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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 106 73
Rank change year-on-year -93 -33 -6
Permanent jobs citing TDD 203 445 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 3.28% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 3.44% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 141 377 1,124
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,040 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.48% +8.00% -10.71%

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 14,370 12,931 27,637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.06% 95.25% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,432 8,809 22,885
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 March 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 3 (1.48%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.99%) CMS
2 2 (0.99%) Confluence
2 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (50.74%) AWS
2 68 (33.50%) Azure
3 38 (18.72%) Serverless
4 28 (13.79%) GCP
5 21 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (9.85%) GitHub
7 18 (8.87%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.39%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.43%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.94%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.45%) SaaS
13 7 (3.45%) Sentry
14 5 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (2.46%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.46%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.81%) Broadband
2 6 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.70%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (16.26%) MongoDB
3 24 (11.82%) NoSQL
4 18 (8.87%) MySQL
4 18 (8.87%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.96%) Redis
9 3 (1.48%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.49%) Big Data
11 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) Metadata
11 1 (0.49%) Parquet
11 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (18.72%) Jenkins
2 34 (16.75%) Git
3 23 (11.33%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.91%) Selenium
5 11 (5.42%) GitLab
6 10 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.93%) JUnit
7 6 (2.96%) JIRA
8 5 (2.46%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.46%) Storybook
9 3 (1.48%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.99%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.99%) Vite
11 1 (0.49%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.49%) Appium
11 1 (0.49%) git-flow
11 1 (0.49%) Protractor
11 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.49%) webpack
11 1 (0.49%) XCUITest
General
1 59 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.82%) Tech for Good
3 21 (10.34%) Finance
4 19 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.87%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (7.88%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.90%) Publishing
8 10 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.96%) Banking
9 6 (2.96%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.46%) Retail
11 4 (1.97%) Back Office
12 3 (1.48%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.48%) Games
12 3 (1.48%) Law
12 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.99%) Advertising
14 1 (0.49%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 90 (44.33%) Developer
2 75 (36.95%) Senior
3 56 (27.59%) Software Engineer
4 31 (15.27%) Senior Developer
5 29 (14.29%) Lead
6 24 (11.82%) Software Developer
7 21 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (8.87%) Lead Developer
8 18 (8.87%) Python Developer
9 17 (8.37%) React Developer
10 16 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (7.88%) Java Developer
10 16 (7.88%) Java Engineer
11 15 (7.39%) AWS Developer
12 14 (6.90%) .NET Developer
12 14 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.90%) Lead Python Developer
13 12 (5.91%) Scala Engineer
13 12 (5.91%) Senior Software Developer
14 9 (4.43%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (23.15%) .NET
2 46 (22.66%) React
3 41 (20.20%) RESTful
4 27 (13.30%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.81%) Spring
6 25 (12.32%) Akka
7 23 (11.33%) Django
7 23 (11.33%) Node.js
8 22 (10.84%) AngularJS
9 18 (8.87%) .NET Core
10 16 (7.88%) ASP.NET
10 16 (7.88%) REST
10 16 (7.88%) Vue
11 15 (7.39%) CSS
11 15 (7.39%) HTML
12 13 (6.40%) .NET Framework
12 13 (6.40%) Flask
13 11 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (4.93%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (4.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.82%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.45%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.96%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.97%) IoT
10 4 (1.97%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.99%) Digital TV
12 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.94%) Linux
2 6 (2.96%) Android
2 6 (2.96%) Unix
3 4 (1.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (71.92%) Agile
2 100 (49.26%) CI/CD
3 94 (46.31%) Software Engineering
4 76 (37.44%) Mentoring
5 71 (34.98%) DevOps
6 70 (34.48%) Microservices
7 66 (32.51%) Scrum
8 53 (26.11%) Test Automation
9 52 (25.62%) BDD
10 50 (24.63%) Coaching
11 48 (23.65%) Pair Programming
12 43 (21.18%) Open Source
13 42 (20.69%) Kanban
14 41 (20.20%) Acceptance Criteria
14 41 (20.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (18.23%) Containerisation
16 36 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (16.75%) Continuous Integration
18 30 (14.78%) Code Quality
19 28 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (33.50%) Java
2 55 (27.09%) Python
3 41 (20.20%) SQL
4 38 (18.72%) C#
5 36 (17.73%) JavaScript
6 31 (15.27%) TypeScript
7 25 (12.32%) Scala
8 8 (3.94%) Delphi
9 7 (3.45%) PHP
9 7 (3.45%) Ruby
10 4 (1.97%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.97%) Go
11 2 (0.99%) C
11 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.49%) RPG
12 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (9.36%) Degree
2 12 (5.91%) SC Cleared
2 12 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.73%) QA
2 17 (8.37%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.48%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (34.98%) Docker
2 3 (1.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (32.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.39%) Terraform
3 8 (3.94%) Grafana
4 5 (2.46%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.97%) Ansible
6 2 (0.99%) Packer
6 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.42%) Oracle
3 8 (3.94%) Google
4 4 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.99%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.99%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe
6 1 (0.49%) Databricks
6 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.49%) IBM
6 1 (0.49%) Pega
6 1 (0.49%) Veracode
6 1 (0.49%) WSO2