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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 293 313
Rank change year-on-year -29 +20 -164
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 138 121 202
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.81% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 105 96 162
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - -35.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £79,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% -8.23% -1.25%

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 21,988 14,847 22,816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.53% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,627 8,962 15,506
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 £58,077
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.99% -7.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £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 4 September 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 4 September 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 65 (47.10%) Spring
3 58 (42.03%) AWS
4 50 (36.23%) Spring Boot
5 49 (35.51%) CI/CD
6 46 (33.33%) Docker
7 37 (26.81%) Agile
8 36 (26.09%) Security Cleared
9 35 (25.36%) SQL
10 34 (24.64%) SC Cleared
11 32 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (22.46%) Kubernetes
12 31 (22.46%) TDD
13 30 (21.74%) Microservices
14 27 (19.57%) DevOps
15 24 (17.39%) Azure
15 24 (17.39%) Serverless
16 23 (16.67%) AngularJS
16 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
16 23 (16.67%) React
17 22 (15.94%) Scrum
18 21 (15.22%) Clean Code
19 20 (14.49%) Mentoring
19 20 (14.49%) Terraform
20 19 (13.77%) REST
21 18 (13.04%) Git
21 18 (13.04%) JUnit
21 18 (13.04%) Linux
21 18 (13.04%) SDLC
22 17 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement

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 58 (42.03%) AWS
2 24 (17.39%) Azure
2 24 (17.39%) Serverless
3 16 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (9.42%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.97%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (7.97%) GitHub
7 10 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.52%) SaaS
9 8 (5.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (5.80%) GCP
10 6 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.17%) Datadog
12 3 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
13 2 (1.45%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (1.45%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) AMQP
1 8 (5.80%) SMS
2 1 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.25%) DynamoDB
2 10 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.17%) MySQL
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (13.04%) Git
1 18 (13.04%) JUnit
2 15 (10.87%) Maven
3 13 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.42%) Mockito
4 7 (5.07%) JIRA
5 3 (2.17%) GitLab
5 3 (2.17%) Postman
5 3 (2.17%) Selenium
6 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.45%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.45%) Subversion
7 1 (0.72%) git-flow
7 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 27 (19.57%) Finance
2 15 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.70%) Tech for Good
4 11 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.25%) Health Technology
6 7 (5.07%) Banking
7 6 (4.35%) Aviation
8 3 (2.17%) Back Office
8 3 (2.17%) Front Office
8 3 (2.17%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Marketing
9 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Games
10 1 (0.72%) iGaming
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (47.10%) Spring
2 50 (36.23%) Spring Boot
3 23 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 23 (16.67%) React
4 20 (14.49%) Terraform
5 19 (13.77%) REST
6 14 (10.14%) JPA
7 12 (8.70%) Kafka
8 10 (7.25%) Node.js
8 10 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (7.25%) RESTful
9 8 (5.80%) OAuth
9 8 (5.80%) OAuth2
9 8 (5.80%) OpenID
9 8 (5.80%) Spring Security
9 8 (5.80%) Thymeleaf
10 7 (5.07%) Jakarta EE
11 6 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (3.62%) Spring MVC
13 4 (2.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.17%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.17%) Equities
4 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.51%) CI/CD
2 37 (26.81%) Agile
3 32 (23.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (22.46%) TDD
5 30 (21.74%) Microservices
6 27 (19.57%) DevOps
7 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 22 (15.94%) Scrum
9 21 (15.22%) Clean Code
10 20 (14.49%) Mentoring
11 18 (13.04%) SDLC
12 17 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.87%) Software Engineering
14 13 (9.42%) AI
14 13 (9.42%) MVC
15 12 (8.70%) Design Patterns
15 12 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
16 11 (7.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 10 (7.25%) Technical Architecture
17 10 (7.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (25.36%) SQL
3 17 (12.32%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.70%) Bash
4 12 (8.70%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.97%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.07%) C#
7 7 (5.07%) Python
8 3 (2.17%) Scala
8 3 (2.17%) Tcl
9 2 (1.45%) Groovy
9 2 (1.45%) Ruby
10 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.07%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.25%) QA
2 2 (1.45%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 46 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (22.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.97%) Ansible
3 2 (1.45%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.32%) Oracle
2 4 (2.90%) IBM
3 3 (2.17%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.17%) Splunk
3 3 (2.17%) Sybase
3 3 (2.17%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics