Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 283 312
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 112 153 231
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 0.98% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.02% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 90 111 210
10th Percentile £58,500 £65,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +76.92% -23.53%
75th Percentile £107,500 £140,677 £91,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £112,750
UK median annual salary £83,750 £97,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -14.10% +47.17% -24.29%

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 15,183 15,024 26,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 95.86% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,956 9,117 22,069
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,968 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Java Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Java Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Java Engineer job vacancies

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Java Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 11 February 2026, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 112 (100.00%) Java
2 83 (74.11%) Software Engineering
3 79 (70.54%) AWS
4 42 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 40 (35.71%) Microservices
6 38 (33.93%) Agile
7 34 (30.36%) Spring
8 28 (25.00%) Kubernetes
8 28 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 27 (24.11%) Spring Boot
10 22 (19.64%) JavaScript
11 20 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (17.86%) TypeScript
12 19 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (16.96%) Python
13 18 (16.07%) Clean Code
13 18 (16.07%) Terraform
14 16 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
14 16 (14.29%) GCP
14 16 (14.29%) Investment Management
14 16 (14.29%) React
15 15 (13.39%) Deployment Automation
15 15 (13.39%) Fintech
15 15 (13.39%) Grafana
15 15 (13.39%) Mentoring
15 15 (13.39%) SaaS
16 14 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (12.50%) Apache
16 14 (12.50%) Apache Airflow

Java Engineer 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 14 (12.50%) Apache
1 14 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.89%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 79 (70.54%) AWS
2 16 (14.29%) GCP
3 15 (13.39%) SaaS
4 14 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (12.50%) dbt
4 14 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.36%) GitHub
6 5 (4.46%) Azure
6 5 (4.46%) Serverless
7 4 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.68%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.79%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.89%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
2 14 (12.50%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 14 (12.50%) Dremio
3 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.68%) MySQL
5 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.89%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.89%) Redis
6 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.68%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.68%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.68%) GitLab
3 3 (2.68%) JMeter
4 2 (1.79%) Git
4 2 (1.79%) JUnit
4 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.89%) Maven
5 1 (0.89%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (45.54%) Finance
2 32 (28.57%) Banking
3 19 (16.96%) Front Office
4 17 (15.18%) Retail
5 15 (13.39%) Financial Institution
6 14 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 14 (12.50%) Law
7 11 (9.82%) Back Office
8 10 (8.93%) Games
9 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.57%) Social Skills
10 4 (3.57%) Tech for Good
11 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (1.79%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.79%) Marketing
12 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.89%) Aviation
13 1 (0.89%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.36%) Spring
2 27 (24.11%) Spring Boot
3 16 (14.29%) React
4 14 (12.50%) gRPC
4 14 (12.50%) NumPy
4 14 (12.50%) Pandas
4 14 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 14 (12.50%) RESTful
4 14 (12.50%) SciPy
5 11 (9.82%) Kafka
5 11 (9.82%) Node.js
6 6 (5.36%) REST
7 5 (4.46%) Hibernate
7 5 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (4.46%) SOAP
7 5 (4.46%) Web Services
8 4 (3.57%) XML
9 3 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (2.68%) J2EE
9 3 (2.68%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.18%) Derivative
3 16 (14.29%) Fixed Income
4 14 (12.50%) Equities
4 14 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (12.50%) Hedge funds
4 14 (12.50%) Pricing Data
5 8 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.57%) NHS
7 3 (2.68%) Blog
8 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.89%) FPGA
8 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (74.11%) Software Engineering
2 42 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 40 (35.71%) Microservices
4 38 (33.93%) Agile
5 28 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 20 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (16.07%) Clean Code
8 16 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
8 16 (14.29%) Investment Management
9 15 (13.39%) Deployment Automation
9 15 (13.39%) Fintech
9 15 (13.39%) Mentoring
10 14 (12.50%) Asset Management
11 13 (11.61%) DevOps
12 9 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (7.14%) TDD
13 8 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (6.25%) API Integration
14 7 (6.25%) Coaching
14 7 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 112 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (19.64%) JavaScript
3 20 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 19 (16.96%) Python
5 14 (12.50%) SQL
6 5 (4.46%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.68%) Go
8 2 (1.79%) C#
9 1 (0.89%) C
9 1 (0.89%) C++
9 1 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.07%) Terraform
3 15 (13.39%) Grafana
4 3 (2.68%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.79%) Ansible
6 1 (0.89%) Istio
6 1 (0.89%) Kibana
6 1 (0.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (1.79%) VMware
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle
2 1 (0.89%) Solarflare
2 1 (0.89%) Splunk