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 20 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 288 329
Rank change year-on-year +35 +41 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 133 118 240
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 0.88% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.93% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 107 105 225
10th Percentile £51,500 £60,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +75.67% -25.18%
75th Percentile £107,500 £140,677 £91,250
90th Percentile £136,500 £148,750 £121,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £105,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -21.80% +61.16% -25.18%

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 15,877 12,644 28,887
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 94.62% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,775 8,888 24,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £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 £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
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 20 March 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 March 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.

1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 102 (76.69%) Software Engineering
3 88 (66.17%) AWS
4 52 (39.10%) Microservices
5 50 (37.59%) Agile
6 48 (36.09%) CI/CD
7 44 (33.08%) Test Automation
8 36 (27.07%) Spring
9 31 (23.31%) Kubernetes
10 29 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (21.80%) Spring Boot
11 27 (20.30%) SQL
12 26 (19.55%) Continuous Deployment
13 25 (18.80%) React
14 24 (18.05%) Mentoring
15 23 (17.29%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (16.54%) Clean Code
16 22 (16.54%) RESTful
17 21 (15.79%) GCP
17 21 (15.79%) Terraform
18 20 (15.04%) JavaScript
18 20 (15.04%) NoSQL
18 20 (15.04%) SaaS
19 18 (13.53%) Deployment Automation
19 18 (13.53%) Node.js
19 18 (13.53%) TypeScript
20 17 (12.78%) Azure
20 17 (12.78%) Grafana
20 17 (12.78%) Kafka
21 16 (12.03%) Amazon EKS

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 4 (3.01%) Apache
1 4 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.50%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 88 (66.17%) AWS
2 21 (15.79%) GCP
3 20 (15.04%) SaaS
4 17 (12.78%) Azure
5 16 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (7.52%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (5.26%) Serverless
8 4 (3.01%) dbt
8 4 (3.01%) GitHub
8 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.50%) Vercel
11 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.29%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.04%) NoSQL
3 14 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.27%) MySQL
5 4 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.01%) Apache Arrow
5 4 (3.01%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (3.01%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.01%) Dremio
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.75%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.75%) Redis
7 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (12.03%) TeamCity
2 10 (7.52%) Claude Code
3 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.26%) Git
4 3 (2.26%) GitLab
5 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.50%) JMeter
5 2 (1.50%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.75%) JUnit
6 1 (0.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (32.33%) Finance
2 25 (18.80%) Banking
3 19 (14.29%) Retail
4 17 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 16 (12.03%) Front Office
5 16 (12.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (12.03%) Law
6 15 (11.28%) Financial Institution
7 13 (9.77%) Back Office
8 11 (8.27%) Games
9 5 (3.76%) Social Skills
9 5 (3.76%) Tech for Good
10 4 (3.01%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.26%) Marketing
12 2 (1.50%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.50%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.75%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (27.07%) Spring
2 29 (21.80%) Spring Boot
3 25 (18.80%) React
4 22 (16.54%) RESTful
5 18 (13.53%) Node.js
6 17 (12.78%) Kafka
7 8 (6.02%) GraphQL
7 8 (6.02%) Redux
7 8 (6.02%) REST
8 6 (4.51%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.76%) SOAP
9 5 (3.76%) Web Services
10 4 (3.01%) gRPC
10 4 (3.01%) Hibernate
10 4 (3.01%) NumPy
10 4 (3.01%) Pandas
10 4 (3.01%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.01%) SciPy
10 4 (3.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.82%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.02%) Fixed Income
3 8 (6.02%) Derivative
4 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.01%) Equities
5 4 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.01%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.01%) NHS
5 4 (3.01%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.26%) Blog
7 1 (0.75%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (76.69%) Software Engineering
2 52 (39.10%) Microservices
3 50 (37.59%) Agile
4 48 (36.09%) CI/CD
5 44 (33.08%) Test Automation
6 29 (21.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (19.55%) Continuous Deployment
8 24 (18.05%) Mentoring
9 22 (16.54%) Clean Code
10 18 (13.53%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (12.03%) TDD
12 15 (11.28%) Coaching
12 15 (11.28%) DevOps
13 14 (10.53%) AI
14 13 (9.77%) BDD
14 13 (9.77%) Fintech
15 12 (9.02%) Investment Management
16 11 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (8.27%) Open Source
17 10 (7.52%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (20.30%) SQL
3 20 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.53%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.28%) Python
6 9 (6.77%) Go
7 6 (4.51%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
1 13 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.51%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 21 (15.79%) Terraform
3 17 (12.78%) Grafana
4 3 (2.26%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.50%) Packer
6 1 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle
1 1 (0.75%) Splunk
1 1 (0.75%) VMware
40 hybrid/remote Java Engineer jobs