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 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 256 222
Rank change year-on-year +12 -34 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 148 135 436
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.05% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.12% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 108 362
10th Percentile £53,750 £40,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
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 £109,063 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £144,375 £135,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 15,809 12,076 29,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 94.11% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,321 8,912 24,562
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,754
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.10% -8.34%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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.

1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (45.27%) AWS
3 65 (43.92%) Spring
4 59 (39.86%) Spring Boot
5 48 (32.43%) CI/CD
6 45 (30.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (27.03%) Agile
8 37 (25.00%) DevOps
9 36 (24.32%) Docker
10 30 (20.27%) Software Engineering
10 30 (20.27%) SQL
11 29 (19.59%) Security Cleared
12 28 (18.92%) JavaScript
12 28 (18.92%) Serverless
13 27 (18.24%) Node.js
14 26 (17.57%) Git
15 25 (16.89%) NoSQL
16 23 (15.54%) Kubernetes
17 22 (14.86%) SC Cleared
18 21 (14.19%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (14.19%) Microservices
18 21 (14.19%) React
19 19 (12.84%) Amazon S3
19 19 (12.84%) Python
19 19 (12.84%) REST
20 18 (12.16%) AngularJS
20 18 (12.16%) Jenkins
20 18 (12.16%) TDD
20 18 (12.16%) Terraform
21 17 (11.49%) Containerisation

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 (2.03%) JBoss
1 3 (2.03%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 67 (45.27%) AWS
2 28 (18.92%) Serverless
3 21 (14.19%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (12.84%) Amazon S3
5 15 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (7.43%) Azure
6 11 (7.43%) GitHub
6 11 (7.43%) SaaS
7 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (6.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.03%) ChatGPT
10 3 (2.03%) GCP
10 3 (2.03%) Stripe
11 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.89%) NoSQL
2 16 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.76%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.70%) MySQL
6 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (17.57%) Git
2 18 (12.16%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.05%) Maven
4 5 (3.38%) JUnit
5 3 (2.03%) GitLab
5 3 (2.03%) Gradle
5 3 (2.03%) JIRA
6 2 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) git-flow
7 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.68%) jMock
7 1 (0.68%) MLflow
7 1 (0.68%) Mockito
General
1 26 (17.57%) Finance
2 17 (11.49%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.43%) Front Office
4 9 (6.08%) Health Technology
4 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.41%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.73%) Games
7 4 (2.70%) Aviation
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Advertising
9 2 (1.35%) Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.68%) iGaming
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (43.92%) Spring
2 59 (39.86%) Spring Boot
3 27 (18.24%) Node.js
4 21 (14.19%) React
5 19 (12.84%) REST
6 18 (12.16%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.14%) Kafka
8 9 (6.08%) GraphQL
8 9 (6.08%) Hibernate
8 9 (6.08%) React Native
9 8 (5.41%) Redux
10 7 (4.73%) JSON
10 7 (4.73%) RESTful
10 7 (4.73%) Web Services
11 6 (4.05%) JPA
11 6 (4.05%) XML
12 5 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (2.70%) HTML
13 4 (2.70%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.08%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.05%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.68%) Derivative
7 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Android
1 6 (4.05%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 45 (30.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 40 (27.03%) Agile
4 37 (25.00%) DevOps
5 30 (20.27%) Software Engineering
6 21 (14.19%) Microservices
7 18 (12.16%) TDD
8 17 (11.49%) Containerisation
9 16 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.78%) Fintech
10 13 (8.78%) Mentoring
10 13 (8.78%) Scrum
11 11 (7.43%) SDLC
12 10 (6.76%) Design Patterns
12 10 (6.76%) DevSecOps
12 10 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (6.08%) AI
13 9 (6.08%) BDD
13 9 (6.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 8 (5.41%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (20.27%) SQL
3 28 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 19 (12.84%) Python
5 14 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.43%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.41%) Go
8 2 (1.35%) R
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) C#
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) Korn
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.03%) Degree
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 36 (24.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.54%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.16%) Terraform
3 11 (7.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (2.03%) Mercator
1 3 (2.03%) OpenAI
1 3 (2.03%) Oracle
1 3 (2.03%) Revolut
2 2 (1.35%) IBM
3 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.68%) Cognos
3 1 (0.68%) Google
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.68%) Pega
3 1 (0.68%) Veracode
3 1 (0.68%) VMware
3 1 (0.68%) WSO2