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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 276 271
Rank change year-on-year +46 -5 -116
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 175 158 361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 1.05% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.14% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 155 128 299
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £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 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £139,000 £142,500
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 17,615 13,816 31,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 92.18% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,966 8,735 24,848
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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.

1 175 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (41.14%) Spring
3 70 (40.00%) AWS
4 61 (34.86%) Spring Boot
5 57 (32.57%) CI/CD
6 53 (30.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (26.29%) Security Cleared
8 42 (24.00%) Agile
9 40 (22.86%) DevOps
9 40 (22.86%) Docker
10 39 (22.29%) SC Cleared
11 34 (19.43%) Software Engineering
12 33 (18.86%) Kubernetes
12 33 (18.86%) Serverless
12 33 (18.86%) SQL
13 28 (16.00%) React
14 27 (15.43%) JavaScript
14 27 (15.43%) Microservices
14 27 (15.43%) TDD
15 26 (14.86%) Node.js
16 24 (13.71%) NoSQL
17 22 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (12.57%) Containerisation
17 22 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (12.57%) Git
18 21 (12.00%) REST
19 20 (11.43%) Amazon S3
19 20 (11.43%) AngularJS
19 20 (11.43%) Mentoring
20 19 (10.86%) Scrum

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 (2.29%) JBoss
2 3 (1.71%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.57%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.00%) AWS
2 33 (18.86%) Serverless
3 22 (12.57%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 17 (9.71%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (7.43%) Azure
7 12 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (6.86%) AWS Step Functions
7 12 (6.86%) GitHub
8 11 (6.29%) SaaS
9 10 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.71%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.71%) Stripe
14 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (1.14%) Apigee
14 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.71%) NoSQL
2 13 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.86%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.71%) MySQL
6 3 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (12.57%) Git
2 18 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.29%) Maven
4 10 (5.71%) JUnit
5 5 (2.86%) Mockito
6 4 (2.29%) GitLab
6 4 (2.29%) JIRA
7 3 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.57%) git-flow
9 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.57%) jMock
9 1 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 33 (18.86%) Finance
2 13 (7.43%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.86%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.71%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.14%) Front Office
5 9 (5.14%) Tech for Good
6 8 (4.57%) Aviation
7 5 (2.86%) Games
8 2 (1.14%) Advertising
8 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.57%) iGaming
9 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (41.14%) Spring
2 61 (34.86%) Spring Boot
3 28 (16.00%) React
4 26 (14.86%) Node.js
5 21 (12.00%) REST
6 20 (11.43%) AngularJS
7 13 (7.43%) Kafka
8 9 (5.14%) RESTful
9 8 (4.57%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.57%) React Native
9 8 (4.57%) Redux
10 7 (4.00%) Web Services
11 6 (3.43%) JSON
11 6 (3.43%) SOAP
11 6 (3.43%) XML
12 5 (2.86%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.86%) J2EE
12 5 (2.86%) JPA
13 4 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.14%) Fixed Income
2 8 (4.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.43%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.57%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Android
2 6 (3.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.57%) CI/CD
2 53 (30.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 42 (24.00%) Agile
4 40 (22.86%) DevOps
5 34 (19.43%) Software Engineering
6 27 (15.43%) Microservices
6 27 (15.43%) TDD
7 22 (12.57%) Containerisation
7 22 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 19 (10.86%) Scrum
10 15 (8.57%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.43%) Fintech
11 13 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.43%) SDLC
12 12 (6.86%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (6.29%) DevSecOps
14 10 (5.71%) AI
14 10 (5.71%) Design Patterns
14 10 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 175 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (18.86%) SQL
3 27 (15.43%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.71%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.14%) Python
6 11 (6.29%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.57%) Go
8 7 (4.00%) Bash
9 6 (3.43%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.29%) C#
11 2 (1.14%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 46 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.86%) Degree
5 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.14%) QA
2 1 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 40 (22.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.29%) Terraform
3 11 (6.29%) Ansible
4 2 (1.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (5.71%) Oracle
2 3 (1.71%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.71%) Revolut
3 2 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.57%) Cognos
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.57%) Veracode
4 1 (0.57%) VMware