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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 100 73
Rank change year-on-year -96 -27 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 209 403 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 3.15% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 3.32% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 142 359 1,147
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,790 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
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 14,015 12,148 28,480
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.70% 94.82% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,753 8,786 23,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,754
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 April 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 (1.44%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.96%) CMS
2 2 (0.96%) Confluence
2 2 (0.96%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (54.55%) AWS
2 72 (34.45%) Azure
3 40 (19.14%) Serverless
4 32 (15.31%) GCP
5 21 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.09%) GitHub
7 18 (8.61%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.18%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.31%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.83%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.35%) SaaS
13 7 (3.35%) Sentry
14 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.39%) ChatGPT
14 5 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.44%) Broadband
2 5 (2.39%) HTTP
2 5 (2.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.48%) Modbus
3 1 (0.48%) Multicast
3 1 (0.48%) Profibus
3 1 (0.48%) RS-232
3 1 (0.48%) RS-485
3 1 (0.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.48%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.62%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (16.75%) MongoDB
3 26 (12.44%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.13%) MySQL
6 12 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.87%) Redis
8 6 (2.87%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.48%) Big Data
11 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.48%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Parquet
11 1 (0.48%) Power BI
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (17.22%) Jenkins
2 34 (16.27%) Git
3 23 (11.00%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.26%) GitLab
4 11 (5.26%) Selenium
5 10 (4.78%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.78%) JUnit
6 6 (2.87%) JIRA
7 5 (2.39%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.39%) Storybook
8 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.96%) Vite
9 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Appium
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) Protractor
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) webpack
9 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 57 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.79%) Finance
3 24 (11.48%) Tech for Good
4 18 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.66%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.70%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.70%) Publishing
8 13 (6.22%) Banking
9 10 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.87%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.39%) Retail
12 4 (1.91%) Back Office
13 3 (1.44%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.44%) Games
13 3 (1.44%) Law
14 2 (0.96%) Advertising
15 1 (0.48%) Automotive
15 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 91 (43.54%) Developer
2 83 (39.71%) Senior
3 69 (33.01%) Software Engineer
4 33 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 31 (14.83%) Lead
6 28 (13.40%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.96%) Software Developer
8 18 (8.61%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.13%) Java Developer
9 17 (8.13%) Lead Developer
9 17 (8.13%) React Developer
10 16 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (7.66%) Java Engineer
11 15 (7.18%) .NET Developer
11 15 (7.18%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.70%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.70%) Lead Python Developer
12 14 (6.70%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (5.74%) Scala Engineer
14 10 (4.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.49%) .NET
1 47 (22.49%) React
2 40 (19.14%) RESTful
3 29 (13.88%) Spring
4 28 (13.40%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.44%) AngularJS
5 26 (12.44%) Node.js
6 25 (11.96%) Akka
7 24 (11.48%) Django
8 20 (9.57%) REST
9 19 (9.09%) .NET Core
10 18 (8.61%) Vue
11 16 (7.66%) ASP.NET
12 14 (6.70%) CSS
12 14 (6.70%) Flask
12 14 (6.70%) HTML
13 11 (5.26%) .NET Framework
13 11 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (4.78%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (4.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.35%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.48%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 16 (7.66%) Product Ownership
5 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.35%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.87%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.39%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.91%) IoT
10 4 (1.91%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.96%) Digital TV
12 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Linux
2 6 (2.87%) Android
2 6 (2.87%) Unix
3 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (70.33%) Agile
2 105 (50.24%) Software Engineering
3 100 (47.85%) CI/CD
4 79 (37.80%) Mentoring
5 74 (35.41%) DevOps
6 73 (34.93%) Microservices
7 68 (32.54%) Scrum
8 59 (28.23%) Test Automation
9 56 (26.79%) BDD
10 53 (25.36%) Pair Programming
11 49 (23.44%) Coaching
12 47 (22.49%) Open Source
13 45 (21.53%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (19.62%) Acceptance Criteria
15 40 (19.14%) Kanban
16 38 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (17.22%) Containerisation
18 35 (16.75%) Continuous Integration
19 29 (13.88%) Code Quality
20 28 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 72 (34.45%) Java
2 56 (26.79%) Python
3 43 (20.57%) SQL
4 39 (18.66%) JavaScript
5 38 (18.18%) C#
6 32 (15.31%) TypeScript
7 25 (11.96%) Scala
8 8 (3.83%) Delphi
9 6 (2.87%) PHP
10 5 (2.39%) Ruby
11 4 (1.91%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.44%) C
13 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.48%) Bash
14 1 (0.48%) C++
14 1 (0.48%) Go
14 1 (0.48%) R
14 1 (0.48%) RPG
14 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (9.09%) Degree
2 13 (6.22%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.75%) QA
2 15 (7.18%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (36.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.91%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.09%) Terraform
3 8 (3.83%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.91%) Ansible
6 2 (0.96%) Packer
6 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.26%) Oracle
3 8 (3.83%) Google
4 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.96%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.96%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.48%) IBM
6 1 (0.48%) Pega
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode
6 1 (0.48%) WSO2