Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 287 210
Rank change year-on-year +39 -77 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 139 119 455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 0.89% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.94% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 123 90 378
10th Percentile £54,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,688 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £109,688 £101,875
90th Percentile £109,000 £148,750 £133,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -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 15,877 12,644 28,887
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 94.62% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,775 8,888 24,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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%) AWS
3 59 (42.45%) Spring
4 56 (40.29%) Spring Boot
5 46 (33.09%) CI/CD
5 46 (33.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (27.34%) Agile
6 38 (27.34%) DevOps
7 36 (25.90%) Docker
8 30 (21.58%) Software Engineering
9 28 (20.14%) JavaScript
10 27 (19.42%) Node.js
10 27 (19.42%) SQL
11 26 (18.71%) Serverless
12 23 (16.55%) Git
12 23 (16.55%) Kubernetes
13 22 (15.83%) Microservices
13 22 (15.83%) NoSQL
13 22 (15.83%) Security Cleared
14 20 (14.39%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (14.39%) Python
14 20 (14.39%) React
15 18 (12.95%) Amazon S3
15 18 (12.95%) REST
16 17 (12.23%) TDD
17 16 (11.51%) Containerisation
17 16 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (11.51%) Jenkins
17 16 (11.51%) SC Cleared
17 16 (11.51%) Terraform

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 3 (2.16%) JBoss
1 3 (2.16%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 66 (47.48%) AWS
2 26 (18.71%) Serverless
3 20 (14.39%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (12.95%) Amazon S3
5 13 (9.35%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (7.91%) SaaS
7 10 (7.19%) GitHub
8 9 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (5.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (5.76%) Azure
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.16%) ChatGPT
11 3 (2.16%) GCP
11 3 (2.16%) Stripe
12 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) AMQP
2 2 (1.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.83%) NoSQL
2 15 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (6.47%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.16%) MySQL
5 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (16.55%) Git
2 16 (11.51%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.32%) Maven
4 5 (3.60%) JUnit
5 3 (2.16%) GitLab
5 3 (2.16%) Gradle
6 2 (1.44%) JIRA
6 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.72%) git-flow
7 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.72%) jMock
7 1 (0.72%) MLflow
7 1 (0.72%) Mockito
General
1 23 (16.55%) Finance
2 19 (13.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.91%) Front Office
3 11 (7.91%) Health Technology
4 8 (5.76%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.76%) Tech for Good
5 7 (5.04%) Games
6 3 (2.16%) Aviation
6 3 (2.16%) Retail
7 2 (1.44%) Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.72%) iGaming
8 1 (0.72%) Marketing
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (42.45%) Spring
2 56 (40.29%) Spring Boot
3 27 (19.42%) Node.js
4 20 (14.39%) React
5 18 (12.95%) REST
6 15 (10.79%) Kafka
7 13 (9.35%) AngularJS
8 9 (6.47%) GraphQL
8 9 (6.47%) Hibernate
8 9 (6.47%) React Native
9 8 (5.76%) Redux
10 7 (5.04%) JSON
11 6 (4.32%) RESTful
11 6 (4.32%) Web Services
11 6 (4.32%) XML
12 5 (3.60%) JPA
13 4 (2.88%) J2EE
13 4 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.88%) SOAP
14 3 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.47%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.32%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.16%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Derivative
8 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.32%) Android
1 6 (4.32%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.09%) CI/CD
1 46 (33.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (27.34%) Agile
2 38 (27.34%) DevOps
3 30 (21.58%) Software Engineering
4 22 (15.83%) Microservices
5 17 (12.23%) TDD
6 16 (11.51%) Containerisation
6 16 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (9.35%) Fintech
7 13 (9.35%) Mentoring
8 11 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (7.91%) Scrum
8 11 (7.91%) SDLC
9 9 (6.47%) AI
9 9 (6.47%) Design Patterns
9 9 (6.47%) DevSecOps
9 9 (6.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (5.76%) Code Quality
10 8 (5.76%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (20.14%) JavaScript
3 27 (19.42%) SQL
4 20 (14.39%) Python
5 15 (10.79%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.19%) Go
7 9 (6.47%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.44%) R
8 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.72%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) C#
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
9 1 (0.72%) Korn
Qualifications
1 22 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.16%) Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.88%) QA
System Software
1 36 (25.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.51%) Terraform
3 10 (7.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 4 (2.88%) Mercator
2 3 (2.16%) OpenAI
2 3 (2.16%) Revolut
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle
4 1 (0.72%) Cognos
4 1 (0.72%) Google
4 1 (0.72%) IBM
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.72%) Pega
4 1 (0.72%) Veracode
4 1 (0.72%) VMware
4 1 (0.72%) WSO2