Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 275 298
Rank change year-on-year +24 +23 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 181 158 325
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.99% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.08% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 154 130 269
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £113,750 £121,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £146,250
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 19,465 14,655 32,136
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 92.23% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,252 9,084 25,034
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -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 1 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 1 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.

1 181 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (38.12%) Spring
3 67 (37.02%) AWS
4 57 (31.49%) CI/CD
4 57 (31.49%) Spring Boot
5 55 (30.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (25.97%) Security Cleared
7 44 (24.31%) Agile
8 40 (22.10%) DevOps
8 40 (22.10%) SC Cleared
9 39 (21.55%) Docker
10 35 (19.34%) Software Engineering
11 33 (18.23%) Kubernetes
11 33 (18.23%) SQL
12 31 (17.13%) Serverless
13 29 (16.02%) React
13 29 (16.02%) TDD
14 28 (15.47%) Microservices
15 24 (13.26%) Containerisation
15 24 (13.26%) Git
16 23 (12.71%) AngularJS
16 23 (12.71%) JavaScript
17 22 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (12.15%) Node.js
18 21 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 20 (11.05%) REST
20 19 (10.50%) Mentoring
21 18 (9.94%) Azure
21 18 (9.94%) Jenkins
21 18 (9.94%) Kafka

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 (2.21%) JBoss
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 67 (37.02%) AWS
2 31 (17.13%) Serverless
3 22 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (9.94%) Azure
5 16 (8.84%) Amazon S3
6 14 (7.73%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (7.73%) GitHub
7 12 (6.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (4.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (4.42%) SaaS
11 7 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.76%) GCP
13 4 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.66%) ChatGPT
14 3 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.66%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.94%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.08%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.97%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.21%) MySQL
8 3 (1.66%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (13.26%) Git
2 18 (9.94%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.63%) JUnit
4 11 (6.08%) Maven
5 9 (4.97%) JIRA
6 5 (2.76%) GitLab
6 5 (2.76%) Mockito
7 3 (1.66%) Postman
7 3 (1.66%) Selenium
7 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.10%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.10%) Gradle
8 2 (1.10%) Subversion
9 1 (0.55%) git-flow
9 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.55%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 33 (18.23%) Finance
2 16 (8.84%) Public Sector
3 13 (7.18%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.63%) Front Office
5 9 (4.97%) Health Technology
6 8 (4.42%) Aviation
6 8 (4.42%) Tech for Good
7 5 (2.76%) Banking
8 3 (1.66%) Games
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Marketing
9 2 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.55%) iGaming
10 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (38.12%) Spring
2 57 (31.49%) Spring Boot
3 29 (16.02%) React
4 23 (12.71%) AngularJS
5 22 (12.15%) Node.js
6 20 (11.05%) REST
7 18 (9.94%) Kafka
8 13 (7.18%) RESTful
9 8 (4.42%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.42%) JPA
9 8 (4.42%) Redux
10 7 (3.87%) J2EE
10 7 (3.87%) Spring MVC
11 6 (3.31%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.31%) React Native
12 5 (2.76%) SOAP
12 5 (2.76%) Web Services
13 4 (2.21%) HTML
13 4 (2.21%) OpenAPI
13 4 (2.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.97%) Fixed Income
2 7 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.21%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.66%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.66%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.66%) Equities
6 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.18%) Linux
2 4 (2.21%) Android
2 4 (2.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.49%) CI/CD
2 55 (30.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (24.31%) Agile
4 40 (22.10%) DevOps
5 35 (19.34%) Software Engineering
6 29 (16.02%) TDD
7 28 (15.47%) Microservices
8 24 (13.26%) Containerisation
9 21 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (10.50%) Mentoring
11 18 (9.94%) Scrum
12 17 (9.39%) Clean Code
12 17 (9.39%) SDLC
13 13 (7.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 13 (7.18%) Fintech
14 12 (6.63%) AI
14 12 (6.63%) Design Patterns
14 12 (6.63%) Test Automation
15 11 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (6.08%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 181 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (18.23%) SQL
3 23 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 18 (9.94%) TypeScript
5 17 (9.39%) Python
6 13 (7.18%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.42%) Go
8 7 (3.87%) Bash
9 6 (3.31%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.76%) C#
11 3 (1.66%) Scala
11 3 (1.66%) Tcl
12 2 (1.10%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 47 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.87%) Degree
4 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.66%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 39 (21.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (18.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.29%) Terraform
3 7 (3.87%) Ansible
4 2 (1.10%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (7.18%) Oracle
2 5 (2.76%) IBM
3 3 (1.66%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.66%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.66%) Revolut
3 3 (1.66%) Splunk
3 3 (1.66%) Sybase
3 3 (1.66%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.55%) Cognos
5 1 (0.55%) Veracode
5 1 (0.55%) VMware