Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 241 290
Rank change year-on-year -19 +49 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 108 238 204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 1.35% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 1.40% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 94 176 178
10th Percentile £63,250 £74,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +64.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £148,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £102,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +46.43% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 14,352 16,943 18,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 96.26% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,323 10,583 15,353
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 December 2025.

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 December 2025, 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 91 (84.26%) Software Engineering
3 90 (83.33%) AWS
4 67 (62.04%) Agile
5 56 (51.85%) JavaScript
5 56 (51.85%) Python
6 54 (50.00%) TypeScript
7 51 (47.22%) Investment Management
8 45 (41.67%) Amazon Athena
8 45 (41.67%) Apache
8 45 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
8 45 (41.67%) Apache Arrow
8 45 (41.67%) Apache Iceberg
8 45 (41.67%) Apache Ignite
8 45 (41.67%) Asset Management
8 45 (41.67%) Data Lake
8 45 (41.67%) dbt
8 45 (41.67%) Dremio
8 45 (41.67%) gRPC
8 45 (41.67%) NumPy
8 45 (41.67%) Pandas
8 45 (41.67%) Protocol Buffers
8 45 (41.67%) SciPy
8 45 (41.67%) Snowflake
9 28 (25.93%) CI/CD
10 24 (22.22%) Microservices
11 21 (19.44%) Spring
12 17 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (15.74%) Spring Boot
13 14 (12.96%) Kafka

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 45 (41.67%) Apache
1 45 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 90 (83.33%) AWS
2 45 (41.67%) dbt
2 45 (41.67%) Snowflake
3 10 (9.26%) GCP
4 9 (8.33%) SaaS
5 7 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.56%) GitHub
7 4 (3.70%) Azure
8 3 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.85%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.85%) Serverless
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.93%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (41.67%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (41.67%) Apache Arrow
1 45 (41.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 45 (41.67%) Apache Ignite
1 45 (41.67%) Data Lake
1 45 (41.67%) Dremio
2 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.93%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) Redis
4 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.78%) JMeter
4 2 (1.85%) Git
4 2 (1.85%) GitLab
4 2 (1.85%) JUnit
4 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.93%) Storybook
General
1 81 (75.00%) Finance
2 58 (53.70%) Banking
3 54 (50.00%) Front Office
4 45 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 10 (9.26%) Financial Institution
5 10 (9.26%) Retail
6 8 (7.41%) Games
7 7 (6.48%) Back Office
7 7 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.48%) Law
8 4 (3.70%) Social Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Marketing
10 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.85%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.93%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.67%) gRPC
1 45 (41.67%) NumPy
1 45 (41.67%) Pandas
1 45 (41.67%) Protocol Buffers
1 45 (41.67%) SciPy
2 21 (19.44%) Spring
3 17 (15.74%) Spring Boot
4 14 (12.96%) Kafka
5 12 (11.11%) React
6 9 (8.33%) Node.js
6 9 (8.33%) RESTful
7 7 (6.48%) GraphQL
8 6 (5.56%) Redux
9 3 (2.78%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.78%) Micronaut
9 3 (2.78%) REST
9 3 (2.78%) SOAP
9 3 (2.78%) Web Services
10 2 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (1.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (47.22%) Fixed Income
2 48 (44.44%) Derivative
3 45 (41.67%) Equities
3 45 (41.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (41.67%) Hedge funds
3 45 (41.67%) Pricing Data
4 13 (12.04%) Cloud Native
5 8 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.85%) NHS
7 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.93%) FPGA
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (84.26%) Software Engineering
2 67 (62.04%) Agile
3 51 (47.22%) Investment Management
4 45 (41.67%) Asset Management
5 28 (25.93%) CI/CD
6 24 (22.22%) Microservices
7 17 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (12.96%) Test Automation
9 12 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 11 (10.19%) Fintech
11 10 (9.26%) DevOps
12 9 (8.33%) Clean Code
13 7 (6.48%) API Integration
13 7 (6.48%) Collaborative Culture
13 7 (6.48%) Continuous Deployment
13 7 (6.48%) Deployment Automation
14 6 (5.56%) API Development
14 6 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (5.56%) Order Management
14 6 (5.56%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 56 (51.85%) JavaScript
2 56 (51.85%) Python
3 54 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.41%) SQL
5 6 (5.56%) Go
6 2 (1.85%) C#
6 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.93%) C
7 1 (0.93%) C++
7 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.78%) Degree
3 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.26%) Terraform
3 8 (7.41%) Grafana
4 2 (1.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.93%) Istio
5 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (1.85%) VMware
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle
2 1 (0.93%) Solarflare
2 1 (0.93%) Splunk