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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 94 90
Rank change year-on-year -104 -4 -31
Permanent jobs citing TDD 186 561 684
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 3.25% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 3.50% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 146 417 581
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,875 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -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 13,545 16,029 18,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.80% 92.91% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,653 9,676 15,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +3.31% -3.20%
75th Percentile £78,800 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 22 December 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 3 (1.61%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.61%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.08%) Luigi
2 2 (1.08%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Shopify
2 3 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (57.53%) AWS
2 76 (40.86%) Azure
3 47 (25.27%) Serverless
4 31 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (15.59%) GCP
6 19 (10.22%) GitHub
7 17 (9.14%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.38%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.23%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.23%) SaaS
12 5 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.69%) npm
13 4 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.15%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) Broadband
2 2 (1.08%) AMQP
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
3 1 (0.54%) Multicast
3 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.28%) MongoDB
2 31 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (15.05%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (9.68%) NoSQL
6 17 (9.14%) SQL Server
7 14 (7.53%) DynamoDB
8 10 (5.38%) MySQL
8 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.54%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.54%) Big Data
10 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.54%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (16.13%) Git
2 19 (10.22%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.06%) Selenium
4 11 (5.91%) GitLab
5 10 (5.38%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.84%) JUnit
7 8 (4.30%) JIRA
8 7 (3.76%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.23%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.61%) Mocha
10 3 (1.61%) webpack
11 2 (1.08%) Storybook
12 1 (0.54%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.54%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.54%) Mockito
12 1 (0.54%) Postman
12 1 (0.54%) Protractor
12 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.89%) Tech for Good
3 29 (15.59%) Health Technology
4 27 (14.52%) Publishing
5 22 (11.83%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (11.29%) Finance
7 15 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.91%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.69%) Banking
9 5 (2.69%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.69%) Law
9 5 (2.69%) Retail
10 3 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.61%) Back Office
10 3 (1.61%) Front Office
10 3 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.61%) Legal
10 3 (1.61%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (61.29%) Developer
2 64 (34.41%) Senior
3 39 (20.97%) Senior Developer
4 32 (17.20%) .NET Developer
5 31 (16.67%) Python Developer
6 29 (15.59%) Lead
6 29 (15.59%) Software Engineer
7 28 (15.05%) Software Developer
8 25 (13.44%) React Developer
9 21 (11.29%) AWS Developer
10 19 (10.22%) Lead Developer
11 16 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (8.06%) Java Developer
12 15 (8.06%) Lead Python Developer
13 14 (7.53%) Senior Software Developer
13 14 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (6.45%) Senior Python Developer
15 10 (5.38%) Lead Software Developer
16 9 (4.84%) Senior React Developer
17 8 (4.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (43.01%) React
2 60 (32.26%) .NET
3 42 (22.58%) RESTful
4 39 (20.97%) Node.js
5 35 (18.82%) AngularJS
6 32 (17.20%) .NET Core
7 30 (16.13%) ASP.NET
8 26 (13.98%) Spring Boot
9 25 (13.44%) ASP.NET MVC
10 24 (12.90%) .NET Framework
10 24 (12.90%) Entity Framework
10 24 (12.90%) HTML
10 24 (12.90%) Vue
11 23 (12.37%) CSS
11 23 (12.37%) Spring
12 19 (10.22%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (9.14%) Kafka
13 17 (9.14%) REST
14 15 (8.06%) Django
15 13 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.23%) Digital TV
7 5 (2.69%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.61%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.61%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.61%) Social Media
10 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.08%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.54%) IoT
11 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Android
2 4 (2.15%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.15%) Linux
3 3 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (75.81%) Agile
2 94 (50.54%) CI/CD
3 72 (38.71%) Microservices
4 63 (33.87%) Scrum
5 60 (32.26%) Software Engineering
6 58 (31.18%) BDD
7 56 (30.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 55 (29.57%) DevOps
8 55 (29.57%) Mentoring
9 42 (22.58%) Pair Programming
10 38 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (18.82%) Coaching
11 35 (18.82%) Test Automation
12 31 (16.67%) Kanban
13 30 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (15.59%) MVC
15 28 (15.05%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (14.52%) Code Quality
16 27 (14.52%) Operational Stability
17 23 (12.37%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.41%) C#
2 58 (31.18%) JavaScript
3 57 (30.65%) TypeScript
4 56 (30.11%) Python
5 51 (27.42%) Java
6 42 (22.58%) SQL
7 8 (4.30%) Delphi
8 6 (3.23%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.69%) PHP
9 5 (2.69%) Ruby
9 5 (2.69%) Scala
10 4 (2.15%) Go
11 3 (1.61%) R
12 2 (1.08%) C
13 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (7.53%) Degree
2 11 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (23.66%) QA
2 21 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.15%) WCAG
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (15.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.30%) Grafana
3 6 (3.23%) Ansible
3 6 (3.23%) Terraform
4 3 (1.61%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.91%) Oracle
3 3 (1.61%) Google
4 2 (1.08%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe
5 1 (0.54%) Databricks
5 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.54%) Pega
5 1 (0.54%) SendGrid
5 1 (0.54%) UiPath
5 1 (0.54%) WSO2