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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 111 72
Rank change year-on-year -75 -39 -5
Permanent jobs citing TDD 234 498 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 3.32% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 3.50% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 153 284 1,166
10th Percentile £45,250 £51,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £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 15,535 14,247 29,575
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.06% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,045 8,583 23,342
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%

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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

TDD
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 21 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 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.28%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (59.40%) AWS
2 90 (38.46%) Azure
3 44 (18.80%) Serverless
4 24 (10.26%) GCP
5 21 (8.97%) GitHub
6 20 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (5.98%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (2.99%) SaaS
11 7 (2.99%) Sentry
12 6 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.56%) PaaS
13 5 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.14%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.83%) Broadband
2 15 (6.41%) HTTP
3 5 (2.14%) Bluetooth
3 5 (2.14%) Modbus
3 5 (2.14%) Profibus
3 5 (2.14%) RS-232
3 5 (2.14%) RS-485
3 5 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.14%) Wireless
3 5 (2.14%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.79%) MongoDB
2 44 (18.80%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (14.10%) NoSQL
4 26 (11.11%) MySQL
5 25 (10.68%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (8.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.85%) Redis
9 4 (1.71%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.28%) Flink
11 1 (0.43%) Big Data
11 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.43%) DB2
11 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.43%) Parquet
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (14.53%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.39%) Git
3 22 (9.40%) TeamCity
4 11 (4.70%) JUnit
5 8 (3.42%) Maven
5 8 (3.42%) Mockito
6 5 (2.14%) JIRA
6 5 (2.14%) Selenium
6 5 (2.14%) Storybook
7 4 (1.71%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.71%) GitLab
8 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.85%) MSTest
8 2 (0.85%) NUnit
8 2 (0.85%) Postman
8 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.85%) Vite
9 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.43%) XCUITest
General
1 53 (22.65%) Finance
2 36 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.40%) Banking
5 14 (5.98%) Tech for Good
6 11 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.27%) Health Technology
7 10 (4.27%) Publishing
8 9 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.42%) Retail
10 7 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.14%) Advertising
11 5 (2.14%) Back Office
11 5 (2.14%) Electronics
11 5 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.28%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.28%) Law
14 2 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 95 (40.60%) Developer
2 86 (36.75%) Software Engineer
3 84 (35.90%) Senior
4 54 (23.08%) Lead
5 35 (14.96%) Senior Developer
6 30 (12.82%) Lead Software Engineer
7 27 (11.54%) Java Developer
7 27 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (9.83%) .NET Developer
9 21 (8.97%) Software Developer
10 20 (8.55%) Development Engineer
10 20 (8.55%) Software Development Engineer
11 18 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (7.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (6.84%) Java Engineer
14 15 (6.41%) Lead Developer
14 15 (6.41%) Senior Software Developer
15 14 (5.98%) Python Developer
16 13 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
17 12 (5.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (22.65%) RESTful
2 51 (21.79%) React
3 48 (20.51%) .NET
4 40 (17.09%) Node.js
5 39 (16.67%) REST
6 38 (16.24%) Spring
7 29 (12.39%) AngularJS
8 26 (11.11%) .NET Core
8 26 (11.11%) Spring Boot
9 23 (9.83%) Akka
10 20 (8.55%) Vue
11 19 (8.12%) ASP.NET
12 17 (7.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (5.98%) Django
14 12 (5.13%) CSS
14 12 (5.13%) HTML
15 11 (4.70%) Kafka
15 11 (4.70%) Playwright
16 10 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
17 8 (3.42%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.83%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.40%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (6.41%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.14%) Mobile Payment
7 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.71%) IoT
9 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.85%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.13%) Linux
2 6 (2.56%) Android
3 5 (2.14%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.14%) Unix
4 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (69.66%) Agile
2 107 (45.73%) Software Engineering
3 104 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 88 (37.61%) Microservices
5 87 (37.18%) Scrum
6 83 (35.47%) Mentoring
7 70 (29.91%) BDD
7 70 (29.91%) DevOps
8 61 (26.07%) Test Automation
9 56 (23.93%) Open Source
10 55 (23.50%) Pair Programming
11 54 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 47 (20.09%) Coaching
12 47 (20.09%) Kanban
13 42 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (17.09%) Containerisation
15 36 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (14.96%) Clean Code
17 34 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
18 33 (14.10%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 100 (42.74%) Java
2 71 (30.34%) SQL
3 51 (21.79%) Python
4 48 (20.51%) JavaScript
5 41 (17.52%) C#
6 38 (16.24%) TypeScript
7 24 (10.26%) Scala
8 9 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.56%) Bash
9 6 (2.56%) PHP
10 5 (2.14%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.14%) C
10 5 (2.14%) C++
10 5 (2.14%) Ruby
11 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) Go
13 1 (0.43%) Perl
13 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (10.68%) SC Cleared
1 25 (10.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.41%) Degree
3 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.25%) QA
2 9 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.28%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (39.32%) Docker
2 8 (3.42%) Firmware
3 5 (2.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (35.47%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.54%) Terraform
3 8 (3.42%) Ansible
4 5 (2.14%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.14%) Packer
5 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.56%) Oracle
3 7 (2.99%) Google
4 5 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.85%) Facebook
5 2 (0.85%) IBM
5 2 (0.85%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe
6 1 (0.43%) Conga
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.43%) Veracode