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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 109 73
Rank change year-on-year -79 -36 -5
Permanent jobs citing TDD 233 483 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 3.31% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 3.48% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 152 269 1,171
10th Percentile £45,125 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £58,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £118,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -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 15,563 13,877 29,569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 94.97% 90.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,091 8,168 23,322
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £80,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%

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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 22 May 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 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.29%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (59.23%) AWS
2 90 (38.63%) Azure
3 43 (18.45%) Serverless
4 25 (10.73%) GCP
5 21 (9.01%) GitHub
6 18 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (6.87%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (3.00%) SaaS
12 7 (3.00%) Sentry
13 6 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.58%) PaaS
14 5 (2.15%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 5 (2.15%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (2.15%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.87%) Broadband
2 15 (6.44%) HTTP
3 5 (2.15%) Bluetooth
3 5 (2.15%) Modbus
3 5 (2.15%) Profibus
3 5 (2.15%) RS-232
3 5 (2.15%) RS-485
3 5 (2.15%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.15%) Wireless
3 5 (2.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.89%) MongoDB
2 45 (19.31%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (14.16%) NoSQL
4 26 (11.16%) MySQL
5 25 (10.73%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (8.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (6.44%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.86%) Redis
9 5 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.29%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.29%) Flink
12 1 (0.43%) Big Data
12 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.43%) DB2
12 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.43%) Parquet
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (14.59%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.45%) Git
3 22 (9.44%) TeamCity
4 11 (4.72%) JUnit
5 8 (3.43%) Maven
5 8 (3.43%) Mockito
6 6 (2.58%) JIRA
7 5 (2.15%) Selenium
7 5 (2.15%) Storybook
8 4 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.72%) GitLab
9 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.86%) MSTest
9 2 (0.86%) NUnit
9 2 (0.86%) Postman
9 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.86%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.86%) Vite
10 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.43%) XCUITest
General
1 53 (22.75%) Finance
2 34 (14.59%) Public Sector
2 34 (14.59%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.44%) Banking
4 12 (5.15%) Tech for Good
5 11 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.43%) Health Technology
7 8 (3.43%) Publishing
7 8 (3.43%) Retail
8 5 (2.15%) Advertising
8 5 (2.15%) Back Office
8 5 (2.15%) Electronics
8 5 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.29%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.29%) Law
11 2 (0.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (40.34%) Developer
2 86 (36.91%) Software Engineer
3 84 (36.05%) Senior
4 52 (22.32%) Lead
5 35 (15.02%) Senior Developer
6 30 (12.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 27 (11.59%) Java Developer
7 27 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (9.87%) .NET Developer
9 20 (8.58%) Development Engineer
9 20 (8.58%) Software Developer
9 20 (8.58%) Software Development Engineer
10 18 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (7.30%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (6.87%) Java Engineer
13 15 (6.44%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (5.58%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (5.58%) Lead Developer
15 12 (5.15%) Python Developer
15 12 (5.15%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (21.89%) RESTful
2 50 (21.46%) React
3 47 (20.17%) .NET
4 41 (17.60%) Node.js
5 39 (16.74%) REST
6 38 (16.31%) Spring
7 28 (12.02%) AngularJS
8 26 (11.16%) .NET Core
8 26 (11.16%) Spring Boot
9 23 (9.87%) Akka
10 20 (8.58%) Vue
11 19 (8.15%) ASP.NET
12 17 (7.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.01%) Django
14 13 (5.58%) CSS
14 13 (5.58%) HTML
15 11 (4.72%) Kafka
15 11 (4.72%) Playwright
16 10 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
17 8 (3.43%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.30%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.16%) Product Ownership
3 23 (9.87%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (9.44%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (6.44%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.15%) Mobile Payment
7 5 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.72%) IoT
9 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.58%) Linux
2 6 (2.58%) Android
3 5 (2.15%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.15%) Unix
4 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (69.53%) Agile
2 107 (45.92%) Software Engineering
3 102 (43.78%) CI/CD
4 87 (37.34%) Microservices
5 85 (36.48%) Scrum
6 81 (34.76%) Mentoring
7 72 (30.90%) DevOps
8 70 (30.04%) BDD
9 62 (26.61%) Test Automation
10 56 (24.03%) Open Source
11 54 (23.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 53 (22.75%) Pair Programming
13 47 (20.17%) Kanban
14 45 (19.31%) Coaching
15 42 (18.03%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (17.17%) Containerisation
17 35 (15.02%) Clean Code
17 35 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 34 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
19 31 (13.30%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 100 (42.92%) Java
2 71 (30.47%) SQL
3 49 (21.03%) Python
4 48 (20.60%) JavaScript
5 41 (17.60%) C#
6 38 (16.31%) TypeScript
7 24 (10.30%) Scala
8 9 (3.86%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.00%) Bash
10 6 (2.58%) PHP
11 5 (2.15%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.15%) C
11 5 (2.15%) C++
11 5 (2.15%) Ruby
12 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) Go
14 1 (0.43%) Perl
14 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (10.73%) SC Cleared
1 25 (10.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.44%) Degree
3 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.45%) QA
2 9 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.29%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (39.91%) Docker
2 8 (3.43%) Firmware
3 5 (2.15%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (35.62%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.02%) Terraform
3 8 (3.43%) Ansible
4 5 (2.15%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.15%) Packer
5 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.01%) Oracle
3 8 (3.43%) Google
4 5 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.86%) Facebook
5 2 (0.86%) IBM
5 2 (0.86%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe
6 1 (0.43%) Conga
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) GoCardless
6 1 (0.43%) Veracode