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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 102 71
Rank change year-on-year -77 -31 -5
Permanent jobs citing TDD 205 507 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 3.21% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 3.40% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 146 377 1,052
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +12.50% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,528 £90,000
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 13,823 14,932 25,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.43% 94.64% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 8,819 21,220
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
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% -12.00%

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

TDD
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 9 February 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 (1.46%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.46%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.98%) Luigi
2 2 (0.98%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.95%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (52.20%) AWS
2 72 (35.12%) Azure
3 37 (18.05%) Serverless
4 31 (15.12%) GCP
5 21 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.76%) GitHub
7 16 (7.80%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.83%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.88%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.90%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.93%) SaaS
14 5 (2.44%) Figma
14 5 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.95%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.17%) Broadband
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) Multicast
2 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.61%) MongoDB
2 29 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (7.80%) NoSQL
5 16 (7.80%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.88%) MySQL
7 9 (4.39%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.93%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.49%) Big Data
11 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.49%) Metadata
11 1 (0.49%) Power BI
11 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 32 (15.61%) Git
3 23 (11.22%) TeamCity
4 16 (7.80%) Selenium
5 12 (5.85%) GitLab
6 10 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.39%) JUnit
8 8 (3.90%) JIRA
9 6 (2.93%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.44%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.44%) Storybook
11 2 (0.98%) Mocha
11 2 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.98%) Vite
11 2 (0.98%) webpack
12 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.49%) Maven
12 1 (0.49%) Mockito
12 1 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 59 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.63%) Tech for Good
3 21 (10.24%) Finance
3 21 (10.24%) Influencing Skills
4 20 (9.76%) Health Technology
5 18 (8.78%) Publishing
6 14 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.93%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.44%) Banking
10 4 (1.95%) Back Office
10 4 (1.95%) Retail
11 3 (1.46%) Games
11 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.46%) Law
11 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
12 2 (0.98%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (50.73%) Developer
2 78 (38.05%) Senior
3 43 (20.98%) Software Engineer
4 35 (17.07%) Senior Developer
5 26 (12.68%) .NET Developer
5 26 (12.68%) Lead
6 24 (11.71%) Software Developer
7 23 (11.22%) Python Developer
8 22 (10.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (10.24%) React Developer
10 16 (7.80%) AWS Developer
10 16 (7.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (7.80%) Lead Developer
11 15 (7.32%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.83%) Lead Python Developer
13 12 (5.85%) Scala Engineer
13 12 (5.85%) Senior Software Developer
14 9 (4.39%) Lead Software Developer
15 8 (3.90%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (3.90%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (34.63%) React
2 60 (29.27%) .NET
3 36 (17.56%) RESTful
4 34 (16.59%) AngularJS
4 34 (16.59%) Node.js
5 29 (14.15%) .NET Core
6 25 (12.20%) Akka
6 25 (12.20%) ASP.NET
6 25 (12.20%) Spring Boot
7 24 (11.71%) Spring
8 21 (10.24%) .NET Framework
8 21 (10.24%) ASP.NET MVC
8 21 (10.24%) CSS
8 21 (10.24%) HTML
8 21 (10.24%) Vue
9 20 (9.76%) Entity Framework
10 18 (8.78%) Kafka
11 17 (8.29%) REST
12 16 (7.80%) ASP.NET Web API
12 16 (7.80%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.71%) Video\Live Streaming
2 23 (11.22%) Over-the-Top Content
3 16 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (7.32%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.37%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.41%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.44%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.44%) Digital TV
10 4 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.46%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.46%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.98%) Social Media
13 1 (0.49%) IoT
13 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.95%) Android
2 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.46%) Linux
3 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (75.12%) Agile
2 101 (49.27%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.54%) Software Engineering
4 76 (37.07%) Scrum
5 75 (36.59%) Microservices
6 64 (31.22%) Mentoring
7 61 (29.76%) BDD
7 61 (29.76%) DevOps
8 56 (27.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 54 (26.34%) Pair Programming
10 50 (24.39%) Kanban
11 40 (19.51%) Acceptance Criteria
11 40 (19.51%) Test Automation
12 38 (18.54%) Coaching
13 35 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (15.61%) Open Source
15 29 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (13.66%) Analytics
16 28 (13.66%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (12.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (27.80%) C#
2 56 (27.32%) Java
3 51 (24.88%) JavaScript
4 48 (23.41%) Python
4 48 (23.41%) TypeScript
5 38 (18.54%) SQL
6 27 (13.17%) Scala
7 8 (3.90%) Delphi
8 5 (2.44%) Go
8 5 (2.44%) PHP
8 5 (2.44%) Ruby
9 2 (0.98%) C
9 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.98%) R
9 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (8.78%) Degree
2 12 (5.85%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.54%) QA
2 23 (11.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.95%) WCAG
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (28.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (26.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.39%) Terraform
3 8 (3.90%) Grafana
4 6 (2.93%) Ansible
5 4 (1.95%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.98%) Puppet
7 1 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.37%) Oracle
3 4 (1.95%) Google
4 2 (0.98%) SendGrid
4 2 (0.98%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe
5 1 (0.49%) Databricks
5 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.49%) Pega
5 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.49%) Veracode
5 1 (0.49%) WSO2