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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 258 210
Rank change year-on-year -32 -48 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 180 166 360
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 0.99% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.06% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 123 157 275
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £67,688 £77,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +43.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £107,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -27.91% +7.50% +25.00%

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 23,394 15,597 21,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 93.01% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16,247 8,759 13,446
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 30 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 30 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 103 (57.22%) Software Engineering
3 70 (38.89%) AWS
4 49 (27.22%) Spring
5 46 (25.56%) Security Cleared
6 42 (23.33%) SC Cleared
7 40 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 40 (22.22%) Spring Boot
8 36 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 32 (17.78%) Kubernetes
10 28 (15.56%) Clean Code
10 28 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (14.44%) GCP
11 26 (14.44%) Microservices
12 24 (13.33%) Agile
13 23 (12.78%) Terraform
14 21 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (11.67%) Mentoring
15 20 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
15 20 (11.11%) REST
15 20 (11.11%) Workflow
16 19 (10.56%) Deployment Automation
16 19 (10.56%) Grafana
16 19 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (10.56%) TeamCity
17 18 (10.00%) AI
18 16 (8.89%) Kafka
18 16 (8.89%) React
19 15 (8.33%) Python
20 14 (7.78%) Observability

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 (3.89%) Camunda
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) JBoss
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.89%) AWS
2 26 (14.44%) GCP
3 21 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (6.67%) SaaS
5 11 (6.11%) Azure
6 7 (3.89%) Anthropic Claude
7 6 (3.33%) GitHub
8 4 (2.22%) Serverless
9 3 (1.67%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.11%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.56%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.11%) MySQL
5 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.56%) Flink
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (10.56%) TeamCity
2 7 (3.89%) Claude Code
3 5 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.67%) JUnit
5 2 (1.11%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.11%) Git
5 2 (1.11%) GitLab
5 2 (1.11%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.11%) Maven
5 2 (1.11%) Mockito
5 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (28.33%) Banking
2 25 (13.89%) Finance
3 19 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (10.56%) Law
3 19 (10.56%) Retail
4 14 (7.78%) Social Skills
5 13 (7.22%) Health Technology
6 9 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.00%) Tech for Good
7 8 (4.44%) Back Office
7 8 (4.44%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.22%) Digital Health
8 4 (2.22%) Front Office
9 3 (1.67%) iGaming
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (27.22%) Spring
2 40 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 23 (12.78%) Terraform
4 20 (11.11%) REST
5 16 (8.89%) Kafka
5 16 (8.89%) React
6 10 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.22%) RESTful
9 3 (1.67%) Next.js
10 2 (1.11%) Spring Batch
10 2 (1.11%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (1.11%) WireMock
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Camel
11 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.56%) JWT
11 1 (0.56%) Mustache
11 1 (0.56%) Node.js
11 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.11%) Blog
3 8 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.67%) Derivative
6 3 (1.67%) Equities
6 3 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.67%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) NHS
7 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (57.22%) Software Engineering
2 40 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 36 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 28 (15.56%) Clean Code
4 28 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (14.44%) Microservices
6 24 (13.33%) Agile
7 21 (11.67%) Mentoring
8 20 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
8 20 (11.11%) Workflow
9 19 (10.56%) Deployment Automation
10 18 (10.00%) AI
11 14 (7.78%) Observability
12 13 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (6.67%) Fintech
14 11 (6.11%) Design Patterns
14 11 (6.11%) Disruptive Innovation
15 10 (5.56%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (8.33%) Python
3 10 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 9 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.33%) SQL
6 2 (1.11%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) C++
7 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (0.56%) OCP
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.56%) Grafana
3 2 (1.11%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.56%) Google
1 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle