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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 113 76
Rank change year-on-year -71 -37 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 288 482 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.39% 3.05% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.25% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 210 261 1,070
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £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 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £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 16,995 14,837 29,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 93.93% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,422 8,708 22,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,250
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% -9.09%

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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 30 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 4 (1.39%) CMS
2 3 (1.04%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.04%) DNN
2 3 (1.04%) EPiServer
2 3 (1.04%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (1.04%) Kentico
2 3 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.04%) Sitefinity
2 3 (1.04%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.69%) Confluence
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 187 (64.93%) AWS
2 143 (49.65%) Azure
3 50 (17.36%) GitHub
4 44 (15.28%) GitHub Copilot
5 37 (12.85%) Serverless
6 23 (7.99%) GCP
7 16 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (4.17%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.13%) PaaS
10 8 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.08%) ChatGPT
11 6 (2.08%) SaaS
12 5 (1.74%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (1.74%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.94%) HTTP
2 12 (4.17%) Broadband
3 9 (3.13%) Bluetooth
3 9 (3.13%) Modbus
3 9 (3.13%) Profibus
3 9 (3.13%) RS-232
3 9 (3.13%) RS-485
3 9 (3.13%) Wireless
3 9 (3.13%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (34.72%) MongoDB
2 63 (21.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (21.18%) Elasticsearch
4 49 (17.01%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (12.15%) NoSQL
6 32 (11.11%) MySQL
7 16 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.13%) Redis
10 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.39%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.04%) Flink
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.35%) Db2
13 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.35%) Metadata
13 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (10.42%) Git
2 22 (7.64%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.56%) JUnit
4 11 (3.82%) TeamCity
5 9 (3.13%) Maven
5 9 (3.13%) Mockito
6 6 (2.08%) GitLab
6 6 (2.08%) JIRA
7 5 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.74%) Selenium
8 4 (1.39%) NUnit
8 4 (1.39%) Postman
9 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.69%) Gatling
10 2 (0.69%) MSTest
10 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.69%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.35%) Appium
11 1 (0.35%) git-flow
11 1 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 65 (22.57%) Finance
2 45 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.68%) Banking
5 13 (4.51%) Advertising
6 11 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.13%) Electronics
7 9 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.78%) Retail
9 7 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.43%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.39%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.39%) Legal
10 4 (1.39%) Publishing
11 3 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.69%) Back Office
12 2 (0.69%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 129 (44.79%) Developer
2 99 (34.38%) Software Engineer
3 83 (28.82%) Senior
4 66 (22.92%) .NET Developer
5 59 (20.49%) Lead
6 39 (13.54%) Lead Software Engineer
7 33 (11.46%) Senior Developer
8 29 (10.07%) Java Developer
8 29 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (8.68%) Development Engineer
9 25 (8.68%) Software Development Engineer
10 19 (6.60%) Software Developer
11 18 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (5.56%) Java Engineer
13 13 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (4.51%) Senior Software Developer
14 11 (3.82%) Python Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Java Software Developer
15 10 (3.47%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (33.33%) .NET
2 78 (27.08%) Node.js
3 71 (24.65%) .NET Core
4 67 (23.26%) React
5 64 (22.22%) ASP.NET
6 62 (21.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 57 (19.79%) AngularJS
8 52 (18.06%) Vue
9 43 (14.93%) RESTful
10 42 (14.58%) REST
11 40 (13.89%) Spring
12 27 (9.38%) Spring Boot
13 26 (9.03%) ASP.NET Web API
14 25 (8.68%) .NET Framework
15 18 (6.25%) CSS
15 18 (6.25%) HTML
16 14 (4.86%) Django
17 12 (4.17%) Akka
17 12 (4.17%) Entity Framework
17 12 (4.17%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.68%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.99%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
7 11 (3.82%) Over-the-Top Content
8 9 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (2.08%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.74%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.39%) IoT
11 4 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.04%) Blog
12 3 (1.04%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.04%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.04%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.21%) Linux
2 9 (3.13%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.74%) Unix
4 3 (1.04%) Android
4 3 (1.04%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (73.26%) Agile
2 134 (46.53%) Microservices
3 127 (44.10%) Software Engineering
4 120 (41.67%) BDD
5 111 (38.54%) CI/CD
6 108 (37.50%) Scrum
7 100 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 91 (31.60%) Mentoring
9 75 (26.04%) DevOps
10 73 (25.35%) Kanban
11 66 (22.92%) Test Automation
12 57 (19.79%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (18.75%) Coaching
14 52 (18.06%) AI
15 45 (15.63%) Open Source
16 44 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (15.28%) Pair Programming
17 41 (14.24%) Containerisation
18 39 (13.54%) Clean Code
19 37 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 119 (41.32%) Java
2 117 (40.63%) SQL
3 97 (33.68%) C#
4 71 (24.65%) TypeScript
5 69 (23.96%) JavaScript
6 54 (18.75%) Python
7 14 (4.86%) Scala
8 12 (4.17%) C++
9 10 (3.47%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.13%) C
11 8 (2.78%) Ruby
12 7 (2.43%) Bash
12 7 (2.43%) PHP
13 5 (1.74%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.74%) Go
14 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.35%) RPG
16 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 32 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.56%) Degree
3 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.99%) QA
2 9 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (38.89%) Docker
2 12 (4.17%) Firmware
3 9 (3.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 103 (35.76%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.11%) Terraform
3 6 (2.08%) Ansible
4 5 (1.74%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.74%) Packer
5 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 76 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.90%) Oracle
3 6 (2.08%) Google
4 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.04%) Alterian
5 3 (1.04%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.04%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.04%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.69%) Facebook
6 2 (0.69%) IBM
7 1 (0.35%) Conga
7 1 (0.35%) Databricks
7 1 (0.35%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.35%) Veracode