Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 272 298
Rank change year-on-year -26 +26 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 158 153 248
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 0.93% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.01% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 130 127 204
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -25.00% +16.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £140,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year -3.45% -4.92% -4.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 20,727 15,159 25,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.10% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,003 9,397 19,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,584 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Java Developer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Java Developer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Java Developer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Java Developer job vacancies

Java Developer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Java Developer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 30 July 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (39.87%) Spring
3 62 (39.24%) AWS
4 51 (32.28%) Spring Boot
5 50 (31.65%) CI/CD
6 46 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 43 (27.22%) Agile
8 42 (26.58%) Security Cleared
9 39 (24.68%) Docker
10 37 (23.42%) SC Cleared
11 31 (19.62%) Kubernetes
11 31 (19.62%) TDD
12 30 (18.99%) DevOps
12 30 (18.99%) React
13 29 (18.35%) Software Engineering
13 29 (18.35%) SQL
14 28 (17.72%) Microservices
15 27 (17.09%) Serverless
16 25 (15.82%) JavaScript
17 23 (14.56%) Containerisation
18 22 (13.92%) AngularJS
19 21 (13.29%) Scrum
20 20 (12.66%) Azure
21 19 (12.03%) Clean Code
21 19 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
21 19 (12.03%) Git
21 19 (12.03%) Kafka
21 19 (12.03%) Node.js
21 19 (12.03%) REST
21 19 (12.03%) SDLC

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.90%) JBoss
3 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.24%) AWS
2 27 (17.09%) Serverless
3 20 (12.66%) Azure
4 18 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.59%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (7.59%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.96%) GitHub
7 10 (6.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.80%) GCP
11 4 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.90%) ChatGPT
12 3 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.90%) SaaS
13 2 (1.27%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) AMQP
1 3 (1.90%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.23%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.70%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.43%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.53%) MySQL
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (12.03%) Git
2 15 (9.49%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.86%) JUnit
4 12 (7.59%) Maven
5 9 (5.70%) Mockito
6 8 (5.06%) JIRA
7 3 (1.90%) GitLab
7 3 (1.90%) Postman
7 3 (1.90%) Selenium
8 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.27%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.27%) Subversion
9 1 (0.63%) git-flow
9 1 (0.63%) Gradle
9 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 33 (20.89%) Finance
2 12 (7.59%) Front Office
2 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.43%) Aviation
5 6 (3.80%) Tech for Good
6 5 (3.16%) Banking
6 5 (3.16%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Advertising
7 2 (1.27%) Games
7 2 (1.27%) Marketing
7 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.63%) Back Office
8 1 (0.63%) iGaming
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (39.87%) Spring
2 51 (32.28%) Spring Boot
3 30 (18.99%) React
4 22 (13.92%) AngularJS
5 19 (12.03%) Kafka
5 19 (12.03%) Node.js
5 19 (12.03%) REST
6 11 (6.96%) RESTful
7 9 (5.70%) JPA
8 8 (5.06%) GraphQL
8 8 (5.06%) Redux
9 7 (4.43%) Jakarta EE
10 6 (3.80%) Spring MVC
11 5 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (2.53%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.53%) Web Services
13 3 (1.90%) HTML
13 3 (1.90%) OAuth
13 3 (1.90%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.70%) Fixed Income
2 6 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.90%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.90%) Equities
6 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.65%) CI/CD
2 46 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (27.22%) Agile
4 31 (19.62%) TDD
5 30 (18.99%) DevOps
6 29 (18.35%) Software Engineering
7 28 (17.72%) Microservices
8 23 (14.56%) Containerisation
9 21 (13.29%) Scrum
10 19 (12.03%) Clean Code
10 19 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (12.03%) SDLC
11 17 (10.76%) Mentoring
12 14 (8.86%) AI
13 12 (7.59%) Design Patterns
14 11 (6.96%) Test Automation
15 10 (6.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 10 (6.33%) Sprint Planning
16 9 (5.70%) MVC
16 9 (5.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (18.35%) SQL
3 25 (15.82%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.76%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.13%) Python
6 11 (6.96%) Kotlin
7 10 (6.33%) Bash
8 9 (5.70%) PL/SQL
9 8 (5.06%) Go
10 5 (3.16%) C#
11 3 (1.90%) Scala
11 3 (1.90%) Tcl
12 2 (1.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.43%) Degree
4 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.16%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 39 (24.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (19.62%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.86%) Terraform
3 6 (3.80%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (10.13%) Oracle
2 4 (2.53%) IBM
3 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.90%) Splunk
3 3 (1.90%) Sybase
3 3 (1.90%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.27%) Revolut
5 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics