Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 295 310
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 -169
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 138 123 194
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.81% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 105 96 146
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -35.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% 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 23,103 15,176 22,108
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 92.79% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,128 8,958 13,965
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 24 September 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 24 September 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.

1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (47.10%) Spring
3 59 (42.75%) AWS
4 51 (36.96%) Spring Boot
5 48 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 48 (34.78%) Docker
6 38 (27.54%) SQL
7 36 (26.09%) Agile
8 32 (23.19%) Security Cleared
9 31 (22.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (22.46%) Microservices
9 31 (22.46%) SC Cleared
10 29 (21.01%) Kubernetes
11 27 (19.57%) DevOps
11 27 (19.57%) TDD
12 24 (17.39%) Serverless
13 23 (16.67%) AngularJS
13 23 (16.67%) Azure
13 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
14 22 (15.94%) React
15 21 (15.22%) Clean Code
15 21 (15.22%) Scrum
16 20 (14.49%) Terraform
17 19 (13.77%) Mentoring
17 19 (13.77%) REST
18 18 (13.04%) Software Engineering
19 17 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
19 17 (12.32%) Git
19 17 (12.32%) JavaScript
19 17 (12.32%) JUnit

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 (5.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.72%) JBoss
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 59 (42.75%) AWS
2 24 (17.39%) Serverless
3 23 (16.67%) Azure
4 17 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (10.87%) GitHub
6 14 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (9.42%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (7.97%) SaaS
10 9 (6.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (5.80%) GCP
12 7 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (2.90%) Datadog
16 3 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (2.17%) Anthropic Claude
16 3 (2.17%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) AMQP
1 10 (7.25%) SMS
2 1 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.97%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.17%) MySQL
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (12.32%) Git
1 17 (12.32%) JUnit
2 15 (10.87%) Maven
3 13 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.42%) Mockito
4 7 (5.07%) JIRA
5 3 (2.17%) Claude Code
5 3 (2.17%) GitLab
5 3 (2.17%) Postman
5 3 (2.17%) Selenium
6 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.45%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.45%) Subversion
7 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 32 (23.19%) Finance
2 17 (12.32%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.14%) Tech for Good
4 12 (8.70%) Health Technology
5 11 (7.97%) Banking
6 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.35%) Front Office
8 5 (3.62%) Aviation
9 3 (2.17%) Back Office
9 3 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (47.10%) Spring
2 51 (36.96%) Spring Boot
3 23 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 22 (15.94%) React
5 20 (14.49%) Terraform
6 19 (13.77%) REST
7 15 (10.87%) JPA
8 12 (8.70%) Kafka
9 11 (7.97%) Node.js
9 11 (7.97%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (7.25%) OAuth
10 10 (7.25%) OAuth2
10 10 (7.25%) OpenID
10 10 (7.25%) RESTful
10 10 (7.25%) Spring Security
10 10 (7.25%) Thymeleaf
11 6 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
12 5 (3.62%) Spring MVC
13 4 (2.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.07%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.35%) Equities
4 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.17%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.17%) Derivative
5 3 (2.17%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.78%) CI/CD
2 36 (26.09%) Agile
3 31 (22.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (22.46%) Microservices
4 27 (19.57%) DevOps
4 27 (19.57%) TDD
5 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 21 (15.22%) Clean Code
6 21 (15.22%) Scrum
7 19 (13.77%) Mentoring
8 18 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 17 (12.32%) SDLC
10 16 (11.59%) AI
10 16 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.87%) MVC
12 12 (8.70%) Design Patterns
12 12 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (7.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 10 (7.25%) Technical Architecture
14 10 (7.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (27.54%) SQL
3 17 (12.32%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.42%) Kotlin
5 12 (8.70%) Bash
5 12 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 10 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.52%) Python
8 6 (4.35%) C#
9 3 (2.17%) Scala
9 3 (2.17%) Tcl
10 2 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (1.45%) Ruby
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.35%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.70%) QA
2 2 (1.45%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 48 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (21.01%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.42%) Ansible
3 2 (1.45%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.32%) Oracle
2 4 (2.90%) IBM
3 3 (2.17%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.17%) Splunk
3 3 (2.17%) Sybase
3 3 (2.17%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft