQL
6 32 (10.49%) MySQL
7 16 (5.25%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.28%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.95%) Redis
10 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.98%) Flink
12 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.33%) Db2
12 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.33%) Metadata
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (10.82%) Git
2 22 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.25%) JUnit
4 11 (3.61%) TeamCity
5 9 (2.95%) Maven
5 9 (2.95%) Mockito
6 6 (1.97%) GitLab
6 6 (1.97%) JIRA
7 5 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.64%) Selenium
8 4 (1.31%) NUnit
8 4 (1.31%) Postman
9 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.66%) Gatling
10 2 (0.66%) MSTest
10 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.66%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.33%) Appium
11 1 (0.33%) git-flow
11 1 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 69 (22.62%) Finance
2 46 (15.08%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.20%) Banking
5 15 (4.92%) Advertising
6 11 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.95%) Electronics
7 9 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.95%) Retail
8 8 (2.62%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.31%) Legal
10 4 (1.31%) Publishing
11 3 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.98%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 140 (45.90%) Developer
2 102 (33.44%) Software Engineer
3 86 (28.20%) Senior
4 76 (24.92%) .NET Developer
5 61 (20.00%) Lead
6 41 (13.44%) Lead Software Engineer
7 34 (11.15%) Senior Developer
8 30 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (9.51%) Java Developer
10 25 (8.20%) Development Engineer
10 25 (8.20%) Software Development Engineer
11 19 (6.23%) Software Developer
12 18 (5.90%) Senior Java Developer
13 17 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (5.25%) Java Engineer
15 13 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (4.26%) Senior Software Developer
16 12 (3.93%) Python Engineer
17 10 (3.28%) Java Software Developer
17 10 (3.28%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (34.75%) .NET
2 87 (28.52%) Node.js
3 79 (25.90%) .NET Core
4 73 (23.93%) ASP.NET
5 72 (23.61%) React
6 71 (23.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 63 (20.66%) AngularJS
8 59 (19.34%) Vue
9 46 (15.08%) RESTful
10 43 (14.10%) Spring
11 42 (13.77%) REST
12 30 (9.84%) .NET Framework
13 29 (9.51%) ASP.NET Web API
13 29 (9.51%) Spring Boot
14 20 (6.56%) CSS
14 20 (6.56%) HTML
15 15 (4.92%) Django
15 15 (4.92%) WinForms
16 14 (4.59%) Blazor
16 14 (4.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.52%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.54%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.93%) Video\Live Streaming
7 11 (3.61%) Over-the-Top Content
8 9 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.64%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.31%) IoT
11 4 (1.31%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.98%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.98%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.92%) Linux
2 9 (2.95%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.64%) Unix
4 4 (1.31%) Android
5 3 (0.98%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (74.10%) Agile
2 144 (47.21%) Microservices
3 132 (43.28%) Software Engineering
4 131 (42.95%) BDD
5 118 (38.69%) CI/CD
6 117 (38.36%) Scrum
7 112 (36.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (30.16%) Mentoring
9 80 (26.23%) DevOps
9 80 (26.23%) Kanban
10 70 (22.95%) Test Automation
11 58 (19.02%) AI
12 57 (18.69%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (18.03%) Coaching
14 47 (15.41%) Infrastructure as Code
15 45 (14.75%) Open Source
16 44 (14.43%) Containerisation
16 44 (14.43%) Pair Programming
17 42 (13.77%) Clean Code
18 40 (13.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 129 (42.30%) SQL
2 124 (40.66%) Java
3 106 (34.75%) C#
4 79 (25.90%) TypeScript
5 75 (24.59%) JavaScript
6 58 (19.02%) Python
7 14 (4.59%) Scala
8 12 (3.93%) C++
9 10 (3.28%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.95%) C
11 8 (2.62%) Ruby
12 7 (2.30%) Bash
12 7 (2.30%) PHP
13 5 (1.64%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.64%) Go
14 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.66%) Groovy
15 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.33%) RPG
Qualifications
1 33 (10.82%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.90%) Degree
4 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.54%) QA
2 10 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.98%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 121 (39.67%) Docker
2 12 (3.93%) Firmware
3 9 (2.95%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 113 (37.05%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.16%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Ansible
4 5 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.64%) Packer
5 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 86 (28.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.57%) Oracle
3 6 (1.97%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.98%) Alterian
5 3 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.98%) Optimizely
5 3 (0.98%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.66%) Facebook
6 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.33%) Veracode