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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 125 108
Rank change year-on-year -90 -17 -26
Permanent jobs citing TDD 289 436 698
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 2.63% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.83% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 204 216 581
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,488
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.55% -7.87%
75th Percentile £81,385 £82,751 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,875 £106,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,249 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% +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 18,835 15,419 21,621
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.48% 92.96% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,574 8,935 15,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 16 August 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 7 (2.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.73%) Apache
2 5 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.38%) CMS
4 3 (1.04%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.04%) DNN
4 3 (1.04%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.04%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (1.04%) Kentico
4 3 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.04%) Sitefinity
4 3 (1.04%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (67.47%) AWS
2 158 (54.67%) Azure
3 64 (22.15%) GitHub
4 53 (18.34%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (13.84%) Serverless
6 27 (9.34%) GCP
7 21 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.84%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.11%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.11%) ChatGPT
9 9 (3.11%) Slack
10 8 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.42%) SaaS
12 6 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.96%) HTTP
2 9 (3.11%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.11%) Modbus
2 9 (3.11%) Profibus
2 9 (3.11%) RS-232
2 9 (3.11%) RS-485
2 9 (3.11%) Wireless
2 9 (3.11%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (34.95%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (21.80%) Elasticsearch
4 37 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (10.03%) NoSQL
6 21 (7.27%) MySQL
7 19 (6.57%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.50%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.73%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.38%) Redis
11 3 (1.04%) Flink
12 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.35%) Db2
13 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (14.88%) Git
2 26 (9.00%) JUnit
3 16 (5.54%) Maven
3 16 (5.54%) Mockito
4 10 (3.46%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.77%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.77%) GitLab
5 8 (2.77%) Selenium
6 7 (2.42%) Postman
7 6 (2.08%) Gatling
8 4 (1.38%) JIRA
8 4 (1.38%) NUnit
9 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.69%) MSTest
10 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.35%) MLflow
10 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.35%) XCUITest
General
1 94 (32.53%) Finance
2 48 (16.61%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.69%) Banking
5 14 (4.84%) Advertising
6 13 (4.50%) Legal
7 12 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.46%) Retail
9 9 (3.11%) Electronics
9 9 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.08%) Local Government
11 5 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (1.73%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.38%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.38%) Publishing
13 3 (1.04%) Back Office
13 3 (1.04%) Marketing
14 2 (0.69%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 143 (49.48%) Developer
2 86 (29.76%) Software Engineer
3 84 (29.07%) Senior
4 78 (26.99%) .NET Developer
5 69 (23.88%) Lead
6 46 (15.92%) Lead Software Engineer
7 36 (12.46%) Senior Developer
8 34 (11.76%) Java Developer
9 28 (9.69%) Development Engineer
9 28 (9.69%) Software Development Engineer
10 25 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (7.61%) Senior Java Developer
12 17 (5.88%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (3.81%) Senior Software Developer
14 10 (3.46%) Java Software Developer
14 10 (3.46%) Lead Developer
14 10 (3.46%) Python Engineer
15 9 (3.11%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (37.02%) .NET
2 87 (30.10%) Node.js
3 83 (28.72%) .NET Core
4 75 (25.95%) ASP.NET
5 73 (25.26%) React
6 71 (24.57%) ASP.NET Core
7 62 (21.45%) AngularJS
8 59 (20.42%) Vue
9 57 (19.72%) REST
10 48 (16.61%) Spring
11 34 (11.76%) RESTful
12 32 (11.07%) .NET Framework
13 29 (10.03%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (9.69%) Spring Boot
15 23 (7.96%) CSS
16 20 (6.92%) HTML
17 16 (5.54%) Entity Framework
17 16 (5.54%) Kafka
17 16 (5.54%) WinForms
18 15 (5.19%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.03%) Product Ownership
2 28 (9.69%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.92%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (6.23%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.50%) Blog
7 9 (3.11%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.73%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.73%) NHS
9 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.38%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.38%) IoT
10 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.04%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.19%) Linux
2 9 (3.11%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (2.08%) Android
4 3 (1.04%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (71.63%) Agile
2 142 (49.13%) Microservices
3 123 (42.56%) CI/CD
4 119 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 118 (40.83%) BDD
5 118 (40.83%) Scrum
6 115 (39.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 86 (29.76%) Mentoring
8 77 (26.64%) Kanban
9 76 (26.30%) DevOps
10 67 (23.18%) AI
11 63 (21.80%) Technical Leadership
12 59 (20.42%) Test Automation
13 49 (16.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 49 (16.96%) OO
14 48 (16.61%) Coaching
15 46 (15.92%) Pair Programming
16 43 (14.88%) Containerisation
17 39 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (13.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 126 (43.60%) SQL
2 117 (40.48%) Java
3 110 (38.06%) C#
4 83 (28.72%) JavaScript
5 77 (26.64%) TypeScript
6 59 (20.42%) Python
7 15 (5.19%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.84%) Bash
9 12 (4.15%) C++
10 10 (3.46%) Ruby
11 9 (3.11%) C
12 6 (2.08%) PHP
13 5 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.38%) Go
14 4 (1.38%) Groovy
14 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.04%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.69%) Scala
16 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.35%) RPG
Qualifications
1 45 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.50%) Degree
4 5 (1.73%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.57%) QA
2 12 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.08%) WCAG
4 5 (1.73%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.04%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 112 (38.75%) Docker
2 12 (4.15%) Firmware
3 9 (3.11%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (37.37%) Kubernetes
2 34 (11.76%) Terraform
3 6 (2.08%) Ansible
4 3 (1.04%) Packer
5 1 (0.35%) Grafana
5 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 88 (30.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.30%) Oracle
3 3 (1.04%) Alterian
3 3 (1.04%) Databricks
3 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.04%) Optimizely
3 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.04%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.69%) Facebook
4 2 (0.69%) IBM
5 1 (0.35%) Conga
5 1 (0.35%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.35%) Google
5 1 (0.35%) RedGate
5 1 (0.35%) Splunk
5 1 (0.35%) YouTube