Java Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 187 259
Rank change year-on-year -57 +72 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 353 604 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.26% 1.84% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.92% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 313 363 678
10th Percentile £54,000 £54,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £152,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year - +12.09% +14.71%

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 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java Engineer.

Java Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Java Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Java Engineer 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 remote work options featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 353 (100.00%) Java
2 309 (87.54%) Software Engineering
3 291 (82.44%) AWS
4 252 (71.39%) Agile
5 211 (59.77%) JavaScript
6 207 (58.64%) Finance
7 204 (57.79%) Python
8 198 (56.09%) Banking
9 192 (54.39%) TypeScript
10 181 (51.27%) Hedge funds
10 181 (51.27%) Asset Management
10 181 (51.27%) Fixed Income
11 180 (50.99%) Equities
11 180 (50.99%) Front Office
11 180 (50.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 180 (50.99%) Amazon Athena
12 179 (50.71%) Apache Airflow
12 179 (50.71%) Apache
12 179 (50.71%) Investment Banking
12 179 (50.71%) Derivative
12 179 (50.71%) dbt
13 177 (50.14%) Apache Arrow
13 177 (50.14%) Apache Ignite
13 177 (50.14%) Dremio
13 177 (50.14%) gRPC
13 177 (50.14%) SciPy
13 177 (50.14%) NumPy
13 177 (50.14%) Protocol Buffers
13 177 (50.14%) Pandas
14 173 (49.01%) Data Lake

Java Engineer 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
1 179 (50.71%) Apache
1 179 (50.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.28%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 291 (82.44%) AWS
2 179 (50.71%) dbt
3 173 (49.01%) Snowflake
4 90 (25.50%) GCP
5 70 (19.83%) Azure
6 37 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (2.83%) GitHub
10 5 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.42%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.42%) Serverless
11 4 (1.13%) SaaS
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (0.57%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (0.57%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.57%) Dagster
13 2 (0.57%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.83%) Network Security
2 2 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (50.99%) Amazon Athena
2 177 (50.14%) Apache Arrow
2 177 (50.14%) Apache Ignite
2 177 (50.14%) Dremio
3 173 (49.01%) Data Lake
4 57 (16.15%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (12.18%) MySQL
6 37 (10.48%) NoSQL
7 36 (10.20%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.70%) MariaDB
8 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.57%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.57%) Metadata
10 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.28%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (5.10%) TeamCity
2 13 (3.68%) Git
3 8 (2.27%) Subversion
4 7 (1.98%) Cucumber
4 7 (1.98%) IntelliJ
5 5 (1.42%) Eclipse
5 5 (1.42%) GitLab
5 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.85%) JIRA
8 2 (0.57%) Postman
8 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Hudson
9 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.28%) JUnit
9 1 (0.28%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 207 (58.64%) Finance
2 198 (56.09%) Banking
3 180 (50.99%) Front Office
4 179 (50.71%) Investment Banking
5 33 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 31 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (6.80%) Social Skills
8 21 (5.95%) Retail
9 18 (5.10%) Law
10 7 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.70%) Wearables
12 4 (1.13%) Games
13 3 (0.85%) Aviation
13 3 (0.85%) Back Office
13 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.85%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.85%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.28%) Automotive
14 1 (0.28%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (50.14%) gRPC
1 177 (50.14%) NumPy
1 177 (50.14%) Pandas
1 177 (50.14%) Protocol Buffers
1 177 (50.14%) SciPy
2 55 (15.58%) Spring
3 44 (12.46%) RESTful
4 43 (12.18%) Spring Boot
5 29 (8.22%) React
6 21 (5.95%) PySpark
7 17 (4.82%) AngularJS
8 13 (3.68%) Kafka
8 13 (3.68%) SOAP
9 10 (2.83%) JSON
9 10 (2.83%) Node.js
9 10 (2.83%) REST
10 9 (2.55%) Web Services
11 8 (2.27%) CSS
11 8 (2.27%) HTML
12 7 (1.98%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 181 (51.27%) Fixed Income
1 181 (51.27%) Hedge funds
2 180 (50.99%) Equities
2 180 (50.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 179 (50.71%) Derivative
4 72 (20.40%) Pricing Data
5 17 (4.82%) Cloud Native
6 16 (4.53%) Blog
7 6 (1.70%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.42%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.57%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.28%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.28%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.28%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.67%) Linux
2 7 (1.98%) Windows
3 5 (1.42%) AIX
4 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (87.54%) Software Engineering
2 252 (71.39%) Agile
3 181 (51.27%) Asset Management
4 147 (41.64%) Investment Management
5 92 (26.06%) Microservices
6 63 (17.85%) Test Automation
7 53 (15.01%) Mentoring
8 52 (14.73%) TDD
9 51 (14.45%) Line Management
10 48 (13.60%) Continuous Deployment
11 44 (12.46%) Greeks
12 42 (11.90%) BDD
13 33 (9.35%) Coaching
14 27 (7.65%) CI/CD
15 22 (6.23%) Migration
15 22 (6.23%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (5.38%) DevOps
17 18 (5.10%) Fintech
18 17 (4.82%) Clean Code
19 16 (4.53%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 353 (100.00%) Java
2 211 (59.77%) JavaScript
3 204 (57.79%) Python
4 192 (54.39%) TypeScript
5 75 (21.25%) SQL
6 17 (4.82%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.98%) Scala
8 6 (1.70%) C#
8 6 (1.70%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.13%) Ruby
10 2 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.28%) Bash
11 1 (0.28%) Perl
11 1 (0.28%) PHP
11 1 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (1.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.57%) Degree
2 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (0.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.27%) QA
3 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.63%) Terraform
3 18 (5.10%) Ansible
4 12 (3.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (4.25%) Bloomberg
1 15 (4.25%) Reuters
2 4 (1.13%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.13%) Oracle
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.57%) Solace
4 2 (0.57%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.28%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.28%) Ping Identity