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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 109 72
Rank change year-on-year -91 -37 -4
Permanent jobs citing TDD 210 392 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 3.05% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 3.22% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 142 349 1,161
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,000 £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 £79,932 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £99,750 £105,600 £91,250
UK median annual salary £69,500 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.42% +9.64% -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 14,363 12,178 28,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.42% 94.80% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,040 8,855 23,360
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 8 April 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 3 (1.43%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.95%) CMS
2 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 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
1 115 (54.76%) AWS
2 69 (32.86%) Azure
3 43 (20.48%) Serverless
4 31 (14.76%) GCP
5 23 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 20 (9.52%) GitHub
8 15 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.29%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.33%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.33%) SaaS
11 7 (3.33%) Sentry
12 6 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.86%) PaaS
13 5 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.90%) Broadband
2 6 (2.86%) HTTP
3 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.95%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.95%) Modbus
4 2 (0.95%) Profibus
4 2 (0.95%) RS-232
4 2 (0.95%) RS-485
4 2 (0.95%) Wireless
4 2 (0.95%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (19.52%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 24 (11.43%) NoSQL
4 20 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 15 (7.14%) MySQL
6 10 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.33%) Redis
10 6 (2.86%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.48%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.48%) Big 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%) Parquet
13 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (18.57%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.62%) Git
3 23 (10.95%) TeamCity
4 12 (5.71%) GitLab
5 11 (5.24%) Selenium
6 10 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 10 (4.76%) JUnit
7 5 (2.38%) JIRA
7 5 (2.38%) Storybook
8 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.95%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.95%) Vite
10 1 (0.48%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) git-flow
10 1 (0.48%) Postman
10 1 (0.48%) Protractor
10 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 59 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.71%) Finance
3 23 (10.95%) Tech for Good
4 20 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.10%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.67%) Banking
7 14 (6.67%) Health Technology
7 14 (6.67%) Publishing
8 10 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.86%) Retail
11 4 (1.90%) Back Office
12 3 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.43%) Games
12 3 (1.43%) Law
13 2 (0.95%) Advertising
13 2 (0.95%) Electronics
13 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (41.90%) Developer
2 85 (40.48%) Senior
3 71 (33.81%) Software Engineer
4 34 (16.19%) Lead
5 33 (15.71%) Senior Developer
6 29 (13.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.90%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.05%) Python Developer
9 18 (8.57%) Lead Developer
10 17 (8.10%) Java Developer
10 17 (8.10%) React Developer
11 16 (7.62%) Java Engineer
12 15 (7.14%) AWS Developer
13 14 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (6.67%) Lead Python Developer
13 14 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
14 12 (5.71%) Scala Engineer
15 11 (5.24%) .NET Developer
16 10 (4.76%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.43%) React
2 43 (20.48%) .NET
3 41 (19.52%) RESTful
4 32 (15.24%) Spring
5 30 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 26 (12.38%) AngularJS
7 25 (11.90%) Akka
8 24 (11.43%) Django
9 23 (10.95%) REST
10 22 (10.48%) Node.js
11 15 (7.14%) .NET Core
11 15 (7.14%) Vue
12 14 (6.67%) Flask
13 13 (6.19%) CSS
13 13 (6.19%) HTML
14 12 (5.71%) ASP.NET
14 12 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (4.76%) Playwright
16 9 (4.29%) FastAPI
16 9 (4.29%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.71%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.43%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (10.95%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (8.57%) Product Ownership
5 17 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.86%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.38%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.90%) IoT
10 4 (1.90%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.81%) Linux
2 6 (2.86%) Android
3 5 (2.38%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.95%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (70.00%) Agile
2 107 (50.95%) Software Engineering
3 103 (49.05%) CI/CD
4 80 (38.10%) Mentoring
5 78 (37.14%) DevOps
6 73 (34.76%) Microservices
7 68 (32.38%) Scrum
8 61 (29.05%) Test Automation
9 54 (25.71%) BDD
9 54 (25.71%) Pair Programming
10 49 (23.33%) Coaching
11 46 (21.90%) Open Source
12 42 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
13 41 (19.52%) Containerisation
14 39 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (18.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 39 (18.57%) Kanban
15 37 (17.62%) Continuous Integration
16 30 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (13.81%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.19%) Java
2 59 (28.10%) Python
3 41 (19.52%) SQL
4 35 (16.67%) C#
4 35 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.81%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.90%) Scala
7 8 (3.81%) Delphi
8 6 (2.86%) PHP
8 6 (2.86%) Ruby
9 4 (1.90%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.90%) C
10 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.95%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) Bash
12 1 (0.48%) Perl
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) RPG
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (8.57%) Degree
2 15 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 15 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.67%) QA
2 14 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.43%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
5 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 80 (38.10%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) Firmware
3 2 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.48%) Terraform
3 8 (3.81%) Grafana
4 7 (3.33%) Ansible
5 5 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.43%) Packer
7 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.19%) 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
5 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.48%) Pega
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode
6 1 (0.48%) WSO2