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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 123 123
Rank change year-on-year -75 0 -37
Permanent jobs citing TDD 290 435 660
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 2.65% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.84% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 202 213 519
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.00% -6.72%
75th Percentile £80,188 £82,751 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,125 £102,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,507 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.42% +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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 September 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 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.72%) Apache
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.38%) CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.03%) DNN
4 3 (1.03%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.03%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Kentico
4 3 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Sitefinity
4 3 (1.03%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (65.86%) AWS
2 156 (53.79%) Azure
3 64 (22.07%) GitHub
4 52 (17.93%) GitHub Copilot
5 35 (12.07%) Serverless
6 24 (8.28%) GCP
7 19 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.83%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.10%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.10%) Slack
10 8 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (2.76%) SaaS
11 7 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.07%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.62%) HTTP
2 9 (3.10%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.10%) Modbus
2 9 (3.10%) Profibus
2 9 (3.10%) RS-232
2 9 (3.10%) RS-485
2 9 (3.10%) Wireless
2 9 (3.10%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (34.48%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 63 (21.72%) Elasticsearch
4 35 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (9.66%) NoSQL
6 21 (7.24%) MySQL
7 19 (6.55%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.48%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.38%) Redis
11 3 (1.03%) Flink
12 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (14.14%) Git
2 28 (9.66%) JUnit
3 16 (5.52%) Maven
3 16 (5.52%) Mockito
4 10 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.76%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.76%) GitLab
5 8 (2.76%) Selenium
6 7 (2.41%) Postman
7 6 (2.07%) Gatling
8 4 (1.38%) NUnit
9 3 (1.03%) JIRA
10 2 (0.69%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.69%) MSTest
11 1 (0.34%) git-flow
11 1 (0.34%) MLflow
11 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.34%) XCUITest
General
1 97 (33.45%) Finance
2 46 (15.86%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.83%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.69%) Banking
5 14 (4.83%) Advertising
6 13 (4.48%) Legal
7 12 (4.14%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.10%) Electronics
8 9 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.10%) Retail
9 6 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.07%) Local Government
10 5 (1.72%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.38%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Publishing
12 3 (1.03%) Back Office
12 3 (1.03%) Marketing
13 2 (0.69%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 144 (49.66%) Developer
2 85 (29.31%) Senior
2 85 (29.31%) Software Engineer
3 78 (26.90%) .NET Developer
4 71 (24.48%) Lead
5 46 (15.86%) Lead Software Engineer
6 39 (13.45%) Senior Developer
7 30 (10.34%) Development Engineer
7 30 (10.34%) Java Developer
7 30 (10.34%) Software Development Engineer
8 24 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (6.21%) Senior Java Developer
11 14 (4.83%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (3.45%) Lead Developer
13 9 (3.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (3.10%) React Developer
13 9 (3.10%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 9 (3.10%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (36.55%) .NET
2 92 (31.72%) Node.js
3 82 (28.28%) .NET Core
4 75 (25.86%) ASP.NET
5 72 (24.83%) React
6 71 (24.48%) ASP.NET Core
7 62 (21.38%) AngularJS
8 58 (20.00%) REST
9 57 (19.66%) Vue
10 44 (15.17%) Spring
11 33 (11.38%) RESTful
12 32 (11.03%) .NET Framework
12 32 (11.03%) Terraform
13 30 (10.34%) CSS
14 29 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
15 27 (9.31%) HTML
16 24 (8.28%) Spring Boot
17 16 (5.52%) Entity Framework
17 16 (5.52%) Kafka
17 16 (5.52%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.34%) Product Ownership
1 30 (10.34%) Public Cloud
2 20 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (5.86%) Cloud Native
3 17 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.83%) Blog
5 9 (3.10%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.72%) Mobile Payment
8 5 (1.72%) NHS
8 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.38%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.38%) IoT
9 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.03%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.17%) Linux
2 9 (3.10%) FreeRTOS
3 8 (2.76%) Android
4 3 (1.03%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (72.07%) Agile
2 140 (48.28%) Microservices
3 122 (42.07%) BDD
4 117 (40.34%) Scrum
5 114 (39.31%) CI/CD
5 114 (39.31%) Software Engineering
6 112 (38.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 94 (32.41%) Mentoring
8 78 (26.90%) Kanban
9 71 (24.48%) Technical Leadership
10 69 (23.79%) DevOps
11 61 (21.03%) AI
12 59 (20.34%) Test Automation
13 54 (18.62%) Coaching
14 51 (17.59%) OO
15 49 (16.90%) Pair Programming
16 45 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (14.14%) Roadmaps
18 40 (13.79%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.76%) SQL
2 115 (39.66%) Java
3 109 (37.59%) C#
4 89 (30.69%) JavaScript
5 81 (27.93%) TypeScript
6 56 (19.31%) Python
7 15 (5.17%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.83%) Bash
9 12 (4.14%) C++
10 10 (3.45%) Ruby
11 9 (3.10%) C
12 7 (2.41%) Kotlin
13 6 (2.07%) PHP
14 4 (1.38%) Go
14 4 (1.38%) Groovy
14 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.03%) Scala
16 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.14%) Degree
4 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.21%) QA
3 13 (4.48%) WCAG
4 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.03%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (36.55%) Docker
2 12 (4.14%) Firmware
3 9 (3.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (35.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (1.03%) Packer
4 2 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 88 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.28%) Oracle
3 3 (1.03%) Alterian
3 3 (1.03%) Databricks
3 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.03%) Optimizely
3 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.03%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.69%) Facebook
4 2 (0.69%) Splunk
5 1 (0.34%) Conga
5 1 (0.34%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.34%) Google
5 1 (0.34%) IBM
5 1 (0.34%) RedGate
5 1 (0.34%) YouTube