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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 113 74
Rank change year-on-year -78 -39 -4
Permanent jobs citing TDD 265 489 1,295
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 3.19% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 3.37% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 176 268 1,164
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,688 £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 16,294 14,504 30,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 94.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,745 8,418 23,751
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £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%

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 16 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 (1.13%) Apache Solr
1 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.75%) CMS
2 2 (0.75%) Confluence
2 2 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.38%) DNN
3 1 (0.38%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.38%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.38%) JBoss
3 1 (0.38%) Kentico
3 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.38%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 159 (60.00%) AWS
2 114 (43.02%) Azure
3 37 (13.96%) Serverless
4 32 (12.08%) GitHub
5 28 (10.57%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (9.06%) GCP
7 15 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.40%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.26%) PaaS
11 6 (2.26%) SaaS
11 6 (2.26%) Sentry
12 5 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (1.89%) ChatGPT
12 5 (1.89%) dbt
12 5 (1.89%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.68%) Broadband
2 19 (7.17%) HTTP
3 8 (3.02%) Bluetooth
3 8 (3.02%) Modbus
3 8 (3.02%) Profibus
3 8 (3.02%) RS-232
3 8 (3.02%) RS-485
3 8 (3.02%) Wireless
3 8 (3.02%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (26.79%) MongoDB
2 43 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (15.09%) Elasticsearch
4 39 (14.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (12.83%) NoSQL
6 26 (9.81%) MySQL
7 15 (5.66%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.40%) Redis
9 4 (1.51%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.13%) Flink
11 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.38%) Db2
11 1 (0.38%) Metadata
11 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.45%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.94%) Git
3 22 (8.30%) TeamCity
4 16 (6.04%) JUnit
5 9 (3.40%) Maven
5 9 (3.40%) Mockito
6 6 (2.26%) GitLab
6 6 (2.26%) JIRA
6 6 (2.26%) Selenium
7 5 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.51%) Postman
9 3 (1.13%) NUnit
9 3 (1.13%) 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 (0.38%) Appium
General
1 59 (22.26%) Finance
2 41 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.43%) Banking
5 10 (3.77%) Advertising
5 10 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.02%) Electronics
7 8 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.02%) Retail
7 8 (3.02%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.51%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.51%) Publishing
9 3 (1.13%) Back Office
9 3 (1.13%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.75%) Games
10 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 110 (41.51%) Developer
2 95 (35.85%) Software Engineer
3 90 (33.96%) Senior
4 51 (19.25%) Lead
5 42 (15.85%) .NET Developer
6 35 (13.21%) Senior Developer
7 34 (12.83%) Lead Software Engineer
8 30 (11.32%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (10.94%) Java Developer
10 24 (9.06%) Development Engineer
10 24 (9.06%) Software Development Engineer
11 21 (7.92%) Software Developer
12 18 (6.79%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (6.04%) Java Engineer
14 15 (5.66%) Senior Software Developer
15 13 (4.91%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (4.53%) Scala Engineer
17 11 (4.15%) Python Engineer
18 10 (3.77%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (27.17%) .NET
2 58 (21.89%) React
3 53 (20.00%) Node.js
4 47 (17.74%) .NET Core
5 43 (16.23%) RESTful
6 41 (15.47%) REST
7 40 (15.09%) AngularJS
7 40 (15.09%) Spring
8 39 (14.72%) ASP.NET
9 37 (13.96%) ASP.NET Core
10 33 (12.45%) Vue
11 27 (10.19%) Spring Boot
12 23 (8.68%) Akka
13 16 (6.04%) CSS
13 16 (6.04%) HTML
14 15 (5.66%) ASP.NET Web API
15 14 (5.28%) Django
16 13 (4.91%) .NET Framework
17 12 (4.53%) Playwright
18 11 (4.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.45%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.81%) Product Ownership
3 23 (8.68%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (8.30%) Over-the-Top Content
5 19 (7.17%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.02%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.89%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.51%) IoT
10 4 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.13%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.75%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.66%) Linux
2 8 (3.02%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.89%) Unix
4 4 (1.51%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (71.70%) Agile
2 120 (45.28%) Software Engineering
3 106 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 104 (39.25%) Microservices
5 96 (36.23%) Scrum
6 95 (35.85%) BDD
7 84 (31.70%) Mentoring
8 75 (28.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 72 (27.17%) DevOps
10 66 (24.91%) Test Automation
11 62 (23.40%) Kanban
12 56 (21.13%) Open Source
13 54 (20.38%) Pair Programming
14 51 (19.25%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (18.11%) Coaching
16 44 (16.60%) AI
17 41 (15.47%) Containerisation
18 39 (14.72%) Infrastructure as Code
19 38 (14.34%) Clean Code
20 35 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (41.51%) Java
2 91 (34.34%) SQL
3 69 (26.04%) C#
4 56 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 53 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 50 (18.87%) Python
7 25 (9.43%) Scala
8 10 (3.77%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.40%) C++
10 8 (3.02%) C
11 7 (2.64%) Bash
11 7 (2.64%) PHP
12 5 (1.89%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.89%) Ruby
13 4 (1.51%) Go
14 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.38%) RPG
16 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (10.94%) SC Cleared
1 29 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.79%) Degree
3 7 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.68%) QA
2 11 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.13%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (41.13%) Docker
2 11 (4.15%) Firmware
3 8 (3.02%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 99 (37.36%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.08%) Terraform
3 6 (2.26%) Ansible
4 5 (1.89%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.89%) Packer
5 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 51 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.28%) Oracle
3 7 (2.64%) Google
4 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.75%) Facebook
5 2 (0.75%) IBM
6 1 (0.38%) Alterian
6 1 (0.38%) Conga
6 1 (0.38%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.38%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.38%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.38%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.38%) Veracode