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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 128 124
Rank change year-on-year -85 -4 -41
Permanent jobs citing TDD 292 418 638
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 2.57% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.77% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 207 201 477
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £80,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £67,249 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% +7.69% -7.14%

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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

TDD salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 7 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.71%) Apache
2 5 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.03%) DNN
4 3 (1.03%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.03%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Kentico
4 3 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Sitefinity
4 3 (1.03%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (66.78%) AWS
2 157 (53.77%) Azure
3 64 (21.92%) GitHub
4 52 (17.81%) GitHub Copilot
5 36 (12.33%) Serverless
6 25 (8.56%) GCP
7 18 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.79%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.08%) Slack
10 8 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.05%) ChatGPT
12 6 (2.05%) SaaS
13 5 (1.71%) PaaS
14 4 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.90%) HTTP
2 9 (3.08%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.08%) Modbus
2 9 (3.08%) Profibus
2 9 (3.08%) RS-232
2 9 (3.08%) RS-485
2 9 (3.08%) Wireless
2 9 (3.08%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (34.25%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (21.58%) Elasticsearch
4 35 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (9.59%) NoSQL
6 21 (7.19%) MySQL
7 18 (6.16%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.45%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.37%) Redis
11 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.03%) Flink
12 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (14.38%) Git
2 30 (10.27%) JUnit
3 17 (5.82%) Maven
3 17 (5.82%) Mockito
4 10 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.74%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.74%) GitLab
5 8 (2.74%) Selenium
6 7 (2.40%) Postman
7 6 (2.05%) Gatling
8 4 (1.37%) NUnit
9 3 (1.03%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.03%) JIRA
10 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.68%) MSTest
10 2 (0.68%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 100 (34.25%) Finance
2 43 (14.73%) Public Sector
2 43 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.30%) Banking
4 14 (4.79%) Advertising
5 13 (4.45%) Legal
6 12 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.08%) Electronics
8 9 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.08%) Retail
9 6 (2.05%) Local Government
10 5 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.71%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.37%) Back Office
11 4 (1.37%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Publishing
12 3 (1.03%) iGaming
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 145 (49.66%) Developer
2 87 (29.79%) Senior
3 85 (29.11%) Software Engineer
4 78 (26.71%) .NET Developer
5 73 (25.00%) Lead
6 47 (16.10%) Lead Software Engineer
7 40 (13.70%) Senior Developer
8 31 (10.62%) Development Engineer
8 31 (10.62%) Java Developer
8 31 (10.62%) Software Development Engineer
9 23 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (6.16%) Senior Java Developer
12 14 (4.79%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (3.42%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (3.08%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 9 (3.08%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (3.08%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (35.27%) .NET
2 92 (31.51%) Node.js
3 82 (28.08%) .NET Core
4 74 (25.34%) ASP.NET
5 73 (25.00%) React
6 71 (24.32%) ASP.NET Core
7 62 (21.23%) AngularJS
7 62 (21.23%) REST
8 57 (19.52%) Vue
9 49 (16.78%) Spring
10 35 (11.99%) Terraform
11 33 (11.30%) RESTful
12 32 (10.96%) .NET Framework
13 30 (10.27%) CSS
14 29 (9.93%) ASP.NET Web API
15 28 (9.59%) Spring Boot
16 27 (9.25%) HTML
17 18 (6.16%) Kafka
18 16 (5.48%) Entity Framework
18 16 (5.48%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.62%) Product Ownership
1 31 (10.62%) Public Cloud
2 20 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.48%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.79%) Blog
6 9 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.40%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.71%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.71%) NHS
9 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.37%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.03%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.14%) Linux
2 9 (3.08%) Android
2 9 (3.08%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (1.03%) Windows
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (71.58%) Agile
2 139 (47.60%) Microservices
3 125 (42.81%) BDD
4 117 (40.07%) CI/CD
4 117 (40.07%) Scrum
5 114 (39.04%) Software Engineering
6 112 (38.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 95 (32.53%) Mentoring
8 77 (26.37%) Kanban
9 72 (24.66%) Technical Leadership
10 68 (23.29%) DevOps
11 61 (20.89%) AI
12 59 (20.21%) Test Automation
13 55 (18.84%) Coaching
14 51 (17.47%) OO
14 51 (17.47%) Pair Programming
15 49 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (14.38%) Roadmaps
18 38 (13.01%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.47%) SQL
2 121 (41.44%) Java
3 107 (36.64%) C#
4 88 (30.14%) JavaScript
5 83 (28.42%) TypeScript
6 52 (17.81%) Python
7 15 (5.14%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.79%) Bash
9 12 (4.11%) C++
10 9 (3.08%) C
10 9 (3.08%) Ruby
11 8 (2.74%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.37%) Go
12 4 (1.37%) Groovy
12 4 (1.37%) PHP
12 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.03%) Scala
14 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.77%) Degree
4 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.85%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.14%) QA
3 13 (4.45%) WCAG
4 5 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 106 (36.30%) Docker
2 10 (3.42%) Firmware
3 9 (3.08%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (35.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.05%) Ansible
3 5 (1.71%) Packer
4 2 (0.68%) Grafana
4 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 87 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.22%) Oracle
3 3 (1.03%) Alterian
3 3 (1.03%) Databricks
3 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.03%) Optimizely
3 3 (1.03%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.68%) Facebook
4 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.68%) Splunk
5 1 (0.34%) Conga
5 1 (0.34%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.34%) Google
5 1 (0.34%) IBM
5 1 (0.34%) RedGate
5 1 (0.34%) YouTube