Garbage Collection Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Garbage Collection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Garbage Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Garbage Collection over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 517 556
Rank change year-on-year +57 +39 +317
Permanent jobs citing Garbage Collection 17 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.015% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.017% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 13
10th Percentile - £96,125 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £97,813 £79,530
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £116,250 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.43% +10.71% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £135,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £157,500 - £175,200
UK median annual salary £140,000 £100,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% +41.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Garbage Collection 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 19,970 23,301 30,476
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.74% 88.28% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,383 15,997 22,609
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,329 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £58,700 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -6.08% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £99,800 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Garbage Collection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Garbage Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Garbage Collection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Garbage Collection
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Garbage Collection.

Garbage Collection salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Garbage Collection
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Garbage Collection over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Garbage Collection salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Garbage Collection
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:

General
1 1 (5.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 17 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Java Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (23.53%) Algorithms
3 3 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Multithreading
3 7 (41.18%) Extreme Programming
3 7 (41.18%) Fintech
3 7 (41.18%) Memory Management
3 7 (41.18%) Pair Programming
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) Concurrent Programming
5 4 (23.53%) Low Latency
5 4 (23.53%) Market Making
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
6 1 (5.88%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java