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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 119 94
Rank change year-on-year -82 -25 -15
Permanent jobs citing TDD 298 452 810
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.36% 2.75% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.95% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 221 233 695
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £84,985
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 18,155 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.94% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,190 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 5 (1.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.34%) Apache
2 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.34%) CMS
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.01%) DNN
3 3 (1.01%) EPiServer
3 3 (1.01%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (1.01%) Kentico
3 3 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (1.01%) Sitefinity
3 3 (1.01%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (66.78%) AWS
2 163 (54.70%) Azure
3 62 (20.81%) GitHub
4 53 (17.79%) GitHub Copilot
5 38 (12.75%) Serverless
6 26 (8.72%) GCP
7 18 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.70%) Azure AI
9 11 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.02%) ChatGPT
10 9 (3.02%) PaaS
11 8 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.01%) SaaS
13 5 (1.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.38%) HTTP
2 9 (3.02%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.02%) Modbus
2 9 (3.02%) Profibus
2 9 (3.02%) RS-232
2 9 (3.02%) RS-485
2 9 (3.02%) Wireless
2 9 (3.02%) ZigBee
3 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (37.25%) MongoDB
2 72 (24.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (22.82%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (13.09%) NoSQL
6 31 (10.40%) MySQL
7 16 (5.37%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.36%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.02%) Redis
11 5 (1.68%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.01%) Flink
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.34%) Db2
13 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (13.09%) Git
2 21 (7.05%) JUnit
3 12 (4.03%) Maven
3 12 (4.03%) Mockito
4 11 (3.69%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.35%) GitLab
5 7 (2.35%) Postman
5 7 (2.35%) Selenium
6 5 (1.68%) Gatling
7 4 (1.34%) JIRA
7 4 (1.34%) NUnit
8 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.67%) MSTest
8 2 (0.67%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.34%) Appium
9 1 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.34%) MLflow
9 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.34%) XCUITest
General
1 82 (27.52%) Finance
2 48 (16.11%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.06%) Banking
5 15 (5.03%) Advertising
6 12 (4.03%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.02%) Electronics
7 9 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.02%) Retail
8 7 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.35%) Legal
8 7 (2.35%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.34%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.34%) Publishing
10 3 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.01%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Back Office
11 2 (0.67%) Local Government
12 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 140 (46.98%) Developer
2 95 (31.88%) Software Engineer
3 78 (26.17%) Senior
4 77 (25.84%) .NET Developer
5 67 (22.48%) Lead
6 44 (14.77%) Lead Software Engineer
7 34 (11.41%) Senior Developer
8 30 (10.07%) Java Developer
9 27 (9.06%) Development Engineer
9 27 (9.06%) Software Development Engineer
10 22 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (7.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (6.71%) Senior Java Developer
13 18 (6.04%) Software Developer
14 15 (5.03%) Java Engineer
15 12 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
16 11 (3.69%) Lead Developer
16 11 (3.69%) Senior Software Developer
17 10 (3.36%) Java Software Developer
17 10 (3.36%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (34.56%) .NET
2 88 (29.53%) Node.js
3 79 (26.51%) .NET Core
4 74 (24.83%) ASP.NET
5 71 (23.83%) ASP.NET Core
6 70 (23.49%) React
7 61 (20.47%) AngularJS
8 58 (19.46%) Vue
9 48 (16.11%) REST
10 45 (15.10%) RESTful
10 45 (15.10%) Spring
11 30 (10.07%) .NET Framework
12 29 (9.73%) ASP.NET Web API
12 29 (9.73%) Spring Boot
13 21 (7.05%) CSS
14 20 (6.71%) HTML
15 16 (5.37%) WinForms
16 15 (5.03%) Blazor
16 15 (5.03%) Kafka
17 14 (4.70%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.07%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 26 (8.72%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.71%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.02%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.01%) Blog
7 6 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.68%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.34%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.01%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.01%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.01%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.04%) Linux
2 9 (3.02%) FreeRTOS
3 6 (2.01%) Android
4 5 (1.68%) Unix
5 3 (1.01%) Windows
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (73.15%) Agile
2 143 (47.99%) Microservices
3 128 (42.95%) BDD
4 125 (41.95%) Software Engineering
5 121 (40.60%) CI/CD
6 113 (37.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 113 (37.92%) Scrum
7 92 (30.87%) Mentoring
8 78 (26.17%) DevOps
9 74 (24.83%) Test Automation
10 72 (24.16%) Kanban
11 64 (21.48%) AI
12 63 (21.14%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (19.46%) Coaching
14 50 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 45 (15.10%) Containerisation
16 44 (14.77%) Clean Code
16 44 (14.77%) OO
17 40 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (13.42%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.30%) SQL
2 129 (43.29%) Java
3 105 (35.23%) C#
4 79 (26.51%) JavaScript
4 79 (26.51%) TypeScript
5 61 (20.47%) Python
6 13 (4.36%) PL/SQL
7 12 (4.03%) C++
8 11 (3.69%) Bash
9 9 (3.02%) C
9 9 (3.02%) Ruby
10 6 (2.01%) PHP
11 5 (1.68%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.34%) Go
12 4 (1.34%) Groovy
13 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.34%) Scala
15 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.37%) Degree
4 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.05%) QA
2 11 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.68%) WCAG
4 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.01%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 115 (38.59%) Docker
2 12 (4.03%) Firmware
3 9 (3.02%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (35.91%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.74%) Terraform
3 6 (2.01%) Ansible
4 5 (1.68%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (1.68%) Packer
5 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 87 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.05%) Oracle
3 6 (2.01%) Google
4 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.01%) Alterian
5 3 (1.01%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.01%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.01%) Sitecore
6 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.67%) Databricks
6 2 (0.67%) Facebook
6 2 (0.67%) IBM
7 1 (0.34%) Conga
7 1 (0.34%) GoCardless