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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 99 90
Rank change year-on-year -79 -9 -36
Permanent jobs citing TDD 220 598 725
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 3.05% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 3.44% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 173 440 621
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,482 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +2.28% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £69,384 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% -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 13,987 17,399 20,381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.56% 88.82% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,773 10,336 16,477
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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

TDD
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 19 November 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 7 (3.18%) IIS
1 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.73%) CMS
3 3 (1.36%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Drupal
4 2 (0.91%) Luigi
4 2 (0.91%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.91%) Elementor
1 2 (0.91%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (1.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (57.27%) AWS
2 90 (40.91%) Azure
3 43 (19.55%) Serverless
4 35 (15.91%) GCP
5 29 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (10.91%) GitHub
7 16 (7.27%) SaaS
8 13 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.00%) OpenShift
10 10 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.73%) Figma
12 6 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.27%) npm
14 4 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.82%) Power Platform
15 2 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.18%) Broadband
2 2 (0.91%) AMQP
2 2 (0.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) Multicast
3 1 (0.45%) RFID
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 36 (16.36%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 18 (8.18%) NoSQL
7 17 (7.73%) DynamoDB
8 14 (6.36%) Relational Database
9 12 (5.45%) MySQL
10 7 (3.18%) Data Hub
10 7 (3.18%) SQL CLR
11 6 (2.73%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.91%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (15.00%) Git
2 18 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.36%) Selenium
4 10 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.55%) GitLab
5 9 (4.09%) JUnit
6 8 (3.64%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.18%) JIRA
8 6 (2.73%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.36%) Mocha
9 3 (1.36%) webpack
10 2 (0.91%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.91%) Protractor
11 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.45%) Mockito
11 1 (0.45%) Postman
11 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.27%) Tech for Good
3 34 (15.45%) Finance
4 25 (11.36%) Health Technology
5 23 (10.45%) Publishing
6 16 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.91%) Front Office
8 12 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.18%) Back Office
11 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 3 (1.36%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.36%) Retail
12 2 (0.91%) Automotive
12 2 (0.91%) Banking
12 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.91%) Games
12 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.91%) Law
12 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 129 (58.64%) Developer
2 71 (32.27%) Senior
3 42 (19.09%) Software Engineer
4 41 (18.64%) Senior Developer
5 38 (17.27%) .NET Developer
6 27 (12.27%) Python Developer
6 27 (12.27%) Software Developer
7 22 (10.00%) Lead
8 19 (8.64%) React Developer
9 16 (7.27%) Senior Software Developer
9 16 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (6.82%) AWS Developer
10 15 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (6.82%) Java Developer
11 14 (6.36%) Lead Developer
11 14 (6.36%) Senior Python Developer
12 11 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 10 (4.55%) C# Developer
14 9 (4.09%) Lead Python Developer
14 9 (4.09%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (44.09%) React
2 75 (34.09%) .NET
3 45 (20.45%) .NET Core
3 45 (20.45%) AngularJS
4 40 (18.18%) Node.js
5 37 (16.82%) ASP.NET
5 37 (16.82%) RESTful
6 36 (16.36%) Entity Framework
7 35 (15.91%) Vue
8 33 (15.00%) .NET Framework
9 28 (12.73%) ASP.NET MVC
9 28 (12.73%) CSS
9 28 (12.73%) HTML
9 28 (12.73%) Spring Boot
10 26 (11.82%) Spring
11 23 (10.45%) ASP.NET Web API
12 19 (8.64%) REST
13 16 (7.27%) Kafka
14 15 (6.82%) Django
14 15 (6.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.18%) Digital TV
5 7 (3.18%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.18%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.27%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.82%) Equities
7 4 (1.82%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.82%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.36%) Social Media
9 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.91%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.91%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.00%) Windows
2 7 (3.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.82%) Linux
4 3 (1.36%) Android
4 3 (1.36%) Unix
5 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (72.27%) Agile
2 96 (43.64%) CI/CD
3 87 (39.55%) Microservices
4 86 (39.09%) Software Engineering
5 68 (30.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (29.55%) BDD
6 65 (29.55%) DevOps
7 62 (28.18%) Scrum
8 49 (22.27%) Mentoring
9 40 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (17.27%) Pair Programming
12 36 (16.36%) Kanban
13 33 (15.00%) MVC
13 33 (15.00%) Test Automation
14 30 (13.64%) Coaching
15 29 (13.18%) Continuous Delivery
15 29 (13.18%) SOLID
16 27 (12.27%) Fintech
17 25 (11.36%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 83 (37.73%) C#
2 74 (33.64%) TypeScript
3 69 (31.36%) JavaScript
4 64 (29.09%) Python
5 61 (27.73%) SQL
6 56 (25.45%) Java
7 9 (4.09%) Ruby
8 8 (3.64%) Delphi
8 8 (3.64%) PHP
9 6 (2.73%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.27%) Go
10 5 (2.27%) Scala
11 3 (1.36%) R
12 2 (0.91%) C
12 2 (0.91%) Swift
13 1 (0.45%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 14 (6.36%) Degree
1 14 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.36%) Postgraduate
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.36%) QA
2 20 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.36%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (16.82%) Docker
2 7 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.55%) Terraform
3 9 (4.09%) Grafana
4 4 (1.82%) Ansible
5 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.09%) Oracle
3 7 (3.18%) VMware
4 3 (1.36%) Google
4 3 (1.36%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.91%) Netlify
6 1 (0.45%) Databricks
6 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.45%) Pega
6 1 (0.45%) Revolut
6 1 (0.45%) Splunk
6 1 (0.45%) UiPath
6 1 (0.45%) WSO2