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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 247 354
Rank change year-on-year -9 +107 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 144 148 250
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.12% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.21% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 110 141 226
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £115,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +75.67% -27.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £140,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £132,500 £148,750 £132,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -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 16,430 12,262 31,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.94% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,808 9,000 24,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,125 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +6.40% -9.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,525 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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.

1 144 (100.00%) Java
2 105 (72.92%) Software Engineering
3 87 (60.42%) AWS
4 54 (37.50%) Microservices
5 48 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 44 (30.56%) CI/CD
7 42 (29.17%) Agile
8 41 (28.47%) Spring
9 39 (27.08%) Spring Boot
10 34 (23.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (23.61%) Kubernetes
11 31 (21.53%) React
12 29 (20.14%) Continuous Deployment
13 27 (18.75%) SQL
14 25 (17.36%) Clean Code
15 24 (16.67%) GCP
15 24 (16.67%) Terraform
16 23 (15.97%) Mentoring
16 23 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
17 22 (15.28%) SaaS
18 21 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
19 20 (13.89%) Grafana
19 20 (13.89%) NoSQL
20 19 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
20 19 (13.19%) SC Cleared
20 19 (13.19%) Security Cleared
20 19 (13.19%) TeamCity
21 18 (12.50%) Node.js
22 17 (11.81%) Azure
22 17 (11.81%) JavaScript

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 2 (1.39%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 87 (60.42%) AWS
2 24 (16.67%) GCP
3 22 (15.28%) SaaS
4 19 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (11.81%) Azure
6 10 (6.94%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (4.86%) Serverless
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.08%) GitHub
9 2 (1.39%) Vercel
10 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.08%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.89%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.64%) MySQL
5 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.69%) Redis
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (13.19%) TeamCity
2 10 (6.94%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.08%) Git
3 3 (2.08%) GitLab
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.39%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.69%) JMeter
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
General
1 34 (23.61%) Finance
2 28 (19.44%) Banking
3 19 (13.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (13.19%) Law
3 19 (13.19%) Retail
4 18 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 17 (11.81%) Financial Institution
6 15 (10.42%) Back Office
7 11 (7.64%) Front Office
8 7 (4.86%) Tech for Good
9 5 (3.47%) Games
9 5 (3.47%) Social Skills
10 4 (2.78%) Health Technology
10 4 (2.78%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (2.08%) Marketing
12 2 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.69%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.47%) Spring
2 39 (27.08%) Spring Boot
3 31 (21.53%) React
4 18 (12.50%) Node.js
5 16 (11.11%) RESTful
6 15 (10.42%) Kafka
7 13 (9.03%) REST
8 8 (5.56%) GraphQL
8 8 (5.56%) Redux
9 6 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.47%) SOAP
10 5 (3.47%) Web Services
11 4 (2.78%) XML
12 3 (2.08%) CSS
12 3 (2.08%) Hibernate
12 3 (2.08%) HTML
12 3 (2.08%) J2EE
12 3 (2.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Blog
4 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.78%) NHS
5 3 (2.08%) Derivative
6 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (72.92%) Software Engineering
2 54 (37.50%) Microservices
3 48 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 44 (30.56%) CI/CD
5 42 (29.17%) Agile
6 34 (23.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (20.14%) Continuous Deployment
8 25 (17.36%) Clean Code
9 23 (15.97%) Mentoring
10 21 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (11.11%) TDD
12 15 (10.42%) DevOps
13 14 (9.72%) AI
13 14 (9.72%) Fintech
14 13 (9.03%) BDD
15 12 (8.33%) Coaching
16 11 (7.64%) Open Source
17 10 (6.94%) Operational Stability
18 9 (6.25%) Containerisation
18 9 (6.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 144 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (18.75%) SQL
3 17 (11.81%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.72%) TypeScript
5 11 (7.64%) Python
6 9 (6.25%) Go
7 8 (5.56%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (13.19%) SC Cleared
1 19 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (9.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.67%) Terraform
3 20 (13.89%) Grafana
4 2 (1.39%) Packer
4 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle
1 1 (0.69%) Splunk