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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 102 72
Rank change year-on-year -93 -30 -4
Permanent jobs citing TDD 225 501 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 3.45% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 3.63% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 149 291 1,155
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £115,000 £87,500
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 15,186 13,820 29,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.08% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,784 8,648 23,364
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 13 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 (1.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.33%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.89%) CMS
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (56.89%) AWS
2 80 (35.56%) Azure
3 45 (20.00%) Serverless
4 26 (11.56%) GCP
5 22 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (9.78%) GitHub
6 16 (7.11%) Amazon S3
6 16 (7.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 13 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (3.11%) SaaS
10 7 (3.11%) Sentry
11 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.67%) PaaS
12 5 (2.22%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.22%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.22%) Broadband
2 14 (6.22%) HTTP
3 5 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.78%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.78%) Modbus
4 4 (1.78%) Profibus
4 4 (1.78%) RS-232
4 4 (1.78%) RS-485
4 4 (1.78%) Wireless
4 4 (1.78%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (19.11%) MongoDB
2 36 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 25 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 19 (8.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (8.44%) MySQL
5 14 (6.22%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.00%) Redis
7 4 (1.78%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.33%) Flink
9 1 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) Parquet
9 1 (0.44%) Power BI
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (15.11%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.89%) Git
3 22 (9.78%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.56%) JUnit
5 5 (2.22%) JIRA
5 5 (2.22%) Maven
5 5 (2.22%) Mockito
5 5 (2.22%) Selenium
5 5 (2.22%) Storybook
6 4 (1.78%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.78%) GitLab
7 2 (0.89%) MSTest
7 2 (0.89%) NUnit
7 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.89%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.89%) Vite
8 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.44%) Appium
8 1 (0.44%) XCUITest
General
1 48 (21.33%) Finance
2 36 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.33%) Banking
5 18 (8.00%) Tech for Good
6 12 (5.33%) Health Technology
6 12 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.33%) Publishing
7 11 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.56%) Retail
10 5 (2.22%) Advertising
10 5 (2.22%) Back Office
11 4 (1.78%) Electronics
11 4 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.33%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.33%) Law
13 2 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (41.78%) Developer
2 81 (36.00%) Senior
3 76 (33.78%) Software Engineer
4 46 (20.44%) Lead
5 33 (14.67%) Senior Developer
6 26 (11.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (10.67%) Java Developer
8 23 (10.22%) .NET Developer
9 21 (9.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (9.33%) Software Developer
10 19 (8.44%) Development Engineer
10 19 (8.44%) Software Development Engineer
11 16 (7.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (7.11%) Java Engineer
11 16 (7.11%) Lead Developer
11 16 (7.11%) Python Developer
12 15 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
13 14 (6.22%) React Developer
13 14 (6.22%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (5.78%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.78%) .NET
2 46 (20.44%) React
2 46 (20.44%) RESTful
3 35 (15.56%) REST
4 34 (15.11%) Spring
5 32 (14.22%) Node.js
6 29 (12.89%) AngularJS
7 25 (11.11%) .NET Core
7 25 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 23 (10.22%) Akka
9 20 (8.89%) ASP.NET
9 20 (8.89%) Vue
10 17 (7.56%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (6.22%) Django
12 12 (5.33%) Kafka
13 11 (4.89%) CSS
13 11 (4.89%) HTML
13 11 (4.89%) Playwright
13 11 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (3.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 23 (10.22%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.78%) Over-the-Top Content
5 14 (6.22%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.67%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.22%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.78%) IoT
9 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.89%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.89%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.44%) Linux
2 6 (2.67%) Android
3 5 (2.22%) Unix
4 4 (1.78%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.78%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (69.78%) Agile
2 104 (46.22%) CI/CD
3 99 (44.00%) Software Engineering
4 84 (37.33%) Scrum
5 77 (34.22%) Microservices
6 75 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 70 (31.11%) DevOps
8 69 (30.67%) BDD
9 59 (26.22%) Test Automation
10 57 (25.33%) Pair Programming
11 52 (23.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 48 (21.33%) Kanban
12 48 (21.33%) Open Source
13 42 (18.67%) Coaching
14 38 (16.89%) Containerisation
14 38 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (15.56%) Acceptance Criteria
15 35 (15.56%) Clean Code
16 33 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
17 31 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 87 (38.67%) Java
2 59 (26.22%) SQL
3 53 (23.56%) Python
4 42 (18.67%) C#
5 37 (16.44%) TypeScript
6 35 (15.56%) JavaScript
7 24 (10.67%) Scala
8 7 (3.11%) PHP
9 6 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.67%) Ruby
10 4 (1.78%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.78%) Bash
10 4 (1.78%) C
10 4 (1.78%) C++
11 3 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Go
13 1 (0.44%) Perl
13 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (10.22%) SC Cleared
1 23 (10.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.22%) Degree
3 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.67%) QA
2 10 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.33%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (39.11%) Docker
2 7 (3.11%) Firmware
3 4 (1.78%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 78 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.00%) Terraform
3 8 (3.56%) Ansible
4 5 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.22%) Packer
5 2 (0.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.44%) Oracle
3 7 (3.11%) Google
4 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.89%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.89%) Facebook
5 2 (0.89%) IBM
5 2 (0.89%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe
6 1 (0.44%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) Veracode