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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 129 107
Rank change year-on-year -67 -22 -29
Permanent jobs citing TDD 304 450 711
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.37% 2.71% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.92% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 222 232 598
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,334
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.30% -10.95%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £114,375 £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 18,492 15,420 22,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.05% 92.98% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,404 9,120 16,093
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 August 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 6 (1.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.32%) Apache
2 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.32%) CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.99%) DNN
3 3 (0.99%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.99%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Kentico
3 3 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.99%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.99%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (66.78%) AWS
2 169 (55.59%) Azure
3 62 (20.39%) GitHub
4 53 (17.43%) GitHub Copilot
5 38 (12.50%) Serverless
6 28 (9.21%) GCP
7 18 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.61%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.96%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.96%) ChatGPT
10 9 (2.96%) PaaS
11 8 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.97%) SaaS
14 5 (1.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.57%) HTTP
2 9 (2.96%) Bluetooth
2 9 (2.96%) Modbus
2 9 (2.96%) Profibus
2 9 (2.96%) RS-232
2 9 (2.96%) RS-485
2 9 (2.96%) Wireless
2 9 (2.96%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (36.51%) MongoDB
2 72 (23.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.37%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (12.83%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.20%) MySQL
7 17 (5.59%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.28%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.96%) Redis
11 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.99%) Flink
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.33%) Db2
13 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (13.82%) Git
2 24 (7.89%) JUnit
3 14 (4.61%) Maven
3 14 (4.61%) Mockito
4 11 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.63%) GitLab
5 8 (2.63%) Postman
5 8 (2.63%) Selenium
6 6 (1.97%) Gatling
7 4 (1.32%) JIRA
7 4 (1.32%) NUnit
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) MSTest
9 1 (0.33%) Appium
9 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.33%) git-flow
9 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 87 (28.62%) Finance
2 50 (16.45%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.21%) Banking
5 15 (4.93%) Advertising
6 12 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.29%) Retail
8 9 (2.96%) Electronics
8 9 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.63%) Legal
10 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.30%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.32%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.32%) Publishing
12 3 (0.99%) Back Office
12 3 (0.99%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.99%) Marketing
13 2 (0.66%) Local Government
14 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 143 (47.04%) Developer
2 95 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 82 (26.97%) Senior
4 78 (25.66%) .NET Developer
5 68 (22.37%) Lead
6 45 (14.80%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (11.51%) Senior Developer
8 32 (10.53%) Java Developer
9 28 (9.21%) Development Engineer
9 28 (9.21%) Software Development Engineer
10 22 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (6.91%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (5.92%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.61%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.62%) Java Software Engineer
14 11 (3.62%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.62%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.62%) Senior Software Developer
15 10 (3.29%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (34.21%) .NET
2 88 (28.95%) Node.js
3 79 (25.99%) .NET Core
4 74 (24.34%) ASP.NET
5 71 (23.36%) ASP.NET Core
6 70 (23.03%) React
7 61 (20.07%) AngularJS
8 58 (19.08%) Vue
9 53 (17.43%) REST
10 46 (15.13%) Spring
11 45 (14.80%) RESTful
12 31 (10.20%) .NET Framework
13 29 (9.54%) ASP.NET Web API
13 29 (9.54%) Spring Boot
14 21 (6.91%) CSS
15 20 (6.58%) HTML
16 16 (5.26%) WinForms
17 15 (4.93%) Blazor
17 15 (4.93%) Entity Framework
17 15 (4.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.54%) Product Ownership
3 27 (8.88%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.96%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (2.30%) Blog
7 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.64%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.32%) Hackathon
10 4 (1.32%) IoT
10 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.99%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.99%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.25%) Linux
2 9 (2.96%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (1.97%) Android
4 5 (1.64%) Unix
5 3 (0.99%) Windows
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (72.37%) Agile
2 146 (48.03%) Microservices
3 130 (42.76%) BDD
4 127 (41.78%) Software Engineering
5 125 (41.12%) CI/CD
6 114 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 114 (37.50%) Scrum
7 95 (31.25%) Mentoring
8 79 (25.99%) DevOps
9 76 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 73 (24.01%) Kanban
11 65 (21.38%) AI
12 64 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (19.08%) Coaching
14 50 (16.45%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (15.46%) Containerisation
16 46 (15.13%) OO
17 45 (14.80%) Clean Code
18 42 (13.82%) Pair Programming
19 41 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 135 (44.41%) SQL
2 131 (43.09%) Java
3 106 (34.87%) C#
4 81 (26.64%) JavaScript
5 78 (25.66%) TypeScript
6 63 (20.72%) Python
7 14 (4.61%) PL/SQL
8 13 (4.28%) Bash
9 12 (3.95%) C++
10 9 (2.96%) C
10 9 (2.96%) Ruby
11 6 (1.97%) PHP
12 5 (1.64%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.32%) Go
13 4 (1.32%) Groovy
13 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.33%) Perl
15 1 (0.33%) RPG
Qualifications
1 44 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.26%) Degree
4 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.91%) QA
2 12 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.97%) WCAG
4 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.99%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.66%) NCSC
System Software
1 117 (38.49%) Docker
2 12 (3.95%) Firmware
3 9 (2.96%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (35.86%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.86%) Terraform
3 6 (1.97%) Ansible
4 5 (1.64%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.32%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.24%) Oracle
3 6 (1.97%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.99%) Alterian
5 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.99%) Optimizely
5 3 (0.99%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.66%) Databricks
6 2 (0.66%) Facebook
6 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.33%) Conga
7 1 (0.33%) GoCardless