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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 133 104
Rank change year-on-year -83 -29 -16
Permanent jobs citing TDD 281 389 631
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 2.34% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 2.49% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 207 173 447
10th Percentile £43,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £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 £76,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £86,100
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -5.11% +4.64% -5.73%

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 20,041 15,592 19,047
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.56% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,414 11,252
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £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 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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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 11 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 (2.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.14%) WebLogic
3 5 (1.78%) Apache
4 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.07%) CMS
5 3 (1.07%) DNN
5 3 (1.07%) EPiServer
5 3 (1.07%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (1.07%) Kentico
5 3 (1.07%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (1.07%) Sitefinity
5 3 (1.07%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.71%) Camunda
6 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (66.55%) AWS
2 150 (53.38%) Azure
3 63 (22.42%) GitHub
4 48 (17.08%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (11.39%) Serverless
6 20 (7.12%) GCP
7 16 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.63%) Azure AI
9 9 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.20%) Slack
10 8 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (2.49%) PaaS
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.14%) SaaS
13 4 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.42%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.83%) HTTP
2 7 (2.49%) Bluetooth
2 7 (2.49%) Modbus
2 7 (2.49%) Profibus
2 7 (2.49%) RS-232
2 7 (2.49%) RS-485
2 7 (2.49%) Wireless
2 7 (2.49%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (34.52%) MongoDB
2 73 (25.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 61 (21.71%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (9.61%) NoSQL
6 22 (7.83%) MySQL
7 17 (6.05%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.98%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.78%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.71%) Flink
12 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.71%) Redis
13 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 37 (13.17%) JUnit
2 32 (11.39%) Git
3 24 (8.54%) Mockito
4 17 (6.05%) Maven
5 8 (2.85%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.85%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.85%) Selenium
6 7 (2.49%) GitLab
6 7 (2.49%) Postman
7 6 (2.14%) Gatling
8 4 (1.42%) Android Studio
8 4 (1.42%) NUnit
8 4 (1.42%) Vagrant
9 3 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.07%) MLflow
10 2 (0.71%) JIRA
10 2 (0.71%) MSTest
11 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 87 (30.96%) Finance
2 47 (16.73%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.95%) Social Skills
4 27 (9.61%) Banking
5 13 (4.63%) Advertising
6 12 (4.27%) Legal
7 10 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.20%) Retail
9 8 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.49%) Electronics
10 7 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.14%) Local Government
11 6 (2.14%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.42%) Back Office
12 4 (1.42%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Publishing
13 3 (1.07%) Prime Brokerage
14 2 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 137 (48.75%) Developer
2 79 (28.11%) Senior
3 78 (27.76%) Software Engineer
4 74 (26.33%) .NET Developer
5 70 (24.91%) Lead
6 42 (14.95%) Lead Software Engineer
7 39 (13.88%) Senior Developer
8 27 (9.61%) Java Developer
9 22 (7.83%) Development Engineer
9 22 (7.83%) Software Development Engineer
10 18 (6.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.69%) Software Developer
12 15 (5.34%) Java Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
12 15 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (3.56%) Senior Software Developer
15 9 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Lead Developer
16 7 (2.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (36.30%) .NET
2 84 (29.89%) Node.js
3 79 (28.11%) .NET Core
4 74 (26.33%) ASP.NET
5 69 (24.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 67 (23.84%) React
7 61 (21.71%) REST
8 57 (20.28%) Spring
9 54 (19.22%) AngularJS
10 53 (18.86%) Vue
11 38 (13.52%) RESTful
12 37 (13.17%) Spring Boot
13 33 (11.74%) Terraform
14 32 (11.39%) .NET Framework
15 30 (10.68%) CSS
16 29 (10.32%) ASP.NET Web API
17 26 (9.25%) HTML
18 23 (8.19%) Kafka
19 17 (6.05%) Entity Framework
20 16 (5.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.96%) Public Cloud
2 24 (8.54%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.76%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.34%) Blog
6 9 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.85%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.49%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.78%) NHS
10 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.42%) Hackathon
12 3 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.07%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.63%) Linux
2 8 (2.85%) Android
3 7 (2.49%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (74.02%) Agile
2 141 (50.18%) Microservices
3 122 (43.42%) BDD
3 122 (43.42%) CI/CD
4 118 (41.99%) Scrum
5 107 (38.08%) Software Engineering
6 103 (36.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 92 (32.74%) Mentoring
8 75 (26.69%) Kanban
9 74 (26.33%) Technical Leadership
10 68 (24.20%) DevOps
11 56 (19.93%) Coaching
12 55 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (19.22%) Test Automation
14 51 (18.15%) AI
15 47 (16.73%) Pair Programming
16 45 (16.01%) OO
17 42 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
18 36 (12.81%) SOLID
19 33 (11.74%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 122 (43.42%) Java
2 119 (42.35%) SQL
3 105 (37.37%) C#
4 82 (29.18%) JavaScript
4 82 (29.18%) TypeScript
5 48 (17.08%) Python
6 15 (5.34%) Bash
7 14 (4.98%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.56%) C++
9 9 (3.20%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.49%) C
10 7 (2.49%) Ruby
11 4 (1.42%) Go
11 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.07%) Groovy
12 3 (1.07%) PHP
12 3 (1.07%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (19.22%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.56%) Degree
4 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.07%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.47%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.63%) QA
2 13 (4.63%) WCAG
3 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.07%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 106 (37.72%) Docker
2 7 (2.49%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (2.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (38.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.14%) Packer
3 4 (1.42%) Ansible
3 4 (1.42%) Grafana
3 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 82 (29.18%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.96%) Oracle
3 5 (1.78%) Databricks
4 4 (1.42%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.42%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.07%) Alterian
5 3 (1.07%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.07%) Splunk
6 2 (0.71%) Facebook
6 2 (0.71%) Google
7 1 (0.36%) Conga
7 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.36%) RedGate
7 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.36%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.36%) YouTube