Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 287 203
Rank change year-on-year +36 -84 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 136 127 473
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 0.91% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.96% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 121 93 395
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £148,750 £132,500
UK median annual salary £71,750 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% +6.67% -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 15,600 13,229 28,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 94.82% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,490 8,940 23,930
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £33,114
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 11 March 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 11 March 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.

1 136 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (48.53%) AWS
3 56 (41.18%) Spring
4 54 (39.71%) Spring Boot
5 46 (33.82%) CI/CD
6 45 (33.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (27.94%) Agile
7 38 (27.94%) DevOps
8 36 (26.47%) Docker
9 30 (22.06%) Software Engineering
10 28 (20.59%) JavaScript
11 27 (19.85%) Node.js
12 26 (19.12%) SQL
13 25 (18.38%) Serverless
14 23 (16.91%) Microservices
15 22 (16.18%) Git
15 22 (16.18%) NoSQL
16 21 (15.44%) Kubernetes
16 21 (15.44%) Security Cleared
17 20 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (14.71%) React
18 19 (13.97%) Python
19 18 (13.24%) Amazon S3
19 18 (13.24%) REST
20 17 (12.50%) Jenkins
21 16 (11.76%) Containerisation
21 16 (11.76%) SC Cleared
21 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
22 15 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
22 15 (11.03%) Kafka

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 (2.21%) JBoss
1 3 (2.21%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 66 (48.53%) AWS
2 25 (18.38%) Serverless
3 20 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (13.24%) Amazon S3
5 13 (9.56%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (8.09%) SaaS
7 10 (7.35%) GitHub
8 9 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 9 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.15%) Azure
11 6 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.21%) ChatGPT
12 3 (2.21%) GCP
12 3 (2.21%) Stripe
13 2 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) AMQP
2 2 (1.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.18%) NoSQL
2 15 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.62%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.62%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.21%) MySQL
5 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 22 (16.18%) Git
2 17 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.41%) Maven
4 4 (2.94%) JUnit
5 3 (2.21%) GitLab
5 3 (2.21%) Gradle
6 2 (1.47%) JIRA
6 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.74%) jMock
7 1 (0.74%) MLflow
7 1 (0.74%) Mockito
General
1 23 (16.91%) Finance
2 20 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Front Office
3 11 (8.09%) Health Technology
4 8 (5.88%) Tech for Good
5 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.41%) Games
7 3 (2.21%) Retail
8 2 (1.47%) Aviation
8 2 (1.47%) Banking
8 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (41.18%) Spring
2 54 (39.71%) Spring Boot
3 27 (19.85%) Node.js
4 20 (14.71%) React
5 18 (13.24%) REST
6 15 (11.03%) Kafka
7 12 (8.82%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.62%) GraphQL
8 9 (6.62%) React Native
9 8 (5.88%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.88%) Redux
10 7 (5.15%) JSON
11 6 (4.41%) RESTful
11 6 (4.41%) Web Services
11 6 (4.41%) XML
12 4 (2.94%) JPA
12 4 (2.94%) SOAP
13 3 (2.21%) CSS
13 3 (2.21%) J2EE
13 3 (2.21%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.41%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.47%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.74%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Android
1 6 (4.41%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.82%) CI/CD
2 45 (33.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (27.94%) Agile
3 38 (27.94%) DevOps
4 30 (22.06%) Software Engineering
5 23 (16.91%) Microservices
6 16 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 15 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.29%) TDD
9 13 (9.56%) Fintech
10 12 (8.82%) Mentoring
10 12 (8.82%) Scrum
11 10 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (7.35%) SDLC
12 9 (6.62%) AI
12 9 (6.62%) Design Patterns
12 9 (6.62%) DevSecOps
12 9 (6.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 8 (5.88%) Code Quality
13 8 (5.88%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 26 (19.12%) SQL
4 19 (13.97%) Python
5 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.35%) Go
7 9 (6.62%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.47%) R
8 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
Qualifications
1 21 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.47%) Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 36 (26.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (15.44%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.03%) Terraform
3 10 (7.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 5 (3.68%) Mercator
2 3 (2.21%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.21%) Revolut
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle
4 1 (0.74%) Cognos
4 1 (0.74%) Google
4 1 (0.74%) IBM
4 1 (0.74%) Pega
4 1 (0.74%) Veracode
4 1 (0.74%) VMware
4 1 (0.74%) WSO2