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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 123 117
Rank change year-on-year -89 -6 -35
Permanent jobs citing TDD 274 409 650
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 2.51% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 2.69% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 197 195 467
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,630
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £81,788 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 19,826 15,207 20,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.45% 93.22% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,213 8,631 12,628
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,812 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 18 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 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.82%) Apache
2 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.09%) CMS
3 3 (1.09%) DNN
3 3 (1.09%) EPiServer
3 3 (1.09%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Kentico
3 3 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Sitefinity
3 3 (1.09%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) JBoss
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 184 (67.15%) AWS
2 150 (54.74%) Azure
3 60 (21.90%) GitHub
4 48 (17.52%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (11.68%) Serverless
6 23 (8.39%) GCP
7 16 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.74%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.28%) Slack
10 8 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.82%) PaaS
13 5 (1.82%) SaaS
14 4 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.46%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.12%) HTTP
2 9 (3.28%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.28%) Modbus
2 9 (3.28%) Profibus
2 9 (3.28%) RS-232
2 9 (3.28%) RS-485
2 9 (3.28%) Wireless
2 9 (3.28%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (35.40%) MongoDB
2 70 (25.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (22.63%) Elasticsearch
4 34 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (9.85%) NoSQL
6 20 (7.30%) MySQL
7 16 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.74%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.09%) Flink
10 3 (1.09%) Redis
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (13.50%) Git
2 29 (10.58%) JUnit
3 17 (6.20%) Maven
3 17 (6.20%) Mockito
4 10 (3.65%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.92%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.92%) GitLab
5 8 (2.92%) Selenium
6 7 (2.55%) Postman
7 6 (2.19%) Gatling
8 4 (1.46%) NUnit
9 3 (1.09%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.73%) JIRA
10 2 (0.73%) MSTest
10 2 (0.73%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 94 (34.31%) Finance
2 42 (15.33%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.96%) Social Skills
4 31 (11.31%) Banking
5 13 (4.74%) Advertising
5 13 (4.74%) Legal
6 12 (4.38%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.28%) Electronics
7 9 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.28%) Retail
8 8 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.19%) Local Government
10 5 (1.82%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.46%) Back Office
11 4 (1.46%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.46%) Publishing
12 3 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (0.73%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 135 (49.27%) Developer
2 78 (28.47%) Senior
2 78 (28.47%) Software Engineer
3 75 (27.37%) .NET Developer
4 70 (25.55%) Lead
5 45 (16.42%) Lead Software Engineer
6 35 (12.77%) Senior Developer
7 28 (10.22%) Development Engineer
7 28 (10.22%) Java Developer
7 28 (10.22%) Software Development Engineer
8 19 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (5.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 13 (4.74%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 9 (3.28%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.28%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (35.40%) .NET
2 87 (31.75%) Node.js
3 79 (28.83%) .NET Core
4 72 (26.28%) ASP.NET
5 69 (25.18%) ASP.NET Core
5 69 (25.18%) React
6 60 (21.90%) AngularJS
7 59 (21.53%) REST
8 55 (20.07%) Vue
9 46 (16.79%) Spring
10 32 (11.68%) RESTful
10 32 (11.68%) Terraform
11 31 (11.31%) .NET Framework
12 29 (10.58%) ASP.NET Web API
12 29 (10.58%) CSS
13 26 (9.49%) HTML
14 25 (9.12%) Spring Boot
15 18 (6.57%) Kafka
16 16 (5.84%) Entity Framework
16 16 (5.84%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.95%) Product Ownership
1 30 (10.95%) Public Cloud
2 19 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.11%) Blog
4 14 (5.11%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (2.55%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.82%) NHS
7 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.46%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.09%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.09%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.11%) Linux
2 9 (3.28%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (2.55%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (71.90%) Agile
2 133 (48.54%) Microservices
3 120 (43.80%) BDD
4 113 (41.24%) Scrum
5 112 (40.88%) CI/CD
6 105 (38.32%) Software Engineering
7 104 (37.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (31.75%) Mentoring
9 75 (27.37%) Kanban
10 70 (25.55%) Technical Leadership
11 62 (22.63%) DevOps
12 56 (20.44%) AI
13 52 (18.98%) Coaching
13 52 (18.98%) Test Automation
14 49 (17.88%) OO
14 49 (17.88%) Pair Programming
15 47 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 37 (13.50%) Roadmaps
17 37 (13.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 118 (43.07%) SQL
2 114 (41.61%) Java
3 102 (37.23%) C#
4 84 (30.66%) JavaScript
5 79 (28.83%) TypeScript
6 49 (17.88%) Python
7 15 (5.47%) PL/SQL
8 14 (5.11%) Bash
9 12 (4.38%) C++
10 9 (3.28%) C
11 8 (2.92%) Ruby
12 7 (2.55%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.46%) Go
13 4 (1.46%) Groovy
13 4 (1.46%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.09%) PHP
14 3 (1.09%) Scala
15 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.28%) Degree
4 5 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.93%) 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
1 100 (36.50%) Docker
2 9 (3.28%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (3.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 98 (35.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.19%) Ansible
3 5 (1.82%) Packer
4 2 (0.73%) Grafana
4 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 81 (29.56%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.76%) Oracle
3 3 (1.09%) Alterian
3 3 (1.09%) Databricks
3 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.09%) Optimizely
3 3 (1.09%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.73%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.73%) Facebook
4 2 (0.73%) Splunk
5 1 (0.36%) Conga
5 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
5 1 (0.36%) Google
5 1 (0.36%) IBM
5 1 (0.36%) RedGate
5 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.36%) YouTube