Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £74,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 267 302
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 -159
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 185 161 338
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.05% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.14% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 159 133 276
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £144,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -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 18,713 14,121 33,212
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.11% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,634 8,624 25,955
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,005
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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.

1 185 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (38.92%) Spring
3 70 (37.84%) AWS
4 60 (32.43%) Spring Boot
5 59 (31.89%) CI/CD
6 56 (30.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (25.41%) Security Cleared
8 43 (23.24%) DevOps
9 42 (22.70%) Agile
10 41 (22.16%) Docker
11 40 (21.62%) SC Cleared
12 35 (18.92%) Software Engineering
13 34 (18.38%) Serverless
13 34 (18.38%) SQL
14 32 (17.30%) Kubernetes
15 29 (15.68%) React
15 29 (15.68%) TDD
16 27 (14.59%) Microservices
17 25 (13.51%) AngularJS
17 25 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (13.51%) Node.js
18 24 (12.97%) Containerisation
19 23 (12.43%) Git
19 23 (12.43%) JavaScript
20 20 (10.81%) Amazon S3
20 20 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
20 20 (10.81%) Jenkins
20 20 (10.81%) Mentoring
20 20 (10.81%) NoSQL
20 20 (10.81%) REST

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 (2.16%) JBoss
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 70 (37.84%) AWS
2 34 (18.38%) Serverless
3 25 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (10.81%) Amazon S3
5 17 (9.19%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (8.65%) Azure
7 15 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 15 (8.11%) GitHub
8 14 (7.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (5.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 11 (5.95%) SaaS
10 7 (3.78%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.62%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.62%) Apigee
12 3 (1.62%) ChatGPT
12 3 (1.62%) GCP
12 3 (1.62%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.81%) NoSQL
2 14 (7.57%) DynamoDB
3 11 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.16%) MySQL
7 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (12.43%) Git
2 20 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.49%) Maven
4 11 (5.95%) JUnit
5 7 (3.78%) JIRA
6 6 (3.24%) GitLab
7 5 (2.70%) Mockito
8 4 (2.16%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.62%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.08%) Gradle
10 2 (1.08%) Postman
10 2 (1.08%) Selenium
11 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.54%) git-flow
11 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 32 (17.30%) Finance
2 15 (8.11%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.95%) Health Technology
4 10 (5.41%) Front Office
4 10 (5.41%) Tech for Good
5 8 (4.32%) Aviation
6 4 (2.16%) Banking
6 4 (2.16%) Games
7 2 (1.08%) Advertising
7 2 (1.08%) Marketing
7 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.54%) iGaming
8 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.92%) Spring
2 60 (32.43%) Spring Boot
3 29 (15.68%) React
4 25 (13.51%) AngularJS
4 25 (13.51%) Node.js
5 20 (10.81%) REST
6 15 (8.11%) Kafka
7 11 (5.95%) RESTful
8 8 (4.32%) GraphQL
8 8 (4.32%) React Native
8 8 (4.32%) Redux
9 7 (3.78%) J2EE
9 7 (3.78%) JPA
10 6 (3.24%) Hibernate
10 6 (3.24%) SOAP
10 6 (3.24%) Spring MVC
11 5 (2.70%) Web Services
12 4 (2.16%) HTML
12 4 (2.16%) JSON
12 4 (2.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.86%) Fixed Income
2 7 (3.78%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.24%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.08%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.54%) Equities
7 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.41%) Linux
2 6 (3.24%) Android
2 6 (3.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (31.89%) CI/CD
2 56 (30.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (23.24%) DevOps
4 42 (22.70%) Agile
5 35 (18.92%) Software Engineering
6 29 (15.68%) TDD
7 27 (14.59%) Microservices
8 24 (12.97%) Containerisation
9 20 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (10.81%) Mentoring
10 18 (9.73%) Scrum
11 17 (9.19%) Clean Code
11 17 (9.19%) SDLC
12 13 (7.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (7.03%) Fintech
12 13 (7.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (7.03%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (6.49%) DevSecOps
13 12 (6.49%) Test Automation
14 11 (5.95%) AI
Programming Languages
1 185 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (18.38%) SQL
3 23 (12.43%) JavaScript
4 19 (10.27%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.11%) Python
6 14 (7.57%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.32%) Bash
7 8 (4.32%) Go
8 6 (3.24%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.70%) C#
10 3 (1.62%) Groovy
11 2 (1.08%) Scala
12 1 (0.54%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 47 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.24%) Degree
5 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.62%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 41 (22.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (17.30%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.19%) Terraform
3 9 (4.86%) Ansible
4 3 (1.62%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (6.49%) Oracle
2 3 (1.62%) IBM
2 3 (1.62%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.62%) Revolut
3 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.08%) Splunk
4 1 (0.54%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.54%) Cognos
4 1 (0.54%) Sybase
4 1 (0.54%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.54%) Veracode
4 1 (0.54%) VMware