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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 108 72
Rank change year-on-year -92 -36 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 209 387 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 2.95% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 3.11% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 142 344 1,155
10th Percentile £45,909 £48,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,498 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,100 £90,000
UK median annual salary £69,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.71% +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 14,510 12,456 29,185
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,123 8,932 23,488
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 14 April 2026.

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 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.96%) CMS
1 2 (0.96%) Confluence
1 2 (0.96%) NServiceBus
1 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (54.55%) AWS
2 69 (33.01%) Azure
3 43 (20.57%) Serverless
4 32 (15.31%) GCP
5 23 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (10.05%) Amazon S3
7 19 (9.09%) GitHub
8 15 (7.18%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.31%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.35%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.35%) Sentry
12 6 (2.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.87%) PaaS
12 6 (2.87%) SaaS
13 5 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.96%) Broadband
2 5 (2.39%) HTTP
2 5 (2.39%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.96%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.96%) Modbus
3 2 (0.96%) Profibus
3 2 (0.96%) RS-232
3 2 (0.96%) RS-485
3 2 (0.96%) Wireless
3 2 (0.96%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.62%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (15.31%) MongoDB
3 25 (11.96%) NoSQL
4 21 (10.05%) SQL Server
5 15 (7.18%) MySQL
6 10 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.35%) Redis
10 4 (1.91%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.48%) Big Data
13 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.48%) Flink
13 1 (0.48%) Metadata
13 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.48%) Parquet
13 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 35 (16.75%) Git
3 23 (11.00%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.74%) GitLab
5 11 (5.26%) Selenium
6 10 (4.78%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.78%) JUnit
7 5 (2.39%) JIRA
7 5 (2.39%) Storybook
8 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.96%) Vite
10 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.48%) Appium
10 1 (0.48%) git-flow
10 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.48%) Postman
10 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 60 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.79%) Finance
3 23 (11.00%) Tech for Good
4 19 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.13%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (7.66%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.70%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.70%) Publishing
8 13 (6.22%) Banking
9 10 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (3.35%) Retail
11 6 (2.87%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.91%) Back Office
13 3 (1.44%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.44%) Games
13 3 (1.44%) Law
14 2 (0.96%) Advertising
14 2 (0.96%) Electronics
14 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (41.15%) Developer
2 84 (40.19%) Senior
3 72 (34.45%) Software Engineer
4 35 (16.75%) Lead
5 32 (15.31%) Senior Developer
6 29 (13.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.96%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.09%) Lead Developer
8 19 (9.09%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.13%) React Developer
10 16 (7.66%) Java Engineer
11 15 (7.18%) AWS Developer
11 15 (7.18%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.70%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.70%) Lead Python Developer
12 14 (6.70%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (5.74%) Python Engineer
13 12 (5.74%) Scala Engineer
14 11 (5.26%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.53%) React
2 43 (20.57%) .NET
2 43 (20.57%) RESTful
3 30 (14.35%) Spring
4 28 (13.40%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.44%) Django
6 25 (11.96%) Akka
7 23 (11.00%) AngularJS
8 21 (10.05%) REST
9 20 (9.57%) Node.js
10 16 (7.66%) Vue
11 15 (7.18%) Flask
12 14 (6.70%) .NET Core
13 12 (5.74%) ASP.NET
13 12 (5.74%) CSS
13 12 (5.74%) HTML
14 11 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (5.26%) FastAPI
15 10 (4.78%) Kafka
16 9 (4.31%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.48%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (8.61%) Product Ownership
5 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.35%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.39%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.91%) IoT
10 4 (1.91%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.96%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.83%) Linux
2 6 (2.87%) Android
3 5 (2.39%) Unix
4 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (69.38%) Agile
2 106 (50.72%) Software Engineering
3 102 (48.80%) CI/CD
4 80 (38.28%) Mentoring
5 79 (37.80%) DevOps
6 70 (33.49%) Microservices
7 66 (31.58%) Scrum
8 60 (28.71%) Test Automation
9 54 (25.84%) Pair Programming
10 52 (24.88%) BDD
11 50 (23.92%) Coaching
12 46 (22.01%) Open Source
13 43 (20.57%) Containerisation
14 42 (20.10%) Acceptance Criteria
15 39 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (17.70%) Continuous Integration
16 37 (17.70%) Kanban
17 36 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 32 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (13.88%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.41%) Java
2 61 (29.19%) Python
3 42 (20.10%) SQL
4 35 (16.75%) C#
5 32 (15.31%) JavaScript
6 27 (12.92%) TypeScript
7 25 (11.96%) Scala
8 8 (3.83%) Delphi
9 6 (2.87%) PHP
9 6 (2.87%) Ruby
10 4 (1.91%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.91%) C
11 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.96%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.48%) Go
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) RPG
13 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (9.09%) Degree
2 14 (6.70%) SC Cleared
2 14 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.27%) QA
2 14 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (38.76%) Docker
2 5 (2.39%) Firmware
3 2 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (33.97%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.05%) Terraform
3 8 (3.83%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) Ansible
4 5 (2.39%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (1.44%) Packer
6 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.22%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Google
4 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.96%) IBM
5 2 (0.96%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.96%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode