Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 285 288
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -139
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 177 159 320
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 0.97% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.05% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 149 132 267
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £122,500 £125,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £142,500 £146,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 19,926 15,150 31,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,489 9,444 24,245
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,804 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +5.80% -9.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 9 July 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 July 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.

1 177 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (37.85%) Spring
3 63 (35.59%) AWS
4 55 (31.07%) Spring Boot
5 54 (30.51%) CI/CD
6 50 (28.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 47 (26.55%) Security Cleared
8 43 (24.29%) Agile
9 40 (22.60%) SC Cleared
10 38 (21.47%) Docker
11 37 (20.90%) DevOps
12 33 (18.64%) Software Engineering
13 32 (18.08%) Kubernetes
13 32 (18.08%) SQL
14 31 (17.51%) Serverless
15 29 (16.38%) TDD
16 28 (15.82%) React
17 27 (15.25%) Microservices
18 23 (12.99%) AngularJS
18 23 (12.99%) Containerisation
18 23 (12.99%) Git
18 23 (12.99%) JavaScript
19 22 (12.43%) AWS Lambda
19 22 (12.43%) Node.js
20 21 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
21 20 (11.30%) REST
22 19 (10.73%) Kafka
23 18 (10.17%) Scrum
24 17 (9.60%) Azure
24 17 (9.60%) Clean Code

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 (2.26%) JBoss
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 63 (35.59%) AWS
2 31 (17.51%) Serverless
3 22 (12.43%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (9.60%) Azure
5 16 (9.04%) Amazon S3
6 14 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (7.34%) GitHub
8 12 (6.78%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (5.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.39%) SaaS
13 5 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.82%) GCP
14 4 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 3 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.69%) ChatGPT
15 3 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.69%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.60%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.21%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.26%) MySQL
7 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (12.99%) Git
2 17 (9.60%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.78%) JUnit
4 11 (6.21%) Maven
5 9 (5.08%) JIRA
6 5 (2.82%) Mockito
7 4 (2.26%) GitLab
8 3 (1.69%) Postman
8 3 (1.69%) Selenium
8 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.13%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.13%) Gradle
9 2 (1.13%) Subversion
10 1 (0.56%) git-flow
10 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 31 (17.51%) Finance
2 16 (9.04%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.78%) Front Office
4 10 (5.65%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.52%) Aviation
6 7 (3.95%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.39%) Tech for Good
8 5 (2.82%) Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Games
10 2 (1.13%) Advertising
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.56%) iGaming
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (37.85%) Spring
2 55 (31.07%) Spring Boot
3 28 (15.82%) React
4 23 (12.99%) AngularJS
5 22 (12.43%) Node.js
6 20 (11.30%) REST
7 19 (10.73%) Kafka
8 13 (7.34%) RESTful
9 8 (4.52%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.52%) JPA
9 8 (4.52%) Redux
10 7 (3.95%) J2EE
10 7 (3.95%) Spring MVC
11 6 (3.39%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.82%) SOAP
12 5 (2.82%) Web Services
13 4 (2.26%) OpenAPI
13 4 (2.26%) React Native
13 4 (2.26%) Swagger
14 3 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.08%) Fixed Income
2 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.69%) Equities
5 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.34%) Linux
2 2 (1.13%) Android
2 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.51%) CI/CD
2 50 (28.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 43 (24.29%) Agile
4 37 (20.90%) DevOps
5 33 (18.64%) Software Engineering
6 29 (16.38%) TDD
7 27 (15.25%) Microservices
8 23 (12.99%) Containerisation
9 21 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (10.17%) Scrum
11 17 (9.60%) Clean Code
11 17 (9.60%) Mentoring
11 17 (9.60%) SDLC
12 12 (6.78%) Design Patterns
12 12 (6.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 12 (6.78%) Test Automation
13 11 (6.21%) AI
13 11 (6.21%) Fintech
14 10 (5.65%) DevSecOps
15 9 (5.08%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 177 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (18.08%) SQL
3 23 (12.99%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.60%) Python
4 17 (9.60%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.34%) Kotlin
6 8 (4.52%) Go
7 7 (3.95%) Bash
8 6 (3.39%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.82%) C#
10 3 (1.69%) Scala
10 3 (1.69%) Tcl
11 2 (1.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 47 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.95%) Degree
4 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.69%) QA
2 2 (1.13%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 38 (21.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.78%) Terraform
3 5 (2.82%) Ansible
4 2 (1.13%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (7.34%) Oracle
2 5 (2.82%) IBM
3 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.69%) Revolut
3 3 (1.69%) Splunk
3 3 (1.69%) Sybase
3 3 (1.69%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.56%) Cognos
5 1 (0.56%) Veracode
5 1 (0.56%) VMware