Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 303 315
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 -172
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 139 123 195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.81% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 107 96 150
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,375
25th Percentile £59,375 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -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 22,972 15,114 22,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 92.65% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,125 9,007 14,453
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,458
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 19 September 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 19 September 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.

1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (46.76%) Spring
3 59 (42.45%) AWS
4 51 (36.69%) Spring Boot
5 49 (35.25%) CI/CD
6 48 (34.53%) Docker
7 37 (26.62%) SQL
8 36 (25.90%) Agile
9 35 (25.18%) Security Cleared
10 34 (24.46%) SC Cleared
11 31 (22.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (22.30%) Microservices
12 29 (20.86%) Kubernetes
13 28 (20.14%) TDD
14 27 (19.42%) DevOps
15 24 (17.27%) Serverless
16 23 (16.55%) AngularJS
16 23 (16.55%) Azure
16 23 (16.55%) Containerisation
17 22 (15.83%) React
18 21 (15.11%) Clean Code
18 21 (15.11%) Scrum
19 20 (14.39%) Terraform
20 19 (13.67%) Mentoring
20 19 (13.67%) REST
21 17 (12.23%) AWS Lambda
21 17 (12.23%) Git
21 17 (12.23%) JavaScript
21 17 (12.23%) JUnit
21 17 (12.23%) 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 (5.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.72%) JBoss
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 59 (42.45%) AWS
2 24 (17.27%) Serverless
3 23 (16.55%) Azure
4 17 (12.23%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.07%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (9.35%) Amazon S3
6 13 (9.35%) GitHub
7 12 (8.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (7.91%) SaaS
9 9 (6.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (5.76%) GCP
11 7 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.88%) Datadog
13 4 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (1.44%) Amazon ECR
15 2 (1.44%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.19%) AMQP
1 10 (7.19%) SMS
2 1 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.91%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.19%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.47%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (12.23%) Git
1 17 (12.23%) JUnit
2 15 (10.79%) Maven
3 13 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.35%) Mockito
4 7 (5.04%) JIRA
5 3 (2.16%) GitLab
5 3 (2.16%) Postman
5 3 (2.16%) Selenium
6 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.44%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 30 (21.58%) Finance
2 17 (12.23%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.07%) Tech for Good
4 12 (8.63%) Health Technology
5 10 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.47%) Banking
7 5 (3.60%) Aviation
8 4 (2.88%) Front Office
9 3 (2.16%) Back Office
9 3 (2.16%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (46.76%) Spring
2 51 (36.69%) Spring Boot
3 23 (16.55%) AngularJS
4 22 (15.83%) React
5 20 (14.39%) Terraform
6 19 (13.67%) REST
7 15 (10.79%) JPA
8 12 (8.63%) Kafka
9 11 (7.91%) Node.js
9 11 (7.91%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (7.19%) OAuth
10 10 (7.19%) OAuth2
10 10 (7.19%) OpenID
10 10 (7.19%) RESTful
10 10 (7.19%) Spring Security
10 10 (7.19%) Thymeleaf
11 6 (4.32%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (4.32%) Jakarta EE
12 5 (3.60%) Spring MVC
13 4 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.04%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.88%) Equities
4 3 (2.16%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.16%) NHS
5 1 (0.72%) Derivative
5 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.72%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.25%) CI/CD
2 36 (25.90%) Agile
3 31 (22.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (22.30%) Microservices
4 28 (20.14%) TDD
5 27 (19.42%) DevOps
6 23 (16.55%) Containerisation
7 21 (15.11%) Clean Code
7 21 (15.11%) Scrum
8 19 (13.67%) Mentoring
9 17 (12.23%) SDLC
10 16 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (11.51%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.79%) MVC
12 14 (10.07%) AI
13 12 (8.63%) Design Patterns
13 12 (8.63%) Sprint Planning
14 11 (7.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 10 (7.19%) Technical Architecture
15 10 (7.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (26.62%) SQL
3 17 (12.23%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.35%) Kotlin
5 12 (8.63%) Bash
6 11 (7.91%) PL/SQL
7 10 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.04%) Python
9 6 (4.32%) C#
10 3 (2.16%) Scala
10 3 (2.16%) Tcl
11 2 (1.44%) Groovy
11 2 (1.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.32%) Degree
5 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.63%) QA
2 2 (1.44%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 48 (34.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.35%) Ansible
3 2 (1.44%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) Oracle
2 4 (2.88%) IBM
3 3 (2.16%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.16%) Splunk
3 3 (2.16%) Sybase
3 3 (2.16%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft