Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 308 172
Rank change year-on-year +27 -136 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 102 127 494
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.78% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.81% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 84 79 429
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,875 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £80,313 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £127,750 £132,500
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 14,717 15,645 24,663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 96.01% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,610 9,402 20,464
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.37%

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 28 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 28 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.

1 102 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (51.96%) AWS
3 44 (43.14%) Spring
4 40 (39.22%) Spring Boot
5 36 (35.29%) CI/CD
6 31 (30.39%) DevOps
7 30 (29.41%) Docker
8 29 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (27.45%) Agile
10 22 (21.57%) Microservices
11 20 (19.61%) Git
12 19 (18.63%) SQL
13 18 (17.65%) Kubernetes
14 17 (16.67%) JavaScript
14 17 (16.67%) Serverless
15 16 (15.69%) NoSQL
15 16 (15.69%) React
15 16 (15.69%) Software Engineering
16 15 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (14.71%) REST
16 15 (14.71%) Terraform
17 14 (13.73%) Jenkins
17 14 (13.73%) TDD
18 13 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (12.75%) Node.js
18 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
19 12 (11.76%) Amazon S3
19 12 (11.76%) SaaS
20 11 (10.78%) 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 (2.94%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) JBoss
2 1 (0.98%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.96%) AWS
2 17 (16.67%) Serverless
3 13 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 12 (11.76%) SaaS
5 9 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (8.82%) Azure
6 7 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.88%) GitHub
8 5 (4.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.92%) GCP
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.98%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.98%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.98%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) AMQP
2 2 (1.96%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.69%) NoSQL
2 15 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.86%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.90%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.92%) MySQL
7 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.98%) KDB
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.98%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Git
2 14 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.90%) JUnit
3 5 (4.90%) Maven
4 4 (3.92%) GitLab
5 3 (2.94%) Mockito
6 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.96%) Gradle
6 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.98%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.98%) JIRA
7 1 (0.98%) jMock
7 1 (0.98%) MLflow
General
1 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.78%) Finance
2 11 (10.78%) Health Technology
3 8 (7.84%) Tech for Good
4 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Games
5 3 (2.94%) Front Office
5 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.94%) Retail
6 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Aviation
7 1 (0.98%) Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (43.14%) Spring
2 40 (39.22%) Spring Boot
3 16 (15.69%) React
4 15 (14.71%) REST
5 13 (12.75%) Node.js
6 9 (8.82%) Hibernate
6 9 (8.82%) Kafka
6 9 (8.82%) React Native
7 8 (7.84%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.86%) JSON
9 6 (5.88%) Web Services
9 6 (5.88%) XML
10 5 (4.90%) RESTful
11 4 (3.92%) CSS
11 4 (3.92%) HTML
11 4 (3.92%) SOAP
12 3 (2.94%) Java Concurrency
12 3 (2.94%) JPA
12 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (2.94%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.90%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.96%) Derivative
7 2 (1.96%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Android
1 6 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 31 (30.39%) DevOps
3 29 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 28 (27.45%) Agile
5 22 (21.57%) Microservices
6 16 (15.69%) Software Engineering
7 14 (13.73%) TDD
8 13 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.78%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.78%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.78%) Scrum
10 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (8.82%) BDD
11 9 (8.82%) Fintech
12 8 (7.84%) Code Quality
12 8 (7.84%) SDLC
13 6 (5.88%) Design Patterns
13 6 (5.88%) Front End Development
13 6 (5.88%) Sprint Planning
13 6 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (18.63%) SQL
3 17 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.78%) Python
5 8 (7.84%) Kotlin
6 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.92%) Go
8 2 (1.96%) R
8 2 (1.96%) Scala
8 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.98%) Bash
9 1 (0.98%) Groovy
9 1 (0.98%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) Degree
4 4 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.94%) PhD
6 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) QA
System Software
1 30 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.71%) Terraform
3 10 (9.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.98%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (4.90%) Mercator
2 1 (0.98%) Google
2 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle
2 1 (0.98%) Pega
2 1 (0.98%) Revolut
2 1 (0.98%) Veracode
2 1 (0.98%) WSO2