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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 123 105
Rank change year-on-year -79 -18 -29
Permanent jobs citing TDD 304 442 715
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 2.68% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.89% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 221 224 597
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £113,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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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 6 August 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 7 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.32%) Apache
2 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.32%) CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.99%) DNN
3 3 (0.99%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.99%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Kentico
3 3 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.99%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 204 (67.11%) AWS
2 170 (55.92%) Azure
3 62 (20.39%) GitHub
4 53 (17.43%) GitHub Copilot
5 39 (12.83%) Serverless
6 28 (9.21%) GCP
7 19 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.61%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.96%) ChatGPT
11 9 (2.96%) PaaS
12 8 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.97%) SaaS
15 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.64%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.57%) HTTP
2 9 (2.96%) Bluetooth
2 9 (2.96%) Modbus
2 9 (2.96%) Profibus
2 9 (2.96%) RS-232
2 9 (2.96%) RS-485
2 9 (2.96%) Wireless
2 9 (2.96%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (36.18%) MongoDB
2 72 (23.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.37%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (12.83%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.20%) MySQL
7 17 (5.59%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.28%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.96%) Redis
11 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.99%) Flink
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.33%) Db2
13 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (13.82%) Git
2 25 (8.22%) JUnit
3 15 (4.93%) Maven
3 15 (4.93%) Mockito
4 11 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.63%) GitLab
5 8 (2.63%) Postman
5 8 (2.63%) Selenium
6 6 (1.97%) Gatling
7 4 (1.32%) JIRA
7 4 (1.32%) NUnit
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) MSTest
9 1 (0.33%) Appium
9 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.33%) git-flow
9 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 88 (28.95%) Finance
2 50 (16.45%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.21%) Banking
5 15 (4.93%) Advertising
6 12 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.29%) Retail
8 9 (2.96%) Electronics
8 9 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.96%) Legal
8 9 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.30%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.32%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.32%) Publishing
11 3 (0.99%) Back Office
11 3 (0.99%) Local Government
11 3 (0.99%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (47.37%) Developer
2 96 (31.58%) Software Engineer
3 83 (27.30%) Senior
4 78 (25.66%) .NET Developer
5 68 (22.37%) Lead
6 45 (14.80%) Lead Software Engineer
7 36 (11.84%) Senior Developer
8 33 (10.86%) Java Developer
9 28 (9.21%) Development Engineer
9 28 (9.21%) Software Development Engineer
10 23 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (7.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (7.24%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (5.92%) Software Developer
13 13 (4.28%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (3.62%) Java Software Engineer
14 11 (3.62%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.62%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.62%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (34.54%) .NET
2 88 (28.95%) Node.js
3 80 (26.32%) .NET Core
4 74 (24.34%) ASP.NET
5 72 (23.68%) React
6 71 (23.36%) ASP.NET Core
7 61 (20.07%) AngularJS
8 58 (19.08%) Vue
9 54 (17.76%) REST
10 46 (15.13%) Spring
11 45 (14.80%) RESTful
12 31 (10.20%) .NET Framework
13 29 (9.54%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (9.21%) Spring Boot
15 22 (7.24%) CSS
16 20 (6.58%) HTML
17 16 (5.26%) WinForms
18 15 (4.93%) Blazor
18 15 (4.93%) Entity Framework
19 14 (4.61%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.54%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.88%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.96%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (2.63%) Blog
7 8 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.64%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.32%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.32%) IoT
10 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.58%) Linux
2 9 (2.96%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (1.97%) Android
4 5 (1.64%) Unix
5 3 (0.99%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (72.70%) Agile
2 147 (48.36%) Microservices
3 128 (42.11%) BDD
4 127 (41.78%) Software Engineering
5 126 (41.45%) CI/CD
6 116 (38.16%) Scrum
7 115 (37.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 96 (31.58%) Mentoring
9 80 (26.32%) DevOps
10 75 (24.67%) Test Automation
11 74 (24.34%) Kanban
12 66 (21.71%) AI
13 65 (21.38%) Technical Leadership
14 58 (19.08%) Coaching
15 51 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 49 (16.12%) Containerisation
17 47 (15.46%) OO
18 45 (14.80%) Clean Code
19 42 (13.82%) Pair Programming
20 41 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 136 (44.74%) SQL
2 132 (43.42%) Java
3 107 (35.20%) C#
4 82 (26.97%) JavaScript
5 78 (25.66%) TypeScript
6 64 (21.05%) Python
7 15 (4.93%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.61%) Bash
9 12 (3.95%) C++
10 10 (3.29%) Ruby
11 9 (2.96%) C
12 6 (1.97%) PHP
13 5 (1.64%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.32%) Go
14 4 (1.32%) Groovy
14 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.33%) Perl
16 1 (0.33%) RPG
Qualifications
1 46 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.26%) Degree
4 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.91%) QA
2 12 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.97%) WCAG
4 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.99%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.66%) NCSC
System Software
1 117 (38.49%) Docker
2 12 (3.95%) Firmware
3 9 (2.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (35.86%) Kubernetes
2 34 (11.18%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Ansible
4 5 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.32%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.57%) Oracle
3 6 (1.97%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.99%) Alterian
5 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.99%) Optimizely
5 3 (0.99%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.66%) Databricks
6 2 (0.66%) Facebook
6 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless