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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 114 79
Rank change year-on-year -78 -35 -11
Permanent jobs citing TDD 208 379 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.16% 2.83% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.99% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 140 332 1,150
10th Percentile £45,909 £49,012 £40,000
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 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,375 £108,675 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 14,887 12,677 29,712
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.72% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,419 8,968 23,636
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -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%

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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 23 April 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 3 (1.44%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.96%) CMS
2 2 (0.96%) Confluence
2 2 (0.96%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.48%) JBoss
3 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 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
1 112 (53.85%) AWS
2 66 (31.73%) Azure
3 40 (19.23%) Serverless
4 28 (13.46%) GCP
5 20 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.13%) GitHub
7 18 (8.65%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.85%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.37%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.37%) Sentry
12 6 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.88%) PaaS
12 6 (2.88%) SaaS
13 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.02%) Broadband
2 7 (3.37%) HTTP
3 5 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) Bluetooth
4 3 (1.44%) Modbus
4 3 (1.44%) Profibus
4 3 (1.44%) RS-232
4 3 (1.44%) RS-485
4 3 (1.44%) Wireless
4 3 (1.44%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (13.94%) MongoDB
3 23 (11.06%) NoSQL
4 22 (10.58%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.17%) MySQL
6 10 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.37%) Redis
9 7 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.48%) Flink
12 1 (0.48%) Metadata
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.48%) Parquet
12 1 (0.48%) Power BI
12 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (18.27%) Jenkins
2 36 (17.31%) Git
3 23 (11.06%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.77%) GitLab
5 11 (5.29%) JUnit
5 11 (5.29%) Selenium
6 10 (4.81%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.40%) JIRA
7 5 (2.40%) 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 58 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Finance
3 20 (9.62%) Tech for Good
4 18 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.21%) Banking
5 15 (7.21%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.77%) Health Technology
6 12 (5.77%) Publishing
7 10 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.85%) Retail
9 7 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.92%) Back Office
12 3 (1.44%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.44%) Electronics
12 3 (1.44%) Games
12 3 (1.44%) Law
12 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 85 (40.87%) Developer
2 81 (38.94%) Senior
3 72 (34.62%) Software Engineer
4 36 (17.31%) Lead
5 31 (14.90%) Senior Developer
6 28 (13.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (11.54%) Software Developer
8 18 (8.65%) Lead Developer
9 17 (8.17%) Java Engineer
9 17 (8.17%) Python Developer
10 16 (7.69%) Java Developer
11 15 (7.21%) React Developer
12 14 (6.73%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.73%) Senior Software Developer
13 13 (6.25%) AWS Developer
14 12 (5.77%) Development Engineer
14 12 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (5.77%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (5.77%) Scala Engineer
14 12 (5.77%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.67%) .NET
2 41 (19.71%) React
3 40 (19.23%) RESTful
4 31 (14.90%) Spring
5 28 (13.46%) Spring Boot
6 25 (12.02%) Akka
7 24 (11.54%) AngularJS
7 24 (11.54%) REST
8 23 (11.06%) Django
9 20 (9.62%) Node.js
10 14 (6.73%) .NET Core
10 14 (6.73%) Vue
11 13 (6.25%) Flask
12 12 (5.77%) ASP.NET
12 12 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (5.77%) Kafka
12 12 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (5.29%) CSS
13 11 (5.29%) HTML
14 9 (4.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.54%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.06%) Over-the-Top Content
4 20 (9.62%) Product Ownership
5 16 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (3.85%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.37%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.40%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.92%) IoT
10 4 (1.92%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.37%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Android
3 5 (2.40%) Unix
4 4 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.44%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (68.27%) Agile
2 106 (50.96%) Software Engineering
3 100 (48.08%) CI/CD
4 79 (37.98%) Mentoring
5 74 (35.58%) DevOps
6 70 (33.65%) Microservices
7 66 (31.73%) Scrum
8 61 (29.33%) Test Automation
9 56 (26.92%) BDD
10 53 (25.48%) Pair Programming
11 49 (23.56%) Coaching
12 46 (22.12%) Open Source
13 44 (21.15%) Containerisation
14 40 (19.23%) Acceptance Criteria
15 38 (18.27%) Kanban
16 37 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (17.31%) Continuous Integration
17 36 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
18 31 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
19 28 (13.46%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.06%) Java
2 58 (27.88%) Python
3 41 (19.71%) SQL
4 35 (16.83%) C#
5 31 (14.90%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.02%) Scala
6 25 (12.02%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.85%) Delphi
8 6 (2.88%) PHP
8 6 (2.88%) Ruby
9 5 (2.40%) C
10 4 (1.92%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.44%) C++
11 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.48%) Go
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) RPG
13 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (8.17%) Degree
2 14 (6.73%) SC Cleared
2 14 (6.73%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.87%) QA
2 14 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (37.98%) Docker
2 6 (2.88%) Firmware
3 3 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (33.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.10%) Terraform
3 8 (3.85%) Grafana
4 6 (2.88%) Ansible
5 5 (2.40%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.44%) Packer
7 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.25%) Oracle
3 7 (3.37%) Google
4 4 (1.92%) 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%) Veracode