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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 120 84
Rank change year-on-year -57 -36 -6
Permanent jobs citing TDD 304 472 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 2.87% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.07% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 226 250 914
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £42,148
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
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 £90,000 £130,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%

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 17,578 15,394 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.48% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,832 9,111 21,964
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 July 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 (1.32%) CMS
2 3 (0.99%) Apache Solr
2 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.99%) DNN
2 3 (0.99%) EPiServer
2 3 (0.99%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (0.99%) Kentico
2 3 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (0.99%) Sitefinity
2 3 (0.99%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 194 (63.82%) AWS
2 155 (50.99%) Azure
3 59 (19.41%) GitHub
4 51 (16.78%) GitHub Copilot
5 38 (12.50%) Serverless
6 26 (8.55%) GCP
7 17 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.61%) Azure AI
9 12 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.96%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.96%) PaaS
11 8 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.30%) ChatGPT
13 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.97%) SaaS
14 5 (1.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.58%) HTTP
2 11 (3.62%) Broadband
3 9 (2.96%) Bluetooth
3 9 (2.96%) Modbus
3 9 (2.96%) Profibus
3 9 (2.96%) RS-232
3 9 (2.96%) RS-485
3 9 (2.96%) Wireless
3 9 (2.96%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (37.17%) MongoDB
2 72 (23.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.37%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (12.83%) NoSQL
6 32 (10.53%) MySQL
7 16 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.62%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.96%) Redis
11 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.99%) Flink
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.33%) Db2
13 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.33%) Metadata
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (11.18%) Git
2 21 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.26%) JUnit
4 10 (3.29%) TeamCity
5 9 (2.96%) Maven
5 9 (2.96%) Mockito
6 6 (1.97%) GitLab
6 6 (1.97%) JIRA
7 5 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.64%) Selenium
8 4 (1.32%) NUnit
8 4 (1.32%) Postman
9 3 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.66%) Gatling
10 2 (0.66%) MSTest
10 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.66%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.33%) Appium
11 1 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 69 (22.70%) Finance
2 46 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.22%) Banking
5 15 (4.93%) Advertising
6 11 (3.62%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.96%) Electronics
7 9 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.96%) Retail
8 8 (2.63%) Tech for Good
9 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.32%) Legal
10 4 (1.32%) Publishing
11 3 (0.99%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.99%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) Games
13 1 (0.33%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 139 (45.72%) Developer
2 100 (32.89%) Software Engineer
3 84 (27.63%) Senior
4 76 (25.00%) .NET Developer
5 61 (20.07%) Lead
6 41 (13.49%) Lead Software Engineer
7 33 (10.86%) Senior Developer
8 29 (9.54%) Java Developer
9 28 (9.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (8.22%) Development Engineer
10 25 (8.22%) Software Development Engineer
11 19 (6.25%) Software Developer
12 18 (5.92%) Senior Java Developer
13 17 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (5.26%) Java Engineer
15 13 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (4.28%) Senior Software Developer
16 12 (3.95%) Python Engineer
17 10 (3.29%) Java Software Developer
17 10 (3.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (34.21%) .NET
2 88 (28.95%) Node.js
3 79 (25.99%) .NET Core
4 73 (24.01%) ASP.NET
5 71 (23.36%) ASP.NET Core
6 70 (23.03%) React
7 61 (20.07%) AngularJS
8 59 (19.41%) Vue
9 47 (15.46%) RESTful
10 43 (14.14%) REST
10 43 (14.14%) Spring
11 30 (9.87%) .NET Framework
12 29 (9.54%) ASP.NET Web API
12 29 (9.54%) Spring Boot
13 20 (6.58%) CSS
13 20 (6.58%) HTML
14 15 (4.93%) Django
14 15 (4.93%) WinForms
15 14 (4.61%) Entity Framework
15 14 (4.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.57%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.62%) Video\Live Streaming
7 10 (3.29%) Over-the-Top Content
8 9 (2.96%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.64%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.32%) IoT
11 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.99%) Blog
12 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.93%) Linux
2 9 (2.96%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.64%) Unix
4 4 (1.32%) Android
5 3 (0.99%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (73.36%) Agile
2 142 (46.71%) Microservices
3 131 (43.09%) BDD
3 131 (43.09%) Software Engineering
4 117 (38.49%) CI/CD
4 117 (38.49%) Scrum
5 110 (36.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 90 (29.61%) Mentoring
7 79 (25.99%) DevOps
7 79 (25.99%) Kanban
8 71 (23.36%) Test Automation
9 59 (19.41%) AI
10 57 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
11 55 (18.09%) Coaching
12 47 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (14.47%) Clean Code
13 44 (14.47%) Open Source
14 43 (14.14%) Pair Programming
15 42 (13.82%) Containerisation
16 40 (13.16%) OO
Programming Languages
1 130 (42.76%) SQL
2 126 (41.45%) Java
3 104 (34.21%) C#
4 80 (26.32%) TypeScript
5 75 (24.67%) JavaScript
6 59 (19.41%) Python
7 13 (4.28%) Scala
8 12 (3.95%) C++
9 10 (3.29%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.96%) C
11 8 (2.63%) Ruby
12 7 (2.30%) Bash
12 7 (2.30%) PHP
13 5 (1.64%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.64%) Go
14 3 (0.99%) Groovy
14 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (11.18%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.92%) Degree
4 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.57%) QA
2 10 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.99%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 121 (39.80%) Docker
2 12 (3.95%) Firmware
3 9 (2.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 113 (37.17%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.20%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Ansible
4 5 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.64%) Packer
5 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 86 (28.29%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.59%) Oracle
3 6 (1.97%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.99%) Alterian
5 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.99%) Optimizely
5 3 (0.99%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.66%) Facebook
6 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.33%) Veracode