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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 242 211
Rank change year-on-year -56 -31 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 159 182 370
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 1.12% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.21% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 111 174 289
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,250
25th Percentile £61,625 £78,125 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 22,944 15,074 22,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 92.65% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,086 8,984 14,380
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,541
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 £78,302
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 20 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 20 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.

1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 93 (58.49%) Software Engineering
3 63 (39.62%) AWS
4 46 (28.93%) Spring
5 42 (26.42%) Security Cleared
6 38 (23.90%) SC Cleared
6 38 (23.90%) Spring Boot
7 36 (22.64%) CI/CD
8 33 (20.75%) Test Automation
9 28 (17.61%) Kubernetes
10 27 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (16.35%) Clean Code
12 24 (15.09%) GCP
12 24 (15.09%) Microservices
13 22 (13.84%) Agile
14 21 (13.21%) Terraform
15 19 (11.95%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (11.95%) Mentoring
15 19 (11.95%) REST
15 19 (11.95%) Workflow
16 17 (10.69%) Continuous Deployment
16 17 (10.69%) Deployment Automation
16 17 (10.69%) Grafana
16 17 (10.69%) TeamCity
17 16 (10.06%) AI
17 16 (10.06%) Kafka
17 16 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
17 16 (10.06%) React
18 14 (8.81%) Observability
19 12 (7.55%) Architectural Patterns

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 (4.40%) Camunda
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.63%) JBoss
2 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 63 (39.62%) AWS
2 24 (15.09%) GCP
3 19 (11.95%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (7.55%) SaaS
5 10 (6.29%) Azure
6 5 (3.14%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (2.52%) GitHub
7 4 (2.52%) Serverless
8 2 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.63%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.63%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.63%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.63%) Flink
4 1 (0.63%) MySQL
4 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (10.69%) TeamCity
2 5 (3.14%) Claude Code
2 5 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.89%) JUnit
4 2 (1.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.26%) Git
4 2 (1.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.26%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.26%) Maven
4 2 (1.26%) Mockito
4 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (25.16%) Banking
2 21 (13.21%) Finance
3 17 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (10.69%) Law
3 17 (10.69%) Retail
4 13 (8.18%) Health Technology
4 13 (8.18%) Social Skills
5 9 (5.66%) Tech for Good
6 8 (5.03%) Back Office
6 8 (5.03%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.03%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.52%) Digital Health
9 3 (1.89%) iGaming
10 1 (0.63%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.93%) Spring
2 38 (23.90%) Spring Boot
3 21 (13.21%) Terraform
4 19 (11.95%) REST
5 16 (10.06%) Kafka
5 16 (10.06%) React
6 10 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.89%) Next.js
8 3 (1.89%) RESTful
9 2 (1.26%) Spring Batch
9 2 (1.26%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (1.26%) WireMock
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.63%) JPA
10 1 (0.63%) Mustache
10 1 (0.63%) Node.js
10 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.63%) OpenID
10 1 (0.63%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.66%) Blog
3 7 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.63%) Derivative
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Equities
6 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.63%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (58.49%) Software Engineering
2 36 (22.64%) CI/CD
3 33 (20.75%) Test Automation
4 27 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (16.35%) Clean Code
6 24 (15.09%) Microservices
7 22 (13.84%) Agile
8 19 (11.95%) Mentoring
8 19 (11.95%) Workflow
9 17 (10.69%) Continuous Deployment
9 17 (10.69%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (10.06%) AI
11 14 (8.81%) Observability
12 12 (7.55%) Architectural Patterns
12 12 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (6.92%) Design Patterns
14 10 (6.29%) Fintech
15 9 (5.66%) Disruptive Innovation
15 9 (5.66%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (7.55%) Python
3 10 (6.29%) Kotlin
4 9 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.66%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.14%) SQL
6 2 (1.26%) Scala
7 1 (0.63%) C++
7 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (0.63%) OCP
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.52%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (17.61%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.69%) Grafana
3 2 (1.26%) Ansible
4 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.63%) Google
1 1 (0.63%) OpenAI