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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,345 5,159 9,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.94% 12.17% 13.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.06% 24.77% 23.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 3,344 5,187
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 £137,500 £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 13,749 20,831 39,905
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.69% 49.14% 58.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11,389 15,324 24,010
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 5 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
1 225 (9.59%) Apache
2 209 (8.91%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 47 (2.00%) Confluence
5 37 (1.58%) Tuxedo
6 36 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (1.15%) OpenStack
8 21 (0.90%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.68%) JBoss
9 16 (0.68%) nginx
10 11 (0.47%) SharePoint
11 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
12 8 (0.34%) IIS
13 4 (0.17%) Drupal
14 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.13%) SAS
14 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 (0.043%) CATIA
6 1 (0.043%) Notion
Business Applications
1 37 (1.58%) Endur
2 9 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
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%) SAP SD
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 1,150 (49.04%) AWS
2 540 (23.03%) Azure
3 316 (13.48%) GCP
4 209 (8.91%) dbt
5 204 (8.70%) Serverless
6 200 (8.53%) Snowflake
7 170 (7.25%) SaaS
8 111 (4.73%) GitHub
9 86 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 75 (3.20%) Amazon S3
11 66 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
13 55 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
14 41 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
14 41 (1.75%) Power Platform
15 34 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
17 28 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (1.19%) PowerApps
18 25 (1.07%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.66%) Firewall
2 37 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.32%) DNS
4 18 (0.77%) Network Security
5 17 (0.72%) Internet
6 14 (0.60%) AMQP
7 13 (0.55%) Modbus
8 10 (0.43%) HTTP
9 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.26%) 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
1 231 (9.85%) Relational Database
2 223 (9.51%) Data Lake
3 218 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 211 (9.00%) Amazon Athena
5 207 (8.83%) Apache Arrow
5 207 (8.83%) Dremio
6 172 (7.33%) Apache Ignite
7 164 (6.99%) NoSQL
8 156 (6.65%) MySQL
9 137 (5.84%) SQL Server
10 113 (4.82%) Big Data
11 101 (4.31%) RDBMS
12 95 (4.05%) MongoDB
13 63 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
13 63 (2.69%) Oracle Database
14 51 (2.17%) Redis
15 50 (2.13%) Hadoop
16 35 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
16 35 (1.49%) DynamoDB
17 26 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 283 (12.07%) Git
2 276 (11.77%) Jenkins
3 138 (5.88%) GitLab
4 117 (4.99%) Cucumber
5 110 (4.69%) JIRA
6 109 (4.65%) Selenium
7 79 (3.37%) Maven
8 72 (3.07%) Postman
9 62 (2.64%) JUnit
10 42 (1.79%) Visual Studio
11 36 (1.54%) JDeveloper
12 29 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.19%) JMeter
14 26 (1.11%) Bitbucket
15 24 (1.02%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.98%) Gradle
16 23 (0.98%) Subversion
17 21 (0.90%) IntelliJ
18 20 (0.85%) TeamCity
19 19 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 602 (25.67%) Finance
2 423 (18.04%) Social Skills
3 361 (15.39%) Banking
4 237 (10.11%) Front Office
5 220 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 140 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 135 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 127 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
9 80 (3.41%) Retail
10 62 (2.64%) Marketing
11 54 (2.30%) Law
12 53 (2.26%) Games
13 35 (1.49%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.24%) Electronics
14 29 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.15%) Police
17 26 (1.11%) Automotive
17 26 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 830 (35.39%) Developer
2 622 (26.52%) Software Engineer
3 583 (24.86%) Senior
4 403 (17.19%) Java Developer
5 365 (15.57%) Lead
6 294 (12.54%) Java Engineer
7 220 (9.38%) Senior Developer
8 216 (9.21%) Java Software Engineer
9 170 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 167 (7.12%) Software Developer
11 164 (6.99%) Senior Java Developer
12 149 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
13 144 (6.14%) Architect
14 142 (6.06%) Technical Leader
15 132 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
16 114 (4.86%) Senior Java Engineer
17 104 (4.43%) Lead Developer
18 85 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
19 76 (3.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 74 (3.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (19.62%) Spring
2 372 (15.86%) React
3 297 (12.67%) Spring Boot
4 216 (9.21%) Node.js
5 215 (9.17%) gRPC
6 212 (9.04%) REST
7 208 (8.87%) Protocol Buffers
8 197 (8.40%) RESTful
9 194 (8.27%) Kafka
10 188 (8.02%) AngularJS
11 180 (7.68%) .NET
12 171 (7.29%) NumPy
12 171 (7.29%) Pandas
12 171 (7.29%) SciPy
13 161 (6.87%) HTML
14 141 (6.01%) CSS
15 120 (5.12%) Web Services
16 108 (4.61%) Hibernate
17 91 (3.88%) JSON
18 72 (3.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 217 (9.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 211 (9.00%) Hedge funds
3 206 (8.78%) Fixed Income
4 194 (8.27%) Equities
5 178 (7.59%) Derivative
6 98 (4.18%) Private Cloud
7 83 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
8 79 (3.37%) Algorithms
9 77 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
10 70 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
11 64 (2.73%) Cloud Native
12 57 (2.43%) Data Structures
13 56 (2.39%) Product Ownership
14 44 (1.88%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.83%) Client/Server
16 41 (1.75%) Onboarding
17 37 (1.58%) Clustering
18 36 (1.54%) Swaptions
19 35 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
20 29 (1.24%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 249 (10.62%) Linux
2 85 (3.62%) Windows
3 48 (2.05%) Android
4 38 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 38 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.41%) Unix
6 25 (1.07%) CentOS
7 22 (0.94%) AIX
8 19 (0.81%) Windows Server
9 15 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
11 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Solaris
14 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.13%) VMS
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.043%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,030 (43.92%) Agile
2 1,003 (42.77%) Software Engineering
3 548 (23.37%) Microservices
4 498 (21.24%) DevOps
5 461 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
6 410 (17.48%) CI/CD
7 342 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
8 319 (13.60%) Mentoring
9 303 (12.92%) Continuous Integration
10 282 (12.03%) TDD
11 244 (10.41%) BDD
12 239 (10.19%) Test Automation
13 235 (10.02%) Asset Management
14 224 (9.55%) Investment Management
15 220 (9.38%) Code Quality
16 217 (9.25%) Containerisation
17 216 (9.21%) Scrum
18 195 (8.32%) Fintech
19 187 (7.97%) Open Source
20 180 (7.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 917 (39.10%) Python
2 774 (33.01%) JavaScript
3 467 (19.91%) SQL
4 414 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 302 (12.88%) C#
6 206 (8.78%) Go
7 173 (7.38%) Scala
8 158 (6.74%) Kotlin
9 157 (6.70%) C++
10 150 (6.40%) C
11 117 (4.99%) Ruby
12 101 (4.31%) Bash
13 59 (2.52%) Perl
14 52 (2.22%) VB
15 43 (1.83%) PHP
16 41 (1.75%) PowerShell
17 39 (1.66%) T-SQL
18 37 (1.58%) COBOL
18 37 (1.58%) Micro Focus COBOL
19 31 (1.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 335 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 264 (11.26%) Degree
3 221 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 127 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 34 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 32 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.90%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.47%) PhD
11 8 (0.34%) OCP
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.17%) CCNA
12 4 (0.17%) CCNP
12 4 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.13%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.91%) QA
2 93 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.34%) SEPA
5 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.26%) GDPR
7 5 (0.21%) SLA
8 3 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.085%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.085%) PMO
9 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.043%) AQAP
10 1 (0.043%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.043%) GMP
10 1 (0.043%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.043%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.043%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.043%) TickIT
10 1 (0.043%) WCAG
System Software
1 411 (17.53%) Docker
2 22 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
5 14 (0.60%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.043%) Firmware
7 1 (0.043%) GridGain
7 1 (0.043%) HDFS
7 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 488 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 242 (10.32%) Terraform
3 166 (7.08%) Ansible
4 57 (2.43%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 40 (1.71%) Puppet
7 37 (1.58%) 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
1 232 (9.89%) Oracle
2 101 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 98 (4.18%) Google
4 41 (1.75%) TIBCO
5 40 (1.71%) Sybase
6 37 (1.58%) Micro Focus
6 37 (1.58%) OpenLink
7 29 (1.24%) WSO2
8 28 (1.19%) SAP
9 27 (1.15%) IBM
9 27 (1.15%) Xilinx
10 25 (1.07%) Dell
11 19 (0.81%) ForgeRock
12 17 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.64%) Sitecore
14 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
15 11 (0.47%) Adobe
15 11 (0.47%) New Relic
16 10 (0.43%) Facebook
16 10 (0.43%) Salesforce