Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 313 143
Rank change year-on-year -8 -170 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 87 163 521
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.80% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.83% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 62 115 460
10th Percentile £49,375 £46,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +29.03% +6.90%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £120,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 15,264 19,569 22,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 96.59% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,660 12,365 17,991
10th Percentile £29,419 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025, 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 87 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (59.77%) AWS
3 47 (54.02%) Agile
4 37 (42.53%) React
5 36 (41.38%) JavaScript
6 34 (39.08%) Software Engineering
7 32 (36.78%) Spring
8 30 (34.48%) Spring Boot
8 30 (34.48%) TypeScript
9 28 (32.18%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (31.03%) Microservices
10 27 (31.03%) Node.js
11 22 (25.29%) Investment Management
11 22 (25.29%) Order Management
12 20 (22.99%) AngularJS
13 19 (21.84%) GCP
13 19 (21.84%) Risk Management
14 18 (20.69%) Fintech
14 18 (20.69%) TDD
15 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
15 17 (19.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (19.54%) Vue
16 16 (18.39%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (18.39%) Apache Airflow
16 16 (18.39%) Apache Arrow
16 16 (18.39%) Apache Iceberg
16 16 (18.39%) Asset Management
16 16 (18.39%) dbt
16 16 (18.39%) DevOps
16 16 (18.39%) Dremio

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 16 (18.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.15%) JBoss
2 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 52 (59.77%) AWS
2 19 (21.84%) GCP
3 16 (18.39%) dbt
4 8 (9.20%) Azure
5 7 (8.05%) Serverless
6 6 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.60%) SaaS
9 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.45%) Datadog
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.15%) GitHub
10 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) SSH
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.18%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (18.39%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (18.39%) Apache Arrow
2 16 (18.39%) Apache Iceberg
2 16 (18.39%) Dremio
3 13 (14.94%) Relational Database
4 9 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 7 (8.05%) MySQL
6 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.30%) DB2
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.15%) KDB
8 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.15%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Git
1 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.05%) Mockito
3 6 (6.90%) JUnit
4 4 (4.60%) Babel
4 4 (4.60%) GitLab
4 4 (4.60%) Maven
4 4 (4.60%) webpack
5 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.45%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (43.68%) Finance
2 26 (29.89%) Front Office
3 14 (16.09%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Games
7 2 (2.30%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Advertising
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (42.53%) React
2 32 (36.78%) Spring
3 30 (34.48%) Spring Boot
4 27 (31.03%) Node.js
5 20 (22.99%) AngularJS
6 17 (19.54%) Vue
7 16 (18.39%) NumPy
7 16 (18.39%) Pandas
7 16 (18.39%) SciPy
8 14 (16.09%) RESTful
9 12 (13.79%) Kafka
10 11 (12.64%) REST
11 10 (11.49%) Redux
12 8 (9.20%) CSS
12 8 (9.20%) HTML
13 6 (6.90%) GraphQL
14 5 (5.75%) ActiveMQ
14 5 (5.75%) CSS3
14 5 (5.75%) HTML5
15 3 (3.45%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.29%) Fixed Income
2 18 (20.69%) Equities
3 16 (18.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (5.75%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.75%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.60%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.45%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (3.45%) Derivative
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.15%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) Agile
2 34 (39.08%) Software Engineering
3 27 (31.03%) Microservices
4 22 (25.29%) Investment Management
4 22 (25.29%) Order Management
5 19 (21.84%) Risk Management
6 18 (20.69%) Fintech
6 18 (20.69%) TDD
7 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
7 17 (19.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (18.39%) Asset Management
8 16 (18.39%) DevOps
8 16 (18.39%) Performance Attribution
9 10 (11.49%) SDLC
10 9 (10.34%) Scrum
11 8 (9.20%) BDD
11 8 (9.20%) Clean Code
11 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (8.05%) Code Quality
12 7 (8.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (41.38%) JavaScript
3 30 (34.48%) TypeScript
4 14 (16.09%) Python
5 12 (13.79%) SQL
6 10 (11.49%) Go
7 6 (6.90%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.75%) Scala
9 3 (3.45%) C#
9 3 (3.45%) C++
10 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.15%) Groovy
11 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.15%) R
11 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) Degree
3 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.60%) QA
System Software
1 15 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
1 10 (11.49%) Terraform
2 5 (5.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) Mercator
2 3 (3.45%) IBM
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (1.15%) Google
3 1 (1.15%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.15%) Pega
3 1 (1.15%) Solace
3 1 (1.15%) Splunk
3 1 (1.15%) WSO2