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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 308 154
Rank change year-on-year +30 -154 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 83 138 480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.84% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.87% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 66 91 415
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £50,686
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,875 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -16.13% +10.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £128,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £84,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 14,035 15,855 20,818
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 96.10% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,122 9,591 17,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,664
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 83 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (54.22%) AWS
3 38 (45.78%) Spring
4 36 (43.37%) Spring Boot
5 30 (36.14%) Agile
6 29 (34.94%) CI/CD
7 27 (32.53%) Docker
8 24 (28.92%) DevOps
9 23 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (24.10%) JavaScript
11 19 (22.89%) Microservices
12 17 (20.48%) React
13 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
14 15 (18.07%) Git
14 15 (18.07%) TDD
15 14 (16.87%) NoSQL
15 14 (16.87%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (16.87%) Serverless
16 13 (15.66%) Python
16 13 (15.66%) SQL
16 13 (15.66%) Terraform
17 12 (14.46%) Jenkins
18 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 11 (13.25%) Scrum
18 11 (13.25%) Software Engineering
19 10 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
19 10 (12.05%) Node.js
19 10 (12.05%) REST
20 9 (10.84%) Amazon S3
20 9 (10.84%) Containerisation

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 (3.61%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.20%) JBoss
2 1 (1.20%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 45 (54.22%) AWS
2 14 (16.87%) Serverless
3 10 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon S3
5 8 (9.64%) Azure
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (7.23%) SaaS
8 4 (4.82%) GCP
8 4 (4.82%) GitHub
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.20%) Apigee
11 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) AMQP
1 2 (2.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) NoSQL
1 14 (16.87%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
2 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.82%) MySQL
5 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.20%) KDB
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.20%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (18.07%) Git
2 12 (14.46%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.61%) GitLab
3 3 (3.61%) JUnit
3 3 (3.61%) Mockito
4 2 (2.41%) Babel
4 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.41%) Maven
4 2 (2.41%) webpack
5 1 (1.20%) Gradle
5 1 (1.20%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.20%) jMock
5 1 (1.20%) MLflow
5 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Finance
3 6 (7.23%) Health Technology
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Games
5 4 (4.82%) Tech for Good
6 3 (3.61%) Front Office
6 3 (3.61%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (45.78%) Spring
2 36 (43.37%) Spring Boot
3 17 (20.48%) React
4 10 (12.05%) Node.js
4 10 (12.05%) REST
5 9 (10.84%) Kafka
6 7 (8.43%) Hibernate
7 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
7 6 (7.23%) CSS
7 6 (7.23%) HTML
7 6 (7.23%) RESTful
8 5 (6.02%) React Native
8 5 (6.02%) Web Services
9 4 (4.82%) JSON
10 3 (3.61%) CSS3
10 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.61%) HTML5
10 3 (3.61%) Java Concurrency
10 3 (3.61%) XML
11 2 (2.41%) Grails
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.82%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.41%) Derivative
5 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Android
2 4 (4.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.14%) Agile
2 29 (34.94%) CI/CD
3 24 (28.92%) DevOps
4 23 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (22.89%) Microservices
6 15 (18.07%) TDD
7 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.25%) Scrum
7 11 (13.25%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.84%) Containerisation
9 8 (9.64%) BDD
9 8 (9.64%) Code Quality
9 8 (9.64%) Front End Development
9 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.43%) User Experience
11 6 (7.23%) AI
11 6 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (7.23%) SDLC
11 6 (7.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (24.10%) JavaScript
3 13 (15.66%) Python
3 13 (15.66%) SQL
4 8 (9.64%) Kotlin
4 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.82%) Go
5 4 (4.82%) Scala
6 2 (2.41%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) R
6 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) Groovy
7 1 (1.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) Degree
3 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.61%) PhD
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (32.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.66%) Terraform
3 8 (9.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (6.02%) Mercator
2 1 (1.20%) Google
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle
2 1 (1.20%) Pega
2 1 (1.20%) WSO2