Java Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 254 149
Rank change year-on-year +6 -105 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 158 416 989
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 1.23% 2.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.28% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 127 334 870
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £97,188
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Java Developer.

Java Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Java Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 83 (52.53%) AWS
3 68 (43.04%) Agile
4 65 (41.14%) Finance
5 61 (38.61%) Docker
6 60 (37.97%) React
7 51 (32.28%) SQL
8 49 (31.01%) Linux
9 46 (29.11%) Microservices
9 46 (29.11%) AngularJS
10 45 (28.48%) Spring
11 44 (27.85%) Software Engineering
12 40 (25.32%) JUnit
12 40 (25.32%) Mockito
13 37 (23.42%) Kubernetes
13 37 (23.42%) CI/CD
14 36 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (22.78%) Azure
14 36 (22.78%) IBM
14 36 (22.78%) IntelliJ
15 35 (22.15%) Unit Testing
16 34 (21.52%) Spring Boot
17 33 (20.89%) Front Office
18 32 (20.25%) DevOps
19 31 (19.62%) SDLC
19 31 (19.62%) Fintech
20 30 (18.99%) C++
20 30 (18.99%) Containerisation
21 29 (18.35%) Python
21 29 (18.35%) Algorithms

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (12.66%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.70%) Apache
3 4 (2.53%) JBoss
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 83 (52.53%) AWS
2 36 (22.78%) Azure
3 25 (15.82%) SaaS
4 22 (13.92%) GCP
5 20 (12.66%) dbt
6 18 (11.39%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (10.13%) Serverless
8 15 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (9.49%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.86%) Datadog
10 8 (5.06%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.27%) PaaS
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon MSK
13 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.82%) NoSQL
2 23 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (12.66%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (12.66%) Apache Arrow
3 20 (12.66%) Apache Iceberg
3 20 (12.66%) Dremio
4 9 (5.70%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.90%) MySQL
8 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.27%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.63%) Flink
9 1 (0.63%) Impala
9 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.63%) Power BI
9 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (25.32%) JUnit
1 40 (25.32%) Mockito
2 36 (22.78%) IntelliJ
3 24 (15.19%) Jenkins
4 23 (14.56%) GitLab
5 22 (13.92%) Eclipse
5 22 (13.92%) Jasmine
5 22 (13.92%) Karma Test Runner
5 22 (13.92%) Protractor
6 20 (12.66%) Git
7 19 (12.03%) Maven
8 14 (8.86%) Cucumber
9 10 (6.33%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.53%) Gradle
10 4 (2.53%) JIRA
11 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.27%) Gatling
11 2 (1.27%) JMeter
11 2 (1.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 65 (41.14%) Finance
2 33 (20.89%) Front Office
3 23 (14.56%) Social Skills
4 20 (12.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (11.39%) Banking
6 11 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.96%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.06%) Law
8 5 (3.16%) Police
9 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.27%) Retail
12 1 (0.63%) Electronics
12 1 (0.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (37.97%) React
2 46 (29.11%) AngularJS
3 45 (28.48%) Spring
4 34 (21.52%) Spring Boot
5 28 (17.72%) Hibernate
5 28 (17.72%) JPA
5 28 (17.72%) Kafka
6 25 (15.82%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (10.76%) Node.js
7 17 (10.76%) Vue
8 14 (8.86%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (8.86%) JMS
8 14 (8.86%) REST
8 14 (8.86%) RESTful
9 12 (7.59%) NumPy
9 12 (7.59%) Pandas
9 12 (7.59%) SciPy
10 11 (6.96%) Middleware
11 8 (5.06%) PySpark
12 7 (4.43%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.35%) Algorithms
2 21 (13.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (12.66%) Fixed Income
4 19 (12.03%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (12.03%) Equities
5 14 (8.86%) Credit Derivative
5 14 (8.86%) Management Information System
6 10 (6.33%) Derivative
7 8 (5.06%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.80%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (3.16%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.90%) BBC
11 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 49 (31.01%) Linux
2 10 (6.33%) Windows
3 5 (3.16%) Rocky
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (43.04%) Agile
2 46 (29.11%) Microservices
3 44 (27.85%) Software Engineering
4 37 (23.42%) CI/CD
5 36 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (22.15%) Unit Testing
7 32 (20.25%) DevOps
8 31 (19.62%) Fintech
8 31 (19.62%) SDLC
9 30 (18.99%) Containerisation
10 20 (12.66%) Asset Management
11 19 (12.03%) Low Latency
12 16 (10.13%) Investment Management
13 15 (9.49%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (8.86%) Analytics
14 14 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (8.86%) Order Management
15 13 (8.23%) Electronic Trading
15 13 (8.23%) TDD
16 12 (7.59%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (100.00%) Java
2 51 (32.28%) SQL
3 30 (18.99%) C++
4 29 (18.35%) Python
5 28 (17.72%) TypeScript
6 27 (17.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.80%) C
8 3 (1.90%) C#
8 3 (1.90%) Groovy
9 2 (1.27%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (11.39%) Degree
2 13 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.16%) QA
2 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 61 (38.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (23.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.86%) Ansible
2 14 (8.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (22.78%) IBM
2 9 (5.70%) Oracle
3 6 (3.80%) Google
4 5 (3.16%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.27%) SAP
5 2 (1.27%) Solace
6 1 (0.63%) ION Trading