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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 109 78
Rank change year-on-year -91 -31 -10
Permanent jobs citing TDD 211 388 1,273
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 2.91% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 3.07% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 143 339 1,148
10th Percentile £45,909 £48,950 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £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 £103,000 £108,150 £90,000
UK median annual salary £69,500 £69,520 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.03% +15.87% -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 14,826 12,623 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.16% 94.77% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,367 8,945 23,614
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,202 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,205 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +8.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 20 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 3 (1.42%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.95%) CMS
2 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.47%) JBoss
3 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (54.50%) AWS
2 67 (31.75%) Azure
3 44 (20.85%) Serverless
4 30 (14.22%) GCP
5 23 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (9.95%) Amazon S3
7 19 (9.00%) GitHub
8 15 (7.11%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (6.64%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.79%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.32%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.32%) Sentry
13 6 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.84%) PaaS
13 6 (2.84%) SaaS
14 5 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.85%) Broadband
2 7 (3.32%) HTTP
3 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.42%) Bluetooth
4 3 (1.42%) Modbus
4 3 (1.42%) Profibus
4 3 (1.42%) RS-232
4 3 (1.42%) RS-485
4 3 (1.42%) Wireless
4 3 (1.42%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.96%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.69%) MongoDB
3 24 (11.37%) NoSQL
4 22 (10.43%) SQL Server
5 15 (7.11%) MySQL
6 10 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.32%) Redis
10 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.47%) Flink
13 1 (0.47%) Metadata
13 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.47%) Parquet
13 1 (0.47%) Power BI
13 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (18.01%) Jenkins
2 36 (17.06%) Git
3 23 (10.90%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.69%) GitLab
5 11 (5.21%) JUnit
5 11 (5.21%) Selenium
6 10 (4.74%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.37%) JIRA
7 5 (2.37%) Storybook
8 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.95%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.95%) Vite
10 1 (0.47%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.47%) Appium
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.47%) Postman
10 1 (0.47%) XCUITest
General
1 59 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.11%) Finance
3 22 (10.43%) Tech for Good
4 18 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.06%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Banking
7 14 (6.64%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.64%) Publishing
8 10 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.79%) Retail
10 7 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.90%) Back Office
13 3 (1.42%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.42%) Electronics
13 3 (1.42%) Games
13 3 (1.42%) Law
13 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 87 (41.23%) Developer
2 84 (39.81%) Senior
3 72 (34.12%) Software Engineer
4 38 (18.01%) Lead
5 31 (14.69%) Senior Developer
6 30 (14.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.85%) Software Developer
8 20 (9.48%) Lead Developer
9 19 (9.00%) Python Developer
10 17 (8.06%) Java Engineer
10 17 (8.06%) React Developer
11 16 (7.58%) Java Developer
12 15 (7.11%) AWS Developer
13 14 (6.64%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (6.64%) Lead Python Developer
13 14 (6.64%) Senior Software Developer
14 12 (5.69%) Development Engineer
14 12 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (5.69%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (5.69%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.38%) .NET
1 43 (20.38%) React
1 43 (20.38%) RESTful
2 31 (14.69%) Spring
3 28 (13.27%) Spring Boot
4 25 (11.85%) Akka
4 25 (11.85%) Django
5 24 (11.37%) AngularJS
5 24 (11.37%) REST
6 21 (9.95%) Node.js
7 15 (7.11%) Vue
8 14 (6.64%) .NET Core
8 14 (6.64%) Flask
9 12 (5.69%) ASP.NET
9 12 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (5.21%) CSS
10 11 (5.21%) HTML
11 10 (4.74%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.74%) Kafka
11 10 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.06%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.37%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (10.90%) Over-the-Top Content
4 20 (9.48%) Product Ownership
5 16 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.79%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.32%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.37%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.37%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.90%) IoT
10 4 (1.90%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.32%) Linux
2 6 (2.84%) Android
3 5 (2.37%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.42%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (68.25%) Agile
2 106 (50.24%) Software Engineering
3 102 (48.34%) CI/CD
4 81 (38.39%) Mentoring
5 77 (36.49%) DevOps
6 70 (33.18%) Microservices
7 68 (32.23%) Scrum
8 61 (28.91%) Test Automation
9 56 (26.54%) Pair Programming
10 54 (25.59%) BDD
11 51 (24.17%) Coaching
12 46 (21.80%) Open Source
13 43 (20.38%) Containerisation
14 42 (19.91%) Acceptance Criteria
15 39 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (18.01%) Continuous Integration
16 38 (18.01%) Kanban
17 36 (17.06%) Full-Stack Development
18 32 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (13.74%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 75 (35.55%) Java
2 60 (28.44%) Python
3 42 (19.91%) SQL
4 35 (16.59%) C#
5 31 (14.69%) JavaScript
6 26 (12.32%) TypeScript
7 25 (11.85%) Scala
8 8 (3.79%) Delphi
9 6 (2.84%) PHP
9 6 (2.84%) Ruby
10 5 (2.37%) C
11 4 (1.90%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.42%) C++
12 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.47%) Go
14 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.47%) RPG
14 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (8.53%) Degree
2 14 (6.64%) SC Cleared
2 14 (6.64%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.59%) QA
2 14 (6.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (38.39%) Docker
2 6 (2.84%) Firmware
3 3 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (33.65%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.95%) Terraform
3 8 (3.79%) Grafana
4 6 (2.84%) Ansible
5 5 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.42%) Packer
7 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.16%) Oracle
3 7 (3.32%) Google
4 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.95%) IBM
5 2 (0.95%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.47%) Veracode