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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 285 303
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -162
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 151 146 220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 0.88% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.95% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 118 124 179
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £49,850
25th Percentile £59,063 £50,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -32.05% +25.81%
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,875 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £68,750 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% -6.45% -3.13%

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 21,376 15,314 23,957
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.18% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,297 9,319 17,469
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,050
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 13 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 13 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.

1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (42.38%) Spring
3 63 (41.72%) AWS
4 53 (35.10%) CI/CD
5 49 (32.45%) Spring Boot
6 46 (30.46%) Agile
7 44 (29.14%) Docker
7 44 (29.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (26.49%) Security Cleared
9 37 (24.50%) SC Cleared
10 33 (21.85%) Kubernetes
10 33 (21.85%) TDD
11 32 (21.19%) SQL
12 30 (19.87%) DevOps
12 30 (19.87%) React
13 29 (19.21%) Microservices
14 28 (18.54%) Serverless
15 26 (17.22%) JavaScript
16 25 (16.56%) Containerisation
16 25 (16.56%) Software Engineering
17 24 (15.89%) AngularJS
17 24 (15.89%) Scrum
18 22 (14.57%) Azure
19 21 (13.91%) SDLC
20 20 (13.25%) Clean Code
21 19 (12.58%) AWS Lambda
21 19 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
22 18 (11.92%) Git
22 18 (11.92%) Kafka
22 18 (11.92%) Linux

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 (4.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.32%) JBoss
3 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 63 (41.72%) AWS
2 28 (18.54%) Serverless
3 22 (14.57%) Azure
4 19 (12.58%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (8.61%) Amazon S3
6 12 (7.95%) GitHub
7 11 (7.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.97%) GCP
11 5 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.65%) SaaS
13 3 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.99%) ChatGPT
14 2 (1.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.65%) AMQP
1 4 (2.65%) SMS
2 1 (0.66%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.61%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.62%) DynamoDB
2 10 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.64%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.65%) MySQL
6 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.66%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.92%) Git
2 16 (10.60%) JUnit
3 14 (9.27%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.61%) Maven
5 11 (7.28%) Mockito
6 8 (5.30%) JIRA
7 3 (1.99%) GitLab
7 3 (1.99%) Postman
7 3 (1.99%) Selenium
8 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.32%) Subversion
9 1 (0.66%) git-flow
9 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 32 (21.19%) Finance
2 12 (7.95%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.28%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.62%) Front Office
5 8 (5.30%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.64%) Banking
7 6 (3.97%) Aviation
7 6 (3.97%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.32%) Advertising
8 2 (1.32%) Games
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) iGaming
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (42.38%) Spring
2 49 (32.45%) Spring Boot
3 30 (19.87%) React
4 24 (15.89%) AngularJS
5 18 (11.92%) Kafka
5 18 (11.92%) Node.js
5 18 (11.92%) REST
6 11 (7.28%) RESTful
7 10 (6.62%) JPA
8 7 (4.64%) Jakarta EE
9 6 (3.97%) GraphQL
9 6 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.97%) Redux
10 5 (3.31%) Spring MVC
11 4 (2.65%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (2.65%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.65%) OAuth
11 4 (2.65%) OpenID
11 4 (2.65%) Spring Security
11 4 (2.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.64%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.99%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.99%) Equities
5 3 (1.99%) NHS
6 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.10%) CI/CD
2 46 (30.46%) Agile
3 44 (29.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (21.85%) TDD
5 30 (19.87%) DevOps
6 29 (19.21%) Microservices
7 25 (16.56%) Containerisation
7 25 (16.56%) Software Engineering
8 24 (15.89%) Scrum
9 21 (13.91%) SDLC
10 20 (13.25%) Clean Code
11 19 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (11.92%) Mentoring
13 16 (10.60%) AI
14 12 (7.95%) Design Patterns
14 12 (7.95%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (7.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 11 (7.28%) Test Automation
16 10 (6.62%) LLM
16 10 (6.62%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (21.19%) SQL
3 26 (17.22%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.26%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.27%) Python
6 12 (7.95%) Bash
6 12 (7.95%) Kotlin
7 11 (7.28%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.97%) C#
8 6 (3.97%) Go
9 3 (1.99%) Scala
9 3 (1.99%) Tcl
10 2 (1.32%) Groovy
10 2 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.64%) Degree
4 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 44 (29.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (21.85%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.93%) Terraform
3 7 (4.64%) Ansible
4 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) Oracle
2 4 (2.65%) IBM
3 3 (1.99%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.99%) Splunk
3 3 (1.99%) Sybase
3 3 (1.99%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics