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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 117 77
Rank change year-on-year -79 -40 -10
Permanent jobs citing TDD 208 375 1,267
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 2.79% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 2.94% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 137 325 1,144
10th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% +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 14,989 12,756 29,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 94.75% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,524 8,871 23,569
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,930
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +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 30 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 4 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.44%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.44%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.96%) CMS
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 117 (56.25%) AWS
2 61 (29.33%) Azure
3 43 (20.67%) Serverless
4 27 (12.98%) GCP
5 22 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.13%) GitHub
7 18 (8.65%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.85%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.37%) Sentry
12 6 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.88%) PaaS
12 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.88%) SaaS
13 5 (2.40%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.02%) Broadband
2 10 (4.81%) HTTP
3 5 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.92%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.92%) Modbus
4 4 (1.92%) Profibus
4 4 (1.92%) RS-232
4 4 (1.92%) RS-485
4 4 (1.92%) Wireless
4 4 (1.92%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.71%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (13.46%) MongoDB
3 22 (10.58%) NoSQL
4 21 (10.10%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.17%) MySQL
6 14 (6.73%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (4.33%) Redis
8 7 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.44%) Flink
10 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.48%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.48%) Big Data
11 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.48%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 40 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 32 (15.38%) Git
3 23 (11.06%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.77%) GitLab
5 11 (5.29%) JUnit
5 11 (5.29%) Selenium
6 10 (4.81%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.40%) JIRA
7 5 (2.40%) Storybook
8 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.96%) Vite
10 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.48%) Appium
10 1 (0.48%) git-flow
10 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.48%) Postman
10 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 49 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.79%) Finance
3 19 (9.13%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.13%) Tech for Good
4 18 (8.65%) Banking
5 14 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.77%) Health Technology
7 12 (5.77%) Publishing
8 10 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.85%) Retail
10 7 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.92%) Back Office
12 4 (1.92%) Electronics
12 4 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.44%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.44%) Games
13 3 (1.44%) Law
14 2 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 83 (39.90%) Developer
1 83 (39.90%) Senior
2 73 (35.10%) Software Engineer
3 38 (18.27%) Lead
4 34 (16.35%) Senior Developer
5 27 (12.98%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (12.02%) Software Developer
7 18 (8.65%) Java Developer
7 18 (8.65%) Java Engineer
8 17 (8.17%) Python Developer
9 16 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 16 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (7.21%) Development Engineer
10 15 (7.21%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (7.21%) React Developer
10 15 (7.21%) Software Development Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (6.25%) AWS Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (5.77%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.23%) React
2 39 (18.75%) .NET
2 39 (18.75%) RESTful
3 36 (17.31%) Spring
4 32 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 28 (13.46%) REST
6 25 (12.02%) Akka
7 23 (11.06%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.58%) Django
9 20 (9.62%) Node.js
10 14 (6.73%) .NET Core
10 14 (6.73%) Kafka
11 12 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (5.77%) Flask
11 12 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (5.77%) Vue
12 11 (5.29%) ASP.NET
13 9 (4.33%) Playwright
13 9 (4.33%) pytest
14 7 (3.37%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.54%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.06%) Over-the-Top Content
3 23 (11.06%) Product Ownership
4 16 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.29%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.88%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.40%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.92%) IoT
9 4 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.44%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.37%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Android
3 5 (2.40%) Unix
4 4 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.92%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (67.79%) Agile
2 106 (50.96%) Software Engineering
3 100 (48.08%) CI/CD
4 75 (36.06%) DevOps
5 74 (35.58%) Mentoring
6 70 (33.65%) Microservices
7 67 (32.21%) Scrum
8 62 (29.81%) Test Automation
9 61 (29.33%) BDD
10 56 (26.92%) Pair Programming
11 46 (22.12%) Open Source
12 43 (20.67%) Containerisation
13 42 (20.19%) Coaching
14 39 (18.75%) Kanban
15 38 (18.27%) Acceptance Criteria
15 38 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (14.90%) Clean Code
18 30 (14.42%) Continuous Integration
19 29 (13.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 83 (39.90%) Java
2 59 (28.37%) Python
3 39 (18.75%) SQL
4 32 (15.38%) C#
5 27 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 25 (12.02%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.02%) Scala
7 8 (3.85%) Delphi
8 6 (2.88%) PHP
8 6 (2.88%) Ruby
9 5 (2.40%) C
10 4 (1.92%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.92%) C++
11 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.48%) Perl
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) RPG
13 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (8.65%) SC Cleared
1 18 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.21%) Degree
3 6 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.38%) QA
2 9 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (37.98%) Docker
2 7 (3.37%) Firmware
3 4 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (33.17%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.54%) Terraform
3 8 (3.85%) Ansible
3 8 (3.85%) Grafana
4 5 (2.40%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.40%) Packer
5 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.73%) Oracle
3 7 (3.37%) Google
4 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.96%) IBM
5 2 (0.96%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode