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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 253 254
Rank change year-on-year -40 +1 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 154 197 367
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 1.20% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.30% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 119 187 328
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £97,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% +3.07%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,677 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -

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 20,389 15,199 27,973
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.21% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,786 9,441 21,248
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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.

1 154 (100.00%) Java
2 110 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 81 (52.60%) AWS
4 48 (31.17%) Test Automation
5 46 (29.87%) Agile
5 46 (29.87%) Spring
6 44 (28.57%) Microservices
7 40 (25.97%) Spring Boot
8 37 (24.03%) CI/CD
8 37 (24.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (20.13%) Kubernetes
10 29 (18.83%) React
10 29 (18.83%) Security Cleared
11 28 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 28 (18.18%) SC Cleared
12 25 (16.23%) Clean Code
12 25 (16.23%) Continuous Deployment
12 25 (16.23%) SQL
13 22 (14.29%) AI
13 22 (14.29%) GCP
14 21 (13.64%) Terraform
15 20 (12.99%) Kafka
15 20 (12.99%) SaaS
16 19 (12.34%) Azure
16 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
16 19 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (12.34%) Python
17 18 (11.69%) Workflow
18 17 (11.04%) Deployment Automation
19 16 (10.39%) 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 5 (3.25%) Camunda
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) JBoss
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 81 (52.60%) AWS
2 22 (14.29%) GCP
3 20 (12.99%) SaaS
4 19 (12.34%) Azure
5 16 (10.39%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (8.44%) Anthropic Claude
7 8 (5.19%) Serverless
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.30%) GitHub
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.65%) Vercel
9 1 (0.65%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.79%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.49%) MySQL
5 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.65%) Flink
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.74%) TeamCity
2 13 (8.44%) Claude Code
3 4 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.95%) Git
5 2 (1.30%) GitLab
5 2 (1.30%) JUnit
5 2 (1.30%) Maven
5 2 (1.30%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.65%) Mockito
6 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (18.83%) Finance
2 24 (15.58%) Banking
3 19 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.74%) Law
4 15 (9.74%) Retail
5 12 (7.79%) Financial Institution
5 12 (7.79%) Health Technology
6 11 (7.14%) Back Office
7 9 (5.84%) Front Office
7 9 (5.84%) Tech for Good
8 8 (5.19%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.90%) Social Skills
10 4 (2.60%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (29.87%) Spring
2 40 (25.97%) Spring Boot
3 29 (18.83%) React
4 20 (12.99%) Kafka
5 16 (10.39%) REST
6 13 (8.44%) Node.js
6 13 (8.44%) RESTful
7 10 (6.49%) AngularJS
8 8 (5.19%) GraphQL
8 8 (5.19%) Redux
9 5 (3.25%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.30%) CSS
11 2 (1.30%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.30%) HTML
11 2 (1.30%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (1.30%) SOAP
11 2 (1.30%) Spring Security
11 2 (1.30%) Web Services
11 2 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.19%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.60%) Blog
5 3 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.30%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.65%) Derivative
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 48 (31.17%) Test Automation
3 46 (29.87%) Agile
4 44 (28.57%) Microservices
5 37 (24.03%) CI/CD
5 37 (24.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 25 (16.23%) Clean Code
7 25 (16.23%) Continuous Deployment
8 22 (14.29%) AI
9 18 (11.69%) Workflow
10 17 (11.04%) Deployment Automation
11 15 (9.74%) TDD
12 14 (9.09%) DevOps
13 13 (8.44%) Architectural Patterns
13 13 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (7.79%) BDD
14 12 (7.79%) Coaching
14 12 (7.79%) Open Source
15 11 (7.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 154 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (16.23%) SQL
3 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
3 19 (12.34%) Python
4 16 (10.39%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.14%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.19%) Go
7 2 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) Ruby
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.30%) Degree
5 1 (0.65%) OCP
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) QA
System Software
1 12 (7.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.64%) Terraform
3 15 (9.74%) Grafana
4 3 (1.95%) Packer
5 2 (1.30%) Ansible
5 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (0.65%) Google
1 1 (0.65%) OpenAI