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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 96 90
Rank change year-on-year -89 -6 -33
Permanent jobs citing TDD 204 602 712
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 3.15% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 3.47% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 161 449 601
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

All Process and 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 13,659 17,335 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.20% 90.79% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,596 10,457 15,949
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 2 December 2025.

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 4 (1.96%) IIS
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.47%) CMS
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.98%) Luigi
3 2 (0.98%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (57.84%) AWS
2 83 (40.69%) Azure
3 44 (21.57%) Serverless
4 31 (15.20%) GCP
5 30 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (10.78%) GitHub
7 15 (7.35%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.37%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (5.39%) OpenShift
10 10 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.41%) SaaS
12 6 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.45%) npm
13 5 (2.45%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.96%) Figma
15 2 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) Broadband
2 2 (0.98%) AMQP
2 2 (0.98%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) Multicast
3 1 (0.49%) RFID
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.12%) MongoDB
2 34 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (14.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (14.22%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (9.31%) SQL Server
6 17 (8.33%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.86%) DynamoDB
8 13 (6.37%) MySQL
9 10 (4.90%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.96%) Data Hub
10 4 (1.96%) SQL CLR
11 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.98%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.49%) Power BI
12 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (12.75%) Git
2 17 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.86%) Selenium
4 10 (4.90%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.90%) GitLab
5 9 (4.41%) JUnit
6 8 (3.92%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.43%) JIRA
8 6 (2.94%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.47%) Mocha
9 3 (1.47%) webpack
10 2 (0.98%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.98%) Protractor
11 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.49%) Mockito
11 1 (0.49%) Postman
11 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.63%) Tech for Good
3 28 (13.73%) Finance
4 27 (13.24%) Health Technology
5 25 (12.25%) Publishing
6 20 (9.80%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.90%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.92%) Front Office
10 5 (2.45%) Back Office
11 4 (1.96%) Retail
12 3 (1.47%) Banking
12 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.47%) Law
12 3 (1.47%) Legal
12 3 (1.47%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.98%) Automotive
13 2 (0.98%) Games
13 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (58.33%) Developer
2 70 (34.31%) Senior
3 40 (19.61%) Senior Developer
4 37 (18.14%) .NET Developer
5 36 (17.65%) Software Engineer
6 29 (14.22%) Python Developer
7 28 (13.73%) Software Developer
8 26 (12.75%) Lead
9 23 (11.27%) React Developer
10 19 (9.31%) AWS Developer
11 18 (8.82%) Lead Developer
12 16 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (7.35%) Senior Software Developer
14 14 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (6.86%) Java Developer
15 13 (6.37%) Lead Python Developer
16 12 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
17 10 (4.90%) C# Developer
18 9 (4.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 9 (4.41%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (44.12%) React
2 69 (33.82%) .NET
3 43 (21.08%) .NET Core
4 42 (20.59%) AngularJS
5 40 (19.61%) Node.js
6 39 (19.12%) RESTful
7 33 (16.18%) ASP.NET
8 32 (15.69%) Entity Framework
9 31 (15.20%) Vue
10 30 (14.71%) .NET Framework
11 28 (13.73%) ASP.NET MVC
12 26 (12.75%) CSS
12 26 (12.75%) HTML
12 26 (12.75%) Spring Boot
13 22 (10.78%) ASP.NET Web API
13 22 (10.78%) Spring
14 17 (8.33%) REST
15 16 (7.84%) Django
15 16 (7.84%) Kafka
16 13 (6.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.43%) Digital TV
5 7 (3.43%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.96%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.47%) Social Media
9 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.98%) Equities
9 2 (0.98%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.98%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.98%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.98%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.96%) Linux
1 4 (1.96%) Windows
1 4 (1.96%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.47%) Android
2 3 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (74.02%) Agile
2 92 (45.10%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.73%) Microservices
4 77 (37.75%) Software Engineering
5 64 (31.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 62 (30.39%) BDD
7 60 (29.41%) Scrum
8 59 (28.92%) DevOps
9 52 (25.49%) Mentoring
10 42 (20.59%) Pair Programming
11 41 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (16.18%) Coaching
13 33 (16.18%) Kanban
13 33 (16.18%) Test Automation
14 32 (15.69%) MVC
15 26 (12.75%) SOLID
16 25 (12.25%) Code Quality
16 25 (12.25%) Fintech
16 25 (12.25%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.76%) C#
2 66 (32.35%) TypeScript
3 64 (31.37%) JavaScript
4 62 (30.39%) Python
5 54 (26.47%) SQL
6 52 (25.49%) Java
7 8 (3.92%) Delphi
8 7 (3.43%) PHP
8 7 (3.43%) Ruby
9 6 (2.94%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.45%) Scala
11 4 (1.96%) Go
12 3 (1.47%) R
13 2 (0.98%) C
13 2 (0.98%) Swift
14 1 (0.49%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 13 (6.37%) Degree
1 13 (6.37%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.47%) Postgraduate
6 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (19.12%) QA
2 20 (9.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.47%) WCAG
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (15.69%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (14.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.41%) Grafana
2 9 (4.41%) Terraform
3 4 (1.96%) Ansible
4 3 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.90%) Oracle
3 4 (1.96%) VMware
4 3 (1.47%) Google
5 2 (0.98%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.49%) Pega
6 1 (0.49%) Revolut
6 1 (0.49%) UiPath
6 1 (0.49%) WSO2