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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 248 248
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 158 157 412
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.16% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.27% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 143 126 346
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £138,956
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -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 16,841 12,392 31,156
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 91.74% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,152 9,073 24,954
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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.

1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (40.51%) Spring
3 63 (39.87%) AWS
4 58 (36.71%) Spring Boot
5 46 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 45 (28.48%) CI/CD
7 39 (24.68%) Security Cleared
8 36 (22.78%) Agile
8 36 (22.78%) DevOps
9 34 (21.52%) Software Engineering
10 32 (20.25%) Docker
10 32 (20.25%) SC Cleared
11 28 (17.72%) SQL
12 27 (17.09%) Serverless
13 25 (15.82%) Node.js
13 25 (15.82%) React
14 24 (15.19%) Git
14 24 (15.19%) Kubernetes
15 23 (14.56%) JavaScript
15 23 (14.56%) NoSQL
16 21 (13.29%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (13.29%) Microservices
17 20 (12.66%) REST
18 19 (12.03%) Amazon S3
19 18 (11.39%) AngularJS
20 17 (10.76%) Jenkins
20 17 (10.76%) Python
20 17 (10.76%) TDD
20 17 (10.76%) TypeScript
21 16 (10.13%) Containerisation

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 (2.53%) JBoss
2 3 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.63%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 63 (39.87%) AWS
2 27 (17.09%) Serverless
3 21 (13.29%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (12.03%) Amazon S3
5 15 (9.49%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.96%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (6.96%) GitHub
6 11 (6.96%) SaaS
7 9 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (5.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.06%) Azure
9 5 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.90%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.90%) Stripe
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (1.27%) Apigee
12 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.90%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.56%) NoSQL
2 13 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.96%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (15.19%) Git
2 17 (10.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.43%) Maven
4 5 (3.16%) JUnit
5 4 (2.53%) GitLab
6 3 (1.90%) Gradle
6 3 (1.90%) JIRA
6 3 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.63%) git-flow
8 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.63%) jMock
8 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 30 (18.99%) Finance
2 14 (8.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.33%) Front Office
4 9 (5.70%) Health Technology
4 9 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.06%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.43%) Aviation
6 7 (4.43%) Games
7 2 (1.27%) Advertising
7 2 (1.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.63%) iGaming
8 1 (0.63%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (40.51%) Spring
2 58 (36.71%) Spring Boot
3 25 (15.82%) Node.js
3 25 (15.82%) React
4 20 (12.66%) REST
5 18 (11.39%) AngularJS
6 14 (8.86%) Kafka
7 9 (5.70%) GraphQL
7 9 (5.70%) React Native
8 8 (5.06%) Hibernate
8 8 (5.06%) Redux
9 7 (4.43%) JSON
9 7 (4.43%) Web Services
10 6 (3.80%) JPA
10 6 (3.80%) SOAP
10 6 (3.80%) XML
11 5 (3.16%) J2EE
11 5 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.16%) RESTful
12 4 (2.53%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.70%) Cloud Native
1 9 (5.70%) Fixed Income
2 8 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.80%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.90%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.80%) Android
1 6 (3.80%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 45 (28.48%) CI/CD
3 36 (22.78%) Agile
3 36 (22.78%) DevOps
4 34 (21.52%) Software Engineering
5 21 (13.29%) Microservices
6 17 (10.76%) TDD
7 16 (10.13%) Containerisation
7 16 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (8.86%) Fintech
9 12 (7.59%) Mentoring
10 11 (6.96%) Scrum
10 11 (6.96%) SDLC
11 10 (6.33%) Clean Code
11 10 (6.33%) Design Patterns
11 10 (6.33%) DevSecOps
12 9 (5.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 9 (5.70%) Front End Development
12 9 (5.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (5.06%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (17.72%) SQL
3 23 (14.56%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.76%) Python
4 17 (10.76%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.96%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.06%) Go
7 4 (2.53%) C#
8 2 (1.27%) Bash
8 2 (1.27%) Groovy
9 1 (0.63%) Korn
9 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.16%) Degree
5 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 32 (20.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.49%) Terraform
3 10 (6.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (2.53%) Oracle
2 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.90%) Revolut
3 2 (1.27%) IBM
4 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.63%) Cognos
4 1 (0.63%) Google
4 1 (0.63%) Mercator
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.63%) Veracode
4 1 (0.63%) VMware