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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 300 304
Rank change year-on-year -26 +4 -165
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 139 121 199
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.81% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 106 94 158
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
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 £79,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -8.23% -1.25%

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 22,353 14,995 22,448
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.62% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,866 9,052 14,743
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,106
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 £99,875 £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 9 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 9 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.

1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 66 (47.48%) Spring
3 59 (42.45%) AWS
4 51 (36.69%) Spring Boot
5 49 (35.25%) CI/CD
6 47 (33.81%) Docker
7 37 (26.62%) Agile
8 36 (25.90%) Security Cleared
8 36 (25.90%) SQL
9 34 (24.46%) SC Cleared
10 32 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (22.30%) Kubernetes
11 31 (22.30%) TDD
12 30 (21.58%) Microservices
13 27 (19.42%) DevOps
14 24 (17.27%) Azure
14 24 (17.27%) Serverless
15 23 (16.55%) AngularJS
15 23 (16.55%) Containerisation
15 23 (16.55%) React
16 22 (15.83%) Clean Code
16 22 (15.83%) Scrum
17 21 (15.11%) Terraform
18 20 (14.39%) Mentoring
19 19 (13.67%) REST
20 18 (12.95%) Git
20 18 (12.95%) JUnit
20 18 (12.95%) Linux
20 18 (12.95%) SDLC
21 17 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement

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 (5.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.72%) JBoss
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 59 (42.45%) AWS
2 24 (17.27%) Azure
2 24 (17.27%) Serverless
3 16 (11.51%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (9.35%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (8.63%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.91%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (7.91%) GitHub
7 10 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (7.19%) SaaS
8 8 (5.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (5.76%) GCP
9 6 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.16%) Datadog
11 3 (2.16%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (1.44%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.47%) AMQP
1 9 (6.47%) SMS
2 1 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.19%) DynamoDB
2 10 (7.19%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.16%) MySQL
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (12.95%) Git
1 18 (12.95%) JUnit
2 15 (10.79%) Maven
3 13 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.35%) Mockito
4 7 (5.04%) JIRA
5 3 (2.16%) GitLab
5 3 (2.16%) Postman
5 3 (2.16%) Selenium
6 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.44%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.44%) Subversion
7 1 (0.72%) git-flow
7 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 27 (19.42%) Finance
2 16 (11.51%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.35%) Tech for Good
4 11 (7.91%) Health Technology
4 11 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.04%) Banking
6 6 (4.32%) Aviation
7 3 (2.16%) Back Office
7 3 (2.16%) Front Office
7 3 (2.16%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Advertising
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) iGaming
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (47.48%) Spring
2 51 (36.69%) Spring Boot
3 23 (16.55%) AngularJS
3 23 (16.55%) React
4 21 (15.11%) Terraform
5 19 (13.67%) REST
6 15 (10.79%) JPA
7 12 (8.63%) Kafka
8 11 (7.91%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (7.19%) Node.js
9 10 (7.19%) RESTful
10 9 (6.47%) OAuth
10 9 (6.47%) OAuth2
10 9 (6.47%) OpenID
10 9 (6.47%) Spring Security
10 9 (6.47%) Thymeleaf
11 7 (5.04%) Jakarta EE
12 6 (4.32%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (3.60%) Spring MVC
14 4 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.16%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.16%) Equities
4 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.16%) NHS
5 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.25%) CI/CD
2 37 (26.62%) Agile
3 32 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (22.30%) TDD
5 30 (21.58%) Microservices
6 27 (19.42%) DevOps
7 23 (16.55%) Containerisation
8 22 (15.83%) Clean Code
8 22 (15.83%) Scrum
9 20 (14.39%) Mentoring
10 18 (12.95%) SDLC
11 17 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (10.79%) Software Engineering
13 14 (10.07%) MVC
14 13 (9.35%) AI
15 12 (8.63%) Design Patterns
15 12 (8.63%) Sprint Planning
16 11 (7.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 10 (7.19%) Technical Architecture
17 10 (7.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (25.90%) SQL
3 17 (12.23%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.63%) Bash
4 12 (8.63%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.91%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.47%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.04%) C#
7 7 (5.04%) Python
8 3 (2.16%) Scala
8 3 (2.16%) Tcl
9 2 (1.44%) Groovy
9 2 (1.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.04%) Degree
4 5 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) QA
2 2 (1.44%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 47 (33.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (22.30%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.63%) Ansible
3 2 (1.44%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) Oracle
2 4 (2.88%) IBM
3 3 (2.16%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.16%) Splunk
3 3 (2.16%) Sybase
3 3 (2.16%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.44%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics