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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 102 73
Rank change year-on-year -102 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 202 461 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 3.32% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 3.48% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 141 381 1,120
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,040 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £91,318
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% +8.00% -10.71%

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 14,297 13,240 27,544
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.26% 95.33% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,336 8,795 22,823
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 March 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 3 (1.49%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.99%) CMS
2 2 (0.99%) Confluence
2 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (50.99%) AWS
2 68 (33.66%) Azure
3 38 (18.81%) Serverless
4 30 (14.85%) GCP
5 21 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.90%) GitHub
7 18 (8.91%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.43%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.95%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.96%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.96%) SaaS
13 7 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.47%) Sentry
14 5 (2.48%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.87%) Broadband
2 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.80%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (15.84%) MongoDB
3 23 (11.39%) NoSQL
4 17 (8.42%) MySQL
4 17 (8.42%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.44%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.97%) Redis
10 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.50%) Big Data
12 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.50%) Metadata
12 1 (0.50%) Parquet
12 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (18.81%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.34%) Git
3 23 (11.39%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.94%) Selenium
5 11 (5.45%) GitLab
6 10 (4.95%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.95%) JUnit
7 6 (2.97%) JIRA
8 5 (2.48%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.48%) Storybook
9 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.99%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.99%) Vite
11 1 (0.50%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.50%) Appium
11 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.50%) Mocha
11 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.50%) webpack
11 1 (0.50%) XCUITest
General
1 58 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.38%) Tech for Good
3 20 (9.90%) Finance
4 18 (8.91%) Influencing Skills
4 18 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.92%) Health Technology
6 14 (6.93%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (6.93%) Publishing
7 10 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.97%) Banking
8 6 (2.97%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.48%) Retail
10 4 (1.98%) Back Office
11 3 (1.49%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.49%) Games
11 3 (1.49%) Law
11 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.99%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 89 (44.06%) Developer
2 75 (37.13%) Senior
3 57 (28.22%) Software Engineer
4 31 (15.35%) Senior Developer
5 29 (14.36%) Lead
6 25 (12.38%) Software Developer
7 21 (10.40%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (8.91%) Lead Developer
8 18 (8.91%) Python Developer
9 16 (7.92%) Java Developer
9 16 (7.92%) Java Engineer
9 16 (7.92%) React Developer
10 15 (7.43%) AWS Developer
11 14 (6.93%) .NET Developer
11 14 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (6.93%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (6.93%) Lead Python Developer
12 12 (5.94%) Scala Engineer
12 12 (5.94%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (4.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (23.27%) .NET
1 47 (23.27%) React
2 41 (20.30%) RESTful
3 28 (13.86%) Spring Boot
4 26 (12.87%) Spring
5 25 (12.38%) Akka
6 23 (11.39%) Django
7 22 (10.89%) AngularJS
7 22 (10.89%) Node.js
8 18 (8.91%) .NET Core
9 17 (8.42%) CSS
9 17 (8.42%) HTML
10 16 (7.92%) ASP.NET
11 15 (7.43%) REST
11 15 (7.43%) Vue
12 13 (6.44%) .NET Framework
12 13 (6.44%) Flask
13 11 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (5.45%) Kafka
14 10 (4.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.88%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.39%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.47%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.97%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.98%) IoT
10 4 (1.98%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.99%) Digital TV
12 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.50%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.96%) Linux
2 6 (2.97%) Android
2 6 (2.97%) Unix
3 4 (1.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (72.77%) Agile
2 99 (49.01%) CI/CD
3 94 (46.53%) Software Engineering
4 76 (37.62%) Mentoring
5 71 (35.15%) DevOps
5 71 (35.15%) Microservices
6 66 (32.67%) Scrum
7 51 (25.25%) BDD
7 51 (25.25%) Test Automation
8 49 (24.26%) Coaching
9 48 (23.76%) Pair Programming
10 42 (20.79%) Open Source
11 41 (20.30%) Acceptance Criteria
11 41 (20.30%) Kanban
12 40 (19.80%) Full-Stack Development
13 37 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (17.82%) Containerisation
15 33 (16.34%) Continuous Integration
16 30 (14.85%) Code Quality
17 28 (13.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.17%) Java
2 54 (26.73%) Python
3 39 (19.31%) C#
4 38 (18.81%) SQL
5 37 (18.32%) JavaScript
6 32 (15.84%) TypeScript
7 25 (12.38%) Scala
8 8 (3.96%) Delphi
9 7 (3.47%) PHP
10 6 (2.97%) Ruby
11 4 (1.98%) Go
12 3 (1.49%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.99%) C
13 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.50%) Bash
14 1 (0.50%) R
14 1 (0.50%) RPG
14 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (8.91%) Degree
2 12 (5.94%) SC Cleared
2 12 (5.94%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.33%) QA
2 17 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.49%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (35.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (32.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.43%) Terraform
3 8 (3.96%) Grafana
4 5 (2.48%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.98%) Ansible
6 2 (0.99%) Packer
6 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.45%) Oracle
3 8 (3.96%) Google
4 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.99%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.99%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe
6 1 (0.50%) Databricks
6 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.50%) IBM
6 1 (0.50%) Pega
6 1 (0.50%) Veracode
6 1 (0.50%) WSO2