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 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 249 326
Rank change year-on-year -3 +77 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 148 161 262
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.21% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.30% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 113 153 236
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +61.17% -24.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £140,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £147,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +50.00% -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 16,683 12,377 31,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.58% 92.92% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,015 9,070 24,945
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,996
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% -9.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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.

1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 107 (72.30%) Software Engineering
3 90 (60.81%) AWS
4 55 (37.16%) Microservices
5 48 (32.43%) Test Automation
6 45 (30.41%) CI/CD
7 43 (29.05%) Agile
7 43 (29.05%) Spring
8 41 (27.70%) Spring Boot
9 35 (23.65%) Kubernetes
10 34 (22.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (20.95%) React
12 29 (19.59%) Continuous Deployment
13 27 (18.24%) SQL
14 26 (17.57%) Clean Code
15 25 (16.89%) GCP
16 24 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
16 24 (16.22%) Terraform
17 23 (15.54%) Mentoring
18 22 (14.86%) SaaS
19 21 (14.19%) Deployment Automation
20 20 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
20 20 (13.51%) Grafana
20 20 (13.51%) NoSQL
21 19 (12.84%) Node.js
21 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
21 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
21 19 (12.84%) TeamCity
22 18 (12.16%) Azure
22 18 (12.16%) JavaScript

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 2 (1.35%) Camunda
2 1 (0.68%) JBoss
2 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 90 (60.81%) AWS
2 25 (16.89%) GCP
3 22 (14.86%) SaaS
4 20 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (12.16%) Azure
6 10 (6.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 8 (5.41%) Serverless
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.03%) GitHub
9 2 (1.35%) Vercel
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.51%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.46%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.43%) MySQL
5 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (12.84%) TeamCity
2 10 (6.76%) Claude Code
3 4 (2.70%) Git
3 4 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.03%) GitLab
5 2 (1.35%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 35 (23.65%) Finance
2 28 (18.92%) Banking
3 19 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (12.84%) Law
3 19 (12.84%) Retail
4 18 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 17 (11.49%) Financial Institution
6 15 (10.14%) Back Office
7 11 (7.43%) Front Office
8 8 (5.41%) Tech for Good
9 5 (3.38%) Games
9 5 (3.38%) Health Technology
9 5 (3.38%) Social Skills
10 4 (2.70%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (2.03%) Marketing
12 2 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.68%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.05%) Spring
2 41 (27.70%) Spring Boot
3 31 (20.95%) React
4 19 (12.84%) Node.js
5 16 (10.81%) RESTful
6 15 (10.14%) Kafka
7 14 (9.46%) REST
8 8 (5.41%) GraphQL
8 8 (5.41%) Redux
9 7 (4.73%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.05%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (4.05%) SOAP
10 6 (4.05%) Web Services
11 4 (2.70%) J2EE
11 4 (2.70%) XML
12 3 (2.03%) CSS
12 3 (2.03%) Hibernate
12 3 (2.03%) HTML
12 3 (2.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.41%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.70%) Blog
4 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.70%) NHS
5 3 (2.03%) Derivative
6 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (72.30%) Software Engineering
2 55 (37.16%) Microservices
3 48 (32.43%) Test Automation
4 45 (30.41%) CI/CD
5 43 (29.05%) Agile
6 34 (22.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (19.59%) Continuous Deployment
8 26 (17.57%) Clean Code
9 23 (15.54%) Mentoring
10 21 (14.19%) Deployment Automation
11 17 (11.49%) TDD
12 16 (10.81%) DevOps
13 14 (9.46%) AI
13 14 (9.46%) Fintech
14 13 (8.78%) BDD
15 12 (8.11%) Coaching
16 11 (7.43%) Open Source
17 10 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (6.76%) Operational Stability
18 9 (6.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 148 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (18.24%) SQL
3 18 (12.16%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.78%) Python
6 9 (6.08%) Go
6 9 (6.08%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
1 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.68%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (10.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (23.65%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.22%) Terraform
3 20 (13.51%) Grafana
4 2 (1.35%) Packer
4 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle
1 1 (0.68%) Splunk