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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 115 74
Rank change year-on-year -77 -41 -5
Permanent jobs citing TDD 242 467 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 3.22% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 3.39% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 158 251 1,164
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,250 £96,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -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 15,823 13,768 29,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.03% 94.85% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,289 8,032 23,418
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,826 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%

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 27 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 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.24%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.24%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 143 (59.09%) AWS
2 94 (38.84%) Azure
3 44 (18.18%) Serverless
4 25 (10.33%) GCP
5 22 (9.09%) GitHub
6 19 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (7.02%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (4.96%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.89%) SaaS
12 7 (2.89%) Sentry
13 6 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.48%) PaaS
14 5 (2.07%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.07%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.07%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.50%) Broadband
2 16 (6.61%) HTTP
3 6 (2.48%) Bluetooth
3 6 (2.48%) Modbus
3 6 (2.48%) Profibus
3 6 (2.48%) RS-232
3 6 (2.48%) RS-485
3 6 (2.48%) Wireless
3 6 (2.48%) ZigBee
4 5 (2.07%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (22.31%) MongoDB
2 44 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (14.46%) NoSQL
4 27 (11.16%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (10.33%) MySQL
6 22 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (6.20%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.72%) Redis
9 4 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.24%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.24%) Flink
11 1 (0.41%) Big Data
11 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.41%) DB2
11 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.41%) Parquet
11 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 31 (12.81%) Git
3 22 (9.09%) TeamCity
4 14 (5.79%) JUnit
5 9 (3.72%) Maven
5 9 (3.72%) Mockito
6 7 (2.89%) JIRA
7 5 (2.07%) GitLab
7 5 (2.07%) Selenium
7 5 (2.07%) Storybook
8 4 (1.65%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.83%) MSTest
10 2 (0.83%) NUnit
10 2 (0.83%) Postman
10 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.83%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.83%) Vite
11 1 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.41%) XCUITest
General
1 53 (21.90%) Finance
2 37 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.92%) Banking
5 12 (4.96%) Tech for Good
6 11 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.72%) Retail
9 8 (3.31%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.31%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.31%) Publishing
10 6 (2.48%) Advertising
10 6 (2.48%) Electronics
11 5 (2.07%) Back Office
11 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.24%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.24%) Law
14 2 (0.83%) Games
Job Titles
1 99 (40.91%) Developer
2 88 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 85 (35.12%) Senior
4 55 (22.73%) Lead
5 34 (14.05%) Senior Developer
6 31 (12.81%) Lead Software Engineer
7 29 (11.98%) Java Developer
8 28 (11.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (10.33%) .NET Developer
10 23 (9.50%) Software Developer
11 21 (8.68%) Development Engineer
11 21 (8.68%) Software Development Engineer
12 19 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (7.44%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (6.61%) Java Engineer
15 15 (6.20%) Senior Software Developer
16 14 (5.79%) Lead Developer
17 13 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
18 12 (4.96%) Scala Engineer
19 11 (4.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.31%) React
2 52 (21.49%) .NET
3 49 (20.25%) RESTful
4 43 (17.77%) Node.js
5 41 (16.94%) Spring
6 39 (16.12%) REST
7 30 (12.40%) AngularJS
8 28 (11.57%) .NET Core
8 28 (11.57%) Spring Boot
9 23 (9.50%) Akka
9 23 (9.50%) ASP.NET
10 20 (8.26%) ASP.NET Core
10 20 (8.26%) Vue
11 15 (6.20%) HTML
12 14 (5.79%) CSS
13 13 (5.37%) Django
14 12 (4.96%) Kafka
15 11 (4.55%) Playwright
16 10 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
17 8 (3.31%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.74%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.50%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.09%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (6.61%) Public Cloud
6 14 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.07%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.07%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.65%) IoT
10 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.83%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.37%) Linux
2 6 (2.48%) Android
2 6 (2.48%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.07%) Unix
4 4 (1.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (70.25%) Agile
2 109 (45.04%) Software Engineering
3 105 (43.39%) CI/CD
4 91 (37.60%) Microservices
5 89 (36.78%) Scrum
6 84 (34.71%) Mentoring
7 76 (31.40%) BDD
8 73 (30.17%) DevOps
9 64 (26.45%) Test Automation
10 59 (24.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (23.14%) Open Source
12 53 (21.90%) Pair Programming
13 49 (20.25%) Kanban
14 47 (19.42%) Coaching
15 45 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (16.53%) Containerisation
17 36 (14.88%) Clean Code
18 35 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
19 33 (13.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 105 (43.39%) Java
2 74 (30.58%) SQL
3 53 (21.90%) JavaScript
4 48 (19.83%) Python
5 45 (18.60%) C#
6 41 (16.94%) TypeScript
7 25 (10.33%) Scala
8 10 (4.13%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.89%) Bash
10 6 (2.48%) C
10 6 (2.48%) C++
10 6 (2.48%) PHP
11 5 (2.07%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.07%) Ruby
12 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) Go
14 1 (0.41%) Perl
14 1 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (11.16%) SC Cleared
1 27 (11.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.61%) Degree
3 7 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.98%) QA
2 10 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.24%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (39.67%) Docker
2 9 (3.72%) Firmware
3 6 (2.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (35.12%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.57%) Terraform
3 8 (3.31%) Ansible
4 5 (2.07%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.07%) Packer
5 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.79%) Oracle
3 8 (3.31%) Google
4 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.83%) Facebook
5 2 (0.83%) IBM
5 2 (0.83%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe
6 1 (0.41%) Conga
6 1 (0.41%) Databricks
6 1 (0.41%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.41%) Veracode