Java Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 284 202
Rank change year-on-year -10 -82 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 189 381 619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 1.11% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.16% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 179 344 399
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,875 £54,900
25th Percentile £85,000 £58,938 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -2.35% +22.89%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £148,750 £152,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +16.13%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 18,743 32,911 34,529
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 96.21% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,476 24,767 25,553
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Java Engineer.

Java Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Java Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 189 (100.00%) Java
2 171 (90.48%) Software Engineering
3 150 (79.37%) AWS
4 139 (73.54%) Agile
5 124 (65.61%) Finance
6 113 (59.79%) Front Office
7 112 (59.26%) Fixed Income
8 108 (57.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 108 (57.14%) JavaScript
9 105 (55.56%) TypeScript
10 104 (55.03%) Equities
11 103 (54.50%) Asset Management
11 103 (54.50%) Apache Airflow
11 103 (54.50%) Amazon Athena
11 103 (54.50%) Dremio
11 103 (54.50%) dbt
11 103 (54.50%) Apache Arrow
11 103 (54.50%) Apache Iceberg
12 97 (51.32%) Python
13 95 (50.26%) SciPy
13 95 (50.26%) NumPy
13 95 (50.26%) Pandas
14 91 (48.15%) Banking
15 90 (47.62%) Investment Management
16 83 (43.92%) Apache
17 82 (43.39%) Derivative
18 79 (41.80%) Investment Banking
18 79 (41.80%) Hedge funds
18 79 (41.80%) Snowflake
19 74 (39.15%) Apache Ignite

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 103 (54.50%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (43.92%) Apache
3 3 (1.59%) GemFire
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 150 (79.37%) AWS
2 103 (54.50%) dbt
3 79 (41.80%) Snowflake
4 56 (29.63%) GCP
5 20 (10.58%) Azure
6 13 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.82%) Dagster
8 6 (3.17%) npm
9 5 (2.65%) GitHub
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.06%) SaaS
10 2 (1.06%) Serverless
11 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Fabric
11 1 (0.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Broadband
1 2 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (54.50%) Amazon Athena
1 103 (54.50%) Apache Arrow
1 103 (54.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 103 (54.50%) Dremio
2 74 (39.15%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (37.57%) Data Lake
4 27 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.23%) MySQL
7 6 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.65%) Redis
9 3 (1.59%) InterSystems Cache
9 3 (1.59%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.59%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.06%) Couchbase
10 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Git
2 6 (3.17%) Cucumber
2 6 (3.17%) Cypress.io
2 6 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (3.17%) webpack
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.06%) Spock
4 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) JUnit
5 1 (0.53%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
General
1 124 (65.61%) Finance
2 113 (59.79%) Front Office
3 91 (48.15%) Banking
4 79 (41.80%) Investment Banking
5 13 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.17%) Social Skills
7 3 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.59%) Law
8 2 (1.06%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.53%) Automotive
9 1 (0.53%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Military
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (50.26%) NumPy
1 95 (50.26%) Pandas
1 95 (50.26%) SciPy
2 73 (38.62%) gRPC
3 71 (37.57%) Protocol Buffers
4 39 (20.63%) React
5 35 (18.52%) Spring
6 33 (17.46%) Node.js
7 25 (13.23%) AngularJS
8 24 (12.70%) Vue
9 21 (11.11%) Kafka
10 19 (10.05%) PySpark
11 18 (9.52%) Spring Boot
12 10 (5.29%) .NET
13 8 (4.23%) Redux
13 8 (4.23%) Web Services
14 6 (3.17%) GraphQL
14 6 (3.17%) Jest
14 6 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (3.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 112 (59.26%) Fixed Income
2 108 (57.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 104 (55.03%) Equities
4 82 (43.39%) Derivative
5 79 (41.80%) Hedge funds
6 60 (31.75%) Pricing Data
7 11 (5.82%) Algorithms
7 11 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (5.29%) Cloud Native
9 9 (4.76%) Public Cloud
10 6 (3.17%) Data Structures
10 6 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.06%) Online Games
12 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.12%) Linux
2 3 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (90.48%) Software Engineering
2 139 (73.54%) Agile
3 103 (54.50%) Asset Management
4 90 (47.62%) Investment Management
5 44 (23.28%) Microservices
6 32 (16.93%) Fintech
7 30 (15.87%) Order Management
8 29 (15.34%) DevOps
9 28 (14.81%) CI/CD
9 28 (14.81%) Risk Management
10 24 (12.70%) Performance Attribution
11 21 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 19 (10.05%) Containerisation
13 18 (9.52%) Design Patterns
14 17 (8.99%) Garbage Collection
14 17 (8.99%) TDD
15 16 (8.47%) Code Quality
15 16 (8.47%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (8.47%) Multithreading
16 13 (6.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 189 (100.00%) Java
2 108 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 105 (55.56%) TypeScript
4 97 (51.32%) Python
5 15 (7.94%) SQL
6 7 (3.70%) Go
7 6 (3.17%) C#
8 2 (1.06%) Groovy
8 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.06%) Rust
9 1 (0.53%) C++
9 1 (0.53%) Fortran
9 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.53%) PHP
9 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (4.23%) Degree
2 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
2 3 (1.59%) PhD
2 3 (1.59%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (21.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (16.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.65%) Terraform
3 4 (2.12%) Grafana
4 3 (1.59%) Ansible
4 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (3.70%) Oracle
2 3 (1.59%) Solace
2 3 (1.59%) TIBCO
3 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.06%) Splunk
4 1 (0.53%) Google
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft