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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 107 75
Rank change year-on-year -75 -32 -2
Permanent jobs citing TDD 274 494 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.36% 3.19% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 3.38% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 186 271 1,164
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,932 £94,389 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

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 16,496 14,625 30,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.89% 94.51% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,943 8,513 23,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 20 June 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 (1.09%) Apache Solr
1 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.73%) CMS
2 2 (0.73%) Confluence
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.36%) DNN
3 1 (0.36%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.36%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.36%) JBoss
3 1 (0.36%) Kentico
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 168 (61.31%) AWS
2 122 (44.53%) Azure
3 38 (13.87%) Serverless
4 37 (13.50%) GitHub
5 33 (12.04%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (8.76%) GCP
7 16 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.28%) Azure AI
11 8 (2.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.19%) PaaS
12 6 (2.19%) SaaS
12 6 (2.19%) Sentry
13 5 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (1.82%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.39%) Broadband
2 20 (7.30%) HTTP
3 8 (2.92%) Bluetooth
3 8 (2.92%) Modbus
3 8 (2.92%) Profibus
3 8 (2.92%) RS-232
3 8 (2.92%) RS-485
3 8 (2.92%) Wireless
3 8 (2.92%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (28.83%) MongoDB
2 48 (17.52%) Elasticsearch
3 47 (17.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 43 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (12.77%) NoSQL
6 27 (9.85%) MySQL
7 16 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.28%) Redis
10 4 (1.46%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.09%) Flink
12 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.36%) Db2
12 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.36%) Metadata
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.04%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.95%) Git
3 22 (8.03%) TeamCity
4 16 (5.84%) JUnit
5 9 (3.28%) Maven
5 9 (3.28%) Mockito
6 6 (2.19%) GitLab
6 6 (2.19%) JIRA
6 6 (2.19%) Selenium
7 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.46%) NUnit
8 4 (1.46%) Postman
9 3 (1.09%) Storybook
10 2 (0.73%) Gatling
10 2 (0.73%) MSTest
10 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.73%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.73%) Vite
11 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (22.26%) Finance
2 41 (14.96%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.12%) Banking
5 10 (3.65%) Advertising
5 10 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.92%) Electronics
6 8 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (2.92%) Tech for Good
7 7 (2.55%) Retail
8 4 (1.46%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.46%) Publishing
9 3 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.73%) Back Office
10 2 (0.73%) Games
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 115 (41.97%) Developer
2 97 (35.40%) Software Engineer
3 90 (32.85%) Senior
4 52 (18.98%) Lead
5 49 (17.88%) .NET Developer
6 35 (12.77%) Lead Software Engineer
6 35 (12.77%) Senior Developer
7 30 (10.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (10.58%) Java Developer
9 25 (9.12%) Development Engineer
9 25 (9.12%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (7.66%) Software Developer
11 18 (6.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (5.84%) Java Engineer
13 15 (5.47%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (4.74%) Java Software Engineer
15 12 (4.38%) Scala Engineer
16 11 (4.01%) Python Engineer
17 10 (3.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (29.56%) .NET
2 61 (22.26%) Node.js
2 61 (22.26%) React
3 56 (20.44%) .NET Core
4 48 (17.52%) ASP.NET
5 47 (17.15%) AngularJS
6 46 (16.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 43 (15.69%) REST
7 43 (15.69%) RESTful
8 41 (14.96%) Vue
9 40 (14.60%) Spring
10 27 (9.85%) Spring Boot
11 23 (8.39%) Akka
12 20 (7.30%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (6.20%) .NET Framework
14 16 (5.84%) CSS
14 16 (5.84%) HTML
15 14 (5.11%) Django
16 12 (4.38%) Playwright
17 11 (4.01%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.49%) Product Ownership
3 23 (8.39%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (8.03%) Over-the-Top Content
5 20 (7.30%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.82%) Mobile Payment
8 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.46%) IoT
9 4 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.73%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.47%) Linux
2 8 (2.92%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.82%) Unix
4 2 (0.73%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (72.63%) Agile
2 123 (44.89%) Software Engineering
3 113 (41.24%) Microservices
4 106 (38.69%) CI/CD
4 106 (38.69%) Scrum
5 104 (37.96%) BDD
6 84 (30.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 84 (30.66%) Mentoring
7 74 (27.01%) DevOps
8 71 (25.91%) Kanban
9 64 (23.36%) Test Automation
10 56 (20.44%) Open Source
11 55 (20.07%) Pair Programming
12 52 (18.98%) Technical Leadership
13 49 (17.88%) Coaching
14 46 (16.79%) AI
15 41 (14.96%) Containerisation
16 40 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 38 (13.87%) Clean Code
18 36 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 111 (40.51%) Java
2 101 (36.86%) SQL
3 79 (28.83%) C#
4 61 (22.26%) TypeScript
5 59 (21.53%) JavaScript
6 50 (18.25%) Python
7 25 (9.12%) Scala
8 10 (3.65%) C++
8 10 (3.65%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.92%) C
10 7 (2.55%) Bash
10 7 (2.55%) PHP
11 5 (1.82%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.82%) Ruby
12 4 (1.46%) Go
13 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.36%) Groovy
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) RPG
Qualifications
1 29 (10.58%) SC Cleared
1 29 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.57%) Degree
3 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.76%) QA
2 11 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.09%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (41.61%) Docker
2 11 (4.01%) Firmware
3 8 (2.92%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (37.96%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.68%) Terraform
3 6 (2.19%) Ansible
4 5 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.82%) Packer
5 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.11%) Oracle
3 7 (2.55%) Google
4 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.73%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.73%) Facebook
6 2 (0.73%) IBM
7 1 (0.36%) Alterian
7 1 (0.36%) Conga
7 1 (0.36%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.36%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.36%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.36%) Veracode