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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 98 72
Rank change year-on-year -84 -26 -7
Permanent jobs citing TDD 207 539 939
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.35% 3.28% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 3.50% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 150 397 823
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% +3.85% -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 13,352 15,391 20,337
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 93.78% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,502 9,047 16,467
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,300 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 16 January 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 (1.45%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.97%) Luigi
2 2 (0.97%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) CMS
3 1 (0.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Shopify
2 3 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 110 (53.14%) AWS
2 74 (35.75%) Azure
3 48 (23.19%) Serverless
4 31 (14.98%) GCP
5 30 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.66%) GitHub
7 16 (7.73%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.83%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.38%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.90%) SaaS
14 4 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.93%) Figma
14 4 (1.93%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.97%) AMQP
3 1 (0.48%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) Multicast
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.49%) MongoDB
2 29 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (13.53%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (10.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (8.21%) NoSQL
5 17 (8.21%) SQL Server
6 14 (6.76%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.83%) MySQL
7 10 (4.83%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.48%) Big Data
10 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.48%) Parquet
10 1 (0.48%) Power BI
10 1 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 29 (14.01%) Git
3 22 (10.63%) TeamCity
4 16 (7.73%) Selenium
5 11 (5.31%) GitLab
6 10 (4.83%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.35%) JUnit
8 7 (3.38%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.90%) JIRA
10 5 (2.42%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.93%) Storybook
12 2 (0.97%) Mocha
12 2 (0.97%) webpack
13 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.48%) JMeter
13 1 (0.48%) Maven
13 1 (0.48%) Mockito
13 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 58 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.87%) Tech for Good
3 28 (13.53%) Health Technology
4 26 (12.56%) Publishing
5 21 (10.14%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (9.66%) Finance
7 14 (6.76%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.42%) Banking
9 5 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.42%) Law
10 4 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.93%) Retail
11 3 (1.45%) Back Office
11 3 (1.45%) Games
11 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.45%) Legal
11 3 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.97%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (54.59%) Developer
2 83 (40.10%) Senior
3 45 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 41 (19.81%) Software Engineer
5 31 (14.98%) Python Developer
5 31 (14.98%) Software Developer
6 28 (13.53%) .NET Developer
7 26 (12.56%) Lead
8 25 (12.08%) React Developer
9 21 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (9.66%) AWS Developer
11 18 (8.70%) Senior Software Developer
12 16 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (7.73%) Lead Developer
13 15 (7.25%) Java Developer
14 14 (6.76%) Lead Python Developer
15 12 (5.80%) Senior Python Developer
16 11 (5.31%) Scala Engineer
17 9 (4.35%) Senior React Developer
17 9 (4.35%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (37.68%) React
2 60 (28.99%) .NET
3 42 (20.29%) RESTful
4 34 (16.43%) Node.js
5 33 (15.94%) AngularJS
6 30 (14.49%) .NET Core
7 26 (12.56%) ASP.NET
7 26 (12.56%) Spring Boot
8 24 (11.59%) Spring
9 23 (11.11%) Akka
9 23 (11.11%) HTML
10 22 (10.63%) CSS
11 21 (10.14%) .NET Framework
11 21 (10.14%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (10.14%) Vue
12 20 (9.66%) Entity Framework
13 19 (9.18%) REST
14 17 (8.21%) Kafka
15 16 (7.73%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (7.73%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.11%) Over-the-Top Content
2 22 (10.63%) Video\Live Streaming
3 17 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (7.73%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.80%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.38%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.42%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.42%) Digital TV
8 5 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.93%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.45%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.45%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.97%) Social Media
12 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.93%) Android
2 3 (1.45%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.45%) Linux
3 2 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (77.29%) Agile
2 97 (46.86%) CI/CD
3 80 (38.65%) Scrum
4 75 (36.23%) Microservices
5 74 (35.75%) Software Engineering
6 64 (30.92%) Pair Programming
7 59 (28.50%) DevOps
8 56 (27.05%) Mentoring
9 55 (26.57%) BDD
9 55 (26.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 48 (23.19%) Kanban
11 37 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
13 34 (16.43%) Test Automation
14 33 (15.94%) Coaching
15 29 (14.01%) Open Source
16 28 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
18 26 (12.56%) Analytics
18 26 (12.56%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 62 (29.95%) C#
2 56 (27.05%) Python
3 55 (26.57%) TypeScript
4 54 (26.09%) Java
4 54 (26.09%) JavaScript
5 39 (18.84%) SQL
6 26 (12.56%) Scala
7 8 (3.86%) Delphi
8 5 (2.42%) Go
9 4 (1.93%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.93%) PHP
9 4 (1.93%) Ruby
10 2 (0.97%) C
10 2 (0.97%) R
10 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.73%) Degree
2 11 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.97%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (21.26%) QA
2 21 (10.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.93%) WCAG
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (27.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (25.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.35%) Terraform
3 8 (3.86%) Grafana
4 6 (2.90%) Ansible
5 3 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.31%) Oracle
3 4 (1.93%) Google
4 2 (0.97%) SendGrid
4 2 (0.97%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.48%) Adobe
5 1 (0.48%) Databricks
5 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.48%) Pega
5 1 (0.48%) UiPath
5 1 (0.48%) WSO2