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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 93 74
Rank change year-on-year -109 -19 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 222 527 1,276
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 3.64% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 3.83% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 147 315 1,156
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,864 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +14.21% -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 15,256 13,742 29,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,828 8,906 23,443
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,354 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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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 10 May 2026.

TDD salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

TDD
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 4 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.35%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.35%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.90%) CMS
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (55.86%) AWS
2 77 (34.68%) Azure
3 45 (20.27%) Serverless
4 27 (12.16%) GCP
5 22 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (8.56%) GitHub
7 16 (7.21%) Amazon S3
8 13 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (5.86%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.15%) SaaS
11 7 (3.15%) Sentry
12 6 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.70%) PaaS
13 5 (2.25%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.25%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.36%) Broadband
2 13 (5.86%) HTTP
3 5 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.80%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.80%) Modbus
4 4 (1.80%) Profibus
4 4 (1.80%) RS-232
4 4 (1.80%) RS-485
4 4 (1.80%) Wireless
4 4 (1.80%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.47%) MongoDB
2 34 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (11.26%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (9.91%) NoSQL
5 20 (9.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (7.66%) MySQL
7 14 (6.31%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.05%) Redis
9 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.80%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.35%) Flink
12 1 (0.45%) Big Data
12 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.45%) Parquet
12 1 (0.45%) Power BI
12 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.61%) Git
3 22 (9.91%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.70%) JUnit
5 5 (2.25%) JIRA
5 5 (2.25%) Storybook
6 4 (1.80%) GitLab
6 4 (1.80%) Selenium
7 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.35%) Maven
7 3 (1.35%) Mockito
8 2 (0.90%) MSTest
8 2 (0.90%) NUnit
8 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.90%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.90%) Vite
9 1 (0.45%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.45%) Appium
9 1 (0.45%) XCUITest
General
1 45 (20.27%) Finance
2 38 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.01%) Banking
5 18 (8.11%) Tech for Good
6 12 (5.41%) Health Technology
6 12 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.41%) Publishing
7 11 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.60%) Retail
9 5 (2.25%) Advertising
9 5 (2.25%) Back Office
10 4 (1.80%) Electronics
10 4 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.35%) Law
12 2 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 96 (43.24%) Developer
2 81 (36.49%) Senior
3 72 (32.43%) Software Engineer
4 40 (18.02%) Lead
5 33 (14.86%) Senior Developer
6 26 (11.71%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (10.81%) .NET Developer
8 23 (10.36%) Java Developer
9 22 (9.91%) Software Developer
10 18 (8.11%) Development Engineer
10 18 (8.11%) Software Development Engineer
11 17 (7.66%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (7.66%) Python Developer
12 16 (7.21%) Java Engineer
13 15 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (6.76%) Lead Developer
13 15 (6.76%) React Developer
13 15 (6.76%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (6.31%) Senior Software Developer
15 13 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (22.97%) .NET
2 48 (21.62%) React
3 42 (18.92%) RESTful
4 34 (15.32%) REST
5 32 (14.41%) Spring
6 30 (13.51%) AngularJS
7 29 (13.06%) Node.js
8 26 (11.71%) .NET Core
9 25 (11.26%) Spring Boot
10 23 (10.36%) Akka
11 22 (9.91%) ASP.NET
12 20 (9.01%) Vue
13 15 (6.76%) Django
14 14 (6.31%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (5.86%) Kafka
16 12 (5.41%) CSS
16 12 (5.41%) HTML
17 11 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
18 10 (4.50%) .NET Framework
18 10 (4.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.26%) Product Ownership
3 23 (10.36%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.91%) Over-the-Top Content
5 13 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (5.86%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.25%) Mobile Payment
8 4 (1.80%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.80%) IoT
8 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.90%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.90%) Social Network
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.05%) Linux
2 6 (2.70%) Android
3 5 (2.25%) Unix
4 4 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.80%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (69.37%) Agile
2 102 (45.95%) CI/CD
3 96 (43.24%) Software Engineering
4 82 (36.94%) Scrum
5 74 (33.33%) Microservices
6 71 (31.98%) Mentoring
7 69 (31.08%) DevOps
8 68 (30.63%) BDD
9 59 (26.58%) Test Automation
10 57 (25.68%) Pair Programming
11 53 (23.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 49 (22.07%) Kanban
13 45 (20.27%) Open Source
14 39 (17.57%) Coaching
15 37 (16.67%) Containerisation
15 37 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (15.77%) Acceptance Criteria
16 35 (15.77%) Clean Code
17 33 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 28 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 82 (36.94%) Java
2 56 (25.23%) SQL
3 54 (24.32%) Python
4 45 (20.27%) C#
5 37 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 34 (15.32%) JavaScript
7 24 (10.81%) Scala
8 7 (3.15%) PHP
9 6 (2.70%) Ruby
10 4 (1.80%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.80%) C
10 4 (1.80%) C++
10 4 (1.80%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.35%) Bash
11 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) Go
13 1 (0.45%) Groovy
13 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (9.46%) SC Cleared
1 21 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.31%) Degree
3 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.41%) QA
2 9 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.35%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (37.39%) Docker
2 7 (3.15%) Firmware
3 4 (1.80%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.16%) Terraform
3 8 (3.60%) Ansible
4 5 (2.25%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.25%) Packer
5 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.05%) Oracle
3 7 (3.15%) Google
4 4 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.90%) Facebook
5 2 (0.90%) IBM
5 2 (0.90%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe
6 1 (0.45%) Databricks
6 1 (0.45%) Veracode