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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 278 316
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 116 154 227
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 0.98% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.02% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 93 112 206
10th Percentile £56,250 £65,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +76.92% -23.53%
75th Percentile £107,500 £140,677 £91,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £113,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £97,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +42.34% -21.71%

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 15,263 15,082 26,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 95.84% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,014 9,177 21,954
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 12 February 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 12 February 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.

1 116 (100.00%) Java
2 87 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 83 (71.55%) AWS
4 44 (37.93%) Microservices
5 43 (37.07%) CI/CD
6 41 (35.34%) Agile
7 34 (29.31%) Spring
8 32 (27.59%) Test Automation
9 29 (25.00%) Kubernetes
10 27 (23.28%) Spring Boot
11 22 (18.97%) JavaScript
11 22 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (17.24%) Continuous Deployment
12 20 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (17.24%) TypeScript
13 19 (16.38%) Clean Code
13 19 (16.38%) Python
13 19 (16.38%) Terraform
14 18 (15.52%) Mentoring
15 17 (14.66%) GCP
15 17 (14.66%) RESTful
15 17 (14.66%) SQL
16 16 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
16 16 (13.79%) Grafana
16 16 (13.79%) Investment Management
16 16 (13.79%) React
16 16 (13.79%) SaaS
17 15 (12.93%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (12.93%) Fintech
17 15 (12.93%) TeamCity

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 14 (12.07%) Apache
1 14 (12.07%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 83 (71.55%) AWS
2 17 (14.66%) GCP
3 16 (13.79%) SaaS
4 15 (12.93%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (12.07%) dbt
5 14 (12.07%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.90%) Azure
7 6 (5.17%) GitHub
8 5 (4.31%) Serverless
9 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.59%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.86%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.07%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (12.07%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (12.07%) Apache Iceberg
2 14 (12.07%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (12.07%) Data Lake
2 14 (12.07%) Dremio
3 13 (11.21%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.76%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.17%) MySQL
6 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.86%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.86%) Redis
7 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (12.93%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.59%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.59%) GitLab
3 3 (2.59%) JMeter
4 2 (1.72%) Git
4 2 (1.72%) JUnit
4 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.86%) Maven
5 1 (0.86%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (44.83%) Finance
2 33 (28.45%) Banking
3 19 (16.38%) Front Office
4 18 (15.52%) Retail
5 16 (13.79%) Financial Institution
6 15 (12.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (12.93%) Law
7 14 (12.07%) Investment Banking
8 12 (10.34%) Back Office
9 10 (8.62%) Games
10 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
11 4 (3.45%) Social Skills
11 4 (3.45%) Tech for Good
12 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
13 2 (1.72%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.72%) Marketing
13 2 (1.72%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.86%) Aviation
14 1 (0.86%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.31%) Spring
2 27 (23.28%) Spring Boot
3 17 (14.66%) RESTful
4 16 (13.79%) React
5 14 (12.07%) gRPC
5 14 (12.07%) NumPy
5 14 (12.07%) Pandas
5 14 (12.07%) Protocol Buffers
5 14 (12.07%) SciPy
6 11 (9.48%) Kafka
6 11 (9.48%) Node.js
7 6 (5.17%) REST
8 5 (4.31%) Hibernate
8 5 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.31%) SOAP
8 5 (4.31%) Web Services
9 4 (3.45%) XML
10 3 (2.59%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.59%) J2EE
10 3 (2.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 17 (14.66%) Derivative
3 16 (13.79%) Fixed Income
4 14 (12.07%) Equities
4 14 (12.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (12.07%) Hedge funds
4 14 (12.07%) Pricing Data
5 8 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.45%) NHS
7 3 (2.59%) Blog
8 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.86%) FPGA
8 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (37.93%) Microservices
3 43 (37.07%) CI/CD
4 41 (35.34%) Agile
5 32 (27.59%) Test Automation
6 20 (17.24%) Continuous Deployment
6 20 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (16.38%) Clean Code
8 18 (15.52%) Mentoring
9 16 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (13.79%) Investment Management
10 15 (12.93%) Fintech
11 14 (12.07%) Asset Management
12 13 (11.21%) DevOps
13 11 (9.48%) TDD
14 10 (8.62%) Coaching
15 9 (7.76%) BDD
15 9 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
17 7 (6.03%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 116 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (18.97%) JavaScript
3 20 (17.24%) TypeScript
4 19 (16.38%) Python
5 17 (14.66%) SQL
6 5 (4.31%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.59%) Go
8 2 (1.72%) C#
9 1 (0.86%) C
9 1 (0.86%) C++
9 1 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.03%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.38%) Terraform
3 16 (13.79%) Grafana
4 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.72%) Ansible
6 1 (0.86%) Istio
6 1 (0.86%) Kibana
6 1 (0.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (1.72%) VMware
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle
2 1 (0.86%) Solarflare
2 1 (0.86%) Splunk