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 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 302 180
Rank change year-on-year +40 -122 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 126 127 487
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 0.85% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.89% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 109 83 413
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £142,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £73,250 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.44% +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 15,401 14,318 26,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.33% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,295 8,900 22,232
10th Percentile £31,175 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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.

1 126 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (47.62%) AWS
3 51 (40.48%) Spring
4 48 (38.10%) Spring Boot
5 39 (30.95%) CI/CD
5 39 (30.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (26.98%) DevOps
7 33 (26.19%) Docker
8 32 (25.40%) Agile
9 24 (19.05%) Microservices
9 24 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 24 (19.05%) SQL
10 23 (18.25%) JavaScript
11 22 (17.46%) Node.js
12 21 (16.67%) Security Cleared
13 20 (15.87%) Git
13 20 (15.87%) Serverless
14 19 (15.08%) Kubernetes
14 19 (15.08%) NoSQL
15 18 (14.29%) React
15 18 (14.29%) REST
16 17 (13.49%) Python
17 16 (12.70%) Amazon S3
17 16 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (12.70%) Jenkins
17 16 (12.70%) SC Cleared
18 15 (11.90%) Kafka
19 14 (11.11%) Containerisation
19 14 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
19 14 (11.11%) Terraform

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 3 (2.38%) JBoss
1 3 (2.38%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 60 (47.62%) AWS
2 20 (15.87%) Serverless
3 16 (12.70%) Amazon S3
3 16 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (8.73%) SaaS
6 8 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (6.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 8 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (6.35%) AWS Step Functions
6 8 (6.35%) GitHub
7 7 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (5.56%) Azure
8 6 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.38%) GCP
9 3 (2.38%) Stripe
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.59%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.79%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) AMQP
2 2 (1.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.08%) NoSQL
2 14 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.35%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.59%) MySQL
6 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.79%) KDB
7 1 (0.79%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 20 (15.87%) Git
2 16 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.76%) Maven
4 4 (3.17%) JUnit
5 3 (2.38%) GitLab
5 3 (2.38%) Gradle
6 2 (1.59%) Mockito
6 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.79%) JIRA
7 1 (0.79%) jMock
7 1 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 21 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.08%) Finance
3 11 (8.73%) Health Technology
4 9 (7.14%) Front Office
5 8 (6.35%) Tech for Good
6 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.76%) Games
8 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Retail
9 2 (1.59%) Aviation
9 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (40.48%) Spring
2 48 (38.10%) Spring Boot
3 22 (17.46%) Node.js
4 18 (14.29%) React
4 18 (14.29%) REST
5 15 (11.90%) Kafka
6 10 (7.94%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.14%) React Native
8 8 (6.35%) Hibernate
9 7 (5.56%) GraphQL
9 7 (5.56%) JSON
10 6 (4.76%) Redux
10 6 (4.76%) Web Services
10 6 (4.76%) XML
11 5 (3.97%) RESTful
12 4 (3.17%) JPA
12 4 (3.17%) SOAP
13 3 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (2.38%) J2EE
13 3 (2.38%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.76%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.97%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.59%) Derivative
7 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.59%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.76%) Android
1 6 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.95%) CI/CD
1 39 (30.95%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (26.98%) DevOps
3 32 (25.40%) Agile
4 24 (19.05%) Microservices
4 24 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 14 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 13 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (9.52%) Fintech
7 12 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 12 (9.52%) TDD
8 10 (7.94%) Scrum
9 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (7.14%) SDLC
10 8 (6.35%) BDD
10 8 (6.35%) Design Patterns
10 8 (6.35%) DevSecOps
10 8 (6.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (5.56%) Code Quality
11 7 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 126 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (19.05%) SQL
3 23 (18.25%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.49%) Python
5 11 (8.73%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.94%) Kotlin
7 9 (7.14%) Go
8 2 (1.59%) R
8 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.79%) Bash
9 1 (0.79%) Groovy
9 1 (0.79%) Korn
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.97%) Degree
4 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 33 (26.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.11%) Terraform
3 10 (7.94%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 5 (3.97%) Mercator
2 3 (2.38%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.38%) Revolut
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (0.79%) Cognos
4 1 (0.79%) Google
4 1 (0.79%) IBM
4 1 (0.79%) Pega
4 1 (0.79%) Veracode
4 1 (0.79%) VMware
4 1 (0.79%) WSO2