Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 194 280
Rank change year-on-year -95 +86 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 132 317 234
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.59% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.64% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 117 243 201
10th Percentile £66,500 £63,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +53.33% -6.59%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +10.00% +32.36% -13.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 15,521 19,271 21,493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 96.65% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,843 12,065 17,551
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025, 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.

1 132 (100.00%) Java
2 120 (90.91%) Software Engineering
3 119 (90.15%) AWS
4 104 (78.79%) Agile
5 94 (71.21%) JavaScript
6 92 (69.70%) TypeScript
7 87 (65.91%) Investment Management
8 83 (62.88%) Python
9 81 (61.36%) Amazon Athena
9 81 (61.36%) Apache Airflow
9 81 (61.36%) Apache Arrow
9 81 (61.36%) Apache Iceberg
9 81 (61.36%) Asset Management
9 81 (61.36%) dbt
9 81 (61.36%) Dremio
9 81 (61.36%) NumPy
9 81 (61.36%) Pandas
9 81 (61.36%) SciPy
10 70 (53.03%) Apache
11 69 (52.27%) Apache Ignite
11 69 (52.27%) Data Lake
11 69 (52.27%) gRPC
11 69 (52.27%) Protocol Buffers
11 69 (52.27%) Snowflake
12 30 (22.73%) CI/CD
13 26 (19.70%) Microservices
13 26 (19.70%) React
14 23 (17.42%) GCP
15 21 (15.91%) Node.js
15 21 (15.91%) Spring

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 81 (61.36%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (53.03%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 119 (90.15%) AWS
2 81 (61.36%) dbt
3 69 (52.27%) Snowflake
4 23 (17.42%) GCP
5 9 (6.82%) GitHub
6 6 (4.55%) Azure
6 6 (4.55%) SaaS
7 5 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.27%) Serverless
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.52%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (61.36%) Amazon Athena
1 81 (61.36%) Apache Arrow
1 81 (61.36%) Apache Iceberg
1 81 (61.36%) Dremio
2 69 (52.27%) Apache Ignite
2 69 (52.27%) Data Lake
3 19 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.27%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.76%) MySQL
7 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (5.30%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.27%) JMeter
3 3 (2.27%) JUnit
4 2 (1.52%) GitLab
4 2 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.52%) Spock
5 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.76%) Storybook
General
1 111 (84.09%) Finance
2 88 (66.67%) Front Office
3 78 (59.09%) Banking
4 69 (52.27%) Investment Banking
5 8 (6.06%) Retail
6 7 (5.30%) Financial Institution
7 6 (4.55%) Games
8 5 (3.79%) Back Office
8 5 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.79%) Law
9 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.03%) Social Skills
10 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.76%) Automotive
12 1 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.76%) Electronics
12 1 (0.76%) Legal
12 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (61.36%) NumPy
1 81 (61.36%) Pandas
1 81 (61.36%) SciPy
2 69 (52.27%) gRPC
2 69 (52.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 26 (19.70%) React
4 21 (15.91%) Node.js
4 21 (15.91%) Spring
5 15 (11.36%) Kafka
6 13 (9.85%) AngularJS
7 12 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 12 (9.09%) Vue
8 8 (6.06%) Redux
9 7 (5.30%) GraphQL
9 7 (5.30%) RESTful
10 3 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.27%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.27%) Micronaut
10 3 (2.27%) REST
11 2 (1.52%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 87 (65.91%) Fixed Income
2 81 (61.36%) Equities
2 81 (61.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 70 (53.03%) Derivative
4 69 (52.27%) Hedge funds
4 69 (52.27%) Pricing Data
5 11 (8.33%) Cloud Native
6 8 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) FPGA
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (90.91%) Software Engineering
2 104 (78.79%) Agile
3 87 (65.91%) Investment Management
4 81 (61.36%) Asset Management
5 30 (22.73%) CI/CD
6 26 (19.70%) Microservices
7 18 (13.64%) Order Management
8 17 (12.88%) Fintech
9 15 (11.36%) Test Automation
10 13 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (9.09%) Mentoring
11 12 (9.09%) Performance Attribution
11 12 (9.09%) Risk Management
12 11 (8.33%) DevOps
13 9 (6.82%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (6.06%) Clean Code
14 8 (6.06%) Containerisation
14 8 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (6.06%) TDD
15 7 (5.30%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 132 (100.00%) Java
2 94 (71.21%) JavaScript
3 92 (69.70%) TypeScript
4 83 (62.88%) Python
5 6 (4.55%) Go
6 5 (3.79%) SQL
7 3 (2.27%) C#
8 2 (1.52%) C++
8 2 (1.52%) Groovy
9 1 (0.76%) C
9 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (2.27%) Degree
2 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.76%) PhD
3 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) QA
System Software
1 11 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.82%) Terraform
3 8 (6.06%) Grafana
4 2 (1.52%) Ansible
4 2 (1.52%) Kibana
4 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle
2 2 (1.52%) VMware
3 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.76%) Solarflare
3 1 (0.76%) Splunk