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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 133 107
Rank change year-on-year -88 -26 -21
Permanent jobs citing TDD 274 393 634
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 2.34% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.49% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 203 178 447
10th Percentile £42,750 £50,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,250 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -5.11% +4.64% -5.73%

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 19,953 15,755 19,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,223 8,440 11,340
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 9 October 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 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.82%) Apache
2 5 (1.82%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) CMS
4 3 (1.09%) DNN
4 3 (1.09%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.09%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Kentico
4 3 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Sitefinity
4 3 (1.09%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.73%) Camunda
5 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 186 (67.88%) AWS
2 147 (53.65%) Azure
3 60 (21.90%) GitHub
4 48 (17.52%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (11.68%) Serverless
6 21 (7.66%) GCP
7 16 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.74%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.28%) Slack
10 8 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.19%) SaaS
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.46%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.03%) HTTP
2 7 (2.55%) Bluetooth
2 7 (2.55%) Modbus
2 7 (2.55%) Profibus
2 7 (2.55%) RS-232
2 7 (2.55%) RS-485
2 7 (2.55%) Wireless
2 7 (2.55%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (35.40%) MongoDB
2 70 (25.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (22.26%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (9.85%) NoSQL
6 22 (8.03%) MySQL
7 17 (6.20%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.11%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.73%) Flink
11 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.73%) Redis
12 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 36 (13.14%) JUnit
2 32 (11.68%) Git
3 23 (8.39%) Mockito
4 17 (6.20%) Maven
5 8 (2.92%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.92%) Selenium
6 7 (2.55%) GitLab
6 7 (2.55%) Postman
7 6 (2.19%) Gatling
8 4 (1.46%) Android Studio
8 4 (1.46%) NUnit
8 4 (1.46%) Vagrant
9 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.73%) JIRA
10 2 (0.73%) MLflow
10 2 (0.73%) MSTest
11 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 87 (31.75%) Finance
2 45 (16.42%) Public Sector
3 39 (14.23%) Social Skills
4 27 (9.85%) Banking
5 13 (4.74%) Advertising
6 12 (4.38%) Legal
7 10 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.65%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.28%) Retail
9 7 (2.55%) Electronics
9 7 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.19%) Local Government
10 6 (2.19%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.46%) Back Office
12 4 (1.46%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.46%) Publishing
13 3 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
14 2 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 133 (48.54%) Developer
2 77 (28.10%) Software Engineer
3 75 (27.37%) Senior
4 74 (27.01%) .NET Developer
5 69 (25.18%) Lead
6 42 (15.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (12.77%) Senior Developer
8 26 (9.49%) Java Developer
9 22 (8.03%) Development Engineer
9 22 (8.03%) Software Development Engineer
10 18 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (5.11%) Senior Java Developer
13 13 (4.74%) Java Engineer
13 13 (4.74%) Software Developer
14 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 9 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (3.28%) Lead Developer
16 7 (2.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 7 (2.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (36.13%) .NET
2 84 (30.66%) Node.js
3 79 (28.83%) .NET Core
4 74 (27.01%) ASP.NET
5 69 (25.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 67 (24.45%) React
7 59 (21.53%) REST
8 54 (19.71%) AngularJS
8 54 (19.71%) Spring
9 53 (19.34%) Vue
10 34 (12.41%) RESTful
10 34 (12.41%) Spring Boot
11 33 (12.04%) Terraform
12 32 (11.68%) .NET Framework
13 30 (10.95%) CSS
14 29 (10.58%) ASP.NET Web API
15 26 (9.49%) HTML
16 22 (8.03%) Kafka
17 17 (6.20%) Entity Framework
18 16 (5.84%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.22%) Public Cloud
2 24 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (6.20%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.47%) Blog
7 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.82%) NHS
10 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.46%) Hackathon
12 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.74%) Linux
2 8 (2.92%) Android
3 7 (2.55%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (73.36%) Agile
2 138 (50.36%) Microservices
3 118 (43.07%) BDD
4 117 (42.70%) CI/CD
4 117 (42.70%) Scrum
5 105 (38.32%) Software Engineering
6 103 (37.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 91 (33.21%) Mentoring
8 75 (27.37%) Kanban
9 72 (26.28%) Technical Leadership
10 63 (22.99%) DevOps
11 56 (20.44%) Coaching
12 51 (18.61%) AI
12 51 (18.61%) Test Automation
13 50 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (17.15%) Pair Programming
15 45 (16.42%) OO
16 43 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (12.41%) SOLID
18 33 (12.04%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 119 (43.43%) Java
2 116 (42.34%) SQL
3 102 (37.23%) C#
4 82 (29.93%) JavaScript
4 82 (29.93%) TypeScript
5 48 (17.52%) Python
6 15 (5.47%) Bash
7 14 (5.11%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.65%) C++
9 9 (3.28%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.55%) C
10 7 (2.55%) Ruby
11 4 (1.46%) Go
11 4 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.09%) Groovy
12 3 (1.09%) PHP
12 3 (1.09%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.65%) Degree
4 5 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.66%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.74%) QA
2 13 (4.74%) WCAG
3 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.09%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 106 (38.69%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (2.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (39.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.19%) Packer
3 4 (1.46%) Ansible
3 4 (1.46%) Grafana
3 4 (1.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 79 (28.83%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.85%) Oracle
3 4 (1.46%) Databricks
3 4 (1.46%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.46%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.09%) Alterian
4 3 (1.09%) Optimizely
4 3 (1.09%) Splunk
5 2 (0.73%) Facebook
5 2 (0.73%) Google
6 1 (0.36%) Conga
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.36%) RedGate
6 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.36%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.36%) YouTube