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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 95 84
Rank change year-on-year -100 -11 -25
Permanent jobs citing TDD 187 563 772
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 3.27% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 3.52% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 149 421 663
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £98,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%

All Process and 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 13,568 15,987 19,398
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.33% 92.92% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,660 9,616 15,599
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,050 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 27 December 2025.

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 (1.60%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.60%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.07%) Luigi
2 2 (1.07%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Shopify
2 3 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (57.75%) AWS
2 76 (40.64%) Azure
3 48 (25.67%) Serverless
4 31 (16.58%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (15.51%) GCP
6 20 (10.70%) GitHub
7 17 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.02%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.35%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.21%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.21%) SaaS
12 5 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.67%) Figma
12 5 (2.67%) npm
13 4 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.74%) Broadband
2 2 (1.07%) AMQP
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
3 1 (0.53%) Multicast
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 31 (16.58%) Elasticsearch
3 28 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (10.16%) NoSQL
6 17 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 14 (7.49%) DynamoDB
8 10 (5.35%) MySQL
8 10 (5.35%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.07%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.53%) Big Data
11 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.53%) Parquet
11 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (16.58%) Git
2 19 (10.16%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.56%) Selenium
4 11 (5.88%) GitLab
5 10 (5.35%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.81%) JUnit
7 8 (4.28%) Cypress.io
7 8 (4.28%) JIRA
8 6 (3.21%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.14%) Storybook
10 3 (1.60%) Mocha
10 3 (1.60%) webpack
11 1 (0.53%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.53%) Mockito
11 1 (0.53%) Postman
11 1 (0.53%) Protractor
11 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 59 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.79%) Tech for Good
3 29 (15.51%) Health Technology
4 27 (14.44%) Publishing
5 22 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (11.23%) Finance
7 15 (8.02%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.67%) Banking
9 5 (2.67%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.67%) Law
10 4 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.14%) Retail
11 3 (1.60%) Back Office
11 3 (1.60%) Games
11 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.60%) Legal
11 3 (1.60%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (61.50%) Developer
2 64 (34.22%) Senior
3 39 (20.86%) Senior Developer
4 32 (17.11%) .NET Developer
4 32 (17.11%) Python Developer
5 29 (15.51%) Lead
6 28 (14.97%) Software Developer
6 28 (14.97%) Software Engineer
7 25 (13.37%) React Developer
8 21 (11.23%) AWS Developer
9 19 (10.16%) Lead Developer
10 17 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (8.02%) Java Developer
11 15 (8.02%) Lead Python Developer
12 14 (7.49%) Senior Software Developer
13 13 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (6.42%) Senior Python Developer
15 10 (5.35%) Lead Software Developer
16 9 (4.81%) Senior React Developer
17 8 (4.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (43.32%) React
2 60 (32.09%) .NET
3 43 (22.99%) RESTful
4 40 (21.39%) Node.js
5 35 (18.72%) AngularJS
6 33 (17.65%) .NET Core
7 30 (16.04%) ASP.NET
8 25 (13.37%) ASP.NET MVC
8 25 (13.37%) HTML
8 25 (13.37%) Spring Boot
9 24 (12.83%) .NET Framework
9 24 (12.83%) CSS
9 24 (12.83%) Entity Framework
9 24 (12.83%) Vue
10 22 (11.76%) Spring
11 19 (10.16%) ASP.NET Web API
12 17 (9.09%) Kafka
12 17 (9.09%) REST
13 15 (8.02%) Django
14 13 (6.95%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.81%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.21%) Digital TV
7 5 (2.67%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.60%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.60%) Social Media
10 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.07%) Over-the-Top Content
11 1 (0.53%) IoT
11 1 (0.53%) Smart Home
11 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Android
2 4 (2.14%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.14%) Linux
3 3 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (75.40%) Agile
2 96 (51.34%) CI/CD
3 72 (38.50%) Microservices
4 63 (33.69%) Scrum
5 61 (32.62%) Software Engineering
6 58 (31.02%) BDD
7 57 (30.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 56 (29.95%) DevOps
9 55 (29.41%) Mentoring
10 42 (22.46%) Pair Programming
11 39 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (19.25%) Test Automation
13 34 (18.18%) Coaching
14 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (16.04%) Kanban
16 29 (15.51%) MVC
17 28 (14.97%) Code Quality
17 28 (14.97%) Continuous Integration
18 27 (14.44%) Operational Stability
19 23 (12.30%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 63 (33.69%) C#
2 59 (31.55%) JavaScript
2 59 (31.55%) TypeScript
3 57 (30.48%) Python
4 50 (26.74%) Java
5 43 (22.99%) SQL
6 8 (4.28%) Delphi
7 5 (2.67%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.67%) PHP
7 5 (2.67%) Ruby
7 5 (2.67%) Scala
8 4 (2.14%) Go
9 3 (1.60%) R
10 2 (1.07%) C
10 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (8.02%) Degree
2 11 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.07%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.07%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (24.06%) QA
2 22 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (16.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (14.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.28%) Grafana
3 7 (3.74%) Terraform
4 6 (3.21%) Ansible
5 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.07%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.88%) Oracle
3 4 (2.14%) Google
4 2 (1.07%) SendGrid
4 2 (1.07%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.53%) Pega
5 1 (0.53%) UiPath
5 1 (0.53%) WSO2