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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 125 104
Rank change year-on-year -69 -21 -26
Permanent jobs citing TDD 305 442 711
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 2.68% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.88% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 220 224 594
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,625 £41,474
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £113,125 £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 18,735 15,321 22,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.93% 87.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,552 9,025 15,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.02% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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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 7 August 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 7 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.64%) Apache
2 5 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.31%) CMS
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.98%) DNN
4 3 (0.98%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.98%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.98%) Kentico
4 3 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.98%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.98%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 206 (67.54%) AWS
2 171 (56.07%) Azure
3 63 (20.66%) GitHub
4 53 (17.38%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (13.11%) Serverless
6 29 (9.51%) GCP
7 20 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.59%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.95%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.95%) ChatGPT
10 9 (2.95%) PaaS
11 8 (2.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.30%) Slack
13 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.97%) SaaS
14 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.54%) HTTP
2 9 (2.95%) Bluetooth
2 9 (2.95%) Modbus
2 9 (2.95%) Profibus
2 9 (2.95%) RS-232
2 9 (2.95%) RS-485
2 9 (2.95%) Wireless
2 9 (2.95%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (36.07%) MongoDB
2 72 (23.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.30%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (12.79%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.16%) MySQL
7 18 (5.90%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.26%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.95%) Redis
11 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.98%) Flink
13 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.33%) Db2
14 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (13.77%) Git
2 25 (8.20%) JUnit
3 15 (4.92%) Maven
3 15 (4.92%) Mockito
4 10 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.62%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.62%) GitLab
5 8 (2.62%) Postman
5 8 (2.62%) Selenium
6 6 (1.97%) Gatling
7 4 (1.31%) JIRA
7 4 (1.31%) NUnit
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) MSTest
9 1 (0.33%) Appium
9 1 (0.33%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.33%) MLflow
9 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.33%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.33%) XCUITest
General
1 90 (29.51%) Finance
2 50 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.18%) Banking
5 14 (4.59%) Advertising
6 12 (3.93%) Manufacturing
7 11 (3.61%) Legal
8 10 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.28%) Retail
9 9 (2.95%) Electronics
9 9 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.30%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.64%) Local Government
12 4 (1.31%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.31%) Publishing
13 3 (0.98%) Marketing
13 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Back Office
15 1 (0.33%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 144 (47.21%) Developer
2 98 (32.13%) Software Engineer
3 84 (27.54%) Senior
4 78 (25.57%) .NET Developer
5 70 (22.95%) Lead
6 46 (15.08%) Lead Software Engineer
7 36 (11.80%) Senior Developer
8 33 (10.82%) Java Developer
9 28 (9.18%) Development Engineer
9 28 (9.18%) Software Development Engineer
10 24 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (7.21%) Senior Java Developer
13 18 (5.90%) Software Developer
14 13 (4.26%) Java Engineer
15 11 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 11 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.61%) Lead Developer
15 11 (3.61%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.61%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (35.08%) .NET
2 87 (28.52%) Node.js
3 81 (26.56%) .NET Core
4 74 (24.26%) ASP.NET
5 72 (23.61%) React
6 71 (23.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 61 (20.00%) AngularJS
8 58 (19.02%) Vue
9 54 (17.70%) REST
10 46 (15.08%) Spring
11 44 (14.43%) RESTful
12 31 (10.16%) .NET Framework
13 29 (9.51%) ASP.NET Web API
14 28 (9.18%) Spring Boot
15 22 (7.21%) CSS
16 20 (6.56%) HTML
17 16 (5.25%) WinForms
18 15 (4.92%) Blazor
18 15 (4.92%) Entity Framework
19 14 (4.59%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.51%) Product Ownership
3 28 (9.18%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.28%) Blog
7 9 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.64%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.31%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.31%) IoT
11 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.31%) NHS
11 4 (1.31%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.98%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.56%) Linux
2 9 (2.95%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (1.97%) Android
4 5 (1.64%) Unix
5 3 (0.98%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (73.44%) Agile
2 148 (48.52%) Microservices
3 129 (42.30%) Software Engineering
4 128 (41.97%) BDD
5 127 (41.64%) CI/CD
6 118 (38.69%) Scrum
7 116 (38.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (31.80%) Mentoring
9 83 (27.21%) DevOps
10 76 (24.92%) Kanban
11 74 (24.26%) Test Automation
12 66 (21.64%) AI
13 65 (21.31%) Technical Leadership
14 59 (19.34%) Coaching
15 54 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 50 (16.39%) Containerisation
17 48 (15.74%) OO
18 45 (14.75%) Clean Code
19 44 (14.43%) Pair Programming
20 42 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 136 (44.59%) SQL
2 133 (43.61%) Java
3 109 (35.74%) C#
4 81 (26.56%) JavaScript
5 77 (25.25%) TypeScript
6 65 (21.31%) Python
7 15 (4.92%) PL/SQL
8 14 (4.59%) Bash
9 12 (3.93%) C++
10 11 (3.61%) Ruby
11 9 (2.95%) C
12 6 (1.97%) PHP
13 5 (1.64%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.31%) Go
14 4 (1.31%) Groovy
14 4 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.33%) RPG
16 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.25%) Degree
4 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.89%) QA
2 12 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.97%) WCAG
4 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.98%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.66%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (38.69%) Docker
2 12 (3.93%) Firmware
3 9 (2.95%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (35.74%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.48%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Ansible
4 5 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.31%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.87%) Oracle
3 6 (1.97%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.98%) Alterian
5 3 (0.98%) Databricks
5 3 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.98%) Optimizely
5 3 (0.98%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.66%) Facebook
6 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.33%) RedGate