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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 319 310
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 138 107 187
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.64% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.68% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 103 82 139
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,750 £54,063 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -32.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £88,750 £113,750 £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 23,349 15,648 21,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 92.99% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16,180 8,788 13,430
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £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 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 3 October 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 3 October 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.

1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 64 (46.38%) Spring
3 59 (42.75%) AWS
4 50 (36.23%) Docker
4 50 (36.23%) Spring Boot
5 49 (35.51%) CI/CD
6 39 (28.26%) SQL
7 35 (25.36%) Agile
8 31 (22.46%) Kubernetes
9 30 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (21.74%) Microservices
10 29 (21.01%) SC Cleared
10 29 (21.01%) Security Cleared
11 27 (19.57%) DevOps
12 26 (18.84%) TDD
13 25 (18.12%) Serverless
14 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
15 21 (15.22%) Clean Code
16 20 (14.49%) Azure
16 20 (14.49%) Software Engineering
17 19 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (13.77%) Mentoring
17 19 (13.77%) React
17 19 (13.77%) REST
17 19 (13.77%) Scrum
18 18 (13.04%) AI
18 18 (13.04%) AngularJS
18 18 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
18 18 (13.04%) JavaScript
18 18 (13.04%) 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 7 (5.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.72%) JBoss
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 59 (42.75%) AWS
2 25 (18.12%) Serverless
3 20 (14.49%) Azure
4 18 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (11.59%) GitHub
6 14 (10.14%) Amazon S3
7 13 (9.42%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (8.70%) SaaS
9 11 (7.97%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (5.80%) GCP
11 8 (5.80%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.62%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (3.62%) ChatGPT
13 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.97%) AMQP
1 11 (7.97%) SMS
2 1 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.25%) DynamoDB
2 10 (7.25%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.25%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 17 (12.32%) JUnit
2 15 (10.87%) Git
2 15 (10.87%) Maven
3 13 (9.42%) Mockito
4 12 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.35%) JIRA
6 5 (3.62%) Claude Code
7 3 (2.17%) GitLab
7 3 (2.17%) Postman
7 3 (2.17%) Selenium
8 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.45%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.45%) Subversion
9 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 32 (23.19%) Finance
2 18 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.87%) Tech for Good
4 13 (9.42%) Banking
4 13 (9.42%) Health Technology
5 9 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.80%) Front Office
7 4 (2.90%) Aviation
8 3 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.17%) Back Office
8 3 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (46.38%) Spring
2 50 (36.23%) Spring Boot
3 19 (13.77%) React
3 19 (13.77%) REST
4 18 (13.04%) AngularJS
4 18 (13.04%) Terraform
5 15 (10.87%) JPA
6 13 (9.42%) Kafka
7 11 (7.97%) OAuth
7 11 (7.97%) OAuth2
7 11 (7.97%) OpenID
7 11 (7.97%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (7.97%) Spring Security
7 11 (7.97%) Thymeleaf
8 10 (7.25%) Node.js
8 10 (7.25%) RESTful
9 6 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (3.62%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (3.62%) Spring MVC
11 4 (2.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.80%) Equities
3 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.62%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.62%) Derivative
5 5 (3.62%) Equity Derivative
5 5 (3.62%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.62%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.17%) NHS
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.51%) CI/CD
2 35 (25.36%) Agile
3 30 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
3 30 (21.74%) Microservices
4 27 (19.57%) DevOps
5 26 (18.84%) TDD
6 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 21 (15.22%) Clean Code
8 20 (14.49%) Software Engineering
9 19 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (13.77%) Mentoring
9 19 (13.77%) Scrum
10 18 (13.04%) AI
11 16 (11.59%) MVC
11 16 (11.59%) SDLC
12 14 (10.14%) Design Patterns
13 11 (7.97%) Architectural Design
13 11 (7.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 11 (7.97%) Sprint Planning
14 10 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (28.26%) SQL
3 18 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 14 (10.14%) PL/SQL
4 14 (10.14%) Python
5 12 (8.70%) Bash
6 11 (7.97%) Kotlin
7 10 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.35%) C#
9 3 (2.17%) Scala
9 3 (2.17%) Tcl
10 2 (1.45%) Groovy
10 2 (1.45%) Ruby
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (21.01%) SC Cleared
1 29 (21.01%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.35%) Degree
3 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) QA
2 2 (1.45%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 50 (36.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (22.46%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.14%) Ansible
3 2 (1.45%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (11.59%) Oracle
2 4 (2.90%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.17%) IBM
3 3 (2.17%) Splunk
3 3 (2.17%) Sybase
3 3 (2.17%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow