Java Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 306 156
Rank change year-on-year -10 -150 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 160 332 824
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 0.98% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.01% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 133 272 714
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £122,500 £123,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £146,250 £117,125
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +6.67%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 18,881 32,734 34,586
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 96.20% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,537 24,599 25,656
10th Percentile £25,267 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,549
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Java Developer.

Java Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Java Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 81 (50.63%) AWS
3 80 (50.00%) Finance
4 77 (48.13%) Agile
5 65 (40.63%) React
6 55 (34.38%) Software Engineering
7 49 (30.63%) Front Office
8 48 (30.00%) JavaScript
8 48 (30.00%) Spring
9 45 (28.13%) AngularJS
10 44 (27.50%) Docker
11 43 (26.88%) TypeScript
11 43 (26.88%) Microservices
12 42 (26.25%) SQL
13 41 (25.63%) Fintech
14 40 (25.00%) Spring Boot
15 39 (24.38%) PostgreSQL
16 38 (23.75%) Fixed Income
17 34 (21.25%) Investment Management
18 33 (20.63%) GCP
19 32 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
19 32 (20.00%) Node.js
19 32 (20.00%) Asset Management
19 32 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 32 (20.00%) Equities
19 32 (20.00%) Linux
19 32 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
19 32 (20.00%) Order Management
19 32 (20.00%) Apache Arrow
19 32 (20.00%) Amazon Athena

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.63%) Apache
3 4 (2.50%) JBoss
4 2 (1.25%) Confluence
4 2 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 81 (50.63%) AWS
2 33 (20.63%) GCP
3 32 (20.00%) dbt
4 24 (15.00%) Azure
5 13 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (8.13%) Amazon S3
5 13 (8.13%) SaaS
6 12 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (7.50%) Serverless
7 10 (6.25%) Datadog
8 8 (5.00%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.25%) PaaS
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.38%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 32 (20.00%) Apache Arrow
2 32 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 32 (20.00%) Dremio
3 17 (10.63%) NoSQL
4 12 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.88%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.38%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.75%) MySQL
8 5 (3.13%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.25%) CouchDB
9 2 (1.25%) DB2
10 1 (0.63%) Impala
10 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (15.00%) JUnit
1 24 (15.00%) Mockito
2 20 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 19 (11.88%) IntelliJ
4 18 (11.25%) GitLab
5 17 (10.63%) Git
6 15 (9.38%) Maven
7 10 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 10 (6.25%) Visual Studio
8 9 (5.63%) Eclipse
8 9 (5.63%) Jasmine
8 9 (5.63%) Karma Test Runner
8 9 (5.63%) Protractor
9 4 (2.50%) Gradle
10 3 (1.88%) JIRA
11 2 (1.25%) Babel
11 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.25%) Gatling
11 2 (1.25%) JMeter
11 2 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 80 (50.00%) Finance
2 49 (30.63%) Front Office
3 23 (14.38%) Social Skills
4 19 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (8.75%) Banking
6 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 7 (4.38%) Law
8 7 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.13%) Police
10 2 (1.25%) Games
10 2 (1.25%) Retail
10 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (40.63%) React
2 48 (30.00%) Spring
3 45 (28.13%) AngularJS
4 40 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 32 (20.00%) Node.js
6 29 (18.13%) Vue
7 26 (16.25%) Kafka
8 24 (15.00%) NumPy
8 24 (15.00%) Pandas
8 24 (15.00%) SciPy
9 19 (11.88%) REST
10 18 (11.25%) JPA
11 16 (10.00%) RESTful
12 15 (9.38%) Hibernate
13 12 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (6.88%) ActiveMQ
14 11 (6.88%) Middleware
15 10 (6.25%) JMS
16 8 (5.00%) PySpark
16 8 (5.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.75%) Fixed Income
2 32 (20.00%) Equities
2 32 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (10.63%) Algorithms
4 14 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (6.25%) Credit Derivative
5 10 (6.25%) Derivative
5 10 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 8 (5.00%) Hedge funds
7 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.13%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.88%) BBC
10 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.00%) Linux
2 10 (6.25%) Windows
3 5 (3.13%) Rocky
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (48.13%) Agile
2 55 (34.38%) Software Engineering
3 43 (26.88%) Microservices
4 41 (25.63%) Fintech
5 34 (21.25%) Investment Management
6 32 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 32 (20.00%) Order Management
7 31 (19.38%) CI/CD
7 31 (19.38%) DevOps
7 31 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (17.50%) SDLC
9 25 (15.63%) Risk Management
10 24 (15.00%) Performance Attribution
11 22 (13.75%) Unit Testing
12 20 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (11.25%) Containerisation
14 16 (10.00%) Low Latency
15 13 (8.13%) TDD
16 12 (7.50%) Test Automation
17 11 (6.88%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 43 (26.88%) TypeScript
4 42 (26.25%) SQL
5 30 (18.75%) Python
6 26 (16.25%) C++
7 6 (3.75%) C
7 6 (3.75%) Go
8 3 (1.88%) Groovy
8 3 (1.88%) Ruby
9 2 (1.25%) C#
9 2 (1.25%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.38%) Degree
3 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (27.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.88%) Terraform
3 10 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.63%) Grafana
4 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (11.88%) IBM
2 11 (6.88%) Oracle
3 5 (3.13%) Google
3 5 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.88%) Solace
5 2 (1.25%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.63%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.63%) SAP
6 1 (0.63%) Splunk