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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 127 104
Rank change year-on-year -71 -23 -24
Permanent jobs citing TDD 302 450 725
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.36% 2.72% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.93% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 222 232 612
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,944 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 18,446 15,378 22,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.04% 92.99% 87.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,393 9,086 16,698
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%

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 1 August 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 6 (1.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.32%) Apache
2 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.32%) CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.99%) DNN
3 3 (0.99%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.99%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Kentico
3 3 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.99%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 201 (66.56%) AWS
2 168 (55.63%) Azure
3 62 (20.53%) GitHub
4 53 (17.55%) GitHub Copilot
5 38 (12.58%) Serverless
6 27 (8.94%) GCP
7 18 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.64%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.98%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.98%) ChatGPT
10 9 (2.98%) PaaS
11 8 (2.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.99%) SaaS
14 5 (1.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.28%) HTTP
2 9 (2.98%) Bluetooth
2 9 (2.98%) Modbus
2 9 (2.98%) Profibus
2 9 (2.98%) RS-232
2 9 (2.98%) RS-485
2 9 (2.98%) Wireless
2 9 (2.98%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (36.75%) MongoDB
2 72 (23.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.52%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (16.89%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (12.91%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.26%) MySQL
7 17 (5.63%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.30%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.98%) Redis
11 5 (1.66%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.99%) Flink
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.33%) Db2
13 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (13.91%) Git
2 24 (7.95%) JUnit
3 14 (4.64%) Maven
3 14 (4.64%) Mockito
4 11 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.65%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.65%) GitLab
5 8 (2.65%) Postman
5 8 (2.65%) Selenium
6 6 (1.99%) Gatling
7 4 (1.32%) JIRA
7 4 (1.32%) NUnit
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) MSTest
9 1 (0.33%) Appium
9 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.33%) git-flow
9 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (28.15%) Finance
2 50 (16.56%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.91%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.94%) Banking
5 15 (4.97%) Advertising
6 12 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.31%) Retail
8 9 (2.98%) Electronics
8 9 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.32%) Legal
9 7 (2.32%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.32%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.32%) Publishing
11 3 (0.99%) Back Office
11 3 (0.99%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.99%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 143 (47.35%) Developer
2 94 (31.13%) Software Engineer
3 81 (26.82%) Senior
4 78 (25.83%) .NET Developer
5 67 (22.19%) Lead
6 44 (14.57%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (11.59%) Senior Developer
8 32 (10.60%) Java Developer
9 27 (8.94%) Development Engineer
9 27 (8.94%) Software Development Engineer
10 22 (7.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (6.95%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (5.96%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.64%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
14 11 (3.64%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.64%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.64%) Senior Software Developer
15 10 (3.31%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (34.44%) .NET
2 88 (29.14%) Node.js
3 79 (26.16%) .NET Core
4 74 (24.50%) ASP.NET
5 71 (23.51%) ASP.NET Core
6 70 (23.18%) React
7 61 (20.20%) AngularJS
8 58 (19.21%) Vue
9 52 (17.22%) REST
10 46 (15.23%) Spring
11 45 (14.90%) RESTful
12 31 (10.26%) .NET Framework
13 29 (9.60%) ASP.NET Web API
13 29 (9.60%) Spring Boot
14 21 (6.95%) CSS
15 20 (6.62%) HTML
16 16 (5.30%) WinForms
17 15 (4.97%) Blazor
17 15 (4.97%) Entity Framework
17 15 (4.97%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.27%) Product Ownership
3 26 (8.61%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.98%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.99%) Blog
8 6 (1.99%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.66%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.32%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.32%) IoT
10 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.29%) Linux
2 9 (2.98%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (1.99%) Android
4 5 (1.66%) Unix
5 3 (0.99%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (72.52%) Agile
2 146 (48.34%) Microservices
3 129 (42.72%) BDD
4 125 (41.39%) Software Engineering
5 124 (41.06%) CI/CD
6 114 (37.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 113 (37.42%) Scrum
8 95 (31.46%) Mentoring
9 78 (25.83%) DevOps
10 76 (25.17%) Test Automation
11 72 (23.84%) Kanban
12 65 (21.52%) AI
13 63 (20.86%) Technical Leadership
14 58 (19.21%) Coaching
15 49 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 46 (15.23%) Containerisation
17 45 (14.90%) Clean Code
17 45 (14.90%) OO
18 41 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 41 (13.58%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 135 (44.70%) SQL
2 130 (43.05%) Java
3 106 (35.10%) C#
4 80 (26.49%) JavaScript
5 78 (25.83%) TypeScript
6 62 (20.53%) Python
7 14 (4.64%) PL/SQL
8 12 (3.97%) Bash
8 12 (3.97%) C++
9 9 (2.98%) C
9 9 (2.98%) Ruby
10 6 (1.99%) PHP
11 5 (1.66%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.66%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.32%) Go
12 4 (1.32%) Groovy
12 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.33%) Perl
14 1 (0.33%) RPG
Qualifications
1 43 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.30%) Degree
4 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.95%) QA
2 12 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.99%) WCAG
4 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.99%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 116 (38.41%) Docker
2 12 (3.97%) Firmware
3 9 (2.98%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (35.76%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.60%) Terraform
3 6 (1.99%) Ansible
4 5 (1.66%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.32%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (29.14%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.28%) Oracle
3 6 (1.99%) Google
4 5 (1.66%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.99%) Alterian
5 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.99%) Optimizely
5 3 (0.99%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.66%) Databricks
6 2 (0.66%) Facebook
6 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless