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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 246 218
Rank change year-on-year -60 -28 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 140 193 365
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 1.16% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.26% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 111 182 315
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £56,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £88,125 £67,500
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 £139,875 £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 21,376 15,314 23,957
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.18% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,297 9,319 17,469
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 £96,050
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 13 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 13 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 94 (67.14%) Software Engineering
3 69 (49.29%) AWS
4 45 (32.14%) Spring
5 38 (27.14%) Spring Boot
6 36 (25.71%) Agile
6 36 (25.71%) Test Automation
7 35 (25.00%) Security Cleared
8 34 (24.29%) SC Cleared
9 33 (23.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (22.14%) CI/CD
10 31 (22.14%) Microservices
11 24 (17.14%) AI
12 22 (15.71%) Kubernetes
12 22 (15.71%) Mentoring
12 22 (15.71%) React
12 22 (15.71%) Workflow
13 21 (15.00%) Clean Code
14 20 (14.29%) GCP
15 19 (13.57%) Kafka
16 18 (12.86%) Python
16 18 (12.86%) REST
17 17 (12.14%) Terraform
18 16 (11.43%) JavaScript
19 15 (10.71%) Azure
19 15 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
19 15 (10.71%) SaaS
19 15 (10.71%) SQL
20 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
20 14 (10.00%) TypeScript

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 (5.71%) Camunda
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) JBoss
2 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 69 (49.29%) AWS
2 20 (14.29%) GCP
3 15 (10.71%) Azure
3 15 (10.71%) SaaS
4 12 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.86%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (3.57%) Serverless
7 2 (1.43%) GitHub
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.71%) Vercel
8 1 (0.71%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.86%) MySQL
5 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) Flink
6 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) Claude Code
1 11 (7.86%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) Git
4 2 (1.43%) JUnit
5 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.71%) GitLab
5 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.71%) Maven
5 1 (0.71%) Mockito
5 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (15.00%) Finance
2 20 (14.29%) Banking
3 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.29%) Health Technology
5 11 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.86%) Law
5 11 (7.86%) Retail
6 10 (7.14%) Tech for Good
7 8 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.71%) Social Skills
8 7 (5.00%) Back Office
8 7 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 7 (5.00%) Front Office
9 4 (2.86%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) iGaming
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (32.14%) Spring
2 38 (27.14%) Spring Boot
3 22 (15.71%) React
4 19 (13.57%) Kafka
5 18 (12.86%) REST
6 10 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.43%) Node.js
8 6 (4.29%) GraphQL
8 6 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (4.29%) Redux
8 6 (4.29%) RESTful
9 3 (2.14%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (2.14%) Next.js
10 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.71%) JPA
10 1 (0.71%) JWT
10 1 (0.71%) LangChain
10 1 (0.71%) OAuth
10 1 (0.71%) Spring Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.29%) Fixed Income
3 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.86%) Blog
3 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.71%) Derivative
5 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (67.14%) Software Engineering
2 36 (25.71%) Agile
2 36 (25.71%) Test Automation
3 33 (23.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (22.14%) CI/CD
4 31 (22.14%) Microservices
5 24 (17.14%) AI
6 22 (15.71%) Mentoring
6 22 (15.71%) Workflow
7 21 (15.00%) Clean Code
8 15 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
9 13 (9.29%) Architectural Patterns
10 12 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (8.57%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (7.86%) Observability
12 10 (7.14%) Design Patterns
12 10 (7.14%) DevOps
12 10 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (6.43%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (12.86%) Python
3 16 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.71%) SQL
5 14 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.86%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.29%) Go
8 2 (1.43%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) C#
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.14%) Degree
5 1 (0.71%) OCP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.14%) Terraform
3 11 (7.86%) Grafana
4 2 (1.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.71%) Google
1 1 (0.71%) OpenAI