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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 131 107
Rank change year-on-year -93 -24 -20
Permanent jobs citing TDD 274 390 651
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.10% 2.32% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.47% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 201 175 454
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,000 £85,700
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.81% +7.31% -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 20,042 15,769 19,580
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.69% 93.82% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14,290 8,427 11,609
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%

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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 5 October 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 (2.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.82%) Apache
2 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.09%) CMS
3 3 (1.09%) DNN
3 3 (1.09%) EPiServer
3 3 (1.09%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Kentico
3 3 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Sitefinity
3 3 (1.09%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.09%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.73%) Camunda
4 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (68.25%) AWS
2 147 (53.65%) Azure
3 60 (21.90%) GitHub
4 48 (17.52%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (11.68%) Serverless
6 22 (8.03%) GCP
7 17 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.74%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.28%) Slack
10 8 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.19%) SaaS
13 5 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.82%) PaaS
14 4 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.46%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.39%) HTTP
2 8 (2.92%) Bluetooth
2 8 (2.92%) Modbus
2 8 (2.92%) Profibus
2 8 (2.92%) RS-232
2 8 (2.92%) RS-485
2 8 (2.92%) Wireless
2 8 (2.92%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (35.77%) MongoDB
2 70 (25.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (22.63%) Elasticsearch
4 39 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (10.22%) NoSQL
6 22 (8.03%) MySQL
7 16 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.11%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.09%) Flink
10 3 (1.09%) Redis
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 34 (12.41%) JUnit
2 33 (12.04%) Git
3 21 (7.66%) Mockito
4 17 (6.20%) Maven
5 9 (3.28%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.92%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.92%) Selenium
7 7 (2.55%) GitLab
7 7 (2.55%) Postman
8 6 (2.19%) Gatling
9 4 (1.46%) Android Studio
9 4 (1.46%) NUnit
9 4 (1.46%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.73%) JIRA
11 2 (0.73%) MLflow
11 2 (0.73%) MSTest
12 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 87 (31.75%) Finance
2 44 (16.06%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.33%) Social Skills
4 28 (10.22%) Banking
5 13 (4.74%) Advertising
5 13 (4.74%) Legal
6 11 (4.01%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.92%) Electronics
8 8 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.92%) Retail
9 6 (2.19%) Local Government
9 6 (2.19%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.46%) Back Office
11 4 (1.46%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.46%) Publishing
12 3 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (0.73%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 130 (47.45%) Developer
2 80 (29.20%) Software Engineer
3 76 (27.74%) Senior
4 74 (27.01%) .NET Developer
5 68 (24.82%) Lead
6 43 (15.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (12.77%) Senior Developer
8 26 (9.49%) Java Developer
9 23 (8.39%) Development Engineer
9 23 (8.39%) Software Development Engineer
10 18 (6.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (5.11%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (4.01%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.01%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 8 (2.92%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 8 (2.92%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (35.77%) .NET
2 84 (30.66%) Node.js
3 79 (28.83%) .NET Core
4 74 (27.01%) ASP.NET
5 69 (25.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 68 (24.82%) React
7 58 (21.17%) REST
8 54 (19.71%) AngularJS
8 54 (19.71%) Vue
9 52 (18.98%) Spring
10 34 (12.41%) RESTful
11 33 (12.04%) Terraform
12 32 (11.68%) .NET Framework
12 32 (11.68%) Spring Boot
13 30 (10.95%) CSS
14 29 (10.58%) ASP.NET Web API
15 26 (9.49%) HTML
16 20 (7.30%) Kafka
17 17 (6.20%) Entity Framework
18 16 (5.84%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.58%) Public Cloud
2 25 (9.12%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.93%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.47%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.11%) Blog
7 8 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.82%) NHS
9 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.46%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.09%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.74%) Linux
2 8 (2.92%) Android
2 8 (2.92%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (72.26%) Agile
2 137 (50.00%) Microservices
3 120 (43.80%) BDD
4 116 (42.34%) CI/CD
5 114 (41.61%) Scrum
6 108 (39.42%) Software Engineering
7 103 (37.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 88 (32.12%) Mentoring
9 74 (27.01%) Kanban
10 71 (25.91%) Technical Leadership
11 62 (22.63%) DevOps
12 53 (19.34%) Coaching
13 52 (18.98%) AI
14 50 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (18.25%) Test Automation
15 48 (17.52%) Pair Programming
16 46 (16.79%) OO
17 44 (16.06%) Infrastructure as Code
18 35 (12.77%) SOLID
19 33 (12.04%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 119 (43.43%) Java
2 116 (42.34%) SQL
3 101 (36.86%) C#
4 82 (29.93%) JavaScript
4 82 (29.93%) TypeScript
5 51 (18.61%) Python
6 15 (5.47%) Bash
7 14 (5.11%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.01%) C++
9 9 (3.28%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.92%) C
10 8 (2.92%) Ruby
11 4 (1.46%) Go
12 3 (1.09%) Groovy
12 3 (1.09%) PHP
12 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.69%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.65%) Degree
4 5 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.93%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.74%) WCAG
3 12 (4.38%) QA
4 4 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 104 (37.96%) Docker
2 8 (2.92%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (2.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 106 (38.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Packer
3 5 (1.82%) Ansible
4 4 (1.46%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 79 (28.83%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.49%) Oracle
3 4 (1.46%) Databricks
3 4 (1.46%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.46%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.09%) Alterian
4 3 (1.09%) Optimizely
5 2 (0.73%) Facebook
5 2 (0.73%) Google
5 2 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Conga
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.36%) RedGate
6 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.36%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.36%) YouTube