Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 244 216
Rank change year-on-year -67 -28 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 141 196 364
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 1.19% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.30% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 113 185 314
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £56,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £97,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +8.57%

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 21,342 15,130 24,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.10% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,304 9,326 17,534
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,857
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.62% -7.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 12 August 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 12 August 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.

1 141 (100.00%) Java
2 95 (67.38%) Software Engineering
3 69 (48.94%) AWS
4 45 (31.91%) Spring
5 39 (27.66%) Spring Boot
6 38 (26.95%) Agile
7 36 (25.53%) Test Automation
8 35 (24.82%) Security Cleared
9 34 (24.11%) SC Cleared
10 33 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (21.99%) Microservices
12 30 (21.28%) CI/CD
13 24 (17.02%) AI
13 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
14 23 (16.31%) React
15 22 (15.60%) Kubernetes
15 22 (15.60%) Workflow
16 21 (14.89%) Clean Code
17 19 (13.48%) GCP
18 18 (12.77%) Kafka
18 18 (12.77%) Python
19 17 (12.06%) REST
19 17 (12.06%) Terraform
20 16 (11.35%) Azure
20 16 (11.35%) JavaScript
20 16 (11.35%) SQL
21 15 (10.64%) Continuous Deployment
21 15 (10.64%) SaaS
21 15 (10.64%) TypeScript
22 14 (9.93%) PostgreSQL

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 8 (5.67%) Camunda
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) JBoss
2 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 69 (48.94%) AWS
2 19 (13.48%) GCP
3 16 (11.35%) Azure
4 15 (10.64%) SaaS
5 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.80%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (4.26%) Serverless
7 2 (1.42%) GitHub
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.71%) Vercel
8 1 (0.71%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.55%) MySQL
5 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) Flink
6 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (7.80%) Claude Code
2 10 (7.09%) TeamCity
3 4 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.13%) Git
5 2 (1.42%) JUnit
6 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.71%) GitLab
6 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.71%) Maven
6 1 (0.71%) Mockito
6 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (14.89%) Finance
2 19 (13.48%) Banking
3 15 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.22%) Health Technology
5 10 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.09%) Law
5 10 (7.09%) Retail
5 10 (7.09%) Tech for Good
6 8 (5.67%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.67%) Social Skills
7 7 (4.96%) Back Office
7 7 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.96%) Front Office
8 4 (2.84%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) iGaming
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (31.91%) Spring
2 39 (27.66%) Spring Boot
3 23 (16.31%) React
4 18 (12.77%) Kafka
5 17 (12.06%) REST
6 10 (7.09%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.38%) Node.js
8 7 (4.96%) RESTful
9 6 (4.26%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.26%) Redux
10 5 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.13%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (2.13%) Next.js
12 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (0.71%) JWT
12 1 (0.71%) LangChain
12 1 (0.71%) OpenID
12 1 (0.71%) Spring Cloud
12 1 (0.71%) Spring Security
12 1 (0.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 30 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.26%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.84%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.13%) Blog
6 1 (0.71%) Derivative
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.71%) NHS
6 1 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (67.38%) Software Engineering
2 38 (26.95%) Agile
3 36 (25.53%) Test Automation
4 33 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (21.99%) Microservices
6 30 (21.28%) CI/CD
7 24 (17.02%) AI
7 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
8 22 (15.60%) Workflow
9 21 (14.89%) Clean Code
10 15 (10.64%) Continuous Deployment
11 13 (9.22%) Architectural Patterns
12 12 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (7.80%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (7.80%) DevOps
13 11 (7.80%) Observability
14 10 (7.09%) Design Patterns
14 10 (7.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (6.38%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 141 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (12.77%) Python
3 16 (11.35%) JavaScript
3 16 (11.35%) SQL
4 15 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.80%) Kotlin
6 6 (4.26%) Go
7 2 (1.42%) Scala
8 1 (0.71%) C#
8 1 (0.71%) C++
8 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.51%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.13%) Degree
5 1 (0.71%) OCP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.55%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (15.60%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.06%) Terraform
3 10 (7.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.42%) Ansible
4 2 (1.42%) Packer
5 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (0.71%) Google
1 1 (0.71%) OpenAI