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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 111 79
Rank change year-on-year -96 -32 -9
Permanent jobs citing TDD 209 386 1,282
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 2.92% 3.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 3.08% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 142 342 1,159
10th Percentile £45,909 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,331 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,700 £90,000
UK median annual salary £69,500 £68,783 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.04% +14.64% -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 14,665 12,537 29,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,232 8,912 23,714
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%

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 17 April 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 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.96%) CMS
1 2 (0.96%) Confluence
1 2 (0.96%) NServiceBus
1 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 113 (54.07%) AWS
2 67 (32.06%) Azure
3 43 (20.57%) Serverless
4 30 (14.35%) GCP
5 23 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (10.05%) Amazon S3
7 19 (9.09%) GitHub
8 15 (7.18%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.83%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.35%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.35%) Sentry
13 6 (2.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.87%) PaaS
13 6 (2.87%) SaaS
14 5 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.96%) Broadband
2 6 (2.87%) HTTP
3 5 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) Bluetooth
4 3 (1.44%) Modbus
4 3 (1.44%) Profibus
4 3 (1.44%) RS-232
4 3 (1.44%) RS-485
4 3 (1.44%) Wireless
4 3 (1.44%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (18.66%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (14.83%) MongoDB
3 24 (11.48%) NoSQL
4 21 (10.05%) SQL Server
5 15 (7.18%) MySQL
6 10 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.35%) Redis
10 4 (1.91%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.44%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.48%) Flink
13 1 (0.48%) Metadata
13 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.48%) Parquet
13 1 (0.48%) Power BI
13 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 35 (16.75%) Git
3 23 (11.00%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.74%) GitLab
5 11 (5.26%) Selenium
6 10 (4.78%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.78%) JUnit
7 5 (2.39%) JIRA
7 5 (2.39%) Storybook
8 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.96%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.96%) Vite
10 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.48%) Appium
10 1 (0.48%) git-flow
10 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.48%) Postman
10 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 60 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.79%) Finance
3 22 (10.53%) Tech for Good
4 19 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.13%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (6.70%) Banking
6 14 (6.70%) Health Technology
6 14 (6.70%) Publishing
7 10 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.35%) Retail
9 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.91%) Back Office
11 3 (1.44%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.44%) Electronics
11 3 (1.44%) Games
11 3 (1.44%) Law
11 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 86 (41.15%) Developer
2 85 (40.67%) Senior
3 71 (33.97%) Software Engineer
4 36 (17.22%) Lead
5 32 (15.31%) Senior Developer
6 30 (14.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.96%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.09%) Lead Developer
8 19 (9.09%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.13%) React Developer
10 16 (7.66%) Java Engineer
11 15 (7.18%) AWS Developer
11 15 (7.18%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.70%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.70%) Lead Python Developer
12 14 (6.70%) Senior Software Developer
13 12 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (5.74%) Scala Engineer
14 11 (5.26%) Python Engineer
14 11 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.57%) .NET
1 43 (20.57%) React
2 42 (20.10%) RESTful
3 30 (14.35%) Spring
4 27 (12.92%) Spring Boot
5 25 (11.96%) Akka
5 25 (11.96%) Django
6 23 (11.00%) AngularJS
7 22 (10.53%) REST
8 20 (9.57%) Node.js
9 15 (7.18%) Vue
10 14 (6.70%) .NET Core
10 14 (6.70%) Flask
11 12 (5.74%) ASP.NET
12 11 (5.26%) CSS
12 11 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (5.26%) HTML
13 10 (4.78%) FastAPI
14 9 (4.31%) Kafka
14 9 (4.31%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.48%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 19 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.35%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.35%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.39%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.91%) IoT
9 4 (1.91%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.96%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.35%) Linux
2 6 (2.87%) Android
3 5 (2.39%) Unix
4 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.44%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (68.42%) Agile
2 105 (50.24%) Software Engineering
3 101 (48.33%) CI/CD
4 80 (38.28%) Mentoring
5 76 (36.36%) DevOps
6 69 (33.01%) Microservices
7 67 (32.06%) Scrum
8 60 (28.71%) Test Automation
9 55 (26.32%) Pair Programming
10 53 (25.36%) BDD
11 50 (23.92%) Coaching
12 46 (22.01%) Open Source
13 42 (20.10%) Acceptance Criteria
13 42 (20.10%) Containerisation
14 39 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
16 37 (17.70%) Kanban
17 36 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 31 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (13.88%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.93%) Java
2 60 (28.71%) Python
3 41 (19.62%) SQL
4 35 (16.75%) C#
5 31 (14.83%) JavaScript
6 26 (12.44%) TypeScript
7 25 (11.96%) Scala
8 8 (3.83%) Delphi
9 6 (2.87%) PHP
9 6 (2.87%) Ruby
10 5 (2.39%) C
11 4 (1.91%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.44%) C++
12 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.48%) Go
14 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.48%) RPG
14 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (8.61%) Degree
2 14 (6.70%) SC Cleared
2 14 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.27%) QA
2 14 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (37.80%) Docker
2 6 (2.87%) Firmware
3 3 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (33.01%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.05%) Terraform
3 8 (3.83%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) Ansible
4 5 (2.39%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (1.44%) Packer
6 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.22%) Oracle
3 7 (3.35%) Google
4 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.96%) IBM
5 2 (0.96%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.96%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode