Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 272 323
Rank change year-on-year +13 +51 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 152 167 297
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.11% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.20% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 120 156 273
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +46.67% -18.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,677 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +44.83% -19.44%

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 17,621 13,922 31,249
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 92.22% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,951 8,831 24,870
10th Percentile £34,764 £31,250 £33,116
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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.

1 152 (100.00%) Java
2 109 (71.71%) Software Engineering
3 87 (57.24%) AWS
4 47 (30.92%) Test Automation
5 45 (29.61%) Microservices
6 43 (28.29%) Spring
6 43 (28.29%) Spring Boot
7 40 (26.32%) Agile
8 37 (24.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (23.68%) CI/CD
10 33 (21.71%) React
11 31 (20.39%) Kubernetes
12 26 (17.11%) Continuous Deployment
12 26 (17.11%) SQL
13 25 (16.45%) Mentoring
14 24 (15.79%) Clean Code
15 23 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
16 22 (14.47%) SaaS
17 21 (13.82%) GCP
17 21 (13.82%) Terraform
18 19 (12.50%) Node.js
19 18 (11.84%) Deployment Automation
19 18 (11.84%) NoSQL
19 18 (11.84%) SC Cleared
19 18 (11.84%) Security Cleared
20 17 (11.18%) AI
20 17 (11.18%) Amazon EKS
20 17 (11.18%) JavaScript
21 16 (10.53%) Azure
21 16 (10.53%) Grafana

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 1 (0.66%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.66%) Camunda
1 1 (0.66%) JBoss
1 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 87 (57.24%) AWS
2 22 (14.47%) SaaS
3 21 (13.82%) GCP
4 17 (11.18%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (10.53%) Azure
6 14 (9.21%) Anthropic Claude
7 9 (5.92%) Serverless
8 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.66%) GitHub
10 1 (0.66%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (11.84%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.58%) MySQL
5 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.66%) Flink
6 1 (0.66%) Redis
6 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (10.53%) TeamCity
2 14 (9.21%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) Git
4 2 (1.32%) GitLab
4 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.66%) JUnit
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
General
1 30 (19.74%) Finance
2 27 (17.76%) Banking
3 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (10.53%) Law
4 16 (10.53%) Retail
5 12 (7.89%) Financial Institution
6 11 (7.24%) Back Office
6 11 (7.24%) Front Office
7 9 (5.92%) Tech for Good
8 8 (5.26%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.95%) Health Technology
10 4 (2.63%) Games
11 3 (1.97%) Marketing
12 2 (1.32%) Social Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.29%) Spring
1 43 (28.29%) Spring Boot
2 33 (21.71%) React
3 19 (12.50%) Node.js
4 16 (10.53%) Kafka
4 16 (10.53%) REST
5 15 (9.87%) RESTful
6 10 (6.58%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.26%) GraphQL
7 8 (5.26%) Redux
8 6 (3.95%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.63%) J2EE
10 4 (2.63%) SOAP
10 4 (2.63%) Web Services
10 4 (2.63%) XML
11 3 (1.97%) Hibernate
11 3 (1.97%) JSON
11 3 (1.97%) Spring Security
12 2 (1.32%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.29%) Blog
4 4 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.63%) NHS
5 3 (1.97%) Derivative
6 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (71.71%) Software Engineering
2 47 (30.92%) Test Automation
3 45 (29.61%) Microservices
4 40 (26.32%) Agile
5 37 (24.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (23.68%) CI/CD
7 26 (17.11%) Continuous Deployment
8 25 (16.45%) Mentoring
9 24 (15.79%) Clean Code
10 18 (11.84%) Deployment Automation
11 17 (11.18%) AI
12 16 (10.53%) TDD
13 14 (9.21%) DevOps
13 14 (9.21%) Fintech
14 12 (7.89%) BDD
14 12 (7.89%) Coaching
15 11 (7.24%) Design Patterns
15 11 (7.24%) Investment Management
15 11 (7.24%) Open Source
15 11 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 152 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (17.11%) SQL
3 17 (11.18%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.53%) Python
5 13 (8.55%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.89%) Kotlin
7 9 (5.92%) Go
8 2 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (0.66%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (11.84%) SC Cleared
1 18 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.97%) QA
System Software
1 13 (8.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (20.39%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.82%) Terraform
3 16 (10.53%) Grafana
4 3 (1.97%) Packer
5 2 (1.32%) Ansible
5 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef