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 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 254 238
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 147 148 430
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.13% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.21% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 134 120 359
10th Percentile £47,000 £39,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,438 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £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 16,367 12,269 30,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 93.63% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,764 8,999 24,805
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,874
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +6.14% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,550 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 15 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 15 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.

1 147 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (42.86%) Spring
3 61 (41.50%) AWS
4 55 (37.41%) Spring Boot
5 43 (29.25%) CI/CD
6 42 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (23.81%) Agile
8 33 (22.45%) DevOps
9 32 (21.77%) Docker
9 32 (21.77%) Security Cleared
10 30 (20.41%) Software Engineering
11 28 (19.05%) SQL
12 26 (17.69%) Serverless
13 25 (17.01%) SC Cleared
14 24 (16.33%) JavaScript
14 24 (16.33%) Node.js
14 24 (16.33%) NoSQL
15 23 (15.65%) Git
15 23 (15.65%) Kubernetes
15 23 (15.65%) React
16 21 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (12.93%) Amazon S3
18 18 (12.24%) Microservices
18 18 (12.24%) Python
19 17 (11.56%) Containerisation
19 17 (11.56%) REST
20 16 (10.88%) AngularJS
20 16 (10.88%) Terraform
21 15 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
21 15 (10.20%) Jenkins

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 (2.04%) JBoss
2 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 61 (41.50%) AWS
2 26 (17.69%) Serverless
3 21 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (12.93%) Amazon S3
5 13 (8.84%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (7.48%) GitHub
6 11 (7.48%) SaaS
7 10 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (6.80%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (5.44%) Azure
10 4 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.04%) ChatGPT
11 3 (2.04%) Stripe
12 2 (1.36%) GCP
12 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.33%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.80%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.36%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (15.65%) Git
2 15 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.08%) Maven
4 4 (2.72%) JUnit
5 3 (2.04%) GitLab
5 3 (2.04%) Gradle
5 3 (2.04%) JIRA
6 2 (1.36%) 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
General
1 28 (19.05%) Finance
2 15 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.80%) Front Office
4 9 (6.12%) Health Technology
5 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.44%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.76%) Games
7 4 (2.72%) Aviation
8 2 (1.36%) Advertising
8 2 (1.36%) Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.68%) iGaming
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (42.86%) Spring
2 55 (37.41%) Spring Boot
3 24 (16.33%) Node.js
4 23 (15.65%) React
5 17 (11.56%) REST
6 16 (10.88%) AngularJS
7 14 (9.52%) Kafka
8 9 (6.12%) GraphQL
8 9 (6.12%) React Native
9 8 (5.44%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.44%) Redux
10 7 (4.76%) JSON
11 6 (4.08%) JPA
11 6 (4.08%) Web Services
11 6 (4.08%) XML
12 5 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.40%) RESTful
13 4 (2.72%) CSS
13 4 (2.72%) HTML
13 4 (2.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.12%) Fixed Income
3 7 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.08%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.04%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.08%) Android
1 6 (4.08%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.25%) CI/CD
2 42 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (23.81%) Agile
4 33 (22.45%) DevOps
5 30 (20.41%) Software Engineering
6 18 (12.24%) Microservices
7 17 (11.56%) Containerisation
8 15 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (10.20%) TDD
9 13 (8.84%) Fintech
10 12 (8.16%) Mentoring
11 10 (6.80%) Design Patterns
11 10 (6.80%) DevSecOps
11 10 (6.80%) Scrum
11 10 (6.80%) SDLC
12 9 (6.12%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 9 (6.12%) Front End Development
12 9 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (5.44%) Clean Code
13 8 (5.44%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (19.05%) SQL
3 24 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 18 (12.24%) Python
5 15 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.48%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.44%) Go
8 3 (2.04%) C#
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) Korn
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.72%) Degree
4 2 (1.36%) 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 32 (21.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.88%) Terraform
3 9 (6.12%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (2.04%) OpenAI
1 3 (2.04%) Oracle
1 3 (2.04%) Revolut
2 2 (1.36%) IBM
2 2 (1.36%) Mercator
3 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.68%) Cognos
3 1 (0.68%) Google
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.68%) Veracode
3 1 (0.68%) VMware