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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 95 89
Rank change year-on-year -93 -6 -29
Permanent jobs citing TDD 191 575 680
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 3.27% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 3.53% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 150 433 578
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 £97,750 £90,000 £89,125
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 13,685 16,295 18,758
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.13% 92.57% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,775 9,910 15,077
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,549 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 17 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 (1.57%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.57%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.05%) Luigi
2 2 (1.05%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Shopify
2 3 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (58.12%) AWS
2 77 (40.31%) Azure
3 47 (24.61%) Serverless
4 31 (16.23%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (15.71%) GCP
6 19 (9.95%) GitHub
7 17 (8.90%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.85%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (5.76%) OpenShift
10 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.14%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.14%) SaaS
13 5 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.62%) npm
14 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (2.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) AMQP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) Multicast
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.32%) MongoDB
2 31 (16.23%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (9.95%) NoSQL
6 17 (8.90%) SQL Server
7 14 (7.33%) DynamoDB
8 11 (5.76%) MySQL
9 10 (5.24%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.05%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.52%) Big Data
11 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (15.71%) Git
2 19 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.85%) Selenium
4 11 (5.76%) GitLab
5 10 (5.24%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.71%) JUnit
7 8 (4.19%) JIRA
8 7 (3.66%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.14%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.57%) Mocha
10 3 (1.57%) webpack
11 2 (1.05%) Storybook
12 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.52%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.52%) Mockito
12 1 (0.52%) Postman
12 1 (0.52%) Protractor
12 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.90%) Tech for Good
3 29 (15.18%) Health Technology
4 27 (14.14%) Publishing
5 24 (12.57%) Finance
6 22 (11.52%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (7.85%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.14%) Retail
10 5 (2.62%) Banking
10 5 (2.62%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.62%) Law
11 4 (2.09%) Front Office
12 3 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.57%) Back Office
12 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.57%) Legal
12 3 (1.57%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.05%) Games
13 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (59.69%) Developer
2 65 (34.03%) Senior
3 39 (20.42%) Senior Developer
4 32 (16.75%) .NET Developer
5 31 (16.23%) Python Developer
5 31 (16.23%) Software Engineer
6 29 (15.18%) Lead
7 28 (14.66%) Software Developer
8 25 (13.09%) React Developer
9 21 (10.99%) AWS Developer
10 19 (9.95%) Lead Developer
11 16 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (8.38%) Java Developer
12 15 (7.85%) Lead Python Developer
12 15 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (7.33%) Senior Software Developer
14 12 (6.28%) Senior Python Developer
15 10 (5.24%) Lead Software Developer
16 9 (4.71%) Senior React Developer
17 8 (4.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (42.41%) React
2 60 (31.41%) .NET
3 42 (21.99%) RESTful
4 39 (20.42%) Node.js
5 34 (17.80%) AngularJS
6 33 (17.28%) .NET Core
7 30 (15.71%) ASP.NET
8 28 (14.66%) Spring Boot
9 25 (13.09%) ASP.NET MVC
10 24 (12.57%) Entity Framework
10 24 (12.57%) HTML
10 24 (12.57%) Spring
10 24 (12.57%) Vue
11 23 (12.04%) .NET Framework
11 23 (12.04%) CSS
12 19 (9.95%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (9.42%) Kafka
13 18 (9.42%) REST
14 15 (7.85%) Django
15 13 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.19%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.14%) Digital TV
6 5 (2.62%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.57%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.57%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.57%) Social Media
9 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.09%) Android
1 4 (2.09%) Apple iOS
1 4 (2.09%) Linux
2 3 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (74.87%) Agile
2 95 (49.74%) CI/CD
3 75 (39.27%) Microservices
4 64 (33.51%) Software Engineering
5 63 (32.98%) Scrum
6 60 (31.41%) BDD
6 60 (31.41%) DevOps
7 56 (29.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 55 (28.80%) Mentoring
9 42 (21.99%) Pair Programming
10 38 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (18.32%) Coaching
11 35 (18.32%) Test Automation
12 33 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (16.23%) Kanban
14 29 (15.18%) MVC
15 27 (14.14%) Code Quality
15 27 (14.14%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (14.14%) Operational Stability
16 22 (11.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.03%) C#
2 58 (30.37%) Python
3 57 (29.84%) JavaScript
3 57 (29.84%) TypeScript
4 54 (28.27%) Java
5 45 (23.56%) SQL
6 8 (4.19%) Delphi
7 5 (2.62%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.62%) PHP
7 5 (2.62%) Ruby
7 5 (2.62%) Scala
8 4 (2.09%) Go
9 3 (1.57%) R
10 2 (1.05%) C
11 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (7.33%) Degree
2 12 (6.28%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.05%) PhD
7 2 (1.05%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (23.04%) QA
2 21 (10.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.09%) WCAG
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (17.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (16.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.19%) Grafana
3 7 (3.66%) Terraform
4 6 (3.14%) Ansible
5 3 (1.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.76%) Oracle
3 3 (1.57%) Google
4 2 (1.05%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.52%) Pega
5 1 (0.52%) Revolut
5 1 (0.52%) SendGrid
5 1 (0.52%) UiPath
5 1 (0.52%) WSO2