Java Jobs with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,346 4,422 11,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.74% 11.47% 14.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 23.83% 24.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,962 3,169 5,238
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,432
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,328 £90,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,076 18,556 44,337
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.45% 48.15% 59.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,515 14,138 23,931
10th Percentile £38,638 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java.

Java salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 339 (14.45%) Apache Airflow
2 330 (14.07%) Apache
3 55 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.58%) Tuxedo
6 28 (1.19%) Confluence
7 23 (0.98%) OpenStack
8 19 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 17 (0.72%) nginx
10 13 (0.55%) JBoss
11 7 (0.30%) IIS
11 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.26%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.17%) Drupal
14 3 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (1.92%) Simulink
2 7 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.043%) CATIA
5 1 (0.043%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (1.66%) Endur
2 7 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.085%) Shopify
6 1 (0.043%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.043%) Findur
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (52.94%) AWS
2 554 (23.61%) Azure
3 339 (14.45%) dbt
4 323 (13.77%) Snowflake
5 317 (13.51%) GCP
6 146 (6.22%) SaaS
7 134 (5.71%) Serverless
8 96 (4.09%) GitHub
9 80 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (2.73%) Amazon S3
11 63 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
13 53 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (1.66%) Power Platform
16 33 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.32%) OpenShift
18 29 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
19 28 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
19 28 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.66%) TCP/IP
2 37 (1.58%) Firewall
3 32 (1.36%) DNS
4 19 (0.81%) Network Security
5 15 (0.64%) Internet
6 12 (0.51%) AMQP
6 12 (0.51%) Modbus
7 10 (0.43%) HTTP
8 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.26%) LAN
9 6 (0.26%) NAS
9 6 (0.26%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.26%) SAN
9 6 (0.26%) SSL
9 6 (0.26%) WAN
10 4 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.17%) SNMP
10 4 (0.17%) VPN
11 3 (0.13%) DHCP
11 3 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (14.92%) Data Lake
2 340 (14.49%) Amazon Athena
3 336 (14.32%) Dremio
4 328 (13.98%) Apache Arrow
5 275 (11.72%) Apache Ignite
6 225 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
7 192 (8.18%) Relational Database
8 167 (7.12%) NoSQL
9 154 (6.56%) MySQL
10 146 (6.22%) SQL Server
11 107 (4.56%) Big Data
12 96 (4.09%) MongoDB
13 65 (2.77%) RDBMS
14 54 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
15 43 (1.83%) Redis
16 41 (1.75%) Hadoop
17 33 (1.41%) DynamoDB
18 31 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
19 21 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
20 20 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 221 (9.42%) Jenkins
2 207 (8.82%) Git
3 131 (5.58%) GitLab
4 94 (4.01%) Cucumber
5 85 (3.62%) Selenium
6 84 (3.58%) JIRA
7 61 (2.60%) JUnit
8 60 (2.56%) Maven
9 58 (2.47%) Postman
10 39 (1.66%) Visual Studio
11 30 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 23 (0.98%) JMeter
12 23 (0.98%) Subversion
12 23 (0.98%) Vagrant
13 21 (0.90%) Gradle
14 20 (0.85%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.81%) Eclipse
15 19 (0.81%) REST Assured
15 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 672 (28.64%) Finance
2 434 (18.50%) Banking
3 417 (17.77%) Social Skills
4 334 (14.24%) Front Office
5 318 (13.55%) Investment Banking
6 133 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 119 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
8 117 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (3.07%) Retail
10 70 (2.98%) Marketing
11 55 (2.34%) Law
12 52 (2.22%) Games
13 34 (1.45%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.24%) Electronics
14 29 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.11%) Automotive
16 26 (1.11%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.02%) Publishing
18 22 (0.94%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 814 (34.70%) Developer
2 623 (26.56%) Software Engineer
3 593 (25.28%) Senior
4 396 (16.88%) Lead
5 353 (15.05%) Java Developer
6 327 (13.94%) Java Engineer
7 243 (10.36%) Java Software Engineer
8 216 (9.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 189 (8.06%) Senior Developer
9 189 (8.06%) Software Developer
10 187 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
11 167 (7.12%) Technical Leader
12 148 (6.31%) Senior Java Engineer
13 147 (6.27%) Architect
14 145 (6.18%) Full Stack Developer
15 134 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
16 118 (5.03%) Lead Developer
17 117 (4.99%) Python Engineer
18 109 (4.65%) AWS Software Engineer
19 106 (4.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (17.09%) Spring
2 335 (14.28%) gRPC
3 329 (14.02%) Protocol Buffers
4 307 (13.09%) React
5 280 (11.94%) NumPy
5 280 (11.94%) Pandas
5 280 (11.94%) SciPy
6 264 (11.25%) Spring Boot
7 188 (8.01%) REST
8 186 (7.93%) .NET
9 179 (7.63%) RESTful
10 176 (7.50%) AngularJS
10 176 (7.50%) Node.js
11 166 (7.08%) HTML
11 166 (7.08%) Kafka
12 148 (6.31%) CSS
13 113 (4.82%) Web Services
14 103 (4.39%) Hibernate
15 83 (3.54%) JSON
16 65 (2.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 333 (14.19%) Hedge funds
2 321 (13.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 303 (12.92%) Fixed Income
4 296 (12.62%) Equities
5 281 (11.98%) Derivative
6 94 (4.01%) Private Cloud
7 76 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
8 72 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
9 71 (3.03%) Algorithms
10 68 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
11 67 (2.86%) Cloud Native
12 55 (2.34%) Clustering
13 46 (1.96%) Product Ownership
14 44 (1.88%) Data Structures
15 43 (1.83%) Client/Server
16 42 (1.79%) Pricing Data
17 41 (1.75%) Onboarding
18 38 (1.62%) Swaptions
19 33 (1.41%) Public Cloud
20 30 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 254 (10.83%) Linux
2 89 (3.79%) Windows
3 56 (2.39%) Android
4 41 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.49%) CentOS
6 35 (1.49%) Unix
7 24 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.94%) AIX
9 21 (0.90%) Windows Server
10 20 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Solaris
14 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.043%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.043%) SUSE
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,084 (46.21%) Agile
2 1,057 (45.06%) Software Engineering
3 477 (20.33%) DevOps
4 458 (19.52%) Microservices
5 395 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
6 369 (15.73%) CI/CD
7 364 (15.52%) Asset Management
8 336 (14.32%) Full Stack Development
9 320 (13.64%) Investment Management
10 278 (11.85%) Mentoring
11 273 (11.64%) TDD
12 240 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
13 230 (9.80%) BDD
14 213 (9.08%) Test Automation
15 209 (8.91%) Computer Science
16 207 (8.82%) Scrum
17 184 (7.84%) SDLC
18 176 (7.50%) Fintech
19 172 (7.33%) Code Quality
20 160 (6.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 964 (41.09%) Python
2 842 (35.89%) JavaScript
3 516 (21.99%) TypeScript
4 453 (19.31%) SQL
5 283 (12.06%) C#
6 175 (7.46%) C++
7 174 (7.42%) Go
8 164 (6.99%) Kotlin
9 163 (6.95%) Scala
10 154 (6.56%) C
11 55 (2.34%) Ruby
12 53 (2.26%) VB
13 47 (2.00%) Bash
14 42 (1.79%) PHP
15 39 (1.66%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.58%) COBOL
16 37 (1.58%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 37 (1.58%) T-SQL
17 34 (1.45%) Groovy
18 28 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 345 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 283 (12.06%) Degree
3 223 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 150 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 34 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 20 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.55%) PhD
11 11 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.17%) CCNA
13 4 (0.17%) CCNP
13 4 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.13%) OCP
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.13%) OSCE
14 3 (0.13%) OSCP
14 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.82%) QA
3 29 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.26%) GDPR
6 5 (0.21%) SEPA
6 5 (0.21%) SLA
7 3 (0.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.085%) PMO
9 1 (0.043%) AQAP
9 1 (0.043%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.043%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.043%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.043%) TickIT
9 1 (0.043%) WCAG
System Software
1 354 (15.09%) Docker
2 20 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 18 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
4 15 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.043%) Firmware
6 1 (0.043%) GridGain
6 1 (0.043%) HDFS
6 1 (0.043%) KVM
6 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 454 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 271 (11.55%) Terraform
3 177 (7.54%) Ansible
4 79 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 39 (1.66%) Grafana
6 30 (1.28%) Progress Chef
7 28 (1.19%) Puppet
8 11 (0.47%) Kibana
9 10 (0.43%) Packer
10 7 (0.30%) Salt
11 5 (0.21%) Argo
11 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.21%) logstash
11 5 (0.21%) Pingdom
11 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.17%) Nagios
13 3 (0.13%) Nessus
13 3 (0.13%) Nmap
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Statspack
14 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 188 (8.01%) Oracle
2 102 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 81 (3.45%) Google
4 45 (1.92%) Xilinx
5 42 (1.79%) Sybase
6 41 (1.75%) TIBCO
7 39 (1.66%) OpenLink
8 37 (1.58%) Micro Focus
9 23 (0.98%) SAP
9 23 (0.98%) WSO2
10 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 16 (0.68%) Dell
11 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
12 14 (0.60%) IBM
13 13 (0.55%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.51%) Adobe
14 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
15 11 (0.47%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.43%) F5
16 10 (0.43%) New Relic