Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 242 209
Rank change year-on-year -80 -33 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 138 181 380
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 1.13% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.22% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 105 173 312
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £58,938
25th Percentile £60,000 £85,000 £84,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +17.65%

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 21,988 14,847 22,816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.53% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,627 8,962 15,506
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,077
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.99% -7.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 September 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 September 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.

1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 84 (60.87%) Software Engineering
3 61 (44.20%) AWS
4 44 (31.88%) Spring
5 39 (28.26%) Security Cleared
6 37 (26.81%) SC Cleared
7 36 (26.09%) Spring Boot
8 35 (25.36%) CI/CD
9 34 (24.64%) Test Automation
10 27 (19.57%) Microservices
11 25 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (17.39%) Kubernetes
13 22 (15.94%) Agile
13 22 (15.94%) Clean Code
13 22 (15.94%) GCP
13 22 (15.94%) Workflow
14 21 (15.22%) REST
15 20 (14.49%) AI
16 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
16 18 (13.04%) Terraform
17 16 (11.59%) Kafka
18 15 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (10.87%) React
19 14 (10.14%) Deployment Automation
19 14 (10.14%) SaaS
20 13 (9.42%) Architectural Patterns
20 13 (9.42%) Continuous Deployment
20 13 (9.42%) Grafana
20 13 (9.42%) TeamCity
21 12 (8.70%) DV Cleared

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 (5.80%) Camunda
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.72%) JBoss
2 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.20%) AWS
2 22 (15.94%) GCP
3 15 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (10.14%) SaaS
5 11 (7.97%) Azure
6 8 (5.80%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.62%) Serverless
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.45%) GitHub
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.72%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.72%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.72%) Flink
3 1 (0.72%) MySQL
3 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (9.42%) TeamCity
2 8 (5.80%) Claude Code
3 4 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.45%) Git
4 2 (1.45%) JUnit
5 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.72%) GitLab
5 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.72%) Maven
5 1 (0.72%) Mockito
5 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (19.57%) Banking
2 16 (11.59%) Finance
3 13 (9.42%) Health Technology
3 13 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (9.42%) Law
3 13 (9.42%) Retail
4 10 (7.25%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.52%) Tech for Good
6 8 (5.80%) Back Office
6 8 (5.80%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.90%) Digital Health
8 3 (2.17%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (31.88%) Spring
2 36 (26.09%) Spring Boot
3 21 (15.22%) REST
4 18 (13.04%) Terraform
5 16 (11.59%) Kafka
6 15 (10.87%) React
7 10 (7.25%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.17%) Next.js
10 2 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (1.45%) RESTful
11 1 (0.72%) Apache Camel
11 1 (0.72%) JPA
11 1 (0.72%) Mustache
11 1 (0.72%) Node.js
11 1 (0.72%) OAuth
11 1 (0.72%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.72%) OpenID
11 1 (0.72%) Spring Batch
11 1 (0.72%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.62%) Blog
3 5 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (60.87%) Software Engineering
2 35 (25.36%) CI/CD
3 34 (24.64%) Test Automation
4 27 (19.57%) Microservices
5 25 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (15.94%) Agile
6 22 (15.94%) Clean Code
6 22 (15.94%) Workflow
7 20 (14.49%) AI
8 18 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 14 (10.14%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (9.42%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (9.42%) Continuous Deployment
11 12 (8.70%) Observability
11 12 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (7.25%) Design Patterns
14 9 (6.52%) Event-Driven
14 9 (6.52%) Secure Coding
15 8 (5.80%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (8.70%) Python
3 10 (7.25%) Kotlin
4 9 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.80%) SQL
5 8 (5.80%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.45%) Scala
7 1 (0.72%) C++
7 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 37 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.17%) Degree
5 1 (0.72%) OCP
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.42%) Grafana
3 2 (1.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.72%) Google
1 1 (0.72%) OpenAI