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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 255 206
Rank change year-on-year -52 -49 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 157 182 372
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 1.12% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.21% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 111 174 293
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £56,500
25th Percentile £61,625 £81,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +17.65%

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 22,785 15,056 22,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 92.68% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,020 8,997 14,462
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,541
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 17 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 17 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.

1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 92 (58.60%) Software Engineering
3 64 (40.76%) AWS
4 47 (29.94%) Spring
5 40 (25.48%) Security Cleared
6 39 (24.84%) Spring Boot
7 38 (24.20%) CI/CD
8 37 (23.57%) SC Cleared
9 36 (22.93%) Test Automation
10 30 (19.11%) Kubernetes
11 27 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (17.20%) Microservices
12 26 (16.56%) Clean Code
13 25 (15.92%) GCP
14 23 (14.65%) Agile
15 21 (13.38%) Terraform
16 20 (12.74%) REST
16 20 (12.74%) Workflow
17 19 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (12.10%) Mentoring
18 18 (11.46%) AI
18 18 (11.46%) Deployment Automation
19 17 (10.83%) Continuous Deployment
19 17 (10.83%) Grafana
19 17 (10.83%) Kafka
19 17 (10.83%) TeamCity
20 16 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
21 15 (9.55%) React
22 14 (8.92%) Observability
23 13 (8.28%) Architectural Patterns

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 (4.46%) Camunda
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.64%) JBoss
2 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.76%) AWS
2 25 (15.92%) GCP
3 19 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (8.28%) SaaS
5 10 (6.37%) Azure
6 7 (4.46%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.18%) Serverless
8 4 (2.55%) GitHub
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.64%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.64%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.64%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.64%) Flink
4 1 (0.64%) MySQL
4 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) TeamCity
2 7 (4.46%) Claude Code
3 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.91%) JUnit
5 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.27%) Git
5 2 (1.27%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.27%) Maven
5 2 (1.27%) Mockito
5 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.64%) GitLab
General
1 39 (24.84%) Banking
2 20 (12.74%) Finance
3 17 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (10.83%) Law
3 17 (10.83%) Retail
4 13 (8.28%) Health Technology
5 12 (7.64%) Social Skills
6 9 (5.73%) Tech for Good
7 8 (5.10%) Back Office
7 8 (5.10%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.10%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.82%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.55%) Digital Health
10 3 (1.91%) iGaming
11 1 (0.64%) Front Office
11 1 (0.64%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (29.94%) Spring
2 39 (24.84%) Spring Boot
3 21 (13.38%) Terraform
4 20 (12.74%) REST
5 17 (10.83%) Kafka
6 15 (9.55%) React
7 10 (6.37%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.91%) Next.js
9 3 (1.91%) RESTful
10 2 (1.27%) Spring Batch
10 2 (1.27%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (1.27%) WireMock
11 1 (0.64%) Apache Camel
11 1 (0.64%) JPA
11 1 (0.64%) Mustache
11 1 (0.64%) Node.js
11 1 (0.64%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.64%) OpenID
11 1 (0.64%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.73%) Blog
3 7 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.91%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.64%) Derivative
6 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.64%) Equities
6 1 (0.64%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (58.60%) Software Engineering
2 38 (24.20%) CI/CD
3 36 (22.93%) Test Automation
4 27 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (17.20%) Microservices
5 26 (16.56%) Clean Code
6 23 (14.65%) Agile
7 20 (12.74%) Workflow
8 19 (12.10%) Mentoring
9 18 (11.46%) AI
9 18 (11.46%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (10.83%) Continuous Deployment
11 14 (8.92%) Observability
12 13 (8.28%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.64%) Design Patterns
13 12 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (6.37%) Event-Driven
14 10 (6.37%) Fintech
15 9 (5.73%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (8.28%) Python
3 10 (6.37%) Kotlin
4 9 (5.73%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.10%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.46%) SQL
7 2 (1.27%) Scala
8 1 (0.64%) C++
8 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.91%) Degree
5 1 (0.64%) OCP
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.83%) Grafana
3 2 (1.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.64%) Google
1 1 (0.64%) OpenAI