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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 97 92
Rank change year-on-year -78 -5 -39
Permanent jobs citing TDD 219 612 716
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 3.03% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 3.40% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 173 454 610
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% -3.57% -

All Process and 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 13,960 17,980 20,394
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.28% 89.12% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,790 10,859 16,513
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,644
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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

TDD
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 22 November 2025.

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 6 (2.74%) IIS
1 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.28%) CMS
3 3 (1.37%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.37%) WordPress
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Drupal
4 2 (0.91%) Luigi
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.91%) Elementor
1 2 (0.91%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (57.53%) AWS
2 89 (40.64%) Azure
3 45 (20.55%) Serverless
4 34 (15.53%) GCP
5 31 (14.16%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (10.96%) GitHub
7 14 (6.39%) SaaS
8 13 (5.94%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (5.02%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.74%) Figma
12 6 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.28%) npm
13 5 (2.28%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (0.91%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Broadband
2 2 (0.91%) AMQP
2 2 (0.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Multicast
3 1 (0.46%) RFID
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.26%) MongoDB
2 36 (16.44%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (13.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (10.05%) SQL Server
6 18 (8.22%) NoSQL
7 17 (7.76%) DynamoDB
8 13 (5.94%) Relational Database
9 12 (5.48%) MySQL
10 6 (2.74%) Data Hub
10 6 (2.74%) SQL CLR
11 5 (2.28%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.91%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.46%) Power BI
13 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (15.07%) Git
2 18 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.39%) Selenium
4 10 (4.57%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.57%) GitLab
5 9 (4.11%) JUnit
6 8 (3.65%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.20%) JIRA
8 6 (2.74%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.37%) Mocha
9 3 (1.37%) webpack
10 2 (0.91%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.91%) Protractor
11 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.46%) Postman
11 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.46%) RSpec
11 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.35%) Tech for Good
3 33 (15.07%) Finance
4 27 (12.33%) Health Technology
5 25 (11.42%) Publishing
6 18 (8.22%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.48%) Front Office
7 12 (5.48%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.74%) Back Office
10 3 (1.37%) Legal
10 3 (1.37%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.37%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Automotive
11 2 (0.91%) Banking
11 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.91%) Games
11 2 (0.91%) Law
11 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (59.82%) Developer
2 72 (32.88%) Senior
3 42 (19.18%) Senior Developer
4 39 (17.81%) Software Engineer
5 37 (16.89%) .NET Developer
6 29 (13.24%) Python Developer
7 28 (12.79%) Software Developer
8 24 (10.96%) Lead
9 21 (9.59%) React Developer
10 17 (7.76%) AWS Developer
11 16 (7.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (7.31%) Lead Developer
11 16 (7.31%) Senior Software Developer
11 16 (7.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (6.85%) Java Developer
13 14 (6.39%) Senior Python Developer
14 11 (5.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (5.02%) Lead Python Developer
15 10 (4.57%) C# Developer
16 9 (4.11%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (43.84%) React
2 75 (34.25%) .NET
3 46 (21.00%) AngularJS
4 44 (20.09%) .NET Core
5 40 (18.26%) Node.js
6 39 (17.81%) RESTful
7 37 (16.89%) ASP.NET
8 35 (15.98%) Entity Framework
8 35 (15.98%) Vue
9 34 (15.53%) .NET Framework
10 28 (12.79%) ASP.NET MVC
10 28 (12.79%) CSS
10 28 (12.79%) HTML
10 28 (12.79%) Spring Boot
11 25 (11.42%) Spring
12 23 (10.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (8.22%) REST
14 16 (7.31%) Kafka
15 15 (6.85%) Django
15 15 (6.85%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.20%) Digital TV
5 7 (3.20%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (2.28%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.28%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.83%) Equities
8 4 (1.83%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.83%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.37%) Social Media
10 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.91%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.11%) Windows
2 6 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.83%) Linux
4 3 (1.37%) Android
4 3 (1.37%) Unix
5 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (73.52%) Agile
2 98 (44.75%) CI/CD
3 85 (38.81%) Microservices
4 82 (37.44%) Software Engineering
5 68 (31.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (29.68%) BDD
6 65 (29.68%) DevOps
7 64 (29.22%) Scrum
8 51 (23.29%) Mentoring
9 41 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (18.72%) Pair Programming
10 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (16.44%) Kanban
12 33 (15.07%) MVC
12 33 (15.07%) Test Automation
13 32 (14.61%) Coaching
14 28 (12.79%) Continuous Delivery
14 28 (12.79%) SOLID
15 26 (11.87%) Code Quality
15 26 (11.87%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 82 (37.44%) C#
2 73 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 70 (31.96%) JavaScript
4 66 (30.14%) Python
5 58 (26.48%) SQL
6 55 (25.11%) Java
7 9 (4.11%) PHP
8 8 (3.65%) Delphi
8 8 (3.65%) Ruby
9 6 (2.74%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.28%) Scala
11 4 (1.83%) Go
12 3 (1.37%) R
13 2 (0.91%) C
13 2 (0.91%) Swift
14 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 14 (6.39%) Degree
1 14 (6.39%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.02%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.37%) Postgraduate
6 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.35%) QA
2 20 (9.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.37%) WCAG
4 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (16.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (14.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.57%) Terraform
3 9 (4.11%) Grafana
4 4 (1.83%) Ansible
5 3 (1.37%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.11%) Oracle
3 6 (2.74%) VMware
4 3 (1.37%) Google
4 3 (1.37%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.91%) Netlify
6 1 (0.46%) Databricks
6 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.46%) Pega
6 1 (0.46%) Revolut
6 1 (0.46%) Splunk
6 1 (0.46%) UiPath
6 1 (0.46%) WSO2