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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 114 72
Rank change year-on-year -77 -42 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 245 470 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 3.21% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 3.39% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 159 253 1,167
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £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 £81,750 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £136,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 15,852 13,879 29,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 94.80% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,122 23,480
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,025 £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 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%

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 29 May 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 4 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.22%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.22%) Confluence
2 3 (1.22%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (59.18%) AWS
2 98 (40.00%) Azure
3 42 (17.14%) Serverless
4 26 (10.61%) GCP
5 23 (9.39%) GitHub
6 18 (7.35%) GitHub Copilot
7 17 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (4.08%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.86%) Sentry
13 6 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.45%) Azure AI
13 6 (2.45%) PaaS
13 6 (2.45%) SaaS
14 5 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.39%) Broadband
2 17 (6.94%) HTTP
3 6 (2.45%) Bluetooth
3 6 (2.45%) Modbus
3 6 (2.45%) Profibus
3 6 (2.45%) RS-232
3 6 (2.45%) RS-485
3 6 (2.45%) Wireless
3 6 (2.45%) ZigBee
4 5 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (23.27%) MongoDB
2 45 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 28 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (10.20%) MySQL
6 24 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (6.12%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.67%) Redis
9 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.22%) Flink
11 1 (0.41%) Big Data
11 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.41%) DB2
11 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.41%) Parquet
11 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.88%) Jenkins
2 33 (13.47%) Git
3 22 (8.98%) TeamCity
4 16 (6.53%) JUnit
5 9 (3.67%) Maven
5 9 (3.67%) Mockito
6 7 (2.86%) GitLab
6 7 (2.86%) JIRA
6 7 (2.86%) Selenium
7 5 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.04%) Storybook
8 4 (1.63%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.63%) Postman
9 2 (0.82%) Gatling
9 2 (0.82%) MSTest
9 2 (0.82%) NUnit
9 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.82%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.82%) Vite
10 1 (0.41%) XCUITest
General
1 55 (22.45%) Finance
2 37 (15.10%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.80%) Banking
5 10 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.08%) Tech for Good
6 9 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.27%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.27%) Retail
8 7 (2.86%) Advertising
9 6 (2.45%) Electronics
9 6 (2.45%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.45%) Publishing
10 4 (1.63%) Back Office
11 3 (1.22%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Games
12 2 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 99 (40.41%) Developer
2 89 (36.33%) Software Engineer
3 87 (35.51%) Senior
4 53 (21.63%) Lead
5 34 (13.88%) Senior Developer
6 32 (13.06%) Lead Software Engineer
7 29 (11.84%) Java Developer
8 28 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 27 (11.02%) .NET Developer
10 22 (8.98%) Development Engineer
10 22 (8.98%) Software Developer
10 22 (8.98%) Software Development Engineer
11 19 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (7.35%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (6.53%) Java Engineer
14 15 (6.12%) Senior Software Developer
15 13 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (4.90%) Lead Developer
16 12 (4.90%) Scala Engineer
17 11 (4.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.45%) React
2 54 (22.04%) .NET
3 47 (19.18%) RESTful
4 44 (17.96%) Node.js
5 41 (16.73%) Spring
6 40 (16.33%) REST
7 31 (12.65%) AngularJS
8 30 (12.24%) .NET Core
9 28 (11.43%) Spring Boot
10 25 (10.20%) ASP.NET
11 23 (9.39%) Akka
12 22 (8.98%) ASP.NET Core
12 22 (8.98%) Vue
13 16 (6.53%) HTML
14 15 (6.12%) CSS
15 14 (5.71%) Django
16 13 (5.31%) Playwright
17 12 (4.90%) Kafka
18 10 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
19 9 (3.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.61%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.39%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (8.98%) Over-the-Top Content
5 17 (6.94%) Public Cloud
6 14 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.45%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.04%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.63%) IoT
10 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.82%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.31%) Linux
2 6 (2.45%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.04%) Android
3 5 (2.04%) Unix
4 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (70.20%) Agile
2 110 (44.90%) Software Engineering
3 107 (43.67%) CI/CD
4 92 (37.55%) Microservices
5 88 (35.92%) Scrum
6 83 (33.88%) Mentoring
7 79 (32.24%) BDD
8 75 (30.61%) DevOps
9 65 (26.53%) Test Automation
10 61 (24.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (22.86%) Open Source
12 54 (22.04%) Pair Programming
13 50 (20.41%) Kanban
14 47 (19.18%) Coaching
15 46 (18.78%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (16.33%) Containerisation
17 36 (14.69%) Clean Code
17 36 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (14.29%) AI
19 34 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (43.27%) Java
2 76 (31.02%) SQL
3 54 (22.04%) JavaScript
4 47 (19.18%) C#
4 47 (19.18%) Python
5 43 (17.55%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.20%) Scala
7 10 (4.08%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.86%) Bash
9 6 (2.45%) C
9 6 (2.45%) C++
9 6 (2.45%) PHP
10 5 (2.04%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.04%) Ruby
11 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.41%) Go
13 1 (0.41%) Perl
13 1 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (11.84%) SC Cleared
1 29 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.53%) Degree
3 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.61%) QA
2 12 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.63%) WCAG
4 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.22%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 99 (40.41%) Docker
2 9 (3.67%) Firmware
3 6 (2.45%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 89 (36.33%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.43%) Terraform
3 8 (3.27%) Ansible
4 5 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.04%) Packer
5 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.71%) Oracle
3 8 (3.27%) Google
4 5 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.82%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.82%) Facebook
5 2 (0.82%) IBM
5 2 (0.82%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe
6 1 (0.41%) Conga
6 1 (0.41%) Databricks
6 1 (0.41%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.41%) Veracode