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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 96 78
Rank change year-on-year -88 -18 -15
Permanent jobs citing TDD 199 547 841
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.32% 3.28% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 3.51% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 150 405 729
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £90,000 £86,500
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% +3.85% -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 13,242 15,566 19,692
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.14% 93.33% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,377 9,229 15,874
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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

TDD
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 4 January 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 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.51%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.01%) Luigi
2 2 (1.01%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Shopify
2 3 (1.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (55.28%) AWS
2 77 (38.69%) Azure
3 48 (24.12%) Serverless
4 31 (15.58%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (15.08%) GCP
6 20 (10.05%) GitHub
7 17 (8.54%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.54%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.03%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.02%) SaaS
13 5 (2.51%) Figma
13 5 (2.51%) npm
14 4 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) AMQP
3 1 (0.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Multicast
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.58%) MongoDB
2 31 (15.58%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (14.07%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (9.55%) NoSQL
6 17 (8.54%) SQL Server
7 14 (7.04%) DynamoDB
8 10 (5.03%) MySQL
8 10 (5.03%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.51%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.50%) Big Data
11 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.50%) Parquet
11 1 (0.50%) Power BI
11 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (15.08%) Git
1 30 (15.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.04%) Selenium
3 12 (6.03%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.53%) GitLab
5 10 (5.03%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.52%) JUnit
7 8 (4.02%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.52%) JIRA
9 6 (3.02%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.01%) Storybook
11 3 (1.51%) Mocha
11 3 (1.51%) webpack
12 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.50%) JMeter
12 1 (0.50%) Maven
12 1 (0.50%) Mockito
12 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.10%) Tech for Good
3 29 (14.57%) Health Technology
4 27 (13.57%) Publishing
5 22 (11.06%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (10.55%) Finance
7 15 (7.54%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (6.03%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.51%) Banking
9 5 (2.51%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.51%) Law
10 4 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.01%) Retail
11 3 (1.51%) Back Office
11 3 (1.51%) Games
11 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.51%) Legal
11 3 (1.51%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (58.79%) Developer
2 72 (36.18%) Senior
3 42 (21.11%) Senior Developer
4 33 (16.58%) Software Engineer
5 32 (16.08%) .NET Developer
5 32 (16.08%) Python Developer
6 30 (15.08%) Software Developer
7 29 (14.57%) Lead
8 25 (12.56%) React Developer
9 21 (10.55%) AWS Developer
10 18 (9.05%) Lead Developer
11 17 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (8.04%) Senior Software Developer
13 15 (7.54%) Java Developer
13 15 (7.54%) Lead Python Developer
13 15 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (6.03%) Senior Python Developer
15 10 (5.03%) Lead Software Developer
16 9 (4.52%) Senior React Developer
17 7 (3.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (40.20%) React
2 62 (31.16%) .NET
3 43 (21.61%) RESTful
4 39 (19.60%) Node.js
5 35 (17.59%) AngularJS
6 34 (17.09%) .NET Core
7 30 (15.08%) ASP.NET
8 26 (13.07%) Spring Boot
9 25 (12.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 25 (12.56%) HTML
10 24 (12.06%) .NET Framework
10 24 (12.06%) CSS
10 24 (12.06%) Entity Framework
10 24 (12.06%) Vue
11 23 (11.56%) Spring
12 19 (9.55%) ASP.NET Web API
13 18 (9.05%) REST
14 17 (8.54%) Kafka
15 15 (7.54%) Django
16 13 (6.53%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.54%) Cloud Native
1 15 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.53%) Over-the-Top Content
3 12 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.03%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.02%) Digital TV
6 5 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.51%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.51%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.51%) Social Media
9 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
10 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.01%) Android
1 4 (2.01%) Linux
2 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (76.38%) Agile
2 96 (48.24%) CI/CD
3 74 (37.19%) Microservices
3 74 (37.19%) Scrum
4 67 (33.67%) Software Engineering
5 59 (29.65%) BDD
6 58 (29.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 57 (28.64%) DevOps
8 55 (27.64%) Mentoring
9 54 (27.14%) Pair Programming
10 41 (20.60%) Kanban
11 39 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (18.09%) Test Automation
13 35 (17.59%) Coaching
14 30 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (14.57%) MVC
16 28 (14.07%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (13.57%) Acceptance Criteria
17 27 (13.57%) Code Quality
17 27 (13.57%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.16%) C#
2 59 (29.65%) JavaScript
2 59 (29.65%) TypeScript
3 58 (29.15%) Python
4 51 (25.63%) Java
5 43 (21.61%) SQL
6 16 (8.04%) Scala
7 8 (4.02%) Delphi
8 5 (2.51%) PHP
8 5 (2.51%) Ruby
9 4 (2.01%) Go
9 4 (2.01%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.51%) R
11 2 (1.01%) C
11 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (8.04%) Degree
2 11 (5.53%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (22.61%) QA
2 22 (11.06%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.51%) WCAG
4 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (22.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (20.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.02%) Grafana
2 8 (4.02%) Terraform
3 6 (3.02%) Ansible
4 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.53%) Oracle
3 4 (2.01%) Google
4 2 (1.01%) SendGrid
4 2 (1.01%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe
5 1 (0.50%) Databricks
5 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.50%) Pega
5 1 (0.50%) UiPath
5 1 (0.50%) WSO2