Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 272 298
Rank change year-on-year -25 +26 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 156 153 248
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 0.93% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.01% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 128 127 204
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -25.00% +16.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £140,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year -3.45% -4.92% -4.69%

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 20,592 15,159 25,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.10% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,903 9,397 19,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,584 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 29 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 29 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.

1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (39.10%) AWS
2 61 (39.10%) Spring
3 49 (31.41%) CI/CD
3 49 (31.41%) Spring Boot
4 46 (29.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (27.56%) Agile
6 42 (26.92%) Security Cleared
7 39 (25.00%) Docker
8 37 (23.72%) SC Cleared
9 31 (19.87%) Kubernetes
10 30 (19.23%) DevOps
10 30 (19.23%) React
10 30 (19.23%) TDD
11 29 (18.59%) SQL
12 28 (17.95%) Software Engineering
13 27 (17.31%) Microservices
13 27 (17.31%) Serverless
14 24 (15.38%) JavaScript
15 23 (14.74%) Containerisation
16 22 (14.10%) AngularJS
17 21 (13.46%) Scrum
18 19 (12.18%) Azure
18 19 (12.18%) Clean Code
18 19 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (12.18%) Kafka
18 19 (12.18%) Node.js
19 18 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
19 18 (11.54%) Git
19 18 (11.54%) REST

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 5 (3.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.92%) JBoss
3 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (39.10%) AWS
2 27 (17.31%) Serverless
3 19 (12.18%) Azure
4 18 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.05%) GitHub
7 10 (6.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.21%) GCP
12 4 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.92%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.92%) SaaS
14 2 (1.28%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.92%) AMQP
1 3 (1.92%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.77%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.56%) MySQL
7 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.54%) Git
2 15 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.33%) JUnit
4 11 (7.05%) Maven
5 8 (5.13%) JIRA
5 8 (5.13%) Mockito
6 3 (1.92%) GitLab
6 3 (1.92%) Postman
6 3 (1.92%) Selenium
7 2 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.28%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.28%) Subversion
8 1 (0.64%) git-flow
8 1 (0.64%) Gradle
8 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 32 (20.51%) Finance
2 12 (7.69%) Front Office
2 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.41%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.49%) Aviation
5 6 (3.85%) Tech for Good
6 5 (3.21%) Banking
6 5 (3.21%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.28%) Advertising
7 2 (1.28%) Games
7 2 (1.28%) Marketing
7 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.64%) iGaming
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (39.10%) Spring
2 49 (31.41%) Spring Boot
3 30 (19.23%) React
4 22 (14.10%) AngularJS
5 19 (12.18%) Kafka
5 19 (12.18%) Node.js
6 18 (11.54%) REST
7 11 (7.05%) RESTful
8 9 (5.77%) JPA
9 8 (5.13%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.13%) Redux
10 7 (4.49%) Jakarta EE
11 6 (3.85%) Spring MVC
12 5 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.56%) Hibernate
13 4 (2.56%) Web Services
14 3 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
14 3 (1.92%) HTML
14 3 (1.92%) OAuth2
14 3 (1.92%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.77%) Fixed Income
2 6 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.21%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.92%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.92%) Equities
6 1 (0.64%) NHS
6 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.64%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.41%) CI/CD
2 46 (29.49%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (27.56%) Agile
4 30 (19.23%) DevOps
4 30 (19.23%) TDD
5 28 (17.95%) Software Engineering
6 27 (17.31%) Microservices
7 23 (14.74%) Containerisation
8 21 (13.46%) Scrum
9 19 (12.18%) Clean Code
9 19 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (11.54%) SDLC
11 16 (10.26%) Mentoring
12 14 (8.97%) AI
13 11 (7.05%) Design Patterns
13 11 (7.05%) Test Automation
14 10 (6.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 10 (6.41%) Sprint Planning
15 9 (5.77%) MVC
15 9 (5.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (18.59%) SQL
3 24 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.90%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.26%) Python
6 11 (7.05%) Kotlin
7 10 (6.41%) Bash
8 9 (5.77%) PL/SQL
9 8 (5.13%) Go
10 5 (3.21%) C#
11 3 (1.92%) Scala
11 3 (1.92%) Tcl
12 2 (1.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.49%) Degree
4 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.21%) QA
2 2 (1.28%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 39 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (19.87%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.33%) Terraform
3 6 (3.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (10.26%) Oracle
2 4 (2.56%) IBM
3 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.92%) Splunk
3 3 (1.92%) Sybase
3 3 (1.92%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.28%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.28%) Revolut
5 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics