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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 297 297
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 140 122 201
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.75% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.81% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 107 95 159
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £61,875
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 22,484 15,034 22,493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 92.67% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,944 9,087 14,798
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,850
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.93% -4.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (47.86%) Spring
3 60 (42.86%) AWS
4 52 (37.14%) Spring Boot
5 50 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 48 (34.29%) Docker
7 38 (27.14%) Agile
8 37 (26.43%) SQL
9 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
10 34 (24.29%) SC Cleared
11 32 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (22.14%) Kubernetes
12 31 (22.14%) Microservices
12 31 (22.14%) TDD
13 28 (20.00%) DevOps
14 25 (17.86%) Serverless
15 24 (17.14%) AngularJS
15 24 (17.14%) Azure
16 23 (16.43%) Containerisation
16 23 (16.43%) React
17 22 (15.71%) Clean Code
17 22 (15.71%) Scrum
18 21 (15.00%) Terraform
19 20 (14.29%) Mentoring
20 19 (13.57%) REST
21 18 (12.86%) Git
21 18 (12.86%) JUnit
21 18 (12.86%) Linux
21 18 (12.86%) SDLC
22 17 (12.14%) AWS Lambda

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 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.71%) JBoss
2 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 60 (42.86%) AWS
2 25 (17.86%) Serverless
3 24 (17.14%) Azure
4 17 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (9.29%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
7 12 (8.57%) GitHub
8 11 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.14%) SaaS
10 9 (6.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (5.71%) GCP
12 7 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.86%) Datadog
16 3 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
17 2 (1.43%) Amazon ECR
17 2 (1.43%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.43%) AMQP
1 9 (6.43%) SMS
2 1 (0.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.86%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.43%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.14%) MySQL
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.71%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (12.86%) Git
1 18 (12.86%) JUnit
2 15 (10.71%) Maven
3 13 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.29%) Mockito
4 7 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (2.14%) GitLab
5 3 (2.14%) Postman
5 3 (2.14%) Selenium
6 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.43%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.43%) Subversion
7 1 (0.71%) git-flow
7 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 28 (20.00%) Finance
2 16 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.29%) Tech for Good
4 11 (7.86%) Health Technology
4 11 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.71%) Banking
6 6 (4.29%) Aviation
7 3 (2.14%) Back Office
7 3 (2.14%) Front Office
7 3 (2.14%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) iGaming
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (47.86%) Spring
2 52 (37.14%) Spring Boot
3 24 (17.14%) AngularJS
4 23 (16.43%) React
5 21 (15.00%) Terraform
6 19 (13.57%) REST
7 15 (10.71%) JPA
8 12 (8.57%) Kafka
9 11 (7.86%) Node.js
9 11 (7.86%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (7.14%) RESTful
11 9 (6.43%) OAuth
11 9 (6.43%) OAuth2
11 9 (6.43%) OpenID
11 9 (6.43%) Spring Security
11 9 (6.43%) Thymeleaf
12 7 (5.00%) Jakarta EE
13 6 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (3.57%) Spring MVC
15 4 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.14%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.14%) Equities
4 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.14%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.71%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 38 (27.14%) Agile
3 32 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (22.14%) Microservices
4 31 (22.14%) TDD
5 28 (20.00%) DevOps
6 23 (16.43%) Containerisation
7 22 (15.71%) Clean Code
7 22 (15.71%) Scrum
8 20 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 18 (12.86%) SDLC
10 17 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.71%) Software Engineering
12 14 (10.00%) MVC
13 13 (9.29%) AI
14 12 (8.57%) Design Patterns
14 12 (8.57%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (7.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 10 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
16 10 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (26.43%) SQL
3 17 (12.14%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.29%) Kotlin
5 12 (8.57%) Bash
6 11 (7.86%) PL/SQL
7 10 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.00%) C#
8 7 (5.00%) Python
9 3 (2.14%) Scala
9 3 (2.14%) Tcl
10 2 (1.43%) Groovy
10 2 (1.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.00%) Degree
4 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) QA
2 2 (1.43%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 48 (34.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.57%) Ansible
3 2 (1.43%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.14%) Oracle
2 4 (2.86%) IBM
3 3 (2.14%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.14%) Splunk
3 3 (2.14%) Sybase
3 3 (2.14%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics