Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 271 303
Rank change year-on-year +3 +32 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 172 159 311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 0.96% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.04% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 145 130 261
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -20.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £120,625 £125,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £146,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 20,074 15,237 30,562
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.31% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14,571 9,480 23,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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.

1 172 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (37.79%) Spring
3 61 (35.47%) AWS
4 55 (31.98%) Spring Boot
5 52 (30.23%) CI/CD
6 48 (27.91%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (26.16%) Security Cleared
8 43 (25.00%) Agile
9 39 (22.67%) SC Cleared
10 38 (22.09%) Docker
11 35 (20.35%) DevOps
12 32 (18.60%) Software Engineering
13 31 (18.02%) Kubernetes
14 30 (17.44%) Serverless
14 30 (17.44%) SQL
15 29 (16.86%) TDD
16 28 (16.28%) React
17 26 (15.12%) Microservices
18 22 (12.79%) AngularJS
18 22 (12.79%) Containerisation
18 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
19 21 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
19 21 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
19 21 (12.21%) Git
19 21 (12.21%) Node.js
20 20 (11.63%) Kafka
20 20 (11.63%) REST
21 18 (10.47%) Scrum
22 17 (9.88%) Clean Code
22 17 (9.88%) Python

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 (2.33%) JBoss
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (35.47%) AWS
2 30 (17.44%) Serverless
3 21 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (9.30%) Azure
5 15 (8.72%) Amazon S3
6 13 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (6.98%) GitHub
8 11 (6.40%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.91%) GCP
12 5 (2.91%) SaaS
13 4 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.74%) ChatGPT
14 3 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.74%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) AMQP
2 1 (0.58%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.30%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.81%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.33%) MySQL
7 3 (1.74%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (12.21%) Git
2 16 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.40%) JUnit
4 10 (5.81%) Maven
5 9 (5.23%) JIRA
6 5 (2.91%) Mockito
7 4 (2.33%) GitLab
8 3 (1.74%) Postman
8 3 (1.74%) Selenium
8 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.16%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.16%) Gradle
9 2 (1.16%) Subversion
10 1 (0.58%) git-flow
10 1 (0.58%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 31 (18.02%) Finance
2 16 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.98%) Front Office
4 9 (5.23%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.65%) Aviation
6 6 (3.49%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.49%) Tech for Good
7 5 (2.91%) Banking
8 2 (1.16%) Advertising
8 2 (1.16%) Games
8 2 (1.16%) Marketing
8 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.58%) iGaming
9 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (37.79%) Spring
2 55 (31.98%) Spring Boot
3 28 (16.28%) React
4 22 (12.79%) AngularJS
5 21 (12.21%) Node.js
6 20 (11.63%) Kafka
6 20 (11.63%) REST
7 13 (7.56%) RESTful
8 9 (5.23%) JPA
9 8 (4.65%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.65%) Redux
10 7 (4.07%) J2EE
10 7 (4.07%) Spring MVC
11 6 (3.49%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.91%) Web Services
13 4 (2.33%) OpenAPI
13 4 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.33%) SOAP
13 4 (2.33%) Swagger
14 3 (1.74%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.23%) Fixed Income
2 7 (4.07%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.74%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.74%) Equities
6 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Android
2 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.23%) CI/CD
2 48 (27.91%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (25.00%) Agile
4 35 (20.35%) DevOps
5 32 (18.60%) Software Engineering
6 29 (16.86%) TDD
7 26 (15.12%) Microservices
8 22 (12.79%) Containerisation
9 21 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (10.47%) Scrum
11 17 (9.88%) Clean Code
11 17 (9.88%) SDLC
12 15 (8.72%) Mentoring
13 13 (7.56%) Design Patterns
14 12 (6.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 12 (6.98%) Test Automation
15 11 (6.40%) AI
15 11 (6.40%) Fintech
16 9 (5.23%) DevSecOps
16 9 (5.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 172 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (17.44%) SQL
3 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.88%) Python
4 17 (9.88%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.98%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.65%) Go
7 7 (4.07%) Bash
8 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.91%) C#
10 3 (1.74%) Scala
10 3 (1.74%) Tcl
11 2 (1.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 45 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.07%) Degree
4 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.33%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 38 (22.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (18.02%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.98%) Terraform
3 5 (2.91%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (7.56%) Oracle
2 5 (2.91%) IBM
3 3 (1.74%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.74%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.74%) Revolut
3 3 (1.74%) Splunk
3 3 (1.74%) Sybase
3 3 (1.74%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.58%) Cognos
5 1 (0.58%) Veracode
5 1 (0.58%) VMware