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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 292 293
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 155 152 238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 0.92% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.00% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 126 126 196
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -26.39% +16.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £165,000
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 20,891 15,233 25,032
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 92.11% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15,095 9,453 18,639
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £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 £76,250
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 1 August 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 1 August 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.

1 155 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (40.65%) AWS
2 63 (40.65%) Spring
3 51 (32.90%) CI/CD
4 50 (32.26%) Spring Boot
5 45 (29.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (28.39%) Agile
7 41 (26.45%) Security Cleared
8 40 (25.81%) Docker
9 37 (23.87%) SC Cleared
10 32 (20.65%) Kubernetes
10 32 (20.65%) TDD
11 31 (20.00%) React
12 30 (19.35%) DevOps
13 29 (18.71%) Microservices
13 29 (18.71%) SQL
14 28 (18.06%) Software Engineering
15 27 (17.42%) Serverless
16 26 (16.77%) JavaScript
17 24 (15.48%) Containerisation
18 22 (14.19%) AngularJS
18 22 (14.19%) Scrum
19 21 (13.55%) Azure
20 20 (12.90%) Kafka
20 20 (12.90%) SDLC
21 19 (12.26%) Clean Code
21 19 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
21 19 (12.26%) Node.js
21 19 (12.26%) REST
22 18 (11.61%) AWS Lambda

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 6 (3.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.94%) JBoss
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.65%) AWS
2 27 (17.42%) Serverless
3 21 (13.55%) Azure
4 18 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.74%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (7.74%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.10%) GitHub
7 10 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.87%) GCP
11 4 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.94%) ChatGPT
12 3 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.94%) SaaS
13 2 (1.29%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) AMQP
1 3 (1.94%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.39%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.81%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.58%) MySQL
7 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.94%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.61%) Git
2 15 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.68%) JUnit
3 12 (7.74%) Maven
4 10 (6.45%) Mockito
5 8 (5.16%) JIRA
6 3 (1.94%) GitLab
6 3 (1.94%) Postman
6 3 (1.94%) Selenium
7 2 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.29%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.29%) Subversion
8 1 (0.65%) git-flow
8 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 34 (21.94%) Finance
2 12 (7.74%) Front Office
2 12 (7.74%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.87%) Aviation
4 6 (3.87%) Tech for Good
5 5 (3.23%) Banking
5 5 (3.23%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.29%) Advertising
6 2 (1.29%) Games
6 2 (1.29%) Marketing
6 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.65%) Back Office
7 1 (0.65%) iGaming
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.65%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (40.65%) Spring
2 50 (32.26%) Spring Boot
3 31 (20.00%) React
4 22 (14.19%) AngularJS
5 20 (12.90%) Kafka
6 19 (12.26%) Node.js
6 19 (12.26%) REST
7 11 (7.10%) RESTful
8 9 (5.81%) JPA
9 8 (5.16%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.16%) Redux
10 7 (4.52%) Jakarta EE
11 5 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.23%) Spring MVC
12 4 (2.58%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (2.58%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.58%) Web Services
13 3 (1.94%) HTML
13 3 (1.94%) OAuth
13 3 (1.94%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.81%) Fixed Income
2 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.94%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.94%) Equities
7 2 (1.29%) NHS
8 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.90%) CI/CD
2 45 (29.03%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (28.39%) Agile
4 32 (20.65%) TDD
5 30 (19.35%) DevOps
6 29 (18.71%) Microservices
7 28 (18.06%) Software Engineering
8 24 (15.48%) Containerisation
9 22 (14.19%) Scrum
10 20 (12.90%) SDLC
11 19 (12.26%) Clean Code
11 19 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (11.61%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.68%) AI
14 12 (7.74%) Design Patterns
15 11 (7.10%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (7.10%) Test Automation
16 9 (5.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 9 (5.81%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (5.81%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 155 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (18.71%) SQL
3 26 (16.77%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.97%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.32%) Python
6 11 (7.10%) Bash
6 11 (7.10%) Kotlin
7 10 (6.45%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.16%) Go
9 5 (3.23%) C#
10 3 (1.94%) Scala
10 3 (1.94%) Tcl
11 2 (1.29%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (26.45%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.52%) Degree
4 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.23%) QA
2 2 (1.29%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 40 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (20.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.03%) Terraform
3 6 (3.87%) Ansible
4 2 (1.29%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (10.97%) Oracle
2 4 (2.58%) IBM
3 3 (1.94%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.94%) Splunk
3 3 (1.94%) Sybase
3 3 (1.94%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.29%) Revolut
5 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics