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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 317 308
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 -165
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 134 113 195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.68% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.73% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 101 87 146
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £46,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £51,250 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -31.65% +27.42%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% 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 23,248 15,407 21,924
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.85% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,167 8,911 13,737
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -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 27 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 27 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.

1 134 (100.00%) Java
2 62 (46.27%) Spring
3 57 (42.54%) AWS
4 49 (36.57%) Spring Boot
5 47 (35.07%) Docker
6 46 (34.33%) CI/CD
7 37 (27.61%) SQL
8 34 (25.37%) Agile
9 31 (23.13%) Microservices
10 30 (22.39%) SC Cleared
10 30 (22.39%) Security Cleared
11 29 (21.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (21.64%) Kubernetes
12 26 (19.40%) DevOps
12 26 (19.40%) TDD
13 23 (17.16%) Serverless
14 22 (16.42%) Containerisation
15 21 (15.67%) Azure
16 20 (14.93%) Clean Code
16 20 (14.93%) React
17 19 (14.18%) AngularJS
17 19 (14.18%) Mentoring
17 19 (14.18%) REST
17 19 (14.18%) Scrum
17 19 (14.18%) Terraform
18 18 (13.43%) Software Engineering
19 17 (12.69%) JUnit
19 17 (12.69%) Linux
19 17 (12.69%) Oracle
20 16 (11.94%) AI

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 (5.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.75%) JBoss
2 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 57 (42.54%) AWS
2 23 (17.16%) Serverless
3 21 (15.67%) Azure
4 16 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.45%) GitHub
6 13 (9.70%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (8.96%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.21%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (8.21%) SaaS
9 10 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (5.97%) GCP
11 7 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.99%) Datadog
15 3 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
15 3 (2.24%) ChatGPT
15 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.46%) AMQP
1 10 (7.46%) SMS
2 1 (0.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.46%) DynamoDB
3 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.22%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.49%) MySQL
8 1 (0.75%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (12.69%) JUnit
2 15 (11.19%) Git
2 15 (11.19%) Maven
3 13 (9.70%) Mockito
4 12 (8.96%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.48%) JIRA
6 3 (2.24%) Claude Code
6 3 (2.24%) GitLab
6 3 (2.24%) Postman
6 3 (2.24%) Selenium
7 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.49%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.49%) Subversion
8 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 30 (22.39%) Finance
2 16 (11.94%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.45%) Tech for Good
4 12 (8.96%) Health Technology
5 11 (8.21%) Banking
6 9 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.48%) Front Office
8 4 (2.99%) Aviation
9 3 (2.24%) Back Office
9 3 (2.24%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.75%) Law
11 1 (0.75%) Marketing
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (46.27%) Spring
2 49 (36.57%) Spring Boot
3 20 (14.93%) React
4 19 (14.18%) AngularJS
4 19 (14.18%) REST
4 19 (14.18%) Terraform
5 15 (11.19%) JPA
6 12 (8.96%) Kafka
7 11 (8.21%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (7.46%) Node.js
8 10 (7.46%) OAuth
8 10 (7.46%) OAuth2
8 10 (7.46%) OpenID
8 10 (7.46%) Spring Security
8 10 (7.46%) Thymeleaf
9 9 (6.72%) RESTful
10 6 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (4.48%) Jakarta EE
11 5 (3.73%) Spring MVC
12 4 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.22%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.48%) Equities
3 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.24%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.24%) Derivative
4 3 (2.24%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (2.24%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.24%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.24%) NHS
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.33%) CI/CD
2 34 (25.37%) Agile
3 31 (23.13%) Microservices
4 29 (21.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (19.40%) DevOps
5 26 (19.40%) TDD
6 22 (16.42%) Containerisation
7 20 (14.93%) Clean Code
8 19 (14.18%) Mentoring
8 19 (14.18%) Scrum
9 18 (13.43%) Software Engineering
10 16 (11.94%) AI
10 16 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (11.94%) SDLC
11 15 (11.19%) MVC
12 12 (8.96%) Design Patterns
13 11 (8.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 11 (8.21%) Sprint Planning
14 10 (7.46%) LLM
14 10 (7.46%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 134 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (27.61%) SQL
3 16 (11.94%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.70%) PL/SQL
5 12 (8.96%) Bash
5 12 (8.96%) Kotlin
6 10 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.72%) Python
8 6 (4.48%) C#
9 3 (2.24%) Scala
9 3 (2.24%) Tcl
10 2 (1.49%) Groovy
10 2 (1.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (22.39%) SC Cleared
1 30 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.48%) Degree
3 5 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) QA
2 2 (1.49%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 47 (35.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (21.64%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.70%) Ansible
3 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.69%) Oracle
2 4 (2.99%) IBM
3 3 (2.24%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.24%) Splunk
3 3 (2.24%) Sybase
3 3 (2.24%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft