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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 116 91
Rank change year-on-year -80 -25 -12
Permanent jobs citing TDD 299 466 817
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 2.83% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 3.04% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 224 246 712
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,063 £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 £80,000 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £122,500 £84,900
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 18,117 15,347 24,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.98% 93.11% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,143 9,074 17,866
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 26 July 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 (1.34%) Apache
1 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.34%) CMS
1 4 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.00%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.00%) DNN
2 3 (1.00%) EPiServer
2 3 (1.00%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (1.00%) Kentico
2 3 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.00%) Sitefinity
2 3 (1.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) JBoss
3 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 198 (66.22%) AWS
2 163 (54.52%) Azure
3 62 (20.74%) GitHub
4 53 (17.73%) GitHub Copilot
5 37 (12.37%) Serverless
6 26 (8.70%) GCP
7 17 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.68%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.01%) ChatGPT
10 9 (3.01%) PaaS
11 8 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.01%) SaaS
14 5 (1.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.36%) HTTP
2 9 (3.01%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.01%) Modbus
2 9 (3.01%) Profibus
2 9 (3.01%) RS-232
2 9 (3.01%) RS-485
2 9 (3.01%) Wireless
2 9 (3.01%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (37.12%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.74%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (13.38%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.37%) MySQL
7 16 (5.35%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.35%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.01%) Redis
11 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.00%) Flink
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.33%) Db2
13 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (13.38%) Git
2 21 (7.02%) JUnit
3 11 (3.68%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.68%) Maven
3 11 (3.68%) Mockito
4 8 (2.68%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.34%) GitLab
5 7 (2.34%) Postman
5 7 (2.34%) Selenium
6 5 (1.67%) Gatling
7 4 (1.34%) JIRA
7 4 (1.34%) NUnit
8 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.67%) MSTest
8 2 (0.67%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.33%) Appium
9 1 (0.33%) git-flow
9 1 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (26.76%) Finance
2 49 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.03%) Banking
5 15 (5.02%) Advertising
6 12 (4.01%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.01%) Electronics
7 9 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.01%) Retail
8 7 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.34%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.01%) Legal
10 4 (1.34%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.34%) Publishing
11 3 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.00%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 140 (46.82%) Developer
2 95 (31.77%) Software Engineer
3 79 (26.42%) Senior
4 77 (25.75%) .NET Developer
5 67 (22.41%) Lead
6 44 (14.72%) Lead Software Engineer
7 34 (11.37%) Senior Developer
8 30 (10.03%) Java Developer
9 27 (9.03%) Development Engineer
9 27 (9.03%) Software Development Engineer
10 22 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (6.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (6.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (6.02%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.02%) Java Engineer
14 12 (4.01%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.68%) Lead Developer
15 11 (3.68%) Senior Software Developer
16 10 (3.34%) Java Software Developer
16 10 (3.34%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (34.78%) .NET
2 88 (29.43%) Node.js
3 78 (26.09%) .NET Core
4 74 (24.75%) ASP.NET
5 71 (23.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 69 (23.08%) React
7 62 (20.74%) AngularJS
8 58 (19.40%) Vue
9 48 (16.05%) REST
10 46 (15.38%) RESTful
11 45 (15.05%) Spring
12 30 (10.03%) .NET Framework
12 30 (10.03%) Spring Boot
13 29 (9.70%) ASP.NET Web API
14 20 (6.69%) CSS
14 20 (6.69%) HTML
15 16 (5.35%) WinForms
16 15 (5.02%) Blazor
16 15 (5.02%) Kafka
17 14 (4.68%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.36%) Product Ownership
3 26 (8.70%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.69%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.01%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.67%) Blog
8 5 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.67%) Mobile Payment
8 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.34%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.00%) IoT
10 3 (1.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.69%) Linux
2 9 (3.01%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (2.01%) Android
4 5 (1.67%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (73.24%) Agile
2 143 (47.83%) Microservices
3 129 (43.14%) BDD
4 126 (42.14%) Software Engineering
5 121 (40.47%) CI/CD
6 113 (37.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 111 (37.12%) Scrum
8 93 (31.10%) Mentoring
9 79 (26.42%) DevOps
10 76 (25.42%) Test Automation
11 71 (23.75%) Kanban
12 63 (21.07%) AI
13 62 (20.74%) Technical Leadership
14 58 (19.40%) Coaching
15 49 (16.39%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (14.72%) Clean Code
16 44 (14.72%) Containerisation
17 43 (14.38%) OO
18 40 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (13.38%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.15%) SQL
2 129 (43.14%) Java
3 105 (35.12%) C#
4 79 (26.42%) JavaScript
4 79 (26.42%) TypeScript
5 60 (20.07%) Python
6 12 (4.01%) C++
6 12 (4.01%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.34%) Bash
8 9 (3.01%) C
9 8 (2.68%) Ruby
10 6 (2.01%) PHP
11 5 (1.67%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.67%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.34%) Go
12 4 (1.34%) Groovy
13 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.67%) Scala
14 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.33%) RPG
Qualifications
1 41 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.35%) Degree
4 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.36%) QA
2 12 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.67%) WCAG
4 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 115 (38.46%) Docker
2 12 (4.01%) Firmware
3 9 (3.01%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (35.79%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.37%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.67%) Packer
5 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 87 (29.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.69%) Oracle
3 6 (2.01%) Google
4 5 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.00%) Alterian
5 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.00%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.00%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.67%) Databricks
6 2 (0.67%) Facebook
6 2 (0.67%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless