Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 273 279
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 -121
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 180 157 353
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 1.08% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.17% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 159 129 293
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -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 18,018 13,413 31,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 91.98% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 13,264 8,251 25,151
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,127
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 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 28 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 28 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 75 (41.67%) Spring
3 72 (40.00%) AWS
4 63 (35.00%) Spring Boot
5 60 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 55 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (26.11%) Security Cleared
8 44 (24.44%) Agile
9 42 (23.33%) DevOps
9 42 (23.33%) Docker
10 40 (22.22%) SC Cleared
11 35 (19.44%) Serverless
12 34 (18.89%) Kubernetes
12 34 (18.89%) Software Engineering
12 34 (18.89%) SQL
13 29 (16.11%) Microservices
13 29 (16.11%) React
13 29 (16.11%) TDD
14 28 (15.56%) JavaScript
15 26 (14.44%) Node.js
16 24 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (13.33%) Git
16 24 (13.33%) NoSQL
17 23 (12.78%) Containerisation
18 22 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (12.22%) REST
19 21 (11.67%) AngularJS
20 20 (11.11%) Amazon S3
20 20 (11.11%) Mentoring
20 20 (11.11%) Scrum

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 (2.22%) JBoss
2 3 (1.67%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.56%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.00%) AWS
2 35 (19.44%) Serverless
3 24 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 17 (9.44%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (8.33%) Azure
7 13 (7.22%) AWS Step Functions
7 13 (7.22%) GitHub
8 12 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (6.11%) SaaS
10 10 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.67%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.67%) Stripe
14 2 (1.11%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 13 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.67%) MySQL
7 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (13.33%) Git
2 19 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.11%) JUnit
3 11 (6.11%) Maven
4 5 (2.78%) GitLab
4 5 (2.78%) JIRA
4 5 (2.78%) Mockito
5 3 (1.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.11%) Gradle
6 2 (1.11%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.56%) git-flow
7 1 (0.56%) jMock
7 1 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
7 1 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 33 (18.33%) Finance
2 14 (7.78%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.56%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.00%) Front Office
5 9 (5.00%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.44%) Aviation
7 4 (2.22%) Games
8 2 (1.11%) Advertising
8 2 (1.11%) Banking
8 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.56%) iGaming
9 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (41.67%) Spring
2 63 (35.00%) Spring Boot
3 29 (16.11%) React
4 26 (14.44%) Node.js
5 22 (12.22%) REST
6 21 (11.67%) AngularJS
7 15 (8.33%) Kafka
8 10 (5.56%) RESTful
9 8 (4.44%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.44%) React Native
9 8 (4.44%) Redux
10 7 (3.89%) JPA
10 7 (3.89%) Web Services
11 6 (3.33%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.33%) JSON
11 6 (3.33%) SOAP
11 6 (3.33%) XML
12 5 (2.78%) J2EE
12 5 (2.78%) Spring MVC
13 4 (2.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 9 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 8 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.44%) Linux
2 6 (3.33%) Android
2 6 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 55 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (24.44%) Agile
4 42 (23.33%) DevOps
5 34 (18.89%) Software Engineering
6 29 (16.11%) Microservices
6 29 (16.11%) TDD
7 23 (12.78%) Containerisation
8 22 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 20 (11.11%) Scrum
10 16 (8.89%) Clean Code
11 15 (8.33%) SDLC
12 13 (7.22%) Fintech
12 13 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (7.22%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (6.67%) Test Automation
14 11 (6.11%) AI
14 11 (6.11%) Design Patterns
14 11 (6.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (18.89%) SQL
3 28 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 18 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.89%) Python
6 12 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.44%) Go
8 7 (3.89%) Bash
9 6 (3.33%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.22%) C#
11 2 (1.11%) Groovy
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (26.11%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.78%) Degree
5 3 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.67%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 42 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (18.89%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.00%) Terraform
3 11 (6.11%) Ansible
4 2 (1.11%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (6.11%) Oracle
2 3 (1.67%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.67%) Revolut
3 2 (1.11%) IBM
4 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.56%) Cognos
4 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.56%) Splunk
4 1 (0.56%) Veracode
4 1 (0.56%) VMware