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 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 300 149
Rank change year-on-year +9 -151 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 85 137 471
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.82% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.86% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 67 90 406
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,750 £50,968
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,563 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -20.31% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £128,750 £131,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -3.13%

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 14,199 16,000 20,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 96.14% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,188 9,719 16,436
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,344 £46,250 £45,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +2.01% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,288 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 85 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (54.12%) AWS
3 37 (43.53%) Spring
4 35 (41.18%) Spring Boot
5 31 (36.47%) Agile
6 28 (32.94%) CI/CD
6 28 (32.94%) Docker
7 23 (27.06%) DevOps
8 22 (25.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (23.53%) JavaScript
10 19 (22.35%) Microservices
11 17 (20.00%) Kubernetes
11 17 (20.00%) React
12 15 (17.65%) Git
12 15 (17.65%) NoSQL
12 15 (17.65%) TDD
13 14 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (16.47%) Python
13 14 (16.47%) Serverless
13 14 (16.47%) SQL
14 13 (15.29%) Software Engineering
15 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (14.12%) Jenkins
15 12 (14.12%) Terraform
16 11 (12.94%) Scrum
17 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (11.76%) Node.js
17 10 (11.76%) REST
18 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
18 9 (10.59%) Azure

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 3 (3.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.18%) JBoss
2 1 (1.18%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.12%) AWS
2 14 (16.47%) Serverless
3 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
4 9 (10.59%) Azure
5 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (7.06%) SaaS
7 5 (5.88%) GCP
8 4 (4.71%) GitHub
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.53%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.18%) Apigee
11 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) AMQP
1 2 (2.35%) SSH
2 1 (1.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 14 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.24%) MongoDB
3 7 (8.24%) Relational Database
4 6 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.71%) MySQL
6 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.18%) KDB
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.18%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Git
2 12 (14.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.53%) GitLab
3 3 (3.53%) JUnit
3 3 (3.53%) Mockito
4 2 (2.35%) Babel
4 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.35%) Maven
4 2 (2.35%) webpack
5 1 (1.18%) Gradle
5 1 (1.18%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.18%) jMock
5 1 (1.18%) MLflow
5 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.94%) Finance
3 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.88%) Games
3 5 (5.88%) Health Technology
3 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.53%) Front Office
4 3 (3.53%) Retail
4 3 (3.53%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (43.53%) Spring
2 35 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 17 (20.00%) React
4 10 (11.76%) Node.js
4 10 (11.76%) REST
5 9 (10.59%) Kafka
6 7 (8.24%) Hibernate
7 6 (7.06%) AngularJS
7 6 (7.06%) CSS
7 6 (7.06%) HTML
7 6 (7.06%) RESTful
8 5 (5.88%) Web Services
9 4 (4.71%) Java Concurrency
9 4 (4.71%) JSON
9 4 (4.71%) React Native
10 3 (3.53%) CSS3
10 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.53%) HTML5
10 3 (3.53%) XML
11 2 (2.35%) Grails
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.06%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.71%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.35%) Derivative
6 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.35%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.18%) Equities
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Android
2 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.47%) Agile
2 28 (32.94%) CI/CD
3 23 (27.06%) DevOps
4 22 (25.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (22.35%) Microservices
6 15 (17.65%) TDD
7 13 (15.29%) Software Engineering
8 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.94%) Scrum
10 9 (10.59%) Containerisation
11 8 (9.41%) BDD
11 8 (9.41%) Code Quality
11 8 (9.41%) Front End Development
11 8 (9.41%) Mentoring
12 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (8.24%) User Experience
13 6 (7.06%) AI
13 6 (7.06%) Fintech
13 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (7.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.47%) Python
3 14 (16.47%) SQL
4 9 (10.59%) Kotlin
5 8 (9.41%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.88%) Scala
7 4 (4.71%) Go
8 3 (3.53%) C#
9 2 (2.35%) Groovy
9 2 (2.35%) R
9 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.18%) Bash
10 1 (1.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) Degree
3 4 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.53%) PhD
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.12%) Terraform
3 7 (8.24%) Ansible
4 1 (1.18%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (5.88%) Mercator
2 2 (2.35%) Google
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle
3 1 (1.18%) Pega
3 1 (1.18%) WSO2