Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 248 210
Rank change year-on-year -75 -38 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 133 190 370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 1.15% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.24% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 104 179 320
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £91,250 £70,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £139,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 21,451 15,271 23,811
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.17% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,322 9,301 17,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -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 15 August 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 15 August 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.

1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 87 (65.41%) Software Engineering
3 64 (48.12%) AWS
4 46 (34.59%) Spring
5 39 (29.32%) Spring Boot
6 36 (27.07%) Security Cleared
7 35 (26.32%) SC Cleared
8 33 (24.81%) Test Automation
9 32 (24.06%) CI/CD
9 32 (24.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (21.05%) Agile
11 27 (20.30%) Microservices
12 24 (18.05%) AI
13 22 (16.54%) Kubernetes
13 22 (16.54%) Workflow
14 21 (15.79%) Clean Code
14 21 (15.79%) GCP
14 21 (15.79%) React
15 18 (13.53%) Mentoring
15 18 (13.53%) REST
16 17 (12.78%) Kafka
16 17 (12.78%) Python
16 17 (12.78%) Terraform
17 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
17 15 (11.28%) SaaS
18 13 (9.77%) Architectural Patterns
18 13 (9.77%) TypeScript
19 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
19 12 (9.02%) Azure
19 12 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement

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 8 (6.02%) Camunda
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) JBoss
2 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 64 (48.12%) AWS
2 21 (15.79%) GCP
3 15 (11.28%) SaaS
4 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (9.02%) Azure
5 11 (8.27%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (3.76%) Serverless
7 3 (2.26%) GitHub
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.75%) Vercel
8 1 (0.75%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.75%) Flink
4 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.75%) MySQL
4 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Claude Code
1 11 (8.27%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.26%) Git
4 2 (1.50%) JUnit
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.75%) Maven
5 1 (0.75%) Mockito
5 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (15.04%) Banking
2 19 (14.29%) Finance
3 13 (9.77%) Health Technology
4 11 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.27%) Law
4 11 (8.27%) Retail
5 10 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.52%) Tech for Good
6 9 (6.77%) Social Skills
7 8 (6.02%) Investment Banking
8 7 (5.26%) Back Office
8 7 (5.26%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.76%) Front Office
10 4 (3.01%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Games
11 1 (0.75%) iGaming
11 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (34.59%) Spring
2 39 (29.32%) Spring Boot
3 21 (15.79%) React
4 18 (13.53%) REST
5 17 (12.78%) Kafka
6 10 (7.52%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.26%) Node.js
8 6 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.01%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.01%) Redux
10 3 (2.26%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (2.26%) Next.js
11 2 (1.50%) CSS
11 2 (1.50%) HTML
11 2 (1.50%) RESTful
12 1 (0.75%) Hibernate
12 1 (0.75%) Jakarta EE
12 1 (0.75%) SOAP
12 1 (0.75%) Spring Security
12 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.01%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.01%) Blog
3 4 (3.01%) Fixed Income
3 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.75%) Derivative
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (65.41%) Software Engineering
2 33 (24.81%) Test Automation
3 32 (24.06%) CI/CD
3 32 (24.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 28 (21.05%) Agile
5 27 (20.30%) Microservices
6 24 (18.05%) AI
7 22 (16.54%) Workflow
8 21 (15.79%) Clean Code
9 18 (13.53%) Mentoring
10 13 (9.77%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.02%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (8.27%) Continuous Deployment
12 11 (8.27%) DevOps
12 11 (8.27%) Observability
12 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (7.52%) Design Patterns
14 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (6.77%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (12.78%) Python
3 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.77%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.27%) Kotlin
5 11 (8.27%) SQL
6 4 (3.01%) Go
7 2 (1.50%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) C#
8 1 (0.75%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (27.07%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.02%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.26%) Degree
5 1 (0.75%) OCP
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (16.54%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.78%) Terraform
3 11 (8.27%) Grafana
4 2 (1.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.75%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.75%) Google
1 1 (0.75%) OpenAI