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 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 285 317
Rank change year-on-year -29 +32 -170
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 146 135 212
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.82% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.88% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 115 109 174
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -35.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -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 21,863 15,308 23,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.50% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,593 9,345 16,881
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 August 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 August 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.

1 146 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (45.89%) Spring
3 62 (42.47%) AWS
4 54 (36.99%) CI/CD
5 52 (35.62%) Spring Boot
6 46 (31.51%) Docker
7 42 (28.77%) Agile
8 37 (25.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (24.66%) Security Cleared
10 35 (23.97%) SQL
11 34 (23.29%) SC Cleared
11 34 (23.29%) TDD
12 32 (21.92%) Kubernetes
13 30 (20.55%) DevOps
13 30 (20.55%) Microservices
14 28 (19.18%) Serverless
15 26 (17.81%) React
16 25 (17.12%) AngularJS
16 25 (17.12%) Containerisation
17 23 (15.75%) Azure
17 23 (15.75%) Scrum
18 22 (15.07%) Clean Code
18 22 (15.07%) JavaScript
19 21 (14.38%) SDLC
19 21 (14.38%) Software Engineering
20 20 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
21 19 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
21 19 (13.01%) Git
21 19 (13.01%) Mentoring
22 18 (12.33%) Linux

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 (4.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.68%) JBoss
2 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.47%) AWS
2 28 (19.18%) Serverless
3 23 (15.75%) Azure
4 20 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (9.59%) Amazon S3
6 13 (8.90%) GitHub
7 12 (8.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (4.79%) GCP
10 7 (4.79%) SaaS
11 6 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.05%) ChatGPT
13 3 (2.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.11%) AMQP
1 6 (4.11%) SMS
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.90%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.53%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.74%) MySQL
7 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) Git
2 17 (11.64%) JUnit
3 14 (9.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.59%) Maven
4 12 (8.22%) Mockito
5 8 (5.48%) JIRA
6 3 (2.05%) GitLab
6 3 (2.05%) Postman
6 3 (2.05%) Selenium
7 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.37%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.37%) Subversion
8 1 (0.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 30 (20.55%) Finance
2 14 (9.59%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.85%) Tech for Good
5 8 (5.48%) Banking
5 8 (5.48%) Health Technology
6 6 (4.11%) Aviation
6 6 (4.11%) Front Office
7 2 (1.37%) Advertising
7 2 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Back Office
7 2 (1.37%) Marketing
7 2 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.37%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.68%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) iGaming
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (45.89%) Spring
2 52 (35.62%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.81%) React
4 25 (17.12%) AngularJS
5 18 (12.33%) REST
6 17 (11.64%) Terraform
7 15 (10.27%) Node.js
8 14 (9.59%) Kafka
9 12 (8.22%) JPA
10 11 (7.53%) RESTful
11 8 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.79%) Jakarta EE
13 6 (4.11%) OAuth
13 6 (4.11%) OAuth2
13 6 (4.11%) OpenID
13 6 (4.11%) Spring Security
13 6 (4.11%) Thymeleaf
14 5 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (3.42%) Spring MVC
15 4 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.79%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.05%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.05%) Equities
4 3 (2.05%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.05%) NHS
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.99%) CI/CD
2 42 (28.77%) Agile
3 37 (25.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (23.29%) TDD
5 30 (20.55%) DevOps
5 30 (20.55%) Microservices
6 25 (17.12%) Containerisation
7 23 (15.75%) Scrum
8 22 (15.07%) Clean Code
9 21 (14.38%) SDLC
9 21 (14.38%) Software Engineering
10 19 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (13.01%) Mentoring
11 16 (10.96%) AI
12 13 (8.90%) Design Patterns
13 12 (8.22%) Sprint Planning
14 11 (7.53%) MVC
15 10 (6.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 10 (6.85%) Technical Architecture
15 10 (6.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 146 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (23.97%) SQL
3 22 (15.07%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.59%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.90%) Kotlin
6 12 (8.22%) Bash
7 11 (7.53%) PL/SQL
8 10 (6.85%) Python
9 7 (4.79%) C#
10 3 (2.05%) Scala
10 3 (2.05%) Tcl
11 2 (1.37%) Go
11 2 (1.37%) Groovy
11 2 (1.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (4.79%) Degree
4 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) QA
2 2 (1.37%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 46 (31.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (21.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.16%) Ansible
3 2 (1.37%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (11.64%) Oracle
2 4 (2.74%) IBM
3 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.05%) Splunk
3 3 (2.05%) Sybase
3 3 (2.05%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics