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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 113 73
Rank change year-on-year -83 -40 -2
Permanent jobs citing TDD 252 487 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 3.23% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 3.41% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 163 267 1,165
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £136,250 £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 15,967 14,283 30,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.63% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 8,372 23,637
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 June 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 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.19%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.19%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.79%) Confluence
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) JBoss
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (59.52%) AWS
2 100 (39.68%) Azure
3 40 (15.87%) Serverless
4 26 (10.32%) GCP
5 25 (9.92%) GitHub
6 20 (7.94%) GitHub Copilot
7 15 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.17%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.78%) Azure AI
10 7 (2.78%) SaaS
10 7 (2.78%) Sentry
11 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.38%) PaaS
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (1.98%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (1.98%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.13%) Broadband
2 19 (7.54%) HTTP
3 7 (2.78%) Bluetooth
3 7 (2.78%) Modbus
3 7 (2.78%) Profibus
3 7 (2.78%) RS-232
3 7 (2.78%) RS-485
3 7 (2.78%) Wireless
3 7 (2.78%) ZigBee
4 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.41%) MongoDB
2 45 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 29 (11.51%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (10.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (10.32%) MySQL
6 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.57%) Redis
8 4 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.19%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.19%) Flink
10 1 (0.40%) Big Data
10 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.40%) Db2
10 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.40%) Parquet
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.49%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.70%) Git
3 22 (8.73%) TeamCity
4 16 (6.35%) JUnit
5 9 (3.57%) Maven
5 9 (3.57%) Mockito
6 7 (2.78%) Selenium
7 6 (2.38%) GitLab
7 6 (2.38%) JIRA
8 5 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.59%) Postman
9 4 (1.59%) Storybook
10 2 (0.79%) Gatling
10 2 (0.79%) MSTest
10 2 (0.79%) NUnit
10 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.79%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.79%) Vite
11 1 (0.40%) XCUITest
General
1 59 (23.41%) Finance
2 39 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.32%) Banking
5 10 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.57%) Retail
7 8 (3.17%) Advertising
7 8 (3.17%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.78%) Electronics
8 7 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Back Office
9 4 (1.59%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.59%) Publishing
10 3 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.79%) Games
11 2 (0.79%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (39.29%) Developer
2 93 (36.90%) Software Engineer
3 88 (34.92%) Senior
4 53 (21.03%) Lead
5 34 (13.49%) Lead Software Engineer
5 34 (13.49%) Senior Developer
6 30 (11.90%) .NET Developer
7 29 (11.51%) Java Developer
7 29 (11.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (9.52%) Development Engineer
8 24 (9.52%) Software Development Engineer
9 21 (8.33%) Software Developer
10 20 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (6.35%) Java Engineer
13 15 (5.95%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (5.16%) Java Software Engineer
15 12 (4.76%) Scala Engineer
16 11 (4.37%) Python Engineer
17 10 (3.97%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (23.02%) .NET
2 56 (22.22%) React
3 45 (17.86%) Node.js
4 44 (17.46%) RESTful
5 43 (17.06%) REST
6 41 (16.27%) Spring
7 34 (13.49%) .NET Core
8 32 (12.70%) AngularJS
9 28 (11.11%) Spring Boot
10 27 (10.71%) ASP.NET
11 24 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
11 24 (9.52%) Vue
12 23 (9.13%) Akka
13 15 (5.95%) CSS
13 15 (5.95%) HTML
14 14 (5.56%) Django
15 13 (5.16%) Playwright
16 12 (4.76%) Kafka
17 10 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
18 9 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.13%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (8.73%) Over-the-Top Content
5 19 (7.54%) Public Cloud
6 15 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.98%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.59%) IoT
10 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.19%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.79%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.56%) Linux
2 7 (2.78%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (1.98%) Android
3 5 (1.98%) Unix
4 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (70.24%) Agile
2 117 (46.43%) Software Engineering
3 106 (42.06%) CI/CD
4 95 (37.70%) Microservices
5 87 (34.52%) Scrum
6 83 (32.94%) BDD
6 83 (32.94%) Mentoring
7 74 (29.37%) DevOps
8 66 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 66 (26.19%) Test Automation
9 56 (22.22%) Open Source
10 54 (21.43%) Pair Programming
11 52 (20.63%) Kanban
12 50 (19.84%) Technical Leadership
13 46 (18.25%) Coaching
14 40 (15.87%) AI
14 40 (15.87%) Containerisation
15 38 (15.08%) Clean Code
15 38 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (43.65%) Java
2 79 (31.35%) SQL
3 54 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 53 (21.03%) C#
5 48 (19.05%) Python
6 45 (17.86%) TypeScript
7 25 (9.92%) Scala
8 10 (3.97%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.78%) Bash
9 7 (2.78%) C
9 7 (2.78%) C++
9 7 (2.78%) PHP
10 5 (1.98%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.98%) Ruby
11 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.19%) Go
12 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.40%) Perl
14 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (11.51%) SC Cleared
1 29 (11.51%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.75%) Degree
3 8 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.52%) QA
2 12 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.59%) WCAG
4 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.19%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 102 (40.48%) Docker
2 10 (3.97%) Firmware
3 7 (2.78%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 92 (36.51%) Kubernetes
2 31 (12.30%) Terraform
3 8 (3.17%) Ansible
4 5 (1.98%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.98%) Packer
5 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.16%) Oracle
3 8 (3.17%) Google
4 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.79%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.79%) Facebook
5 2 (0.79%) IBM
5 2 (0.79%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.40%) Conga
6 1 (0.40%) Databricks
6 1 (0.40%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.40%) Veracode