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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 260 195
Rank change year-on-year -30 -65 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 180 167 361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 0.99% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.07% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 122 158 276
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £68,406 £78,125 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +43.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.91% +7.50% +25.00%

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 23,408 15,648 21,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.01% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 16,253 8,792 13,500
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 1 October 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 1 October 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 103 (57.22%) Software Engineering
3 69 (38.33%) AWS
4 47 (26.11%) Spring
5 45 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 41 (22.78%) CI/CD
6 41 (22.78%) SC Cleared
7 37 (20.56%) Spring Boot
8 36 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 33 (18.33%) Kubernetes
10 28 (15.56%) Clean Code
11 27 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (14.44%) GCP
12 26 (14.44%) Microservices
13 25 (13.89%) Agile
14 23 (12.78%) Terraform
15 22 (12.22%) Mentoring
16 21 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (11.67%) Continuous Deployment
17 20 (11.11%) AI
17 20 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (11.11%) Workflow
18 19 (10.56%) Deployment Automation
18 19 (10.56%) Grafana
18 19 (10.56%) REST
18 19 (10.56%) TeamCity
19 18 (10.00%) Python
20 16 (8.89%) Kafka
21 14 (7.78%) React
22 13 (7.22%) Observability

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 7 (3.89%) Camunda
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) JBoss
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 69 (38.33%) AWS
2 26 (14.44%) GCP
3 21 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (6.67%) Azure
4 12 (6.67%) SaaS
5 9 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
6 8 (4.44%) GitHub
7 5 (2.78%) ChatGPT
7 5 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.22%) Serverless
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.56%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.67%) MySQL
5 2 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) Flink
6 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (10.56%) TeamCity
2 9 (5.00%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.67%) JUnit
5 2 (1.11%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.11%) Git
5 2 (1.11%) GitLab
5 2 (1.11%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.11%) Maven
5 2 (1.11%) Mockito
5 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (29.44%) Banking
2 27 (15.00%) Finance
3 19 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (10.56%) Law
3 19 (10.56%) Retail
4 14 (7.78%) Social Skills
5 13 (7.22%) Health Technology
6 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.00%) Tech for Good
8 8 (4.44%) Back Office
8 8 (4.44%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.44%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.33%) Front Office
10 4 (2.22%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.67%) iGaming
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (26.11%) Spring
2 37 (20.56%) Spring Boot
3 23 (12.78%) Terraform
4 19 (10.56%) REST
5 16 (8.89%) Kafka
6 14 (7.78%) React
7 9 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.78%) RESTful
10 3 (1.67%) Next.js
11 2 (1.11%) Spring Batch
11 2 (1.11%) Spring Cloud
11 2 (1.11%) WireMock
12 1 (0.56%) HTML
12 1 (0.56%) JPA
12 1 (0.56%) Mustache
12 1 (0.56%) Node.js
12 1 (0.56%) OAuth
12 1 (0.56%) OpenID
12 1 (0.56%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.11%) Blog
3 8 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (2.78%) Derivative
5 5 (2.78%) Equities
5 5 (2.78%) Equity Derivative
5 5 (2.78%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.78%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) NHS
7 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (57.22%) Software Engineering
2 41 (22.78%) CI/CD
3 36 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 28 (15.56%) Clean Code
5 27 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (14.44%) Microservices
7 25 (13.89%) Agile
8 22 (12.22%) Mentoring
9 21 (11.67%) Continuous Deployment
10 20 (11.11%) AI
10 20 (11.11%) Workflow
11 19 (10.56%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (7.22%) Observability
13 12 (6.67%) Fintech
13 12 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (6.11%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.11%) Disruptive Innovation
15 10 (5.56%) Design Patterns
15 10 (5.56%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (10.00%) Python
3 10 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 9 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.89%) SQL
7 2 (1.11%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) C++
8 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.89%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (0.56%) OCP
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.56%) Grafana
3 2 (1.11%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.56%) Google
1 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle