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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 105 73
Rank change year-on-year -102 -32 -5
Permanent jobs citing TDD 201 424 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 3.25% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 3.42% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 139 377 1,146
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,520 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -10.71%

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 14,370 12,407 28,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.57% 95.09% 91.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,532 8,764 23,078
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,763
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 24 March 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 3 (1.49%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.00%) CMS
2 2 (1.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.00%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.00%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (52.74%) AWS
2 67 (33.33%) Azure
3 38 (18.91%) Serverless
4 28 (13.93%) GCP
5 21 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.45%) GitHub
7 18 (8.96%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.48%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.98%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.48%) SaaS
13 7 (3.48%) Sentry
14 5 (2.49%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (2.49%) ChatGPT
14 5 (2.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.94%) Broadband
2 6 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.90%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (16.42%) MongoDB
3 24 (11.94%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.45%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.46%) MySQL
6 12 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.99%) Redis
8 6 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.50%) Big Data
11 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.50%) Metadata
11 1 (0.50%) Parquet
11 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (18.41%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.42%) Git
3 23 (11.44%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.47%) GitLab
4 11 (5.47%) Selenium
5 10 (4.98%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.98%) JUnit
6 6 (2.99%) JIRA
7 5 (2.49%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.49%) Storybook
8 2 (1.00%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.00%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.00%) Vite
9 1 (0.50%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Appium
9 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.50%) Mocha
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 56 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.44%) Finance
3 24 (11.94%) Tech for Good
4 18 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.96%) Health Technology
5 16 (7.96%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (6.97%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (6.97%) Publishing
7 10 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.98%) Banking
9 6 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.99%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.49%) Retail
11 4 (1.99%) Back Office
12 3 (1.49%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.49%) Games
12 3 (1.49%) Law
12 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.00%) Advertising
14 1 (0.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 90 (44.78%) Developer
2 78 (38.81%) Senior
3 61 (30.35%) Software Engineer
4 32 (15.92%) Senior Developer
5 28 (13.93%) Lead
6 24 (11.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (11.94%) Software Developer
7 18 (8.96%) Java Developer
7 18 (8.96%) Python Developer
7 18 (8.96%) React Developer
8 17 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (7.96%) Java Engineer
9 16 (7.96%) Lead Developer
10 15 (7.46%) .NET Developer
10 15 (7.46%) AWS Developer
11 14 (6.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (6.97%) Lead Python Developer
11 14 (6.97%) Senior Software Developer
12 12 (5.97%) Scala Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (23.38%) .NET
2 46 (22.89%) React
3 40 (19.90%) RESTful
4 29 (14.43%) Spring Boot
5 28 (13.93%) Spring
6 25 (12.44%) Akka
7 24 (11.94%) Node.js
8 23 (11.44%) AngularJS
8 23 (11.44%) Django
9 19 (9.45%) .NET Core
10 17 (8.46%) REST
11 16 (7.96%) ASP.NET
11 16 (7.96%) Vue
12 14 (6.97%) CSS
12 14 (6.97%) HTML
13 13 (6.47%) Flask
14 11 (5.47%) .NET Framework
14 11 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (4.98%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.98%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.94%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.44%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.47%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.48%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.99%) IoT
10 4 (1.99%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.00%) Digital TV
12 2 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.00%) Mobile Payment
12 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.50%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.98%) Linux
2 6 (2.99%) Android
2 6 (2.99%) Unix
3 4 (1.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (70.65%) Agile
2 98 (48.76%) CI/CD
3 97 (48.26%) Software Engineering
4 75 (37.31%) Mentoring
5 72 (35.82%) DevOps
6 71 (35.32%) Microservices
7 66 (32.84%) Scrum
8 54 (26.87%) Test Automation
9 51 (25.37%) BDD
10 50 (24.88%) Pair Programming
11 48 (23.88%) Coaching
12 44 (21.89%) Open Source
13 42 (20.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (20.40%) Acceptance Criteria
15 40 (19.90%) Kanban
16 36 (17.91%) Containerisation
16 36 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (16.92%) Continuous Integration
18 29 (14.43%) Code Quality
19 28 (13.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 69 (34.33%) Java
2 54 (26.87%) Python
3 42 (20.90%) SQL
4 38 (18.91%) C#
5 36 (17.91%) JavaScript
6 30 (14.93%) TypeScript
7 25 (12.44%) Scala
8 8 (3.98%) Delphi
9 6 (2.99%) PHP
9 6 (2.99%) Ruby
10 4 (1.99%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.49%) Go
12 2 (1.00%) C
12 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.50%) Bash
13 1 (0.50%) R
13 1 (0.50%) RPG
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (9.45%) Degree
2 11 (5.47%) SC Cleared
2 11 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.91%) QA
2 15 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.49%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (36.82%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (32.34%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.96%) Terraform
3 8 (3.98%) Grafana
4 5 (2.49%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.99%) Ansible
6 2 (1.00%) Packer
6 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.47%) Oracle
3 8 (3.98%) Google
4 4 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.00%) SendGrid
5 2 (1.00%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe
6 1 (0.50%) Databricks
6 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.50%) IBM
6 1 (0.50%) Pega
6 1 (0.50%) Veracode
6 1 (0.50%) WSO2