Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 302 145
Rank change year-on-year +4 -157 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 84 159 503
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.81% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.84% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 63 110 444
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +25.00% +10.34%
75th Percentile £110,625 £128,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 14,348 18,977 20,426
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 96.59% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 9,141 11,832 16,667
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,631 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -1.64% -2.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,048 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.74% -4.17% -

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025, 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 84 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (54.76%) AWS
3 42 (50.00%) Agile
4 35 (41.67%) Spring
5 33 (39.29%) JavaScript
6 31 (36.90%) React
6 31 (36.90%) Spring Boot
7 24 (28.57%) Microservices
7 24 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 22 (26.19%) TypeScript
9 20 (23.81%) Node.js
9 20 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (22.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (21.43%) Docker
11 18 (21.43%) Python
12 17 (20.24%) CI/CD
13 15 (17.86%) TDD
14 14 (16.67%) DevOps
14 14 (16.67%) Investment Management
14 14 (16.67%) Order Management
15 13 (15.48%) Fintech
15 13 (15.48%) Kafka
15 13 (15.48%) SQL
16 12 (14.29%) GCP
16 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
16 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
17 11 (13.10%) AngularJS
17 11 (13.10%) NoSQL
17 11 (13.10%) REST
17 11 (13.10%) RESTful

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 8 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) JBoss
2 1 (1.19%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.76%) AWS
2 12 (14.29%) GCP
3 8 (9.52%) Azure
3 8 (9.52%) dbt
4 7 (8.33%) Serverless
5 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.76%) SaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) SSH
2 1 (1.19%) AMQP
2 1 (1.19%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 11 (13.10%) NoSQL
4 9 (10.71%) MongoDB
5 8 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (9.52%) Apache Arrow
5 8 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
5 8 (9.52%) Dremio
6 7 (8.33%) MySQL
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.38%) DB2
9 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.19%) KDB
10 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.19%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Git
2 6 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.76%) Babel
3 4 (4.76%) webpack
4 3 (3.57%) Mockito
5 2 (2.38%) JUnit
6 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.19%) GitLab
6 1 (1.19%) Gradle
6 1 (1.19%) Maven
General
1 29 (34.52%) Finance
2 18 (21.43%) Front Office
3 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Games
6 3 (3.57%) Retail
7 2 (2.38%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Advertising
8 1 (1.19%) Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (41.67%) Spring
2 31 (36.90%) React
2 31 (36.90%) Spring Boot
3 20 (23.81%) Node.js
4 13 (15.48%) Kafka
5 11 (13.10%) AngularJS
5 11 (13.10%) REST
5 11 (13.10%) RESTful
6 10 (11.90%) Redux
7 9 (10.71%) CSS
7 9 (10.71%) HTML
7 9 (10.71%) Vue
8 8 (9.52%) NumPy
8 8 (9.52%) Pandas
8 8 (9.52%) SciPy
9 7 (8.33%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.95%) CSS3
10 5 (5.95%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.95%) HTML5
11 3 (3.57%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Fixed Income
2 10 (11.90%) Equities
3 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 8 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (7.14%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.57%) Derivative
9 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.38%) Sports Betting
10 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.19%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Agile
2 24 (28.57%) Microservices
2 24 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 19 (22.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (20.24%) CI/CD
5 15 (17.86%) TDD
6 14 (16.67%) DevOps
6 14 (16.67%) Investment Management
6 14 (16.67%) Order Management
7 13 (15.48%) Fintech
8 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (11.90%) Risk Management
9 9 (10.71%) Scrum
10 8 (9.52%) Asset Management
10 8 (9.52%) Clean Code
10 8 (9.52%) Code Quality
10 8 (9.52%) Front End Development
10 8 (9.52%) Performance Attribution
10 8 (9.52%) User Experience
11 7 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (39.29%) JavaScript
3 22 (26.19%) TypeScript
4 18 (21.43%) Python
5 13 (15.48%) SQL
6 10 (11.90%) Go
7 7 (8.33%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.95%) Scala
9 3 (3.57%) C#
10 2 (2.38%) R
10 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.19%) Groovy
11 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.33%) Degree
3 5 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 18 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.52%) Terraform
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
4 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (5.95%) Mercator
2 2 (2.38%) Google
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.19%) Pega
3 1 (1.19%) Solace
3 1 (1.19%) Splunk
3 1 (1.19%) WSO2