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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 105 71
Rank change year-on-year -79 -34 -1
Permanent jobs citing TDD 210 402 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 3.13% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 3.30% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 143 357 1,149
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,383 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% +8.00% -10.71%

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 14,100 12,183 28,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.68% 94.83% 91.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,815 8,806 23,283
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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

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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 2 April 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 (1.43%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.95%) CMS
2 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (55.24%) AWS
2 72 (34.29%) Azure
3 42 (20.00%) Serverless
4 32 (15.24%) GCP
5 22 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.05%) Amazon S3
6 19 (9.05%) GitHub
7 15 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.29%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.33%) SaaS
10 7 (3.33%) Sentry
11 6 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.38%) dbt
12 5 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.38%) Broadband
2 5 (2.38%) HTTP
2 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.48%) Modbus
3 1 (0.48%) Multicast
3 1 (0.48%) Profibus
3 1 (0.48%) RS-232
3 1 (0.48%) RS-485
3 1 (0.48%) Wireless
3 1 (0.48%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.52%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 26 (12.38%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.05%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.10%) MySQL
6 12 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.86%) Redis
8 6 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.48%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.48%) Parquet
11 1 (0.48%) Power BI
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (18.10%) Jenkins
2 36 (17.14%) Git
3 23 (10.95%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.71%) GitLab
5 11 (5.24%) Selenium
6 10 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.76%) JUnit
7 6 (2.86%) JIRA
8 5 (2.38%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.38%) Storybook
9 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.95%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.95%) Vite
10 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.48%) Appium
10 1 (0.48%) git-flow
10 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.48%) Protractor
10 1 (0.48%) webpack
10 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 57 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.71%) Finance
3 23 (10.95%) Tech for Good
4 20 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.67%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.67%) Publishing
8 13 (6.19%) Banking
9 10 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.86%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.38%) Retail
12 4 (1.90%) Back Office
13 3 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.43%) Games
13 3 (1.43%) Law
14 2 (0.95%) Advertising
15 1 (0.48%) Automotive
15 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (43.81%) Developer
2 83 (39.52%) Senior
3 69 (32.86%) Software Engineer
4 33 (15.71%) Senior Developer
5 31 (14.76%) Lead
6 28 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.90%) Software Developer
8 18 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 18 (8.57%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.10%) Lead Developer
9 17 (8.10%) React Developer
10 16 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (7.62%) Java Engineer
11 15 (7.14%) .NET Developer
11 15 (7.14%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.67%) Lead Python Developer
12 14 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (5.71%) Scala Engineer
14 10 (4.76%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (23.33%) React
2 46 (21.90%) .NET
3 40 (19.05%) RESTful
4 31 (14.76%) Spring
5 29 (13.81%) Spring Boot
6 28 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 26 (12.38%) Node.js
8 25 (11.90%) Akka
9 24 (11.43%) Django
10 21 (10.00%) REST
11 19 (9.05%) .NET Core
12 18 (8.57%) Vue
13 16 (7.62%) ASP.NET
14 14 (6.67%) CSS
14 14 (6.67%) Flask
14 14 (6.67%) HTML
15 12 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (5.24%) .NET Framework
17 10 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (4.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.43%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (10.95%) Over-the-Top Content
4 16 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (7.62%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.38%) Mobile Payment
7 5 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.90%) IoT
8 4 (1.90%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.95%) Digital TV
10 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.29%) Linux
2 6 (2.86%) Android
2 6 (2.86%) Unix
3 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (70.48%) Agile
2 104 (49.52%) Software Engineering
3 100 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 78 (37.14%) Mentoring
5 75 (35.71%) DevOps
5 75 (35.71%) Microservices
6 70 (33.33%) Scrum
7 60 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 57 (27.14%) BDD
9 53 (25.24%) Pair Programming
10 48 (22.86%) Coaching
11 47 (22.38%) Open Source
12 45 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (20.00%) Kanban
14 41 (19.52%) Acceptance Criteria
15 38 (18.10%) Containerisation
15 38 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (13.81%) Code Quality
18 28 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.76%) Java
2 57 (27.14%) Python
3 44 (20.95%) SQL
4 39 (18.57%) JavaScript
5 38 (18.10%) C#
6 32 (15.24%) TypeScript
7 25 (11.90%) Scala
8 8 (3.81%) Delphi
9 6 (2.86%) PHP
10 5 (2.38%) Ruby
11 4 (1.90%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.43%) C
12 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.48%) C++
14 1 (0.48%) Go
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
14 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.48%) RPG
14 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (8.57%) Degree
2 15 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 15 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.67%) QA
2 14 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.43%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (37.14%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (32.38%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.00%) Terraform
3 8 (3.81%) Grafana
4 6 (2.86%) Ansible
5 5 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.95%) Packer
6 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.71%) Oracle
3 8 (3.81%) Google
4 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.95%) IBM
5 2 (0.95%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.48%) Pega
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode
6 1 (0.48%) WSO2