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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 291 298
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -160
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 156 146 218
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 0.89% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.96% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 123 122 178
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £49,775
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -28.38% +19.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £120,625 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% -3.13%

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 21,313 15,178 23,979
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.05% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,299 9,381 17,630
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 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 8 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.

1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (41.67%) AWS
2 65 (41.67%) Spring
3 54 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 50 (32.05%) Spring Boot
5 45 (28.85%) Agile
5 45 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (28.21%) Docker
7 42 (26.92%) Security Cleared
8 38 (24.36%) SC Cleared
9 34 (21.79%) Kubernetes
10 33 (21.15%) SQL
10 33 (21.15%) TDD
11 31 (19.87%) DevOps
12 30 (19.23%) React
13 28 (17.95%) Microservices
13 28 (17.95%) Serverless
14 27 (17.31%) Software Engineering
15 26 (16.67%) Containerisation
15 26 (16.67%) JavaScript
16 24 (15.38%) AngularJS
16 24 (15.38%) Scrum
17 22 (14.10%) Azure
18 21 (13.46%) SDLC
19 20 (12.82%) Clean Code
19 20 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
20 19 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
20 19 (12.18%) Kafka
20 19 (12.18%) Mentoring
21 18 (11.54%) Git

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 (4.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.28%) JBoss
3 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 65 (41.67%) AWS
2 28 (17.95%) Serverless
3 22 (14.10%) Azure
4 19 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 12 (7.69%) GitHub
7 11 (7.05%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.85%) GCP
12 4 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.56%) SaaS
13 3 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.92%) ChatGPT
14 2 (1.28%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) AMQP
1 4 (2.56%) SMS
2 1 (0.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.97%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.41%) DynamoDB
2 10 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.56%) MySQL
6 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.64%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (11.54%) Git
2 16 (10.26%) JUnit
3 15 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.33%) Maven
5 11 (7.05%) Mockito
6 8 (5.13%) JIRA
7 3 (1.92%) GitLab
7 3 (1.92%) Postman
7 3 (1.92%) Selenium
8 2 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.28%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.28%) Subversion
9 1 (0.64%) git-flow
9 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 31 (19.87%) Finance
2 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.05%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.41%) Front Office
5 8 (5.13%) Tech for Good
6 6 (3.85%) Aviation
6 6 (3.85%) Banking
6 6 (3.85%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.28%) Advertising
7 2 (1.28%) Games
7 2 (1.28%) Marketing
7 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.64%) Back Office
8 1 (0.64%) iGaming
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (41.67%) Spring
2 50 (32.05%) Spring Boot
3 30 (19.23%) React
4 24 (15.38%) AngularJS
5 19 (12.18%) Kafka
6 18 (11.54%) Node.js
6 18 (11.54%) REST
7 11 (7.05%) RESTful
8 10 (6.41%) JPA
9 7 (4.49%) Jakarta EE
10 6 (3.85%) GraphQL
10 6 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.85%) Redux
11 5 (3.21%) Spring MVC
12 4 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (2.56%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.56%) OAuth
12 4 (2.56%) OpenID
12 4 (2.56%) Spring Security
12 4 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.49%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.92%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.92%) Equities
5 3 (1.92%) NHS
6 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.64%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 45 (28.85%) Agile
2 45 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (21.15%) TDD
4 31 (19.87%) DevOps
5 28 (17.95%) Microservices
6 27 (17.31%) Software Engineering
7 26 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 24 (15.38%) Scrum
9 21 (13.46%) SDLC
10 20 (12.82%) Clean Code
10 20 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (12.18%) Mentoring
12 16 (10.26%) AI
13 12 (7.69%) Design Patterns
13 12 (7.69%) Sprint Planning
14 11 (7.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 11 (7.05%) Test Automation
15 10 (6.41%) LLM
15 10 (6.41%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 156 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (21.15%) SQL
3 26 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.97%) Python
6 12 (7.69%) Bash
6 12 (7.69%) Kotlin
7 11 (7.05%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.85%) C#
8 6 (3.85%) Go
9 3 (1.92%) Scala
9 3 (1.92%) Tcl
10 2 (1.28%) Groovy
10 2 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 38 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.49%) Degree
4 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.85%) QA
2 2 (1.28%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 44 (28.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.62%) Terraform
3 7 (4.49%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (11.54%) Oracle
2 4 (2.56%) IBM
3 3 (1.92%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.92%) Splunk
3 3 (1.92%) Sybase
3 3 (1.92%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.28%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics