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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,359 4,961 10,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.87% 12.47% 14.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.89% 25.40% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,959 3,190 5,260
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
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 £97,318 £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 13,970 19,535 43,459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.66% 49.12% 59.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,467 14,311 24,024
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,047 £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 £79,500 £85,000 £81,250
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 28 May 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
1 330 (13.99%) Apache Airflow
2 321 (13.61%) Apache
3 59 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.57%) Tuxedo
6 28 (1.19%) Confluence
7 25 (1.06%) OpenStack
8 18 (0.76%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.68%) nginx
10 13 (0.55%) JBoss
11 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
12 6 (0.25%) IIS
12 6 (0.25%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.17%) Drupal
14 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (1.78%) Simulink
2 7 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.085%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.042%) CATIA
6 1 (0.042%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (1.65%) 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
6 1 (0.042%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (52.40%) AWS
2 555 (23.53%) Azure
3 330 (13.99%) dbt
4 325 (13.78%) GCP
5 313 (13.27%) Snowflake
6 161 (6.82%) Serverless
7 149 (6.32%) SaaS
8 96 (4.07%) GitHub
9 80 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (2.84%) Amazon S3
11 66 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
13 55 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (1.65%) Power Platform
15 34 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (1.36%) OpenShift
17 28 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
17 28 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
17 28 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 38 (1.61%) Firewall
3 33 (1.40%) DNS
4 19 (0.81%) Network Security
5 15 (0.64%) Internet
6 12 (0.51%) AMQP
6 12 (0.51%) Modbus
7 10 (0.42%) HTTP
8 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.25%) LAN
9 6 (0.25%) NAS
9 6 (0.25%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.25%) SAN
9 6 (0.25%) SSL
9 6 (0.25%) 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%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (14.41%) Data Lake
2 331 (14.03%) Amazon Athena
3 327 (13.86%) Dremio
4 319 (13.52%) Apache Arrow
5 266 (11.28%) Apache Ignite
6 224 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
7 215 (9.11%) Relational Database
8 168 (7.12%) NoSQL
9 152 (6.44%) MySQL
10 143 (6.06%) SQL Server
11 112 (4.75%) Big Data
12 95 (4.03%) MongoDB
13 90 (3.82%) RDBMS
14 56 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
15 46 (1.95%) Redis
16 44 (1.87%) Oracle Database
17 43 (1.82%) Hadoop
18 33 (1.40%) DynamoDB
19 31 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
20 20 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 229 (9.71%) Git
2 228 (9.67%) Jenkins
3 132 (5.60%) GitLab
4 95 (4.03%) Cucumber
5 87 (3.69%) Selenium
6 83 (3.52%) JIRA
7 61 (2.59%) Maven
8 58 (2.46%) JUnit
8 58 (2.46%) Postman
9 39 (1.65%) Visual Studio
10 30 (1.27%) Cypress.io
11 24 (1.02%) JDeveloper
11 24 (1.02%) JMeter
12 23 (0.97%) Subversion
13 21 (0.89%) Gradle
13 21 (0.89%) Vagrant
14 19 (0.81%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.81%) Eclipse
14 19 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 666 (28.23%) Finance
2 430 (18.23%) Banking
3 415 (17.59%) Social Skills
4 325 (13.78%) Front Office
5 309 (13.10%) Investment Banking
6 134 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 120 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 117 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
9 75 (3.18%) Retail
10 69 (2.92%) Marketing
11 57 (2.42%) Law
12 52 (2.20%) Games
13 34 (1.44%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.23%) Electronics
14 29 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.19%) Automotive
16 27 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.02%) Publishing
19 22 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 811 (34.38%) Developer
2 640 (27.13%) Software Engineer
3 580 (24.59%) Senior
4 397 (16.83%) Lead
5 358 (15.18%) Java Developer
6 315 (13.35%) Java Engineer
7 236 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 207 (8.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 187 (7.93%) Senior Developer
9 187 (7.93%) Software Developer
10 182 (7.72%) AWS Engineer
11 166 (7.04%) Technical Leader
12 151 (6.40%) Architect
13 143 (6.06%) Full Stack Developer
14 139 (5.89%) Senior Java Engineer
15 134 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
16 118 (5.00%) Lead Developer
17 110 (4.66%) Python Engineer
18 102 (4.32%) AWS Software Engineer
19 99 (4.20%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (17.13%) Spring
2 330 (13.99%) React
3 326 (13.82%) gRPC
4 320 (13.57%) Protocol Buffers
5 271 (11.49%) NumPy
5 271 (11.49%) Pandas
5 271 (11.49%) SciPy
6 270 (11.45%) Spring Boot
7 200 (8.48%) Node.js
8 191 (8.10%) REST
9 183 (7.76%) .NET
10 178 (7.55%) AngularJS
11 174 (7.38%) RESTful
12 169 (7.16%) Kafka
13 163 (6.91%) HTML
14 145 (6.15%) CSS
15 110 (4.66%) Web Services
16 102 (4.32%) Hibernate
17 85 (3.60%) JSON
18 63 (2.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 323 (13.69%) Hedge funds
2 311 (13.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 293 (12.42%) Fixed Income
4 286 (12.12%) Equities
5 271 (11.49%) Derivative
6 96 (4.07%) Private Cloud
7 78 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
8 73 (3.09%) Algorithms
9 71 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
10 69 (2.92%) Cloud Native
11 68 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
12 55 (2.33%) Clustering
13 47 (1.99%) Data Structures
14 44 (1.87%) Product Ownership
15 43 (1.82%) Client/Server
16 41 (1.74%) Onboarding
17 38 (1.61%) Swaptions
18 36 (1.53%) Pricing Data
19 35 (1.48%) Public Cloud
20 31 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 250 (10.60%) Linux
2 88 (3.73%) Windows
3 53 (2.25%) Android
4 40 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 35 (1.48%) Unix
6 33 (1.40%) CentOS
7 22 (0.93%) AIX
7 22 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.89%) Windows Server
9 18 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Solaris
13 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.042%) SUSE
14 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (45.91%) Agile
2 1,066 (45.19%) Software Engineering
3 501 (21.24%) DevOps
4 485 (20.56%) Microservices
5 418 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
6 376 (15.94%) CI/CD
7 354 (15.01%) Asset Management
8 334 (14.16%) Full Stack Development
9 310 (13.14%) Investment Management
10 281 (11.91%) Mentoring
11 279 (11.83%) TDD
12 264 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
13 234 (9.92%) BDD
14 216 (9.16%) Test Automation
15 210 (8.90%) Scrum
16 201 (8.52%) Computer Science
17 191 (8.10%) Code Quality
18 180 (7.63%) Open Source
19 179 (7.59%) SDLC
20 176 (7.46%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 986 (41.80%) Python
2 855 (36.24%) JavaScript
3 505 (21.41%) TypeScript
4 454 (19.25%) SQL
5 279 (11.83%) C#
6 201 (8.52%) Go
7 169 (7.16%) C++
8 166 (7.04%) Scala
9 161 (6.82%) Kotlin
10 154 (6.53%) C
11 80 (3.39%) Ruby
12 74 (3.14%) Bash
13 53 (2.25%) VB
14 47 (1.99%) Perl
15 41 (1.74%) PHP
16 39 (1.65%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.57%) COBOL
17 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 36 (1.53%) T-SQL
19 34 (1.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 342 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 279 (11.83%) Degree
3 222 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 143 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 33 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.89%) 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
1 138 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 137 (5.81%) QA
3 28 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.25%) 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%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.085%) PMO
9 1 (0.042%) AQAP
9 1 (0.042%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.042%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.042%) TickIT
9 1 (0.042%) WCAG
System Software
1 356 (15.09%) Docker
2 23 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 18 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
4 15 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.042%) Firmware
6 1 (0.042%) GridGain
6 1 (0.042%) HDFS
6 1 (0.042%) KVM
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 461 (19.54%) Kubernetes
2 269 (11.40%) Terraform
3 178 (7.55%) Ansible
4 79 (3.35%) Prometheus
5 39 (1.65%) Grafana
6 32 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 30 (1.27%) Puppet
8 11 (0.47%) Kibana
9 10 (0.42%) Packer
10 9 (0.38%) 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
1 211 (8.94%) Oracle
2 98 (4.15%) Microsoft
3 85 (3.60%) Google
4 42 (1.78%) Sybase
5 41 (1.74%) TIBCO
5 41 (1.74%) Xilinx
6 39 (1.65%) OpenLink
7 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus
8 25 (1.06%) WSO2
9 23 (0.97%) SAP
10 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 19 (0.81%) Dell
12 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
13 14 (0.59%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.59%) IBM
14 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
15 11 (0.47%) Adobe
16 10 (0.42%) F5
16 10 (0.42%) New Relic
16 10 (0.42%) Red Hat