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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 114 74
Rank change year-on-year -71 -40 0
Permanent jobs citing TDD 278 491 1,295
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 3.16% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 3.34% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 190 270 1,167
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,555 £94,694 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £136,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 16,683 14,689 30,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.40% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 8,561 23,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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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 23 June 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 (1.08%) Apache Solr
1 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.08%) CMS
2 2 (0.72%) Confluence
2 2 (0.72%) DNN
2 2 (0.72%) EPiServer
2 2 (0.72%) Immediacy CMS
2 2 (0.72%) Kentico
2 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.72%) Sitefinity
2 2 (0.72%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.36%) JBoss
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 171 (61.51%) AWS
2 126 (45.32%) Azure
3 41 (14.75%) GitHub
4 38 (13.67%) Serverless
5 36 (12.95%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (8.63%) GCP
7 16 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.60%) Azure AI
9 10 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.24%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.52%) PaaS
13 6 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.16%) SaaS
13 6 (2.16%) Sentry
14 5 (1.80%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.80%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.27%) Broadband
2 20 (7.19%) HTTP
3 8 (2.88%) Bluetooth
3 8 (2.88%) Modbus
3 8 (2.88%) Profibus
3 8 (2.88%) RS-232
3 8 (2.88%) RS-485
3 8 (2.88%) Wireless
3 8 (2.88%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (29.86%) MongoDB
2 51 (18.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 51 (18.35%) Elasticsearch
3 43 (15.47%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (12.59%) NoSQL
5 27 (9.71%) MySQL
6 16 (5.76%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.24%) Redis
9 4 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.08%) Flink
11 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.36%) Db2
11 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.36%) Metadata
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (11.87%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.79%) Git
3 22 (7.91%) TeamCity
4 16 (5.76%) JUnit
5 9 (3.24%) Maven
5 9 (3.24%) Mockito
6 6 (2.16%) GitLab
6 6 (2.16%) JIRA
7 5 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.80%) Selenium
8 4 (1.44%) NUnit
8 4 (1.44%) Postman
9 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.72%) Gatling
10 2 (0.72%) MSTest
10 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.72%) Storybook
10 2 (0.72%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.36%) git-flow
11 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 62 (22.30%) Finance
2 41 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.99%) Banking
5 11 (3.96%) Advertising
6 10 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.88%) Electronics
7 8 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.88%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.52%) Retail
9 4 (1.44%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.44%) Publishing
10 3 (1.08%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Legal
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (42.81%) Developer
2 97 (34.89%) Software Engineer
3 89 (32.01%) Senior
4 53 (19.06%) .NET Developer
4 53 (19.06%) Lead
5 35 (12.59%) Lead Software Engineer
5 35 (12.59%) Senior Developer
6 30 (10.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (10.43%) Java Developer
8 25 (8.99%) Development Engineer
8 25 (8.99%) Software Development Engineer
9 21 (7.55%) Software Developer
10 18 (6.47%) Senior Java Developer
11 16 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.76%) Java Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Senior Software Developer
13 13 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
14 12 (4.32%) Scala Engineer
15 11 (3.96%) Python Engineer
16 10 (3.60%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (30.58%) .NET
2 64 (23.02%) Node.js
3 61 (21.94%) React
4 60 (21.58%) .NET Core
5 52 (18.71%) ASP.NET
6 50 (17.99%) AngularJS
6 50 (17.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 44 (15.83%) Vue
8 43 (15.47%) REST
8 43 (15.47%) RESTful
9 40 (14.39%) Spring
10 27 (9.71%) Spring Boot
11 23 (8.27%) Akka
12 21 (7.55%) ASP.NET Web API
13 19 (6.83%) .NET Framework
14 17 (6.12%) CSS
14 17 (6.12%) HTML
15 14 (5.04%) Django
16 11 (3.96%) Kafka
16 11 (3.96%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.87%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.35%) Product Ownership
3 23 (8.27%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.91%) Over-the-Top Content
5 21 (7.55%) Public Cloud
6 15 (5.40%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.88%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.80%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.44%) IoT
10 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.08%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.72%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.40%) Linux
2 8 (2.88%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.72%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (73.38%) Agile
2 124 (44.60%) Software Engineering
3 117 (42.09%) Microservices
4 109 (39.21%) Scrum
5 108 (38.85%) BDD
6 107 (38.49%) CI/CD
7 88 (31.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 84 (30.22%) Mentoring
9 75 (26.98%) DevOps
10 74 (26.62%) Kanban
11 63 (22.66%) Test Automation
12 56 (20.14%) Open Source
13 55 (19.78%) Pair Programming
14 53 (19.06%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (17.63%) Coaching
16 47 (16.91%) AI
17 41 (14.75%) Containerisation
17 41 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
18 38 (13.67%) Clean Code
19 36 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 112 (40.29%) Java
2 105 (37.77%) SQL
3 83 (29.86%) C#
4 63 (22.66%) TypeScript
5 60 (21.58%) JavaScript
6 51 (18.35%) Python
7 25 (8.99%) Scala
8 10 (3.60%) C++
8 10 (3.60%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.88%) C
10 7 (2.52%) Bash
10 7 (2.52%) PHP
11 6 (2.16%) Ruby
12 5 (1.80%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.44%) Go
14 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) Perl
15 1 (0.36%) RPG
Qualifications
1 30 (10.79%) SC Cleared
1 30 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.47%) Degree
3 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.63%) QA
2 11 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.08%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (42.09%) Docker
2 11 (3.96%) Firmware
3 8 (2.88%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (38.49%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.51%) Terraform
3 6 (2.16%) Ansible
4 5 (1.80%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.80%) Packer
5 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.40%) Oracle
3 7 (2.52%) Google
4 5 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.72%) Alterian
6 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.72%) Facebook
6 2 (0.72%) IBM
6 2 (0.72%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.72%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.36%) Conga
7 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.36%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.36%) Veracode