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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 112 75
Rank change year-on-year -74 -37 0
Permanent jobs citing TDD 280 487 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 3.11% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 3.30% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 191 266 1,082
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £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 £94,694 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £136,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 16,752 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,688 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 26 June 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 3 (1.07%) Apache Solr
1 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.07%) CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) DNN
2 2 (0.71%) EPiServer
2 2 (0.71%) Immediacy CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Kentico
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Sitefinity
2 2 (0.71%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.36%) JBoss
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (61.43%) AWS
2 126 (45.00%) Azure
3 41 (14.64%) GitHub
4 37 (13.21%) Serverless
5 36 (12.86%) GitHub Copilot
6 23 (8.21%) GCP
7 16 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.57%) Azure AI
9 10 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.21%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.86%) PaaS
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.14%) SaaS
13 5 (1.79%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (1.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.79%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.21%) Broadband
2 20 (7.14%) HTTP
3 9 (3.21%) Bluetooth
3 9 (3.21%) Modbus
3 9 (3.21%) Profibus
3 9 (3.21%) RS-232
3 9 (3.21%) RS-485
3 9 (3.21%) Wireless
3 9 (3.21%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (29.64%) MongoDB
2 51 (18.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 51 (18.21%) Elasticsearch
3 43 (15.36%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (12.14%) NoSQL
5 27 (9.64%) MySQL
6 16 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.21%) Redis
9 4 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.07%) Flink
11 1 (0.36%) Db2
11 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.36%) Metadata
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (11.79%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.36%) Git
3 22 (7.86%) TeamCity
4 16 (5.71%) JUnit
5 9 (3.21%) Maven
5 9 (3.21%) Mockito
6 6 (2.14%) GitLab
6 6 (2.14%) JIRA
7 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.79%) Selenium
8 4 (1.43%) NUnit
8 4 (1.43%) Postman
9 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.71%) Gatling
10 2 (0.71%) MSTest
10 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.71%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 61 (21.79%) Finance
2 43 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.93%) Banking
5 11 (3.93%) Advertising
5 11 (3.93%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.21%) Electronics
6 9 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.86%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.50%) Retail
9 4 (1.43%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.43%) Publishing
10 3 (1.07%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.07%) Legal
11 2 (0.71%) Back Office
11 2 (0.71%) Games
11 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (42.14%) Developer
2 98 (35.00%) Software Engineer
3 89 (31.79%) Senior
4 54 (19.29%) Lead
5 53 (18.93%) .NET Developer
6 35 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
6 35 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 30 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (10.36%) Java Developer
9 25 (8.93%) Development Engineer
9 25 (8.93%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (7.50%) Software Developer
11 18 (6.43%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (5.71%) Java Engineer
13 15 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (5.36%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (4.64%) Java Software Engineer
15 12 (4.29%) Scala Engineer
16 11 (3.93%) Python Engineer
17 10 (3.57%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (30.00%) .NET
2 63 (22.50%) Node.js
3 61 (21.79%) React
4 59 (21.07%) .NET Core
5 52 (18.57%) ASP.NET
6 50 (17.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 49 (17.50%) AngularJS
8 44 (15.71%) Vue
9 42 (15.00%) REST
9 42 (15.00%) RESTful
10 40 (14.29%) Spring
11 27 (9.64%) Spring Boot
12 23 (8.21%) Akka
13 21 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
14 19 (6.79%) .NET Framework
15 16 (5.71%) CSS
15 16 (5.71%) HTML
16 14 (5.00%) Django
17 11 (3.93%) Kafka
17 11 (3.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 23 (8.21%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.86%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (7.86%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.21%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.79%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.43%) IoT
10 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.07%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.71%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.36%) Linux
2 9 (3.21%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Android
4 2 (0.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (73.57%) Agile
2 126 (45.00%) Software Engineering
3 116 (41.43%) Microservices
4 109 (38.93%) Scrum
5 108 (38.57%) BDD
6 107 (38.21%) CI/CD
7 87 (31.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (30.71%) Mentoring
9 75 (26.79%) DevOps
10 74 (26.43%) Kanban
11 64 (22.86%) Test Automation
12 56 (20.00%) Open Source
13 55 (19.64%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (19.29%) Pair Programming
15 50 (17.86%) Coaching
16 48 (17.14%) AI
17 43 (15.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 41 (14.64%) Containerisation
19 38 (13.57%) Clean Code
20 36 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (40.71%) Java
2 105 (37.50%) SQL
3 84 (30.00%) C#
4 62 (22.14%) TypeScript
5 59 (21.07%) JavaScript
6 53 (18.93%) Python
7 25 (8.93%) Scala
8 12 (4.29%) C++
9 10 (3.57%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.21%) C
11 7 (2.50%) Bash
11 7 (2.50%) PHP
11 7 (2.50%) Ruby
12 5 (1.79%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.79%) Go
13 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (11.07%) SC Cleared
1 31 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.07%) Degree
3 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.21%) QA
2 10 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (41.43%) Docker
2 12 (4.29%) Firmware
3 9 (3.21%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (38.21%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.43%) Terraform
3 6 (2.14%) Ansible
4 5 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.79%) Packer
5 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.71%) Oracle
3 6 (2.14%) Google
4 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.71%) Alterian
6 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.71%) Facebook
6 2 (0.71%) IBM
6 2 (0.71%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.71%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.36%) Conga
7 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.36%) Veracode