Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 301 300
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -157
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 147 135 212
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.82% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.88% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 115 109 173
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -35.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -9.38% -

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 21,825 15,296 23,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 92.52% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,556 9,335 16,901
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 66 (44.90%) Spring
3 62 (42.18%) AWS
4 54 (36.73%) CI/CD
5 51 (34.69%) Spring Boot
6 46 (31.29%) Docker
7 42 (28.57%) Agile
8 38 (25.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (25.17%) Security Cleared
10 35 (23.81%) SC Cleared
10 35 (23.81%) SQL
11 33 (22.45%) TDD
12 32 (21.77%) Kubernetes
13 31 (21.09%) Microservices
14 30 (20.41%) DevOps
15 28 (19.05%) Serverless
16 26 (17.69%) React
17 25 (17.01%) AngularJS
17 25 (17.01%) Containerisation
18 23 (15.65%) Azure
18 23 (15.65%) Scrum
19 22 (14.97%) Clean Code
19 22 (14.97%) JavaScript
20 21 (14.29%) Software Engineering
21 20 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
21 20 (13.61%) SDLC
22 19 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
22 19 (12.93%) Git
22 19 (12.93%) REST
23 18 (12.24%) Linux

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 7 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.36%) JBoss
3 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.18%) AWS
2 28 (19.05%) Serverless
3 23 (15.65%) Azure
4 20 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 13 (8.84%) GitHub
7 12 (8.16%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (4.76%) GCP
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.08%) SaaS
12 4 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.04%) ChatGPT
13 3 (2.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) AMQP
1 6 (4.08%) SMS
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.84%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.48%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.44%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.72%) MySQL
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (12.93%) Git
2 17 (11.56%) JUnit
3 14 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.52%) Maven
4 12 (8.16%) Mockito
5 8 (5.44%) JIRA
6 3 (2.04%) GitLab
6 3 (2.04%) Postman
6 3 (2.04%) Selenium
7 2 (1.36%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.36%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.36%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.36%) Subversion
8 1 (0.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 30 (20.41%) Finance
2 13 (8.84%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.80%) Tech for Good
5 8 (5.44%) Banking
5 8 (5.44%) Health Technology
6 6 (4.08%) Aviation
6 6 (4.08%) Front Office
7 2 (1.36%) Advertising
7 2 (1.36%) Back Office
7 2 (1.36%) Marketing
7 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.36%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) iGaming
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (44.90%) Spring
2 51 (34.69%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.69%) React
4 25 (17.01%) AngularJS
5 19 (12.93%) REST
6 17 (11.56%) Terraform
7 15 (10.20%) Node.js
8 14 (9.52%) Kafka
9 12 (8.16%) JPA
10 11 (7.48%) RESTful
11 8 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.76%) Jakarta EE
13 6 (4.08%) OAuth
13 6 (4.08%) OAuth2
13 6 (4.08%) OpenID
13 6 (4.08%) Spring Security
13 6 (4.08%) Thymeleaf
14 5 (3.40%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (3.40%) Spring MVC
15 4 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.04%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.04%) Equities
4 3 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.04%) NHS
5 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.73%) CI/CD
2 42 (28.57%) Agile
3 38 (25.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (22.45%) TDD
5 31 (21.09%) Microservices
6 30 (20.41%) DevOps
7 25 (17.01%) Containerisation
8 23 (15.65%) Scrum
9 22 (14.97%) Clean Code
10 21 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 20 (13.61%) SDLC
12 19 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (12.24%) Mentoring
14 16 (10.88%) AI
15 13 (8.84%) Design Patterns
16 12 (8.16%) Sprint Planning
17 11 (7.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 11 (7.48%) MVC
18 10 (6.80%) Technical Architecture
18 10 (6.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (23.81%) SQL
3 22 (14.97%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.84%) Kotlin
6 12 (8.16%) Bash
7 11 (7.48%) PL/SQL
8 10 (6.80%) Python
9 7 (4.76%) C#
10 3 (2.04%) Scala
10 3 (2.04%) Tcl
11 2 (1.36%) Go
11 2 (1.36%) Groovy
11 2 (1.36%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.76%) Degree
4 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) QA
2 2 (1.36%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 46 (31.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.12%) Ansible
3 2 (1.36%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (12.24%) Oracle
2 4 (2.72%) IBM
3 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.04%) Splunk
3 3 (2.04%) Sybase
3 3 (2.04%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics