Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 283 282
Rank change year-on-year +56 -1 -127
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 172 160 365
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.92% 1.06% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.15% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 154 129 303
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -6.25%

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 17,512 13,957 31,238
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.18% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,900 8,883 24,881
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,013
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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.

1 172 (100.00%) Java
2 70 (40.70%) Spring
3 68 (39.53%) AWS
4 61 (35.47%) Spring Boot
5 55 (31.98%) CI/CD
6 51 (29.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 44 (25.58%) Security Cleared
8 41 (23.84%) Agile
9 40 (23.26%) DevOps
10 38 (22.09%) Docker
11 37 (21.51%) SC Cleared
12 34 (19.77%) Software Engineering
13 32 (18.60%) Kubernetes
13 32 (18.60%) Serverless
14 31 (18.02%) SQL
15 26 (15.12%) JavaScript
15 26 (15.12%) React
16 25 (14.53%) Microservices
16 25 (14.53%) Node.js
16 25 (14.53%) TDD
17 23 (13.37%) Git
17 23 (13.37%) NoSQL
18 22 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 21 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
20 20 (11.63%) REST
21 19 (11.05%) Amazon S3
21 19 (11.05%) AngularJS
21 19 (11.05%) Containerisation
21 19 (11.05%) Mentoring
22 18 (10.47%) Terraform

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 4 (2.33%) JBoss
2 3 (1.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.58%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 68 (39.53%) AWS
2 32 (18.60%) Serverless
3 21 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (11.05%) Amazon S3
5 16 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (6.98%) Azure
7 11 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (6.40%) AWS Step Functions
7 11 (6.40%) GitHub
7 11 (6.40%) SaaS
8 9 (5.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (5.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.74%) ChatGPT
12 3 (1.74%) Stripe
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (1.16%) Apigee
13 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.37%) NoSQL
2 13 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.40%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.74%) MySQL
6 3 (1.74%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (13.37%) Git
2 17 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.23%) Maven
4 8 (4.65%) JUnit
5 4 (2.33%) GitLab
5 4 (2.33%) JIRA
6 3 (1.74%) Mockito
6 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.16%) Gradle
8 1 (0.58%) git-flow
8 1 (0.58%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.58%) jMock
8 1 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 31 (18.02%) Finance
2 13 (7.56%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.81%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.23%) Front Office
5 9 (5.23%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.65%) Aviation
7 5 (2.91%) Games
8 2 (1.16%) Advertising
8 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.58%) iGaming
9 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
9 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.58%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (40.70%) Spring
2 61 (35.47%) Spring Boot
3 26 (15.12%) React
4 25 (14.53%) Node.js
5 20 (11.63%) REST
6 19 (11.05%) AngularJS
7 13 (7.56%) Kafka
8 8 (4.65%) GraphQL
8 8 (4.65%) React Native
8 8 (4.65%) Redux
8 8 (4.65%) RESTful
9 7 (4.07%) Web Services
10 6 (3.49%) Hibernate
10 6 (3.49%) JSON
10 6 (3.49%) SOAP
10 6 (3.49%) XML
11 5 (2.91%) J2EE
11 5 (2.91%) JPA
12 4 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.23%) Fixed Income
2 8 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.49%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.49%) Android
1 6 (3.49%) Apple iOS
1 6 (3.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (31.98%) CI/CD
2 51 (29.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 41 (23.84%) Agile
4 40 (23.26%) DevOps
5 34 (19.77%) Software Engineering
6 25 (14.53%) Microservices
6 25 (14.53%) TDD
7 22 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (11.05%) Containerisation
8 19 (11.05%) Mentoring
9 17 (9.88%) Scrum
10 15 (8.72%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (6.98%) Fintech
12 12 (6.98%) SDLC
13 10 (5.81%) Design Patterns
13 10 (5.81%) DevSecOps
13 10 (5.81%) Sprint Planning
13 10 (5.81%) Test Automation
14 9 (5.23%) AI
Programming Languages
1 172 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (18.02%) SQL
3 26 (15.12%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.88%) Python
4 17 (9.88%) TypeScript
5 10 (5.81%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.65%) Go
7 5 (2.91%) Bash
8 4 (2.33%) C#
8 4 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.16%) Groovy
10 1 (0.58%) Korn
10 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.91%) Degree
5 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.16%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 38 (22.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.47%) Terraform
3 11 (6.40%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (4.65%) Oracle
2 3 (1.74%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.74%) Revolut
3 2 (1.16%) IBM
4 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.58%) Cognos
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.58%) Veracode
4 1 (0.58%) VMware