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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 96 89
Rank change year-on-year -97 -7 -31
Permanent jobs citing TDD 198 598 701
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 3.18% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 3.49% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 155 449 593
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,575
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

All Process and 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 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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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 9 December 2025.

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 4 (2.02%) IIS
1 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.01%) CMS
2 2 (1.01%) Luigi
2 2 (1.01%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Shopify
2 3 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (58.59%) AWS
2 84 (42.42%) Azure
3 45 (22.73%) Serverless
4 31 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
4 31 (15.66%) GCP
5 22 (11.11%) GitHub
6 17 (8.59%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (5.56%) OpenShift
9 10 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.04%) SaaS
11 6 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.03%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.53%) npm
13 4 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.02%) Figma
14 2 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) AMQP
3 1 (0.51%) HTTP
3 1 (0.51%) Multicast
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (19.70%) MongoDB
2 34 (17.17%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (15.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (10.10%) SQL Server
6 16 (8.08%) NoSQL
7 14 (7.07%) DynamoDB
8 12 (6.06%) MySQL
9 10 (5.05%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.02%) Data Hub
10 4 (2.02%) SQL CLR
11 2 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.51%) Power BI
12 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (13.64%) Git
2 17 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.07%) Selenium
4 11 (5.56%) GitLab
5 10 (5.05%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.55%) JUnit
7 8 (4.04%) JIRA
8 7 (3.54%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.03%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.52%) Mocha
10 3 (1.52%) webpack
11 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.51%) JMeter
11 1 (0.51%) Maven
11 1 (0.51%) Mockito
11 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.70%) Tech for Good
3 29 (14.65%) Finance
3 29 (14.65%) Health Technology
4 27 (13.64%) Publishing
5 22 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.54%) Front Office
9 5 (2.53%) Back Office
10 4 (2.02%) Retail
11 3 (1.52%) Banking
11 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.52%) Law
11 3 (1.52%) Legal
11 3 (1.52%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.01%) Games
12 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (59.60%) Developer
2 67 (33.84%) Senior
3 40 (20.20%) Senior Developer
4 36 (18.18%) .NET Developer
5 34 (17.17%) Software Engineer
6 31 (15.66%) Python Developer
7 29 (14.65%) Software Developer
8 26 (13.13%) Lead
9 25 (12.63%) React Developer
10 21 (10.61%) AWS Developer
11 19 (9.60%) Lead Developer
12 15 (7.58%) Lead Python Developer
12 15 (7.58%) Senior Software Developer
12 15 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (7.07%) Java Developer
14 12 (6.06%) Senior Python Developer
15 10 (5.05%) Lead Software Developer
16 9 (4.55%) C# Developer
16 9 (4.55%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (43.43%) React
2 67 (33.84%) .NET
3 42 (21.21%) RESTful
4 41 (20.71%) .NET Core
5 39 (19.70%) Node.js
6 38 (19.19%) AngularJS
7 33 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 32 (16.16%) Entity Framework
9 30 (15.15%) .NET Framework
10 29 (14.65%) Vue
11 28 (14.14%) ASP.NET MVC
12 26 (13.13%) Spring Boot
13 25 (12.63%) HTML
14 24 (12.12%) CSS
15 22 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
15 22 (11.11%) Spring
16 16 (8.08%) Django
16 16 (8.08%) Kafka
16 16 (8.08%) REST
17 13 (6.57%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.54%) Digital TV
5 6 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.02%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.52%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.52%) Social Media
9 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.01%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.01%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.02%) Linux
1 4 (2.02%) Windows
1 4 (2.02%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.52%) Unix
3 2 (1.01%) Android
3 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (75.76%) Agile
2 92 (46.46%) CI/CD
3 75 (37.88%) Microservices
4 70 (35.35%) Software Engineering
5 63 (31.82%) Scrum
6 62 (31.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (30.81%) BDD
8 58 (29.29%) DevOps
9 54 (27.27%) Mentoring
10 43 (21.72%) Pair Programming
11 41 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (18.18%) Coaching
14 33 (16.67%) Kanban
15 32 (16.16%) MVC
15 32 (16.16%) Test Automation
16 27 (13.64%) Code Quality
16 27 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (13.64%) Operational Stability
17 26 (13.13%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 73 (36.87%) C#
2 63 (31.82%) Python
3 62 (31.31%) JavaScript
3 62 (31.31%) TypeScript
4 53 (26.77%) SQL
5 51 (25.76%) Java
6 8 (4.04%) Delphi
7 6 (3.03%) PHP
7 6 (3.03%) Ruby
8 5 (2.53%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.53%) Scala
9 4 (2.02%) Go
10 3 (1.52%) R
11 2 (1.01%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (6.57%) Degree
1 13 (6.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.52%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.71%) QA
2 20 (10.10%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.52%) WCAG
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (15.66%) Docker
2 4 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.55%) Grafana
3 8 (4.04%) Terraform
4 4 (2.02%) Ansible
5 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.01%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.56%) Oracle
3 4 (2.02%) VMware
4 3 (1.52%) Google
5 2 (1.01%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe
6 1 (0.51%) Databricks
6 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.51%) Pega
6 1 (0.51%) Revolut
6 1 (0.51%) UiPath
6 1 (0.51%) WSO2