Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 288 308
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 145 134 211
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.81% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.88% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 114 108 171
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,063 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -35.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -9.38% -

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 21,922 15,283 23,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.60% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,617 9,338 16,216
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 29 August 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 29 August 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.

1 145 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (46.21%) Spring
3 62 (42.76%) AWS
4 53 (36.55%) CI/CD
5 52 (35.86%) Spring Boot
6 46 (31.72%) Docker
7 41 (28.28%) Agile
8 37 (25.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (24.83%) Security Cleared
9 36 (24.83%) SQL
10 34 (23.45%) SC Cleared
10 34 (23.45%) TDD
11 31 (21.38%) Kubernetes
12 30 (20.69%) DevOps
12 30 (20.69%) Microservices
13 27 (18.62%) Serverless
14 26 (17.93%) React
15 25 (17.24%) AngularJS
16 24 (16.55%) Containerisation
17 23 (15.86%) Azure
17 23 (15.86%) Clean Code
17 23 (15.86%) Scrum
18 21 (14.48%) JavaScript
18 21 (14.48%) SDLC
18 21 (14.48%) Software Engineering
19 19 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (13.10%) Git
19 19 (13.10%) Mentoring
20 18 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 18 (12.41%) Linux

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 7 (4.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.69%) JBoss
2 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.76%) AWS
2 27 (18.62%) Serverless
3 23 (15.86%) Azure
4 19 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (9.66%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
6 13 (8.97%) GitHub
7 12 (8.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (5.52%) SaaS
11 7 (4.83%) GCP
12 6 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.07%) ChatGPT
14 3 (2.07%) Datadog
15 2 (1.38%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) AMQP
1 7 (4.83%) SMS
2 1 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.59%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.52%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.76%) MySQL
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) Git
2 17 (11.72%) JUnit
3 14 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.66%) Maven
4 12 (8.28%) Mockito
5 8 (5.52%) JIRA
6 3 (2.07%) GitLab
6 3 (2.07%) Postman
6 3 (2.07%) Selenium
7 2 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.38%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.38%) Subversion
8 1 (0.69%) git-flow
8 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 30 (20.69%) Finance
2 15 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.59%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.59%) Tech for Good
4 9 (6.21%) Health Technology
5 8 (5.52%) Banking
6 6 (4.14%) Aviation
6 6 (4.14%) Front Office
7 2 (1.38%) Advertising
7 2 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Back Office
7 2 (1.38%) Marketing
7 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.38%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.69%) Games
8 1 (0.69%) iGaming
8 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (46.21%) Spring
2 52 (35.86%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.93%) React
4 25 (17.24%) AngularJS
5 18 (12.41%) REST
5 18 (12.41%) Terraform
6 15 (10.34%) Node.js
7 14 (9.66%) Kafka
8 13 (8.97%) JPA
9 11 (7.59%) RESTful
10 9 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.83%) Jakarta EE
11 7 (4.83%) OAuth
11 7 (4.83%) OAuth2
11 7 (4.83%) OpenID
11 7 (4.83%) Spring Security
11 7 (4.83%) Thymeleaf
12 5 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (3.45%) Spring MVC
13 4 (2.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.76%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.07%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.07%) Equities
4 3 (2.07%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.07%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.55%) CI/CD
2 41 (28.28%) Agile
3 37 (25.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (23.45%) TDD
5 30 (20.69%) DevOps
5 30 (20.69%) Microservices
6 24 (16.55%) Containerisation
7 23 (15.86%) Clean Code
7 23 (15.86%) Scrum
8 21 (14.48%) SDLC
8 21 (14.48%) Software Engineering
9 19 (13.10%) Mentoring
10 18 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (11.03%) AI
12 12 (8.28%) Design Patterns
12 12 (8.28%) MVC
12 12 (8.28%) Sprint Planning
13 10 (6.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 10 (6.90%) LLM
13 10 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 145 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (24.83%) SQL
3 21 (14.48%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.66%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.97%) Kotlin
6 12 (8.28%) Bash
7 11 (7.59%) PL/SQL
8 9 (6.21%) Python
9 7 (4.83%) C#
10 3 (2.07%) Scala
10 3 (2.07%) Tcl
11 2 (1.38%) Go
11 2 (1.38%) Groovy
11 2 (1.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.83%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 46 (31.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (21.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (1.38%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (11.72%) Oracle
2 4 (2.76%) IBM
3 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.07%) Splunk
3 3 (2.07%) Sybase
3 3 (2.07%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics