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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 133 108
Rank change year-on-year -84 -25 -24
Permanent jobs citing TDD 275 391 653
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 2.36% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.52% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 200 176 455
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,938 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.54%
75th Percentile £80,063 £77,813 £76,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £98,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,013 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.70% +7.69% -7.14%

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 20,031 15,502 19,983
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.59% 87.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14,302 8,471 11,957
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,245 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,300 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -2.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,300
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 28 September 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 7 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.82%) Apache
2 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.09%) CMS
3 3 (1.09%) DNN
3 3 (1.09%) EPiServer
3 3 (1.09%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Kentico
3 3 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Sitefinity
3 3 (1.09%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.73%) Camunda
4 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (68.00%) AWS
2 150 (54.55%) Azure
3 59 (21.45%) GitHub
4 48 (17.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 35 (12.73%) Serverless
6 24 (8.73%) GCP
7 18 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.73%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.27%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.27%) Slack
10 8 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.18%) SaaS
13 5 (1.82%) PaaS
14 4 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.45%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.73%) HTTP
2 8 (2.91%) Bluetooth
2 8 (2.91%) Modbus
2 8 (2.91%) Profibus
2 8 (2.91%) RS-232
2 8 (2.91%) RS-485
2 8 (2.91%) Wireless
2 8 (2.91%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (34.91%) MongoDB
2 70 (25.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (22.55%) Elasticsearch
4 35 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (9.45%) NoSQL
6 20 (7.27%) MySQL
7 16 (5.82%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.73%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.09%) Flink
11 3 (1.09%) Redis
12 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (13.09%) Git
2 31 (11.27%) JUnit
3 19 (6.91%) Mockito
4 17 (6.18%) Maven
5 10 (3.64%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.91%) GitLab
6 8 (2.91%) Selenium
7 7 (2.55%) Postman
8 6 (2.18%) Gatling
9 4 (1.45%) NUnit
9 4 (1.45%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.09%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.73%) JIRA
11 2 (0.73%) MSTest
12 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 90 (32.73%) Finance
2 43 (15.64%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.91%) Social Skills
4 30 (10.91%) Banking
5 13 (4.73%) Advertising
5 13 (4.73%) Legal
6 11 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.27%) Retail
8 8 (2.91%) Electronics
8 8 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.18%) Local Government
9 6 (2.18%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Back Office
10 4 (1.45%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Publishing
11 3 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.73%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 133 (48.36%) Developer
2 81 (29.45%) Software Engineer
3 77 (28.00%) Senior
4 74 (26.91%) .NET Developer
5 69 (25.09%) Lead
6 44 (16.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (12.73%) Senior Developer
8 26 (9.45%) Development Engineer
8 26 (9.45%) Java Developer
8 26 (9.45%) Software Development Engineer
9 18 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (5.09%) Senior Java Developer
12 12 (4.36%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 9 (3.27%) Lead Developer
15 8 (2.91%) Embedded Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 8 (2.91%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (36.00%) .NET
2 86 (31.27%) Node.js
3 79 (28.73%) .NET Core
4 74 (26.91%) ASP.NET
5 72 (26.18%) React
6 69 (25.09%) ASP.NET Core
7 59 (21.45%) AngularJS
7 59 (21.45%) REST
8 55 (20.00%) Vue
9 51 (18.55%) Spring
10 35 (12.73%) Terraform
11 32 (11.64%) .NET Framework
11 32 (11.64%) RESTful
12 30 (10.91%) Spring Boot
13 29 (10.55%) ASP.NET Web API
13 29 (10.55%) CSS
14 26 (9.45%) HTML
15 19 (6.91%) Kafka
16 17 (6.18%) Entity Framework
17 16 (5.82%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.55%) Public Cloud
2 28 (10.18%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.91%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.82%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.09%) Blog
7 8 (2.91%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (2.55%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.82%) NHS
9 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.45%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.09%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.09%) Tandem
12 2 (0.73%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.09%) Linux
2 8 (2.91%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (2.55%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (72.36%) Agile
2 137 (49.82%) Microservices
3 120 (43.64%) BDD
4 114 (41.45%) CI/CD
4 114 (41.45%) Scrum
5 108 (39.27%) Software Engineering
6 104 (37.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 87 (31.64%) Mentoring
8 75 (27.27%) Kanban
9 72 (26.18%) Technical Leadership
10 65 (23.64%) DevOps
11 55 (20.00%) AI
12 51 (18.55%) Coaching
12 51 (18.55%) Test Automation
13 48 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (17.45%) Pair Programming
14 47 (17.09%) OO
15 46 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 36 (13.09%) Roadmaps
16 36 (13.09%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 117 (42.55%) Java
2 116 (42.18%) SQL
3 102 (37.09%) C#
4 84 (30.55%) JavaScript
5 83 (30.18%) TypeScript
6 49 (17.82%) Python
7 15 (5.45%) PL/SQL
8 14 (5.09%) Bash
9 11 (4.00%) C++
10 8 (2.91%) C
10 8 (2.91%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.91%) Ruby
11 4 (1.45%) Go
11 4 (1.45%) Groovy
11 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.09%) PHP
12 3 (1.09%) Scala
13 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.27%) Degree
4 5 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.91%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.73%) QA
2 13 (4.73%) WCAG
3 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.09%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 104 (37.82%) Docker
2 8 (2.91%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (2.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (37.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Packer
3 6 (2.18%) Ansible
4 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 81 (29.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.73%) Oracle
3 4 (1.45%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.09%) Alterian
4 3 (1.09%) Databricks
4 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.09%) Optimizely
5 2 (0.73%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.73%) Facebook
5 2 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Conga
6 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.36%) Google
6 1 (0.36%) IBM
6 1 (0.36%) RedGate
6 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.36%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.36%) YouTube