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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 112 72
Rank change year-on-year -75 -40 -4
Permanent jobs citing TDD 234 475 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 3.25% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 3.43% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 152 259 1,164
10th Percentile £45,125 £52,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,313 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £135,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 15,628 13,867 29,674
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 94.93% 90.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,147 8,130 23,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £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 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 25 May 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 4 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.28%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.28%) Confluence
2 3 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (58.97%) AWS
2 88 (37.61%) Azure
3 43 (18.38%) Serverless
4 25 (10.68%) GCP
5 21 (8.97%) GitHub
6 18 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.99%) SaaS
12 7 (2.99%) Sentry
13 6 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.56%) PaaS
14 5 (2.14%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.14%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.14%) ChatGPT
14 5 (2.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.83%) Broadband
2 15 (6.41%) HTTP
3 6 (2.56%) Bluetooth
3 6 (2.56%) Modbus
3 6 (2.56%) Profibus
3 6 (2.56%) RS-232
3 6 (2.56%) RS-485
3 6 (2.56%) Wireless
3 6 (2.56%) ZigBee
4 5 (2.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.79%) MongoDB
2 45 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (14.10%) NoSQL
4 26 (11.11%) MySQL
5 25 (10.68%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (8.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.85%) Redis
9 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.28%) Flink
12 1 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.43%) Metadata
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.43%) Parquet
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (14.53%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.82%) Git
3 22 (9.40%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.13%) JUnit
5 8 (3.42%) Maven
5 8 (3.42%) Mockito
6 6 (2.56%) JIRA
7 5 (2.14%) Selenium
7 5 (2.14%) Storybook
8 4 (1.71%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.71%) GitLab
9 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.85%) MSTest
10 2 (0.85%) NUnit
10 2 (0.85%) Postman
10 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.85%) Vite
11 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (21.79%) Finance
2 37 (15.81%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.40%) Banking
5 12 (5.13%) Tech for Good
6 11 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.42%) Health Technology
9 8 (3.42%) Publishing
9 8 (3.42%) Retail
10 6 (2.56%) Electronics
10 6 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.14%) Advertising
11 5 (2.14%) Back Office
11 5 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.28%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.28%) Law
14 2 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (39.74%) Developer
2 87 (37.18%) Software Engineer
3 85 (36.32%) Senior
4 52 (22.22%) Lead
5 34 (14.53%) Senior Developer
6 30 (12.82%) Lead Software Engineer
7 28 (11.97%) Java Developer
7 28 (11.97%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (8.97%) .NET Developer
9 20 (8.55%) Development Engineer
9 20 (8.55%) Software Developer
9 20 (8.55%) Software Development Engineer
10 18 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
11 16 (6.84%) Java Engineer
12 15 (6.41%) Senior Software Developer
13 13 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (5.56%) Lead Developer
14 12 (5.13%) Python Developer
14 12 (5.13%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (21.37%) React
2 49 (20.94%) RESTful
3 46 (19.66%) .NET
4 41 (17.52%) Node.js
5 39 (16.67%) Spring
6 37 (15.81%) REST
7 28 (11.97%) AngularJS
8 27 (11.54%) Spring Boot
9 24 (10.26%) .NET Core
10 23 (9.83%) Akka
11 20 (8.55%) Vue
12 19 (8.12%) ASP.NET
13 17 (7.26%) ASP.NET Core
14 14 (5.98%) Django
15 13 (5.56%) CSS
15 13 (5.56%) HTML
16 11 (4.70%) Kafka
16 11 (4.70%) Playwright
17 8 (3.42%) FastAPI
17 8 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.83%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.40%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (6.41%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.14%) Mobile Payment
8 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.71%) IoT
10 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.28%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.85%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.85%) Social Network
11 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.56%) Linux
2 6 (2.56%) Android
2 6 (2.56%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.14%) Unix
4 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (70.09%) Agile
2 108 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 102 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 86 (36.75%) Microservices
4 86 (36.75%) Scrum
5 82 (35.04%) Mentoring
6 72 (30.77%) DevOps
7 71 (30.34%) BDD
8 64 (27.35%) Test Automation
9 56 (23.93%) Open Source
10 54 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 53 (22.65%) Pair Programming
12 47 (20.09%) Kanban
13 46 (19.66%) Coaching
14 42 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
15 40 (17.09%) Containerisation
16 35 (14.96%) Clean Code
16 35 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (13.25%) AI
Programming Languages
1 102 (43.59%) Java
2 71 (30.34%) SQL
3 50 (21.37%) JavaScript
4 49 (20.94%) Python
5 39 (16.67%) C#
6 38 (16.24%) TypeScript
7 25 (10.68%) Scala
8 9 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.99%) Bash
10 6 (2.56%) C
10 6 (2.56%) C++
10 6 (2.56%) PHP
11 5 (2.14%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.14%) Ruby
12 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) Groovy
14 1 (0.43%) Perl
14 1 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 27 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 27 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.41%) Degree
3 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.39%) QA
2 10 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.28%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (39.74%) Docker
2 9 (3.85%) Firmware
3 6 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (35.47%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.97%) Terraform
3 8 (3.42%) Ansible
4 5 (2.14%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.14%) Packer
5 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.98%) Oracle
3 8 (3.42%) Google
4 5 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.85%) Facebook
5 2 (0.85%) IBM
5 2 (0.85%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe
6 1 (0.43%) Conga
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.43%) Veracode