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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 112 73
Rank change year-on-year -73 -39 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 267 490 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 3.18% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 3.36% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 179 269 1,169
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
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 £95,000 £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 16,378 14,566 30,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.83% 94.52% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 8,457 23,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 18 June 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 (1.12%) Apache Solr
1 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.75%) CMS
2 2 (0.75%) Confluence
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.37%) DNN
3 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.37%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.37%) JBoss
3 1 (0.37%) Kentico
3 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.37%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 160 (59.93%) AWS
2 116 (43.45%) Azure
3 37 (13.86%) Serverless
4 33 (12.36%) GitHub
5 29 (10.86%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (8.99%) GCP
7 15 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.37%) Azure AI
11 8 (3.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.25%) PaaS
12 6 (2.25%) Sentry
13 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.87%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.87%) dbt
13 5 (1.87%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.61%) Broadband
2 19 (7.12%) HTTP
3 8 (3.00%) Bluetooth
3 8 (3.00%) Modbus
3 8 (3.00%) Profibus
3 8 (3.00%) RS-232
3 8 (3.00%) RS-485
3 8 (3.00%) Wireless
3 8 (3.00%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (27.34%) MongoDB
2 43 (16.10%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (15.73%) Elasticsearch
4 41 (15.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (13.11%) NoSQL
6 26 (9.74%) MySQL
7 16 (5.99%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.37%) Redis
9 4 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.12%) Flink
11 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.37%) Db2
11 1 (0.37%) Metadata
11 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.36%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.86%) Git
3 22 (8.24%) TeamCity
4 16 (5.99%) JUnit
5 9 (3.37%) Maven
5 9 (3.37%) Mockito
6 6 (2.25%) GitLab
6 6 (2.25%) JIRA
6 6 (2.25%) Selenium
7 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.50%) NUnit
8 4 (1.50%) Postman
9 3 (1.12%) Storybook
10 2 (0.75%) Gatling
10 2 (0.75%) MSTest
10 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.75%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.75%) Vite
11 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (22.10%) Finance
2 41 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.99%) Banking
5 10 (3.75%) Advertising
5 10 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.00%) Electronics
6 8 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.00%) Tech for Good
7 7 (2.62%) Retail
8 4 (1.50%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.50%) Publishing
9 3 (1.12%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.75%) Back Office
10 2 (0.75%) Games
10 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 111 (41.57%) Developer
2 96 (35.96%) Software Engineer
3 90 (33.71%) Senior
4 51 (19.10%) Lead
5 44 (16.48%) .NET Developer
6 35 (13.11%) Senior Developer
7 34 (12.73%) Lead Software Engineer
8 30 (11.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (10.86%) Java Developer
10 24 (8.99%) Development Engineer
10 24 (8.99%) Software Development Engineer
11 21 (7.87%) Software Developer
12 18 (6.74%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (5.99%) Java Engineer
14 15 (5.62%) Senior Software Developer
15 13 (4.87%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (4.49%) Scala Engineer
17 11 (4.12%) Python Engineer
18 10 (3.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (27.72%) .NET
2 58 (21.72%) React
3 55 (20.60%) Node.js
4 50 (18.73%) .NET Core
5 43 (16.10%) RESTful
6 41 (15.36%) ASP.NET
6 41 (15.36%) REST
7 40 (14.98%) AngularJS
7 40 (14.98%) Spring
8 39 (14.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 34 (12.73%) Vue
10 27 (10.11%) Spring Boot
11 23 (8.61%) Akka
12 17 (6.37%) ASP.NET Web API
13 16 (5.99%) CSS
13 16 (5.99%) HTML
14 14 (5.24%) Django
15 13 (4.87%) .NET Framework
16 12 (4.49%) Playwright
17 11 (4.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.36%) Product Ownership
3 23 (8.61%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (8.24%) Over-the-Top Content
5 19 (7.12%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.87%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.50%) IoT
10 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.12%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.62%) Linux
2 8 (3.00%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.87%) Unix
4 3 (1.12%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (72.66%) Agile
2 121 (45.32%) Software Engineering
3 107 (40.07%) CI/CD
4 106 (39.70%) Microservices
5 100 (37.45%) Scrum
6 97 (36.33%) BDD
7 84 (31.46%) Mentoring
8 77 (28.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 73 (27.34%) DevOps
10 65 (24.34%) Kanban
10 65 (24.34%) Test Automation
11 56 (20.97%) Open Source
12 54 (20.22%) Pair Programming
13 51 (19.10%) Technical Leadership
14 49 (18.35%) Coaching
15 45 (16.85%) AI
16 41 (15.36%) Containerisation
17 40 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 38 (14.23%) Clean Code
19 36 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (41.20%) Java
2 94 (35.21%) SQL
3 72 (26.97%) C#
4 56 (20.97%) JavaScript
5 54 (20.22%) TypeScript
6 50 (18.73%) Python
7 25 (9.36%) Scala
8 10 (3.75%) C++
8 10 (3.75%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.00%) C
10 7 (2.62%) Bash
10 7 (2.62%) PHP
11 5 (1.87%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.87%) Ruby
12 4 (1.50%) Go
13 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.37%) RPG
15 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (10.86%) SC Cleared
1 29 (10.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.74%) Degree
3 7 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.61%) QA
2 11 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.12%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (41.20%) Docker
2 11 (4.12%) Firmware
3 8 (3.00%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 100 (37.45%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.99%) Terraform
3 6 (2.25%) Ansible
4 5 (1.87%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.87%) Packer
5 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 53 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.24%) Oracle
3 7 (2.62%) Google
4 5 (1.87%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.75%) Facebook
5 2 (0.75%) IBM
5 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.37%) Alterian
6 1 (0.37%) Conga
6 1 (0.37%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.37%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.37%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.37%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.37%) Veracode