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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 256 264
Rank change year-on-year -34 +8 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 150 197 375
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 1.20% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.30% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 116 187 336
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £59,688 £97,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +18.92% +0.36%
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 20,200 15,157 29,444
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.25% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,652 9,416 22,554
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,956 £33,250
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 £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
% change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%

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 18 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 18 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.

1 150 (100.00%) Java
2 110 (73.33%) Software Engineering
3 80 (53.33%) AWS
4 49 (32.67%) Test Automation
5 46 (30.67%) Spring
6 45 (30.00%) Agile
7 44 (29.33%) Microservices
8 38 (25.33%) Spring Boot
9 37 (24.67%) CI/CD
9 37 (24.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (20.00%) Kubernetes
11 28 (18.67%) Mentoring
11 28 (18.67%) React
12 25 (16.67%) Clean Code
12 25 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
12 25 (16.67%) Security Cleared
12 25 (16.67%) SQL
13 24 (16.00%) SC Cleared
14 22 (14.67%) AI
14 22 (14.67%) GCP
15 21 (14.00%) Terraform
16 20 (13.33%) SaaS
17 19 (12.67%) Azure
17 19 (12.67%) JavaScript
17 19 (12.67%) Kafka
17 19 (12.67%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (12.67%) Python
18 17 (11.33%) Deployment Automation
19 16 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
19 16 (10.67%) REST

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 4 (2.67%) Camunda
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.67%) JBoss
2 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 80 (53.33%) AWS
2 22 (14.67%) GCP
3 20 (13.33%) SaaS
4 19 (12.67%) Azure
5 16 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (9.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 8 (5.33%) Serverless
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.33%) GitHub
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.67%) Vercel
9 1 (0.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.67%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.67%) MySQL
5 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.67%) Flink
6 1 (0.67%) Redis
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 14 (9.33%) Claude Code
3 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.33%) Git
4 2 (1.33%) GitLab
4 2 (1.33%) JUnit
4 2 (1.33%) Maven
4 2 (1.33%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.67%) Mockito
5 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (18.67%) Finance
2 24 (16.00%) Banking
3 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (10.00%) Law
4 15 (10.00%) Retail
5 12 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 11 (7.33%) Back Office
6 11 (7.33%) Health Technology
7 9 (6.00%) Front Office
8 8 (5.33%) Investment Banking
8 8 (5.33%) Tech for Good
9 5 (3.33%) Social Skills
10 4 (2.67%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Games
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (30.67%) Spring
2 38 (25.33%) Spring Boot
3 28 (18.67%) React
4 19 (12.67%) Kafka
5 16 (10.67%) REST
6 13 (8.67%) Node.js
7 12 (8.00%) RESTful
8 10 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.33%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.33%) Redux
10 6 (4.00%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.33%) CSS
12 2 (1.33%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.33%) HTML
12 2 (1.33%) J2EE
12 2 (1.33%) SOAP
12 2 (1.33%) Spring Security
12 2 (1.33%) Web Services
12 2 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.33%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.67%) Blog
5 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.67%) Derivative
6 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 49 (32.67%) Test Automation
3 45 (30.00%) Agile
4 44 (29.33%) Microservices
5 37 (24.67%) CI/CD
5 37 (24.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (18.67%) Mentoring
7 25 (16.67%) Clean Code
7 25 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
8 22 (14.67%) AI
9 17 (11.33%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (10.67%) Workflow
11 15 (10.00%) TDD
12 13 (8.67%) Architectural Patterns
12 13 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (8.67%) DevOps
13 12 (8.00%) BDD
13 12 (8.00%) Coaching
13 12 (8.00%) Open Source
14 11 (7.33%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (16.67%) SQL
3 19 (12.67%) JavaScript
3 19 (12.67%) Python
4 15 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 9 (6.00%) Go
7 2 (1.33%) C#
8 1 (0.67%) C++
8 1 (0.67%) Ruby
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.00%) Terraform
3 15 (10.00%) Grafana
4 3 (2.00%) Packer
5 2 (1.33%) Ansible
5 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (0.67%) Google
1 1 (0.67%) OpenAI