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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 257 340
Rank change year-on-year +4 +83 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 146 139 241
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 1.08% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.15% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 115 133 223
10th Percentile £51,000 £57,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +75.67% -27.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £140,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £132,500 £148,750 £132,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +61.65% -26.11%

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 16,148 12,068 30,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 93.94% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,600 8,956 24,621
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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.

1 146 (100.00%) Java
2 110 (75.34%) Software Engineering
3 92 (63.01%) AWS
4 52 (35.62%) Microservices
5 50 (34.25%) Agile
6 48 (32.88%) CI/CD
6 48 (32.88%) Test Automation
7 40 (27.40%) Spring
8 37 (25.34%) Spring Boot
9 33 (22.60%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (21.92%) Kubernetes
11 30 (20.55%) React
12 27 (18.49%) Continuous Deployment
12 27 (18.49%) Mentoring
12 27 (18.49%) SQL
13 23 (15.75%) Clean Code
13 23 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
14 22 (15.07%) GCP
14 22 (15.07%) RESTful
14 22 (15.07%) Terraform
15 21 (14.38%) JavaScript
16 20 (13.70%) NoSQL
16 20 (13.70%) SaaS
17 19 (13.01%) Deployment Automation
18 18 (12.33%) Grafana
18 18 (12.33%) Node.js
18 18 (12.33%) TypeScript
19 17 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
19 17 (11.64%) Azure
19 17 (11.64%) SC Cleared

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 (2.74%) Apache
1 4 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.37%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 92 (63.01%) AWS
2 22 (15.07%) GCP
3 20 (13.70%) SaaS
4 17 (11.64%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (11.64%) Azure
5 10 (6.85%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (4.79%) Serverless
7 4 (2.74%) dbt
7 4 (2.74%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.05%) GitHub
9 2 (1.37%) Vercel
10 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.70%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.59%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.53%) MySQL
5 4 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.74%) Apache Arrow
5 4 (2.74%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (2.74%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.74%) Dremio
6 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
7 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) TeamCity
2 10 (6.85%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.05%) Git
3 3 (2.05%) GitLab
3 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.37%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
General
1 42 (28.77%) Finance
2 29 (19.86%) Banking
3 20 (13.70%) Retail
4 18 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 17 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (11.64%) Law
6 15 (10.27%) Financial Institution
6 15 (10.27%) Front Office
7 13 (8.90%) Back Office
8 11 (7.53%) Games
9 7 (4.79%) Investment Banking
10 5 (3.42%) Social Skills
10 5 (3.42%) Tech for Good
11 3 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.05%) Marketing
12 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.68%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.40%) Spring
2 37 (25.34%) Spring Boot
3 30 (20.55%) React
4 22 (15.07%) RESTful
5 18 (12.33%) Node.js
6 15 (10.27%) Kafka
7 12 (8.22%) REST
8 8 (5.48%) GraphQL
8 8 (5.48%) Redux
9 6 (4.11%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.42%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.42%) SOAP
10 5 (3.42%) Web Services
11 4 (2.74%) gRPC
11 4 (2.74%) NumPy
11 4 (2.74%) Pandas
11 4 (2.74%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (2.74%) SciPy
11 4 (2.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.22%) Fixed Income
3 7 (4.79%) Derivative
4 5 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.74%) Blog
5 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.74%) Equities
5 4 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.74%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.74%) NHS
5 4 (2.74%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (75.34%) Software Engineering
2 52 (35.62%) Microservices
3 50 (34.25%) Agile
4 48 (32.88%) CI/CD
4 48 (32.88%) Test Automation
5 33 (22.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (18.49%) Continuous Deployment
6 27 (18.49%) Mentoring
7 23 (15.75%) Clean Code
8 19 (13.01%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (10.96%) TDD
10 15 (10.27%) Coaching
10 15 (10.27%) DevOps
11 14 (9.59%) AI
11 14 (9.59%) Fintech
12 13 (8.90%) BDD
13 12 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.22%) Investment Management
14 11 (7.53%) Open Source
15 10 (6.85%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 146 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (18.49%) SQL
3 21 (14.38%) JavaScript
4 18 (12.33%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.27%) Python
6 9 (6.16%) Go
7 6 (4.11%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.05%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (11.64%) SC Cleared
1 17 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.16%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.68%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (9.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (21.92%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.07%) Terraform
3 18 (12.33%) Grafana
4 2 (1.37%) Packer
4 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle
1 1 (0.68%) Splunk