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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 292 302
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 137 134 208
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.81% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.88% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 105 108 168
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,125 £50,000
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 £65,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.66% -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 21,941 15,228 23,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.62% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,614 9,294 16,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
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 1 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 1 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.

1 137 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (45.99%) Spring
3 56 (40.88%) AWS
4 48 (35.04%) CI/CD
4 48 (35.04%) Spring Boot
5 45 (32.85%) Docker
6 37 (27.01%) Agile
7 36 (26.28%) Security Cleared
8 34 (24.82%) SC Cleared
8 34 (24.82%) SQL
9 32 (23.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (22.63%) Kubernetes
11 30 (21.90%) TDD
12 29 (21.17%) Microservices
13 27 (19.71%) DevOps
14 24 (17.52%) Serverless
15 23 (16.79%) AngularJS
15 23 (16.79%) Azure
15 23 (16.79%) Containerisation
15 23 (16.79%) React
16 22 (16.06%) Scrum
17 20 (14.60%) Clean Code
18 19 (13.87%) Mentoring
19 18 (13.14%) Linux
19 18 (13.14%) REST
19 18 (13.14%) SDLC
19 18 (13.14%) Terraform
20 17 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 17 (12.41%) Git
20 17 (12.41%) JavaScript

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 (5.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.73%) JBoss
2 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.88%) AWS
2 24 (17.52%) Serverless
3 23 (16.79%) Azure
4 16 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (9.49%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (8.76%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.03%) AWS Step Functions
7 11 (8.03%) GitHub
8 10 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (5.84%) SaaS
10 7 (5.11%) GCP
11 6 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.19%) Datadog
13 3 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (1.46%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) AMQP
1 7 (5.11%) SMS
2 1 (0.73%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.30%) DynamoDB
2 10 (7.30%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.84%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.19%) MySQL
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.73%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (12.41%) Git
1 17 (12.41%) JUnit
2 14 (10.22%) Maven
3 13 (9.49%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.76%) Mockito
5 7 (5.11%) JIRA
6 3 (2.19%) GitLab
6 3 (2.19%) Postman
6 3 (2.19%) Selenium
7 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.46%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.46%) Subversion
8 1 (0.73%) git-flow
8 1 (0.73%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 26 (18.98%) Finance
2 14 (10.22%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.03%) Tech for Good
4 9 (6.57%) Health Technology
5 8 (5.84%) Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Aviation
7 4 (2.92%) Front Office
8 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Back Office
8 2 (1.46%) Marketing
8 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.46%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.73%) Advertising
9 1 (0.73%) Games
9 1 (0.73%) iGaming
9 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Law
9 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (45.99%) Spring
2 48 (35.04%) Spring Boot
3 23 (16.79%) AngularJS
3 23 (16.79%) React
4 18 (13.14%) REST
4 18 (13.14%) Terraform
5 13 (9.49%) JPA
6 12 (8.76%) Kafka
7 10 (7.30%) Node.js
7 10 (7.30%) RESTful
8 9 (6.57%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.11%) Jakarta EE
9 7 (5.11%) OAuth
9 7 (5.11%) OAuth2
9 7 (5.11%) OpenID
9 7 (5.11%) Spring Security
9 7 (5.11%) Thymeleaf
10 5 (3.65%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (3.65%) Spring MVC
11 4 (2.92%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.19%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.19%) Equities
5 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.19%) NHS
6 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.73%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.04%) CI/CD
2 37 (27.01%) Agile
3 32 (23.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (21.90%) TDD
5 29 (21.17%) Microservices
6 27 (19.71%) DevOps
7 23 (16.79%) Containerisation
8 22 (16.06%) Scrum
9 20 (14.60%) Clean Code
10 19 (13.87%) Mentoring
11 18 (13.14%) SDLC
12 17 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.95%) Software Engineering
14 13 (9.49%) AI
15 12 (8.76%) MVC
15 12 (8.76%) Sprint Planning
16 11 (8.03%) Design Patterns
17 10 (7.30%) LLM
17 10 (7.30%) Technical Architecture
17 10 (7.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (24.82%) SQL
3 17 (12.41%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.76%) Bash
4 12 (8.76%) Kotlin
5 11 (8.03%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.11%) C#
7 7 (5.11%) Python
8 3 (2.19%) Scala
8 3 (2.19%) Tcl
9 2 (1.46%) Groovy
9 2 (1.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.57%) QA
2 2 (1.46%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 45 (32.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (22.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.30%) Ansible
3 2 (1.46%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.41%) Oracle
2 4 (2.92%) IBM
3 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.19%) Splunk
3 3 (2.19%) Sybase
3 3 (2.19%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics