Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 248 240
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 151 154 425
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 1.17% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.25% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 137 125 359
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,500 £137,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -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 16,573 12,283 31,172
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 92.93% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,925 9,030 24,989
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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.

1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (42.38%) Spring
3 62 (41.06%) AWS
4 56 (37.09%) Spring Boot
5 44 (29.14%) CI/CD
6 43 (28.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (23.84%) Agile
8 34 (22.52%) DevOps
8 34 (22.52%) Security Cleared
9 33 (21.85%) Docker
10 31 (20.53%) Software Engineering
11 28 (18.54%) SQL
12 27 (17.88%) SC Cleared
12 27 (17.88%) Serverless
13 25 (16.56%) Kubernetes
13 25 (16.56%) Node.js
14 24 (15.89%) Git
14 24 (15.89%) JavaScript
14 24 (15.89%) NoSQL
14 24 (15.89%) React
15 21 (13.91%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (13.25%) Microservices
17 19 (12.58%) Amazon S3
18 18 (11.92%) Python
18 18 (11.92%) REST
19 17 (11.26%) AngularJS
19 17 (11.26%) Containerisation
20 16 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
20 16 (10.60%) Jenkins
20 16 (10.60%) TDD

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 (2.65%) JBoss
2 3 (1.99%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.66%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.06%) AWS
2 27 (17.88%) Serverless
3 21 (13.91%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (12.58%) Amazon S3
5 14 (9.27%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (7.28%) GitHub
6 11 (7.28%) SaaS
7 10 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (6.62%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (5.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (5.30%) Azure
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.99%) ChatGPT
11 3 (1.99%) Stripe
12 2 (1.32%) GCP
12 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.89%) NoSQL
2 13 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.62%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.99%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.99%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.32%) MySQL
7 1 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.66%) Redis
7 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (15.89%) Git
2 16 (10.60%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.97%) Maven
4 5 (3.31%) JUnit
5 3 (1.99%) GitLab
5 3 (1.99%) Gradle
5 3 (1.99%) JIRA
6 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.66%) git-flow
7 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.66%) jMock
7 1 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 29 (19.21%) Finance
2 15 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.62%) Front Office
4 9 (5.96%) Health Technology
5 8 (5.30%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.30%) Tech for Good
6 7 (4.64%) Games
7 5 (3.31%) Aviation
8 2 (1.32%) Advertising
8 2 (1.32%) Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.66%) iGaming
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (42.38%) Spring
2 56 (37.09%) Spring Boot
3 25 (16.56%) Node.js
4 24 (15.89%) React
5 18 (11.92%) REST
6 17 (11.26%) AngularJS
7 14 (9.27%) Kafka
8 9 (5.96%) GraphQL
8 9 (5.96%) React Native
9 8 (5.30%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.30%) Redux
10 7 (4.64%) JSON
10 7 (4.64%) Web Services
11 6 (3.97%) JPA
11 6 (3.97%) XML
12 5 (3.31%) J2EE
12 5 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.31%) RESTful
12 5 (3.31%) SOAP
13 4 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.96%) Fixed Income
3 8 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.97%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.99%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Android
1 6 (3.97%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.14%) CI/CD
2 43 (28.48%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (23.84%) Agile
4 34 (22.52%) DevOps
5 31 (20.53%) Software Engineering
6 20 (13.25%) Microservices
7 17 (11.26%) Containerisation
8 16 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (10.60%) TDD
9 13 (8.61%) Fintech
10 12 (7.95%) Mentoring
11 11 (7.28%) Scrum
12 10 (6.62%) Design Patterns
12 10 (6.62%) DevSecOps
12 10 (6.62%) Front End Development
12 10 (6.62%) SDLC
13 9 (5.96%) Clean Code
13 9 (5.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 9 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 8 (5.30%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (18.54%) SQL
3 24 (15.89%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.92%) Python
5 16 (10.60%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.28%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.30%) Go
8 4 (2.65%) C#
9 1 (0.66%) Bash
9 1 (0.66%) Groovy
9 1 (0.66%) Korn
9 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.31%) Degree
4 4 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 33 (21.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (16.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.60%) Terraform
3 10 (6.62%) Ansible
4 1 (0.66%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (1.99%) OpenAI
1 3 (1.99%) Oracle
1 3 (1.99%) Revolut
2 2 (1.32%) IBM
2 2 (1.32%) Mercator
3 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.66%) Cognos
3 1 (0.66%) Google
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.66%) Veracode
3 1 (0.66%) VMware