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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 88 75
Rank change year-on-year -115 -13 -8
Permanent jobs citing TDD 210 531 1,270
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.14% 3.73% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 3.93% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 137 321 1,149
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £102,000 £112,500 £88,000
UK median annual salary £69,000 £68,783 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.32% +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 15,172 13,521 29,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.63% 94.90% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10,708 8,881 23,561
10th Percentile £33,000 £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 £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%

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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 7 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 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.43%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.43%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.95%) CMS
3 2 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
4 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
1 117 (55.71%) AWS
2 67 (31.90%) Azure
3 43 (20.48%) Serverless
4 27 (12.86%) GCP
5 22 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.62%) Amazon S3
6 16 (7.62%) GitHub
7 13 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.81%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.33%) SaaS
10 7 (3.33%) Sentry
11 6 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.86%) PaaS
12 5 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.38%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.95%) Broadband
2 12 (5.71%) HTTP
3 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.90%) Bluetooth
4 4 (1.90%) Modbus
4 4 (1.90%) Profibus
4 4 (1.90%) RS-232
4 4 (1.90%) RS-485
4 4 (1.90%) Wireless
4 4 (1.90%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (15.24%) MongoDB
3 22 (10.48%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.05%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (8.10%) MySQL
6 15 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 11 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.29%) Redis
9 7 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.43%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.43%) Flink
12 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
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 35 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.81%) Git
3 22 (10.48%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.33%) JUnit
5 6 (2.86%) GitLab
5 6 (2.86%) Selenium
6 5 (2.38%) JIRA
6 5 (2.38%) Storybook
7 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.95%) Maven
8 2 (0.95%) Mockito
8 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.95%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.95%) Vite
9 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Appium
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (19.52%) Finance
2 40 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.05%) Banking
5 18 (8.57%) Tech for Good
6 12 (5.71%) Health Technology
6 12 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.71%) Publishing
7 11 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.81%) Retail
9 7 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.38%) Back Office
11 4 (1.90%) Electronics
11 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.43%) Advertising
12 3 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.43%) Law
13 2 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 83 (39.52%) Developer
2 78 (37.14%) Senior
3 73 (34.76%) Software Engineer
4 39 (18.57%) Lead
5 30 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 26 (12.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 20 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 17 (8.10%) Development Engineer
8 17 (8.10%) Python Developer
8 17 (8.10%) Software Development Engineer
9 16 (7.62%) Java Engineer
9 16 (7.62%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (7.14%) .NET Developer
10 15 (7.14%) Lead Developer
10 15 (7.14%) React Developer
11 13 (6.19%) AWS Developer
11 13 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (6.19%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.95%) React
2 42 (20.00%) .NET
3 41 (19.52%) RESTful
4 32 (15.24%) REST
5 31 (14.76%) Spring
6 25 (11.90%) AngularJS
6 25 (11.90%) Spring Boot
7 23 (10.95%) Akka
7 23 (10.95%) Node.js
8 18 (8.57%) .NET Core
9 17 (8.10%) Django
10 15 (7.14%) Vue
11 14 (6.67%) ASP.NET
12 13 (6.19%) Kafka
13 11 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (4.76%) Playwright
15 9 (4.29%) CSS
15 9 (4.29%) HTML
16 8 (3.81%) FastAPI
17 7 (3.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 23 (10.95%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (10.48%) Over-the-Top Content
5 13 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.71%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.86%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.38%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.90%) IoT
10 3 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.95%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.81%) Linux
2 6 (2.86%) Android
3 5 (2.38%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.90%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (68.57%) Agile
2 99 (47.14%) CI/CD
3 97 (46.19%) Software Engineering
4 72 (34.29%) Scrum
5 69 (32.86%) DevOps
6 67 (31.90%) Mentoring
7 66 (31.43%) Microservices
8 59 (28.10%) BDD
9 57 (27.14%) Test Automation
10 56 (26.67%) Pair Programming
11 45 (21.43%) Open Source
12 43 (20.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (20.00%) Kanban
14 39 (18.57%) Coaching
15 38 (18.10%) Containerisation
16 37 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
18 32 (15.24%) Clean Code
19 31 (14.76%) Infrastructure as Code
20 29 (13.81%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 80 (38.10%) Java
2 55 (26.19%) Python
3 45 (21.43%) SQL
4 36 (17.14%) C#
5 32 (15.24%) TypeScript
6 29 (13.81%) JavaScript
7 24 (11.43%) Scala
8 6 (2.86%) PHP
8 6 (2.86%) Ruby
9 4 (1.90%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.90%) C
9 4 (1.90%) C++
10 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.95%) Bash
11 2 (0.95%) Delphi
11 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) Go
12 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 20 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.67%) Degree
3 6 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.24%) QA
2 9 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.43%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (36.67%) Docker
2 7 (3.33%) Firmware
3 4 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (31.90%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.90%) Terraform
3 8 (3.81%) Ansible
4 5 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.38%) Packer
5 2 (0.95%) Grafana
5 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.76%) Oracle
3 7 (3.33%) Google
4 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.95%) IBM
5 2 (0.95%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Facebook
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode