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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 248 240
Rank change year-on-year -51 -8 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 151 198 366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 1.20% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.30% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 118 188 327
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £97,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +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 20,395 15,201 27,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.20% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,769 9,441 20,973
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £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 23 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 23 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.

1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 106 (70.20%) Software Engineering
3 77 (50.99%) AWS
4 46 (30.46%) Agile
5 45 (29.80%) Test Automation
6 43 (28.48%) Spring
7 41 (27.15%) Microservices
8 38 (25.17%) Spring Boot
9 35 (23.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (22.52%) CI/CD
11 31 (20.53%) Security Cleared
12 30 (19.87%) SC Cleared
13 27 (17.88%) Kubernetes
13 27 (17.88%) Mentoring
14 26 (17.22%) React
15 23 (15.23%) Clean Code
15 23 (15.23%) Continuous Deployment
15 23 (15.23%) SQL
16 21 (13.91%) AI
17 20 (13.25%) GCP
17 20 (13.25%) Kafka
18 19 (12.58%) Azure
18 19 (12.58%) Python
18 19 (12.58%) Terraform
18 19 (12.58%) Workflow
19 18 (11.92%) JavaScript
19 18 (11.92%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (11.92%) SaaS
20 16 (10.60%) TypeScript
21 15 (9.93%) Deployment Automation

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 6 (3.97%) Camunda
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.66%) JBoss
2 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 77 (50.99%) AWS
2 20 (13.25%) GCP
3 19 (12.58%) Azure
4 18 (11.92%) SaaS
5 14 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (8.61%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (4.64%) Serverless
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.66%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.66%) Vercel
9 1 (0.66%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.92%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.61%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.62%) MySQL
5 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.66%) Flink
6 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (8.61%) Claude Code
1 13 (8.61%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.99%) Git
4 2 (1.32%) JUnit
4 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.66%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
5 1 (0.66%) Mockito
5 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (18.54%) Finance
2 22 (14.57%) Banking
3 18 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.61%) Law
4 13 (8.61%) Retail
5 12 (7.95%) Health Technology
6 11 (7.28%) Financial Institution
7 10 (6.62%) Back Office
8 9 (5.96%) Front Office
8 9 (5.96%) Tech for Good
9 8 (5.30%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.97%) Social Skills
11 4 (2.65%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Games
12 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.48%) Spring
2 38 (25.17%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.22%) React
4 20 (13.25%) Kafka
5 15 (9.93%) REST
6 12 (7.95%) RESTful
7 11 (7.28%) Node.js
8 10 (6.62%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.30%) GraphQL
9 8 (5.30%) Redux
10 5 (3.31%) Model Context Protocol
11 3 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.32%) Next.js
13 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.66%) JWT
13 1 (0.66%) LangChain
13 1 (0.66%) OpenID
13 1 (0.66%) Spring Cloud
13 1 (0.66%) Spring WebFlux
13 1 (0.66%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.49%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.30%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.99%) Blog
4 3 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.66%) Derivative
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (70.20%) Software Engineering
2 46 (30.46%) Agile
3 45 (29.80%) Test Automation
4 41 (27.15%) Microservices
5 35 (23.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (22.52%) CI/CD
7 27 (17.88%) Mentoring
8 23 (15.23%) Clean Code
8 23 (15.23%) Continuous Deployment
9 21 (13.91%) AI
10 19 (12.58%) Workflow
11 15 (9.93%) Deployment Automation
11 15 (9.93%) TDD
12 13 (8.61%) Architectural Patterns
12 13 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (8.61%) DevOps
13 12 (7.95%) BDD
13 12 (7.95%) Coaching
13 12 (7.95%) Open Source
14 11 (7.28%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (15.23%) SQL
3 19 (12.58%) Python
4 18 (11.92%) JavaScript
5 16 (10.60%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.62%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.30%) Go
8 2 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (0.66%) C++
9 1 (0.66%) Ruby
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 30 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.62%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.32%) Degree
5 1 (0.66%) OCP
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.31%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.58%) Terraform
3 13 (8.61%) Grafana
4 3 (1.99%) Packer
5 2 (1.32%) Ansible
5 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (0.66%) Google
1 1 (0.66%) OpenAI