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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 106 71
Rank change year-on-year -100 -35 -8
Permanent jobs citing TDD 198 462 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 3.29% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 3.45% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 140 379 1,121
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,795 £86,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,375 £102,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% +8.00% -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 14,111 13,408 27,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.24% 95.41% 92.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,199 8,890 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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 9 March 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 3 (1.52%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (2.02%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (51.52%) AWS
2 68 (34.34%) Azure
3 36 (18.18%) Serverless
4 31 (15.66%) GCP
5 19 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (8.59%) Amazon S3
6 17 (8.59%) GitHub
7 14 (7.07%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.05%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.04%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.04%) SaaS
12 7 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.54%) Sentry
13 5 (2.53%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.53%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.13%) Broadband
2 6 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
3 1 (0.51%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.20%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (15.15%) MongoDB
3 23 (11.62%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.59%) MySQL
4 17 (8.59%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.54%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.53%) Redis
9 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.51%) Big Data
11 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.51%) Metadata
11 1 (0.51%) Parquet
11 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.15%) Git
3 23 (11.62%) TeamCity
4 13 (6.57%) Selenium
5 11 (5.56%) GitLab
6 10 (5.05%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.55%) JUnit
8 5 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.53%) JIRA
8 5 (2.53%) Storybook
9 4 (2.02%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.01%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.01%) Vite
11 1 (0.51%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.51%) Appium
11 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.51%) Mocha
11 1 (0.51%) Postman
11 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 58 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.63%) Tech for Good
3 19 (9.60%) Influencing Skills
4 18 (9.09%) Finance
4 18 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.08%) Health Technology
6 14 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (7.07%) Publishing
7 8 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.03%) Banking
8 6 (3.03%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.53%) Retail
10 4 (2.02%) Back Office
11 3 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.52%) Games
11 3 (1.52%) Law
11 3 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.51%) Advertising
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 82 (41.41%) Developer
2 72 (36.36%) Senior
3 58 (29.29%) Software Engineer
4 28 (14.14%) Lead
5 27 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 25 (12.63%) Software Developer
7 21 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (8.59%) Lead Developer
8 17 (8.59%) Python Developer
9 16 (8.08%) Java Engineer
9 16 (8.08%) React Developer
10 15 (7.58%) AWS Developer
11 14 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (7.07%) Java Developer
11 14 (7.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (7.07%) Lead Python Developer
12 12 (6.06%) .NET Developer
12 12 (6.06%) Scala Engineer
12 12 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (24.24%) React
2 45 (22.73%) .NET
3 41 (20.71%) RESTful
4 28 (14.14%) Spring Boot
5 26 (13.13%) Spring
6 25 (12.63%) Akka
7 23 (11.62%) Django
8 21 (10.61%) AngularJS
8 21 (10.61%) Node.js
9 17 (8.59%) CSS
9 17 (8.59%) HTML
10 16 (8.08%) .NET Core
10 16 (8.08%) REST
11 14 (7.07%) ASP.NET
11 14 (7.07%) Vue
12 13 (6.57%) Flask
12 13 (6.57%) Kafka
13 12 (6.06%) .NET Framework
14 11 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (5.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.14%) Cloud Native
2 24 (12.12%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.62%) Over-the-Top Content
4 16 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.54%) Mobile App
8 6 (3.03%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.02%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.52%) IoT
12 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.01%) Digital TV
12 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
12 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.51%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.54%) Linux
2 6 (3.03%) Unix
3 4 (2.02%) Android
4 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (72.73%) Agile
2 102 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 95 (47.98%) Software Engineering
4 74 (37.37%) Mentoring
5 71 (35.86%) DevOps
5 71 (35.86%) Microservices
6 65 (32.83%) Scrum
7 51 (25.76%) Test Automation
8 50 (25.25%) BDD
9 49 (24.75%) Coaching
9 49 (24.75%) Pair Programming
10 43 (21.72%) Open Source
11 41 (20.71%) Acceptance Criteria
11 41 (20.71%) Kanban
12 38 (19.19%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (18.18%) Containerisation
13 36 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
15 28 (14.14%) Analytics
16 26 (13.13%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.34%) Java
2 52 (26.26%) Python
3 38 (19.19%) C#
3 38 (19.19%) JavaScript
4 35 (17.68%) SQL
5 32 (16.16%) TypeScript
6 25 (12.63%) Scala
7 8 (4.04%) Delphi
8 7 (3.54%) Ruby
9 6 (3.03%) PHP
10 4 (2.02%) Go
11 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.01%) C
12 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.51%) Bash
13 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.51%) R
13 1 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 17 (8.59%) Degree
2 13 (6.57%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.68%) QA
2 17 (8.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.52%) WCAG
4 2 (1.01%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (35.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.58%) Terraform
3 8 (4.04%) Grafana
4 5 (2.53%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (2.02%) Ansible
6 2 (1.01%) Packer
6 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.56%) Oracle
3 8 (4.04%) Google
4 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.01%) SendGrid
5 2 (1.01%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe
6 1 (0.51%) Databricks
6 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.51%) IBM
6 1 (0.51%) Pega
6 1 (0.51%) Veracode
6 1 (0.51%) WSO2