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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 104 73
Rank change year-on-year -87 -31 -3
Permanent jobs citing TDD 210 406 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 3.16% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 3.34% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 144 363 1,148
10th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,403 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,790 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £105,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £68,403 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.34% +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 13,978 12,164 28,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.76% 94.81% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 8,801 23,226
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
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 £75,000
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% -10.57%

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 31 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 (1.43%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.95%) CMS
2 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 2 (0.95%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (54.29%) AWS
2 71 (33.81%) Azure
3 39 (18.57%) Serverless
4 30 (14.29%) GCP
5 21 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (9.05%) GitHub
7 18 (8.57%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.29%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.81%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.33%) SaaS
13 7 (3.33%) Sentry
14 5 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (2.38%) ChatGPT
14 5 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.38%) Broadband
2 6 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.48%) Modbus
4 1 (0.48%) Multicast
4 1 (0.48%) Profibus
4 1 (0.48%) RS-232
4 1 (0.48%) RS-485
4 1 (0.48%) Wireless
4 1 (0.48%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (16.19%) MongoDB
3 26 (12.38%) NoSQL
4 19 (9.05%) SQL Server
5 17 (8.10%) MySQL
6 12 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.86%) Redis
8 6 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.48%) Big Data
11 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.48%) Metadata
11 1 (0.48%) Parquet
11 1 (0.48%) Power BI
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 34 (16.19%) Git
3 23 (10.95%) TeamCity
4 11 (5.24%) GitLab
4 11 (5.24%) Selenium
5 10 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.76%) JUnit
6 6 (2.86%) JIRA
7 5 (2.38%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.38%) Storybook
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%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) Protractor
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) webpack
9 1 (0.48%) XCUITest
General
1 57 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.24%) Finance
3 24 (11.43%) Tech for Good
4 18 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.62%) Health Technology
5 16 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (6.67%) Publishing
8 12 (5.71%) Banking
9 10 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.86%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.38%) Retail
12 4 (1.90%) Back Office
13 3 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.43%) Games
13 3 (1.43%) Law
13 3 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.95%) Advertising
15 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (44.29%) Developer
2 82 (39.05%) Senior
3 68 (32.38%) Software Engineer
4 33 (15.71%) Senior Developer
5 32 (15.24%) Lead
6 27 (12.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.90%) Software Developer
8 19 (9.05%) Java Developer
9 18 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (8.57%) Python Developer
9 18 (8.57%) React Developer
10 17 (8.10%) Lead Developer
11 16 (7.62%) Java Engineer
12 15 (7.14%) .NET Developer
12 15 (7.14%) AWS 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 10 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.86%) React
2 47 (22.38%) .NET
3 40 (19.05%) RESTful
4 30 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 29 (13.81%) Spring
6 26 (12.38%) AngularJS
7 25 (11.90%) Akka
7 25 (11.90%) Node.js
8 23 (10.95%) Django
9 20 (9.52%) REST
10 19 (9.05%) .NET Core
11 18 (8.57%) Vue
12 16 (7.62%) ASP.NET
13 14 (6.67%) CSS
13 14 (6.67%) Flask
13 14 (6.67%) HTML
14 11 (5.24%) .NET Framework
14 11 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (4.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.43%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (10.95%) Over-the-Top Content
4 16 (7.62%) Product Ownership
5 15 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.86%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) IoT
10 4 (1.90%) Mobile Payment
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%) Digital TV
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
2 6 (2.86%) Unix
3 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (70.00%) Agile
2 104 (49.52%) Software Engineering
3 99 (47.14%) CI/CD
4 78 (37.14%) Mentoring
5 75 (35.71%) DevOps
6 74 (35.24%) Microservices
7 68 (32.38%) Scrum
8 59 (28.10%) Test Automation
9 56 (26.67%) BDD
10 53 (25.24%) Pair Programming
11 49 (23.33%) Coaching
12 46 (21.90%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (21.90%) Open Source
13 41 (19.52%) Acceptance Criteria
14 40 (19.05%) Kanban
15 38 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (17.14%) Containerisation
17 35 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
18 29 (13.81%) Code Quality
19 28 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 75 (35.71%) Java
2 55 (26.19%) Python
3 43 (20.48%) SQL
4 38 (18.10%) C#
4 38 (18.10%) JavaScript
5 31 (14.76%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.90%) Scala
7 8 (3.81%) Delphi
8 6 (2.86%) PHP
9 5 (2.38%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.43%) C
11 3 (1.43%) Go
12 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.48%) Bash
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) R
13 1 (0.48%) RPG
13 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (9.05%) Degree
2 13 (6.19%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.62%) QA
2 15 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.43%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Firmware
3 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.05%) Terraform
3 8 (3.81%) Grafana
4 5 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (1.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.95%) Packer
6 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.24%) Oracle
3 8 (3.81%) Google
4 4 (1.90%) Salesforce
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%) IBM
6 1 (0.48%) Pega
6 1 (0.48%) Veracode
6 1 (0.48%) WSO2