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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,354 5,079 9,713
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.95% 12.22% 14.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.05% 24.82% 23.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,916 3,286 5,179
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £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 13,808 20,465 40,492
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 49.22% 58.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,416 15,044 23,932
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £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 £78,750 £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 8 May 2024.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
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
1 242 (10.28%) Apache
2 235 (9.98%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.85%) Apache Spark
4 47 (2.00%) Confluence
5 37 (1.57%) Tuxedo
6 36 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (1.15%) OpenStack
8 20 (0.85%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.68%) JBoss
9 16 (0.68%) nginx
10 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.30%) IIS
12 4 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (1.19%) Simulink
2 8 (0.34%) 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 37 (1.57%) Endur
2 8 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.085%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS R12
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%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,172 (49.79%) AWS
2 540 (22.94%) Azure
3 320 (13.59%) GCP
4 235 (9.98%) dbt
5 223 (9.47%) Snowflake
6 204 (8.67%) Serverless
7 166 (7.05%) SaaS
8 108 (4.59%) GitHub
9 87 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 78 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 67 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
12 64 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
13 60 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
14 41 (1.74%) Power Platform
15 39 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
19 28 (1.19%) PowerApps
20 25 (1.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.66%) Firewall
2 37 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.32%) DNS
4 18 (0.76%) Network Security
5 17 (0.72%) Internet
6 14 (0.59%) AMQP
7 13 (0.55%) Modbus
8 10 (0.42%) HTTP
9 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.25%) SSL
12 4 (0.17%) LAN
12 4 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
12 4 (0.17%) VPN
12 4 (0.17%) WAN
13 3 (0.13%) NAS
13 3 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.13%) SAN
13 3 (0.13%) Wireless
14 2 (0.085%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (10.41%) Data Lake
2 235 (9.98%) Amazon Athena
3 233 (9.90%) Relational Database
4 231 (9.81%) Dremio
5 229 (9.73%) Apache Arrow
6 223 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
7 188 (7.99%) Apache Ignite
8 164 (6.97%) NoSQL
9 155 (6.58%) MySQL
10 137 (5.82%) SQL Server
11 116 (4.93%) Big Data
12 102 (4.33%) RDBMS
13 96 (4.08%) MongoDB
14 64 (2.72%) Oracle Database
15 63 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
16 51 (2.17%) Redis
17 50 (2.12%) Hadoop
18 35 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
18 35 (1.49%) DynamoDB
19 26 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 281 (11.94%) Git
2 264 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 134 (5.69%) GitLab
4 109 (4.63%) Cucumber
5 107 (4.55%) JIRA
6 103 (4.38%) Selenium
7 76 (3.23%) Maven
8 66 (2.80%) Postman
9 62 (2.63%) JUnit
10 42 (1.78%) Visual Studio
11 36 (1.53%) JDeveloper
12 28 (1.19%) Cypress.io
13 27 (1.15%) JMeter
14 23 (0.98%) Bitbucket
14 23 (0.98%) Eclipse
14 23 (0.98%) Gradle
14 23 (0.98%) Subversion
15 20 (0.85%) IntelliJ
16 19 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
16 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 616 (26.17%) Finance
2 420 (17.84%) Social Skills
3 369 (15.68%) Banking
4 253 (10.75%) Front Office
5 236 (10.03%) Investment Banking
6 139 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 137 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 127 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
9 80 (3.40%) Retail
10 62 (2.63%) Marketing
11 57 (2.42%) Law
12 52 (2.21%) Games
13 35 (1.49%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.23%) Electronics
14 29 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 28 (1.19%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.15%) Automotive
16 27 (1.15%) Police
17 24 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 830 (35.26%) Developer
2 630 (26.76%) Software Engineer
3 582 (24.72%) Senior
4 399 (16.95%) Java Developer
5 371 (15.76%) Lead
6 301 (12.79%) Java Engineer
7 221 (9.39%) Java Software Engineer
8 218 (9.26%) Senior Developer
9 172 (7.31%) Senior Software Engineer
10 170 (7.22%) Software Developer
11 161 (6.84%) Senior Java Developer
12 150 (6.37%) Full Stack Developer
13 147 (6.24%) Technical Leader
14 144 (6.12%) Architect
15 142 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
16 115 (4.89%) Senior Java Engineer
17 107 (4.55%) Lead Developer
18 84 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
19 79 (3.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 75 (3.19%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (19.41%) Spring
2 372 (15.80%) React
3 290 (12.32%) Spring Boot
4 237 (10.07%) gRPC
5 230 (9.77%) Protocol Buffers
6 217 (9.22%) Node.js
7 206 (8.75%) REST
8 194 (8.24%) RESTful
9 190 (8.07%) AngularJS
9 190 (8.07%) Kafka
10 187 (7.94%) NumPy
10 187 (7.94%) Pandas
10 187 (7.94%) SciPy
11 180 (7.65%) .NET
12 166 (7.05%) HTML
13 146 (6.20%) CSS
14 118 (5.01%) Web Services
15 108 (4.59%) Hibernate
16 88 (3.74%) JSON
17 69 (2.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 235 (9.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 233 (9.90%) Hedge funds
3 222 (9.43%) Fixed Income
4 210 (8.92%) Equities
5 194 (8.24%) Derivative
6 98 (4.16%) Private Cloud
7 83 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
8 79 (3.36%) Algorithms
9 75 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
10 70 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
11 65 (2.76%) Cloud Native
12 57 (2.42%) Data Structures
13 54 (2.29%) Product Ownership
14 45 (1.91%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.83%) Client/Server
15 43 (1.83%) Clustering
16 41 (1.74%) Onboarding
17 36 (1.53%) Swaptions
18 34 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
19 29 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 250 (10.62%) Linux
2 87 (3.70%) Windows
3 47 (2.00%) Android
4 38 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 33 (1.40%) Unix
7 25 (1.06%) CentOS
8 22 (0.93%) AIX
9 20 (0.85%) Windows Server
10 15 (0.64%) Ubuntu
11 12 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Solaris
15 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.085%) VMS
17 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
17 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (44.01%) Agile
2 1,017 (43.20%) Software Engineering
3 544 (23.11%) Microservices
4 504 (21.41%) DevOps
5 463 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
6 398 (16.91%) CI/CD
7 341 (14.49%) Full Stack Development
8 316 (13.42%) Mentoring
9 299 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
10 281 (11.94%) TDD
11 261 (11.09%) Asset Management
12 242 (10.28%) BDD
12 242 (10.28%) Investment Management
13 232 (9.86%) Test Automation
14 220 (9.35%) Code Quality
15 215 (9.13%) Containerisation
16 212 (9.01%) Scrum
17 190 (8.07%) Fintech
18 184 (7.82%) Open Source
19 179 (7.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 940 (39.93%) Python
2 793 (33.69%) JavaScript
3 465 (19.75%) SQL
4 430 (18.27%) TypeScript
5 299 (12.70%) C#
6 210 (8.92%) Go
7 170 (7.22%) Scala
8 161 (6.84%) Kotlin
9 154 (6.54%) C++
10 150 (6.37%) C
11 116 (4.93%) Ruby
12 99 (4.21%) Bash
13 59 (2.51%) Perl
14 52 (2.21%) VB
15 42 (1.78%) PHP
16 39 (1.66%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.57%) COBOL
17 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 37 (1.57%) T-SQL
18 32 (1.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 334 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 259 (11.00%) Degree
3 221 (9.39%) SC Cleared
4 125 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 33 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.47%) PhD
11 4 (0.17%) CCNA
11 4 (0.17%) CCNP
11 4 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.17%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.17%) OCP
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.13%) OSCE
12 3 (0.13%) OSCP
12 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (6.75%) QA
2 103 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.30%) SEPA
5 6 (0.25%) GDPR
6 5 (0.21%) SLA
7 3 (0.13%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.085%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.085%) PMO
8 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.042%) AQAP
9 1 (0.042%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.042%) GMP
9 1 (0.042%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.042%) TickIT
9 1 (0.042%) WCAG
System Software
1 401 (17.03%) Docker
2 22 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
5 14 (0.59%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.042%) Firmware
7 1 (0.042%) GridGain
7 1 (0.042%) HDFS
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 484 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 246 (10.45%) Terraform
3 166 (7.05%) Ansible
4 63 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.74%) Progress Chef
6 40 (1.70%) Puppet
7 38 (1.61%) Grafana
8 17 (0.72%) Salt
9 12 (0.51%) Packer
10 11 (0.47%) Kibana
11 8 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.30%) Argo
13 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.21%) logstash
13 5 (0.21%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.13%) Consul
14 3 (0.13%) Nessus
14 3 (0.13%) Nmap
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Statspack
15 2 (0.085%) Podman
Vendors
1 229 (9.73%) Oracle
2 98 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 96 (4.08%) Google
4 40 (1.70%) Sybase
4 40 (1.70%) TIBCO
5 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus
5 37 (1.57%) OpenLink
6 29 (1.23%) WSO2
7 27 (1.15%) SAP
7 27 (1.15%) Xilinx
8 26 (1.10%) IBM
9 25 (1.06%) Dell
10 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 17 (0.72%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
13 12 (0.51%) Adobe
13 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
14 11 (0.47%) New Relic
15 10 (0.42%) Facebook
15 10 (0.42%) Salesforce