Hybrid/Remote Java Developer Job Trends

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote/hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 306 177
Rank change year-on-year +31 -129 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 106 130 507
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 0.80% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.84% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 89 80 435
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,188 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% -18.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £127,625 £132,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £84,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 14,822 15,555 25,195
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 95.97% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,684 9,351 20,927
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -5.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,338 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 31 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 31 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.

1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 54 (50.94%) AWS
3 47 (44.34%) Spring
4 43 (40.57%) Spring Boot
5 38 (35.85%) CI/CD
6 32 (30.19%) DevOps
6 32 (30.19%) Docker
7 30 (28.30%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (27.36%) Agile
9 23 (21.70%) Microservices
10 21 (19.81%) Git
11 20 (18.87%) Kubernetes
11 20 (18.87%) SQL
12 18 (16.98%) JavaScript
12 18 (16.98%) NoSQL
12 18 (16.98%) Serverless
13 17 (16.04%) REST
14 16 (15.09%) React
14 16 (15.09%) Software Engineering
15 15 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (14.15%) Security Cleared
15 15 (14.15%) TDD
15 15 (14.15%) Terraform
16 14 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (13.21%) Jenkins
17 13 (12.26%) Amazon S3
17 13 (12.26%) Node.js
17 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
18 12 (11.32%) 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 (2.83%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.89%) JBoss
3 1 (0.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.94%) AWS
2 18 (16.98%) Serverless
3 14 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (12.26%) Amazon S3
5 12 (11.32%) SaaS
6 9 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.49%) Azure
7 8 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.66%) GitHub
9 5 (4.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.77%) GCP
11 2 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.94%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.94%) Apigee
12 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.94%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) AMQP
2 2 (1.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 15 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.72%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.77%) MySQL
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.94%) KDB
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.94%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (19.81%) Git
2 14 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.66%) Maven
4 5 (4.72%) JUnit
5 4 (3.77%) GitLab
6 3 (2.83%) Gradle
6 3 (2.83%) Mockito
7 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.94%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.94%) JIRA
8 1 (0.94%) jMock
8 1 (0.94%) MLflow
General
1 23 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Finance
2 11 (10.38%) Health Technology
3 8 (7.55%) Tech for Good
4 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Games
6 3 (2.83%) Front Office
6 3 (2.83%) Retail
7 2 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Aviation
8 1 (0.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (44.34%) Spring
2 43 (40.57%) Spring Boot
3 17 (16.04%) REST
4 16 (15.09%) React
5 13 (12.26%) Node.js
6 9 (8.49%) Hibernate
6 9 (8.49%) React Native
7 8 (7.55%) AngularJS
7 8 (7.55%) Kafka
8 7 (6.60%) JSON
9 6 (5.66%) RESTful
9 6 (5.66%) Web Services
9 6 (5.66%) XML
10 4 (3.77%) CSS
10 4 (3.77%) HTML
10 4 (3.77%) JPA
10 4 (3.77%) SOAP
10 4 (3.77%) Spring MVC
11 3 (2.83%) J2EE
11 3 (2.83%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.66%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.72%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.77%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.89%) Derivative
7 2 (1.89%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.94%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.66%) Android
1 6 (5.66%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.85%) CI/CD
2 32 (30.19%) DevOps
3 30 (28.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 29 (27.36%) Agile
5 23 (21.70%) Microservices
6 16 (15.09%) Software Engineering
7 15 (14.15%) TDD
8 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.32%) Containerisation
9 12 (11.32%) Mentoring
10 11 (10.38%) Scrum
11 10 (9.43%) Fintech
11 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.49%) BDD
13 8 (7.55%) Code Quality
13 8 (7.55%) Design Patterns
13 8 (7.55%) SDLC
14 7 (6.60%) Front End Development
14 7 (6.60%) Test Automation
15 6 (5.66%) AI
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (18.87%) SQL
3 18 (16.98%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.32%) Python
5 8 (7.55%) Kotlin
6 6 (5.66%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.77%) Go
8 2 (1.89%) R
8 2 (1.89%) Scala
8 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.94%) Bash
9 1 (0.94%) Groovy
9 1 (0.94%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.66%) Degree
4 4 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.83%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.83%) PhD
6 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 32 (30.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.15%) Terraform
3 10 (9.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.94%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (4.72%) Mercator
2 1 (0.94%) Cognos
2 1 (0.94%) Google
2 1 (0.94%) IBM
2 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle
2 1 (0.94%) Pega
2 1 (0.94%) Revolut
2 1 (0.94%) Veracode
2 1 (0.94%) VMware
2 1 (0.94%) WSO2