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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 94 72
Rank change year-on-year -102 -22 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 225 516 1,280
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 3.55% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 3.73% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 147 304 1,160
10th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +14.58% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,383 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +14.21% -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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 12 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 (1.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.33%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.89%) CMS
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (56.44%) AWS
2 79 (35.11%) Azure
3 45 (20.00%) Serverless
4 27 (12.00%) GCP
5 22 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (9.78%) GitHub
6 16 (7.11%) Amazon S3
6 16 (7.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 13 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (3.11%) SaaS
10 7 (3.11%) Sentry
11 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.67%) PaaS
12 5 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.22%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.22%) Broadband
2 14 (6.22%) HTTP
3 5 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.78%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.78%) Modbus
4 4 (1.78%) Profibus
4 4 (1.78%) RS-232
4 4 (1.78%) RS-485
4 4 (1.78%) Wireless
4 4 (1.78%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (17.78%) MongoDB
2 34 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (9.78%) NoSQL
5 19 (8.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (7.56%) MySQL
7 14 (6.22%) SQL Server
8 9 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.00%) Redis
9 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.78%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.33%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.33%) Flink
12 1 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.44%) Metadata
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.44%) Parquet
12 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (15.11%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.89%) Git
3 22 (9.78%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.56%) JUnit
5 5 (2.22%) JIRA
5 5 (2.22%) Maven
5 5 (2.22%) Mockito
5 5 (2.22%) Selenium
5 5 (2.22%) Storybook
6 4 (1.78%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.78%) GitLab
7 2 (0.89%) MSTest
7 2 (0.89%) NUnit
7 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.89%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.89%) Vite
8 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.44%) Appium
8 1 (0.44%) XCUITest
General
1 48 (21.33%) Finance
2 38 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.33%) Banking
5 18 (8.00%) Tech for Good
6 12 (5.33%) Health Technology
6 12 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.33%) Publishing
7 11 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.56%) Retail
9 5 (2.22%) Advertising
9 5 (2.22%) Back Office
10 4 (1.78%) Electronics
10 4 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.33%) Law
12 2 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 96 (42.67%) Developer
2 81 (36.00%) Senior
3 73 (32.44%) Software Engineer
4 43 (19.11%) Lead
5 33 (14.67%) Senior Developer
6 26 (11.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (10.67%) Java Developer
8 23 (10.22%) .NET Developer
9 22 (9.78%) Software Developer
10 19 (8.44%) Development Engineer
10 19 (8.44%) Software Development Engineer
11 18 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (7.56%) Python Developer
13 16 (7.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (7.11%) Java Engineer
13 16 (7.11%) Lead Developer
14 15 (6.67%) React Developer
14 15 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
15 14 (6.22%) Senior Software Developer
16 13 (5.78%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (22.22%) .NET
2 47 (20.89%) React
3 43 (19.11%) RESTful
4 36 (16.00%) REST
5 34 (15.11%) Spring
6 30 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 29 (12.89%) Node.js
8 25 (11.11%) .NET Core
8 25 (11.11%) Spring Boot
9 23 (10.22%) Akka
10 21 (9.33%) ASP.NET
11 20 (8.89%) Vue
12 17 (7.56%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (6.67%) Django
14 13 (5.78%) Kafka
15 11 (4.89%) CSS
15 11 (4.89%) HTML
15 11 (4.89%) Playwright
15 11 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (3.56%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.56%) Product Ownership
3 23 (10.22%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.78%) Over-the-Top Content
5 14 (6.22%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.22%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.78%) IoT
9 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.89%) Social Network
11 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.44%) Linux
2 6 (2.67%) Android
3 5 (2.22%) Unix
4 4 (1.78%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.78%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (69.33%) Agile
2 105 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 97 (43.11%) Software Engineering
4 84 (37.33%) Scrum
5 76 (33.78%) Microservices
6 73 (32.44%) Mentoring
7 70 (31.11%) DevOps
8 69 (30.67%) BDD
9 60 (26.67%) Test Automation
10 58 (25.78%) Pair Programming
11 53 (23.56%) Full-Stack Development
12 49 (21.78%) Kanban
13 45 (20.00%) Open Source
14 39 (17.33%) Coaching
15 38 (16.89%) Containerisation
15 38 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (15.56%) Acceptance Criteria
16 35 (15.56%) Clean Code
17 33 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 29 (12.89%) AI
Programming Languages
1 85 (37.78%) Java
2 57 (25.33%) SQL
3 54 (24.00%) Python
4 44 (19.56%) C#
5 37 (16.44%) TypeScript
6 32 (14.22%) JavaScript
7 24 (10.67%) Scala
8 7 (3.11%) PHP
9 6 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.67%) Ruby
10 4 (1.78%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.78%) Bash
10 4 (1.78%) C
10 4 (1.78%) C++
11 3 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Go
13 1 (0.44%) RPG
13 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (10.22%) SC Cleared
1 23 (10.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.22%) Degree
3 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.67%) QA
2 10 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.33%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (39.11%) Docker
2 7 (3.11%) Firmware
3 4 (1.78%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.00%) Terraform
3 8 (3.56%) Ansible
4 5 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.22%) Packer
5 2 (0.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.89%) Oracle
3 7 (3.11%) Google
4 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.89%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.89%) Facebook
5 2 (0.89%) IBM
5 2 (0.89%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe
6 1 (0.44%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) Veracode