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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 276 288
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 159 154 271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 0.94% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.01% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 133 128 224
10th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -25.35% +14.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £138,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 20,416 15,183 27,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.20% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,769 9,436 20,549
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
% change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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.

1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (37.74%) AWS
2 60 (37.74%) Spring
3 50 (31.45%) Spring Boot
4 49 (30.82%) CI/CD
5 44 (27.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (27.04%) Agile
7 42 (26.42%) Security Cleared
8 38 (23.90%) Docker
9 37 (23.27%) SC Cleared
10 31 (19.50%) DevOps
10 31 (19.50%) Kubernetes
11 29 (18.24%) Software Engineering
11 29 (18.24%) TDD
12 28 (17.61%) React
12 28 (17.61%) Serverless
12 28 (17.61%) SQL
13 26 (16.35%) Microservices
14 23 (14.47%) JavaScript
15 22 (13.84%) Containerisation
16 21 (13.21%) AngularJS
17 20 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (12.58%) Kafka
18 19 (11.95%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (11.95%) Node.js
18 19 (11.95%) Scrum
19 18 (11.32%) Clean Code
19 18 (11.32%) Git
20 17 (10.69%) Azure
20 17 (10.69%) Python

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 4 (2.52%) JBoss
2 3 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.74%) AWS
2 28 (17.61%) Serverless
3 19 (11.95%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (10.69%) Azure
5 13 (8.18%) Amazon S3
6 12 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.92%) GitHub
8 10 (6.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.14%) GCP
13 4 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.52%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.89%) ChatGPT
14 3 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (1.26%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.26%) AMQP
1 2 (1.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.43%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.52%) MySQL
8 3 (1.89%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.32%) Git
2 15 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.92%) JUnit
4 9 (5.66%) Maven
5 8 (5.03%) JIRA
6 6 (3.77%) Mockito
7 3 (1.89%) GitLab
7 3 (1.89%) Postman
7 3 (1.89%) Selenium
8 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.26%) Subversion
9 1 (0.63%) git-flow
9 1 (0.63%) Gradle
9 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 30 (18.87%) Finance
2 16 (10.06%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.55%) Front Office
4 9 (5.66%) Social Skills
5 8 (5.03%) Aviation
6 5 (3.14%) Banking
7 4 (2.52%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.52%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.26%) Advertising
8 2 (1.26%) Games
8 2 (1.26%) Marketing
8 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.63%) iGaming
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (37.74%) Spring
2 50 (31.45%) Spring Boot
3 28 (17.61%) React
4 21 (13.21%) AngularJS
5 20 (12.58%) Kafka
6 19 (11.95%) Node.js
7 17 (10.69%) REST
8 12 (7.55%) RESTful
9 9 (5.66%) JPA
10 8 (5.03%) GraphQL
10 8 (5.03%) Jakarta EE
10 8 (5.03%) Redux
11 6 (3.77%) Spring MVC
12 4 (2.52%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.52%) Web Services
13 3 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
13 3 (1.89%) HTML
13 3 (1.89%) Jest
13 3 (1.89%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Fixed Income
2 7 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.89%) Equities
6 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.82%) CI/CD
2 44 (27.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (27.04%) Agile
4 31 (19.50%) DevOps
5 29 (18.24%) Software Engineering
5 29 (18.24%) TDD
6 26 (16.35%) Microservices
7 22 (13.84%) Containerisation
8 20 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (11.95%) Scrum
10 18 (11.32%) Clean Code
11 17 (10.69%) SDLC
12 15 (9.43%) Mentoring
13 13 (8.18%) Design Patterns
14 12 (7.55%) AI
14 12 (7.55%) Test Automation
15 10 (6.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 9 (5.66%) Fintech
16 9 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (5.03%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (17.61%) SQL
3 23 (14.47%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.69%) Python
4 17 (10.69%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.92%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.03%) Bash
6 8 (5.03%) Go
7 7 (4.40%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.14%) C#
9 3 (1.89%) Scala
9 3 (1.89%) Tcl
10 2 (1.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.40%) Degree
4 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.52%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 38 (23.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.55%) Terraform
3 5 (3.14%) Ansible
4 2 (1.26%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (8.81%) Oracle
2 5 (3.14%) IBM
3 3 (1.89%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.89%) Splunk
3 3 (1.89%) Sybase
3 3 (1.89%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.26%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.26%) Revolut
5 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.63%) Cognos
5 1 (0.63%) VMware