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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 120 86
Rank change year-on-year -69 -34 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 294 466 940
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 2.82% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 3.02% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 223 246 828
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £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 £133,125 £85,000
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 17,794 15,412 26,661
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.66% 93.25% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,991 9,129 20,081
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,900 £34,000
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%

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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 20 July 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 4 (1.36%) CMS
2 3 (1.02%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.02%) DNN
2 3 (1.02%) EPiServer
2 3 (1.02%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (1.02%) Kentico
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.02%) Sitefinity
2 3 (1.02%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 194 (65.99%) AWS
2 157 (53.40%) Azure
3 61 (20.75%) GitHub
4 52 (17.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 37 (12.59%) Serverless
6 24 (8.16%) GCP
7 17 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.76%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.06%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.06%) PaaS
11 8 (2.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.72%) ChatGPT
12 7 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.04%) SaaS
14 5 (1.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.48%) HTTP
2 9 (3.06%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.06%) Modbus
2 9 (3.06%) Profibus
2 9 (3.06%) RS-232
2 9 (3.06%) RS-485
2 9 (3.06%) Wireless
2 9 (3.06%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (37.76%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (23.13%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (12.93%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.54%) MySQL
7 16 (5.44%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.42%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.06%) Redis
11 5 (1.70%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.02%) Flink
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.34%) Db2
13 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (12.24%) Git
2 18 (6.12%) JUnit
3 11 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.40%) Maven
4 10 (3.40%) Mockito
5 6 (2.04%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.04%) GitLab
5 6 (2.04%) Selenium
6 5 (1.70%) JIRA
6 5 (1.70%) Postman
7 4 (1.36%) NUnit
8 3 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.02%) Gatling
9 2 (0.68%) MSTest
9 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.68%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 75 (25.51%) Finance
2 47 (15.99%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.18%) Banking
5 15 (5.10%) Advertising
6 11 (3.74%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.06%) Electronics
7 9 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.06%) Retail
8 7 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.38%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.36%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.36%) Legal
9 4 (1.36%) Publishing
10 3 (1.02%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.02%) Marketing
11 2 (0.68%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 139 (47.28%) Developer
2 95 (32.31%) Software Engineer
3 77 (26.19%) .NET Developer
4 76 (25.85%) Senior
5 65 (22.11%) Lead
6 44 (14.97%) Lead Software Engineer
7 33 (11.22%) Senior Developer
8 30 (10.20%) Java Developer
9 27 (9.18%) Development Engineer
9 27 (9.18%) Software Development Engineer
10 22 (7.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (6.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (6.46%) Senior Java Developer
12 17 (5.78%) Software Developer
13 15 (5.10%) Java Engineer
14 12 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.74%) Senior Software Developer
16 10 (3.40%) Java Software Developer
16 10 (3.40%) Lead Developer
16 10 (3.40%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (35.03%) .NET
2 89 (30.27%) Node.js
3 78 (26.53%) .NET Core
4 73 (24.83%) ASP.NET
5 71 (24.15%) ASP.NET Core
6 69 (23.47%) React
7 61 (20.75%) AngularJS
8 58 (19.73%) Vue
9 47 (15.99%) REST
9 47 (15.99%) RESTful
10 44 (14.97%) Spring
11 30 (10.20%) .NET Framework
11 30 (10.20%) Spring Boot
12 29 (9.86%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (6.80%) CSS
13 20 (6.80%) HTML
14 16 (5.44%) WinForms
15 15 (5.10%) Blazor
16 14 (4.76%) Entity Framework
16 14 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.54%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.50%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.80%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.06%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.70%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.36%) IoT
9 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.36%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.02%) Blog
10 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.02%) Hackathon
10 3 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.44%) Linux
2 9 (3.06%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.70%) Android
3 5 (1.70%) Unix
4 3 (1.02%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (72.45%) Agile
2 141 (47.96%) Microservices
3 130 (44.22%) BDD
4 126 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 118 (40.14%) CI/CD
6 112 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 107 (36.39%) Scrum
8 90 (30.61%) Mentoring
9 77 (26.19%) DevOps
10 75 (25.51%) Test Automation
11 69 (23.47%) Kanban
12 60 (20.41%) AI
12 60 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (18.71%) Coaching
14 47 (15.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (14.97%) Clean Code
16 43 (14.63%) OO
17 42 (14.29%) Containerisation
18 39 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (13.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.22%) SQL
2 128 (43.54%) Java
3 104 (35.37%) C#
4 80 (27.21%) TypeScript
5 77 (26.19%) JavaScript
6 58 (19.73%) Python
7 12 (4.08%) C++
8 11 (3.74%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.06%) C
10 8 (2.72%) Bash
10 8 (2.72%) Ruby
11 7 (2.38%) PHP
12 5 (1.70%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.36%) Go
13 4 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.02%) Groovy
14 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.68%) Scala
15 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.44%) Degree
4 6 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.82%) QA
2 10 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.02%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (37.41%) Docker
2 12 (4.08%) Firmware
3 9 (3.06%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 103 (35.03%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.20%) Terraform
3 6 (2.04%) Ansible
4 5 (1.70%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.70%) Packer
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 87 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.46%) Oracle
3 6 (2.04%) Google
4 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.02%) Alterian
5 3 (1.02%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.02%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.02%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.68%) Facebook
6 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 1 (0.34%) Conga
7 1 (0.34%) Databricks
7 1 (0.34%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.34%) Veracode