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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 271 303
Rank change year-on-year +28 +32 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 183 160 344
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.06% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.15% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 158 131 282
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% -21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £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 18,542 13,914 32,971
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 91.99% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13,523 8,567 25,882
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
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 £78,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 12 June 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 12 June 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.

1 183 (100.00%) Java
2 70 (38.25%) Spring
3 67 (36.61%) AWS
4 58 (31.69%) Spring Boot
5 57 (31.15%) CI/CD
5 57 (31.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 47 (25.68%) Security Cleared
7 42 (22.95%) Agile
7 42 (22.95%) DevOps
8 40 (21.86%) SC Cleared
9 37 (20.22%) Docker
10 34 (18.58%) Software Engineering
11 33 (18.03%) SQL
12 32 (17.49%) Serverless
13 30 (16.39%) React
14 29 (15.85%) Kubernetes
15 28 (15.30%) TDD
16 26 (14.21%) Microservices
17 24 (13.11%) AngularJS
17 24 (13.11%) JavaScript
17 24 (13.11%) Node.js
18 23 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
19 22 (12.02%) Git
20 21 (11.48%) Containerisation
21 20 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
21 20 (10.93%) Mentoring
21 20 (10.93%) REST
22 19 (10.38%) Amazon S3
22 19 (10.38%) NoSQL
22 19 (10.38%) TypeScript

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 (2.19%) JBoss
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 67 (36.61%) AWS
2 32 (17.49%) Serverless
3 23 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (10.38%) Amazon S3
5 16 (8.74%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (7.65%) AWS Step Functions
6 14 (7.65%) Azure
7 13 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.10%) GitHub
8 11 (6.01%) SaaS
9 10 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.64%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.64%) Apigee
11 3 (1.64%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.64%) Stripe
12 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.38%) NoSQL
2 13 (7.10%) DynamoDB
3 11 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.19%) MySQL
7 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (12.02%) Git
2 18 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.56%) Maven
4 10 (5.46%) JUnit
5 7 (3.83%) JIRA
6 6 (3.28%) GitLab
7 5 (2.73%) Mockito
8 4 (2.19%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.64%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.09%) Gradle
11 1 (0.55%) git-flow
11 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.55%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.55%) Postman
11 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 32 (17.49%) Finance
2 15 (8.20%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.65%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.01%) Health Technology
5 10 (5.46%) Front Office
5 10 (5.46%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.37%) Aviation
7 4 (2.19%) Banking
7 4 (2.19%) Games
8 2 (1.09%) Advertising
8 2 (1.09%) Marketing
8 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.55%) iGaming
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (38.25%) Spring
2 58 (31.69%) Spring Boot
3 30 (16.39%) React
4 24 (13.11%) AngularJS
4 24 (13.11%) Node.js
5 20 (10.93%) REST
6 13 (7.10%) Kafka
7 9 (4.92%) RESTful
8 8 (4.37%) GraphQL
8 8 (4.37%) React Native
8 8 (4.37%) Redux
9 7 (3.83%) JPA
10 6 (3.28%) Hibernate
10 6 (3.28%) J2EE
10 6 (3.28%) SOAP
11 5 (2.73%) Spring MVC
12 4 (2.19%) HTML
12 4 (2.19%) JSON
12 4 (2.19%) Web Services
12 4 (2.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.92%) Fixed Income
2 7 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.55%) Equities
7 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.92%) Linux
2 6 (3.28%) Android
2 6 (3.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.15%) CI/CD
1 57 (31.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (22.95%) Agile
2 42 (22.95%) DevOps
3 34 (18.58%) Software Engineering
4 28 (15.30%) TDD
5 26 (14.21%) Microservices
6 21 (11.48%) Containerisation
7 20 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (10.93%) Mentoring
8 18 (9.84%) Scrum
9 17 (9.29%) Clean Code
10 16 (8.74%) SDLC
11 13 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.10%) Sprint Planning
12 12 (6.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 12 (6.56%) Fintech
12 12 (6.56%) Test Automation
13 11 (6.01%) DevSecOps
14 10 (5.46%) AI
Programming Languages
1 183 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (18.03%) SQL
3 24 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.38%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.20%) Python
6 12 (6.56%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.37%) Bash
7 8 (4.37%) Go
8 6 (3.28%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.73%) C#
10 3 (1.64%) Groovy
11 1 (0.55%) Scala
11 1 (0.55%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 47 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.73%) Degree
5 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.64%) QA
2 2 (1.09%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 37 (20.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.29%) Terraform
3 9 (4.92%) Ansible
4 3 (1.64%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (6.01%) Oracle
2 3 (1.64%) IBM
2 3 (1.64%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.64%) Revolut
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.55%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.55%) Cognos
4 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.55%) Splunk
4 1 (0.55%) Sybase
4 1 (0.55%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.55%) Veracode
4 1 (0.55%) VMware