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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 247 217
Rank change year-on-year -62 -30 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 147 202 356
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 1.22% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.33% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 116 191 309
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £97,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -

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 20,956 15,194 24,337
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.07% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,101 9,406 17,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4 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 4 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.

1 147 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (69.39%) Software Engineering
3 76 (51.70%) AWS
4 44 (29.93%) Agile
4 44 (29.93%) Test Automation
5 42 (28.57%) Spring
6 38 (25.85%) Microservices
7 37 (25.17%) Spring Boot
8 35 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 34 (23.13%) Security Cleared
10 33 (22.45%) SC Cleared
11 32 (21.77%) CI/CD
12 28 (19.05%) Mentoring
13 26 (17.69%) React
14 25 (17.01%) Kubernetes
15 24 (16.33%) AI
16 23 (15.65%) Clean Code
17 22 (14.97%) Continuous Deployment
18 21 (14.29%) Azure
18 21 (14.29%) GCP
18 21 (14.29%) SQL
18 21 (14.29%) Workflow
19 20 (13.61%) Python
20 19 (12.93%) Kafka
20 19 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
20 19 (12.93%) Terraform
21 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
22 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
23 16 (10.88%) REST
23 16 (10.88%) SaaS

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 (5.44%) Camunda
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) JBoss
2 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 76 (51.70%) AWS
2 21 (14.29%) Azure
2 21 (14.29%) GCP
3 16 (10.88%) SaaS
4 13 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (8.16%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (4.08%) Serverless
7 2 (1.36%) GitHub
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.68%) Vercel
8 1 (0.68%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.16%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.48%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.80%) MySQL
5 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.68%) Flink
6 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Claude Code
1 12 (8.16%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.04%) Git
4 2 (1.36%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) Mockito
5 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (17.01%) Finance
2 21 (14.29%) Banking
3 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.84%) Health Technology
5 12 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (8.16%) Law
5 12 (8.16%) Retail
6 10 (6.80%) Tech for Good
7 9 (6.12%) Front Office
8 8 (5.44%) Back Office
8 8 (5.44%) Financial Institution
8 8 (5.44%) Investment Banking
8 8 (5.44%) Social Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.57%) Spring
2 37 (25.17%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.69%) React
4 19 (12.93%) Kafka
5 16 (10.88%) REST
6 12 (8.16%) RESTful
7 11 (7.48%) Node.js
8 10 (6.80%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.44%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.44%) Redux
10 4 (2.72%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.04%) Next.js
12 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (0.68%) JWT
12 1 (0.68%) LangChain
12 1 (0.68%) Mustache
12 1 (0.68%) Spring Batch
12 1 (0.68%) Spring Cloud
12 1 (0.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.44%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.72%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.72%) Blog
3 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.68%) Derivative
4 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.68%) NHS
4 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (69.39%) Software Engineering
2 44 (29.93%) Agile
2 44 (29.93%) Test Automation
3 38 (25.85%) Microservices
4 35 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (21.77%) CI/CD
6 28 (19.05%) Mentoring
7 24 (16.33%) AI
8 23 (15.65%) Clean Code
9 22 (14.97%) Continuous Deployment
10 21 (14.29%) Workflow
11 14 (9.52%) Open Source
12 13 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
12 13 (8.84%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (8.84%) TDD
13 12 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.16%) DevOps
14 11 (7.48%) BDD
14 11 (7.48%) Coaching
14 11 (7.48%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (14.29%) SQL
3 20 (13.61%) Python
4 18 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.48%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.44%) Go
8 2 (1.36%) C#
8 2 (1.36%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (0.68%) OCP
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.40%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (17.01%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.93%) Terraform
3 12 (8.16%) Grafana
4 2 (1.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Packer
5 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (0.68%) Google
1 1 (0.68%) OpenAI