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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 96 90
Rank change year-on-year -104 -6 -39
Permanent jobs citing TDD 217 612 761
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.36% 3.08% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 3.49% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 165 442 659
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,968
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,225 £90,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.48% - -2.80%

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 14,787 17,530 20,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.77% 88.25% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,599 10,445 16,813
10th Percentile £29,450 £36,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,481
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,375
90th Percentile £99,800 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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 5 November 2025.

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 8 (3.69%) IIS
1 8 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.30%) CMS
3 3 (1.38%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.92%) Drupal
4 2 (0.92%) Luigi
4 2 (0.92%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.92%) Elementor
1 2 (0.92%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (55.76%) AWS
2 91 (41.94%) Azure
3 42 (19.35%) Serverless
4 36 (16.59%) GCP
5 28 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (8.76%) SaaS
7 18 (8.29%) GitHub
8 12 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.15%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.76%) Figma
11 6 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.30%) npm
13 4 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.38%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
15 2 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 2 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (0.92%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) Broadband
2 2 (0.92%) AMQP
2 2 (0.92%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Multicast
3 1 (0.46%) RFID
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.43%) MongoDB
2 38 (17.51%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (13.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (8.76%) DynamoDB
5 19 (8.76%) NoSQL
6 16 (7.37%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.45%) MySQL
8 11 (5.07%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.69%) Data Hub
9 8 (3.69%) SQL CLR
10 6 (2.76%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.92%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.46%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (12.90%) Git
2 12 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.69%) Cypress.io
4 7 (3.23%) JIRA
5 6 (2.76%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.76%) Selenium
6 3 (1.38%) Mocha
6 3 (1.38%) webpack
7 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.92%) GitLab
7 2 (0.92%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.92%) JUnit
7 2 (0.92%) Maven
7 2 (0.92%) Mockito
7 2 (0.92%) Protractor
7 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.46%) Postman
8 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.05%) Finance
3 35 (16.13%) Tech for Good
4 24 (11.06%) Health Technology
5 22 (10.14%) Publishing
6 16 (7.37%) Front Office
7 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.69%) Back Office
10 6 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Legal
11 3 (1.38%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.38%) Retail
12 2 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Automotive
12 2 (0.92%) Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Games
12 2 (0.92%) Law
12 2 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (58.06%) Developer
2 66 (30.41%) Senior
3 44 (20.28%) Software Engineer
4 38 (17.51%) .NET Developer
5 37 (17.05%) Senior Developer
6 24 (11.06%) Python Developer
7 20 (9.22%) Lead
7 20 (9.22%) Software Developer
8 18 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (7.83%) Java Developer
10 16 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (6.91%) React Developer
11 15 (6.91%) Senior Python Developer
12 13 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (5.53%) AWS Developer
13 12 (5.53%) Lead Developer
14 11 (5.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (5.07%) Senior Software Developer
15 10 (4.61%) C# Developer
16 9 (4.15%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (48.39%) React
2 76 (35.02%) .NET
3 47 (21.66%) AngularJS
4 46 (21.20%) .NET Core
5 42 (19.35%) Node.js
6 37 (17.05%) Entity Framework
6 37 (17.05%) RESTful
6 37 (17.05%) Vue
7 36 (16.59%) ASP.NET
8 34 (15.67%) .NET Framework
9 29 (13.36%) CSS
9 29 (13.36%) HTML
10 28 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC
11 23 (10.60%) ASP.NET Web API
11 23 (10.60%) Spring
11 23 (10.60%) Spring Boot
12 21 (9.68%) REST
13 16 (7.37%) Swagger
14 15 (6.91%) HTML5
15 14 (6.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.69%) Private Cloud
4 8 (3.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 7 (3.23%) Digital TV
5 7 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.23%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.76%) Equities
6 6 (2.76%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.76%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.84%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.38%) Social Media
10 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.92%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.92%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.99%) Windows
2 8 (3.69%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.30%) Linux
4 4 (1.84%) Unix
5 3 (1.38%) Android
6 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (72.81%) Agile
2 87 (40.09%) CI/CD
3 86 (39.63%) Microservices
4 79 (36.41%) Software Engineering
5 73 (33.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 63 (29.03%) Scrum
7 60 (27.65%) BDD
8 59 (27.19%) DevOps
9 36 (16.59%) Mentoring
9 36 (16.59%) Pair Programming
10 35 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (15.67%) Kanban
12 33 (15.21%) Continuous Delivery
12 33 (15.21%) MVC
12 33 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (13.82%) Fintech
14 28 (12.90%) SOLID
14 28 (12.90%) Test Automation
15 27 (12.44%) Design Patterns
16 26 (11.98%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 83 (38.25%) C#
2 80 (36.87%) TypeScript
3 75 (34.56%) JavaScript
4 63 (29.03%) SQL
5 57 (26.27%) Python
6 53 (24.42%) Java
7 9 (4.15%) PHP
8 8 (3.69%) Ruby
9 6 (2.76%) Go
9 6 (2.76%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.30%) Scala
11 3 (1.38%) R
12 2 (0.92%) C
12 2 (0.92%) Swift
13 1 (0.46%) Bash
13 1 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.99%) Degree
2 13 (5.99%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.38%) Postgraduate
5 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.05%) QA
2 19 (8.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.38%) WCAG
4 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (15.21%) Docker
2 9 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.46%) KVM
3 1 (0.46%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.61%) Terraform
3 4 (1.84%) Ansible
3 4 (1.84%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.38%) Grafana
4 3 (1.38%) Puppet
5 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.46%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 43 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.15%) VMware
3 3 (1.38%) Google
3 3 (1.38%) Xamarin
4 2 (0.92%) Netlify
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle
5 1 (0.46%) Databricks
5 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.46%) Pega
5 1 (0.46%) Revolut
5 1 (0.46%) Splunk
5 1 (0.46%) UiPath
5 1 (0.46%) WSO2