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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 111 69
Rank change year-on-year -75 -42 +4
Permanent jobs citing TDD 281 487 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.38% 3.11% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 3.30% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 192 266 1,165
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,063 £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 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,125 £136,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 16,752 14,765 30,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.20% 94.42% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,606 23,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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% -9.54%

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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

TDD
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 25 June 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 3 (1.07%) Apache Solr
1 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.07%) CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) DNN
2 2 (0.71%) EPiServer
2 2 (0.71%) Immediacy CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Kentico
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Sitefinity
2 2 (0.71%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.36%) JBoss
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (61.57%) AWS
2 126 (44.84%) Azure
3 41 (14.59%) GitHub
4 37 (13.17%) Serverless
5 36 (12.81%) GitHub Copilot
6 23 (8.19%) GCP
7 16 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.56%) Azure AI
9 10 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.20%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.85%) PaaS
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.14%) SaaS
13 5 (1.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (1.78%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.19%) Broadband
2 20 (7.12%) HTTP
3 9 (3.20%) Bluetooth
3 9 (3.20%) Modbus
3 9 (3.20%) Profibus
3 9 (3.20%) RS-232
3 9 (3.20%) RS-485
3 9 (3.20%) Wireless
3 9 (3.20%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (29.54%) MongoDB
2 51 (18.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 51 (18.15%) Elasticsearch
3 43 (15.30%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (12.10%) NoSQL
5 27 (9.61%) MySQL
6 16 (5.69%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.20%) Redis
9 4 (1.42%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.07%) Flink
11 1 (0.36%) Db2
11 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.36%) Metadata
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (11.74%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.32%) Git
3 22 (7.83%) TeamCity
4 16 (5.69%) JUnit
5 9 (3.20%) Maven
5 9 (3.20%) Mockito
6 6 (2.14%) GitLab
6 6 (2.14%) JIRA
7 5 (1.78%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.78%) Selenium
8 4 (1.42%) NUnit
8 4 (1.42%) Postman
9 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.71%) Gatling
10 2 (0.71%) MSTest
10 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.71%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) git-flow
11 1 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 61 (21.71%) Finance
2 43 (15.30%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.90%) Banking
5 11 (3.91%) Advertising
5 11 (3.91%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.20%) Electronics
6 9 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.85%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.49%) Retail
9 4 (1.42%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.42%) Publishing
10 3 (1.07%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.07%) Legal
11 2 (0.71%) Back Office
11 2 (0.71%) Games
11 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 118 (41.99%) Developer
2 99 (35.23%) Software Engineer
3 90 (32.03%) Senior
4 54 (19.22%) Lead
5 53 (18.86%) .NET Developer
6 35 (12.46%) Lead Software Engineer
6 35 (12.46%) Senior Developer
7 31 (11.03%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (10.32%) Java Developer
9 25 (8.90%) Development Engineer
9 25 (8.90%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (7.47%) Software Developer
11 18 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (5.69%) Java Engineer
13 15 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (5.34%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
15 12 (4.27%) Scala Engineer
16 11 (3.91%) Python Engineer
17 10 (3.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (30.25%) .NET
2 63 (22.42%) Node.js
3 61 (21.71%) React
4 60 (21.35%) .NET Core
5 52 (18.51%) ASP.NET
6 50 (17.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 49 (17.44%) AngularJS
8 44 (15.66%) Vue
9 43 (15.30%) REST
10 42 (14.95%) RESTful
11 40 (14.23%) Spring
12 27 (9.61%) Spring Boot
13 23 (8.19%) Akka
14 21 (7.47%) ASP.NET Web API
15 19 (6.76%) .NET Framework
16 16 (5.69%) CSS
16 16 (5.69%) HTML
17 14 (4.98%) Django
18 11 (3.91%) Kafka
18 11 (3.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.74%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.90%) Product Ownership
3 23 (8.19%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.83%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (7.83%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.20%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.78%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) IoT
10 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.07%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.71%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.34%) Linux
2 9 (3.20%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.78%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Android
4 2 (0.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (73.31%) Agile
2 127 (45.20%) Software Engineering
3 117 (41.64%) Microservices
4 109 (38.79%) Scrum
5 108 (38.43%) BDD
5 108 (38.43%) CI/CD
6 87 (30.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 86 (30.60%) Mentoring
8 75 (26.69%) DevOps
9 74 (26.33%) Kanban
10 64 (22.78%) Test Automation
11 56 (19.93%) Open Source
12 55 (19.57%) Pair Programming
12 55 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
13 50 (17.79%) Coaching
14 48 (17.08%) AI
15 43 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 41 (14.59%) Containerisation
17 38 (13.52%) Clean Code
18 36 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (40.57%) Java
2 105 (37.37%) SQL
3 85 (30.25%) C#
4 62 (22.06%) TypeScript
5 59 (21.00%) JavaScript
6 53 (18.86%) Python
7 25 (8.90%) Scala
8 12 (4.27%) C++
9 10 (3.56%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.20%) C
11 7 (2.49%) Bash
11 7 (2.49%) PHP
11 7 (2.49%) Ruby
12 5 (1.78%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.78%) Go
13 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) Perl
15 1 (0.36%) RPG
Qualifications
1 31 (11.03%) SC Cleared
1 31 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.05%) Degree
3 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.19%) QA
2 10 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (41.64%) Docker
2 12 (4.27%) Firmware
3 9 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.74%) Terraform
3 6 (2.14%) Ansible
4 5 (1.78%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.78%) Packer
5 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.69%) Oracle
3 6 (2.14%) Google
4 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.71%) Alterian
6 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.71%) Facebook
6 2 (0.71%) IBM
6 2 (0.71%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.71%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.36%) Conga
7 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.36%) Veracode