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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 135 104
Rank change year-on-year -88 -31 -21
Permanent jobs citing TDD 276 391 650
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 2.32% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.48% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 203 175 453
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.54%
75th Percentile £80,125 £77,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £99,000 £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 20,204 15,782 19,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.97% 93.81% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,422 8,452 11,768
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,243
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TDD over the 6 months to 1 October 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 7 (2.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.81%) Apache
2 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.09%) CMS
3 3 (1.09%) DNN
3 3 (1.09%) EPiServer
3 3 (1.09%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Kentico
3 3 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.09%) Sitefinity
3 3 (1.09%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.72%) Camunda
4 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (68.12%) AWS
2 151 (54.71%) Azure
3 60 (21.74%) GitHub
4 48 (17.39%) GitHub Copilot
5 36 (13.04%) Serverless
6 24 (8.70%) GCP
7 18 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.71%) Azure AI
9 10 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (3.26%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.26%) Slack
11 8 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.17%) SaaS
14 5 (1.81%) PaaS
15 4 (1.45%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.97%) HTTP
2 8 (2.90%) Bluetooth
2 8 (2.90%) Modbus
2 8 (2.90%) Profibus
2 8 (2.90%) RS-232
2 8 (2.90%) RS-485
2 8 (2.90%) Wireless
2 8 (2.90%) ZigBee
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (35.87%) MongoDB
2 70 (25.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 62 (22.46%) Elasticsearch
4 40 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (10.14%) NoSQL
6 22 (7.97%) MySQL
7 17 (6.16%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.07%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.09%) Flink
11 3 (1.09%) Redis
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (13.04%) Git
2 31 (11.23%) JUnit
3 19 (6.88%) Mockito
4 17 (6.16%) Maven
5 11 (3.99%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.90%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.90%) GitLab
6 8 (2.90%) Selenium
7 7 (2.54%) Postman
8 6 (2.17%) Gatling
9 4 (1.45%) NUnit
9 4 (1.45%) Vagrant
10 3 (1.09%) Android Studio
10 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.72%) JIRA
11 2 (0.72%) MLflow
11 2 (0.72%) MSTest
12 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 86 (31.16%) Finance
2 46 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 27 (9.78%) Banking
5 13 (4.71%) Advertising
5 13 (4.71%) Legal
6 11 (3.99%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.26%) Retail
8 8 (2.90%) Electronics
8 8 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.17%) Local Government
9 6 (2.17%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Back Office
11 4 (1.45%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Publishing
12 3 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 133 (48.19%) Developer
2 80 (28.99%) Software Engineer
3 77 (27.90%) Senior
4 74 (26.81%) .NET Developer
5 66 (23.91%) Lead
6 42 (15.22%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (12.68%) Senior Developer
8 27 (9.78%) Java Developer
9 23 (8.33%) Development Engineer
9 23 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
10 18 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (6.16%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (3.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (3.99%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (3.26%) Java Engineer
14 9 (3.26%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 8 (2.90%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (35.87%) .NET
2 85 (30.80%) Node.js
3 79 (28.62%) .NET Core
4 74 (26.81%) ASP.NET
5 71 (25.72%) React
6 69 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 57 (20.65%) AngularJS
7 57 (20.65%) REST
8 54 (19.57%) Vue
9 52 (18.84%) Spring
10 36 (13.04%) RESTful
11 35 (12.68%) Terraform
12 32 (11.59%) .NET Framework
13 31 (11.23%) Spring Boot
14 30 (10.87%) CSS
15 29 (10.51%) ASP.NET Web API
16 26 (9.42%) HTML
17 19 (6.88%) Kafka
18 17 (6.16%) Entity Framework
19 16 (5.80%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.14%) Public Cloud
2 25 (9.06%) Product Ownership
3 19 (6.88%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.80%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.07%) Blog
7 8 (2.90%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.81%) NHS
9 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.45%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.09%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.07%) Linux
2 8 (2.90%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (2.54%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (72.83%) Agile
2 139 (50.36%) Microservices
3 120 (43.48%) BDD
4 117 (42.39%) CI/CD
5 115 (41.67%) Scrum
6 108 (39.13%) Software Engineering
7 104 (37.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 88 (31.88%) Mentoring
9 76 (27.54%) Kanban
10 70 (25.36%) Technical Leadership
11 66 (23.91%) DevOps
12 54 (19.57%) AI
13 53 (19.20%) Coaching
14 51 (18.48%) Test Automation
15 49 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
16 46 (16.67%) Pair Programming
17 45 (16.30%) OO
18 35 (12.68%) SOLID
19 34 (12.32%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (43.12%) SQL
2 117 (42.39%) Java
3 102 (36.96%) C#
4 84 (30.43%) JavaScript
5 83 (30.07%) TypeScript
6 54 (19.57%) Python
7 15 (5.43%) Bash
7 15 (5.43%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.99%) C++
9 8 (2.90%) C
9 8 (2.90%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.90%) Ruby
10 4 (1.45%) Go
10 4 (1.45%) Groovy
10 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.09%) PHP
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.62%) Degree
4 5 (1.81%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.88%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.71%) WCAG
3 12 (4.35%) QA
4 5 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 107 (38.77%) Docker
2 8 (2.90%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (2.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (39.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.54%) Ansible
2 7 (2.54%) Packer
3 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 80 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.06%) Oracle
3 4 (1.45%) Databricks
3 4 (1.45%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.45%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.09%) Alterian
4 3 (1.09%) Optimizely
5 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.72%) Facebook
5 2 (0.72%) Google
5 2 (0.72%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Conga
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.36%) IBM
6 1 (0.36%) RedGate
6 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.36%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.36%) YouTube