Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 203 254
Rank change year-on-year -49 +51 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 182 374 311
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.60% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.66% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 174 294 275
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,625 £51,550
25th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +35.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £135,000 £147,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -

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 WFH or hybrid 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 15,105 22,566 23,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 96.28% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,998 14,513 19,625
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,005 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Java Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Java Engineer job vacancies

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Java Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 182 (100.00%) Java
2 171 (93.96%) Software Engineering
3 159 (87.36%) AWS
4 143 (78.57%) Agile
5 129 (70.88%) Finance
6 128 (70.33%) JavaScript
7 124 (68.13%) TypeScript
8 120 (65.93%) Front Office
9 119 (65.38%) Fixed Income
9 119 (65.38%) Investment Management
10 113 (62.09%) Apache Airflow
10 113 (62.09%) Pandas
10 113 (62.09%) Amazon Athena
10 113 (62.09%) Dremio
10 113 (62.09%) dbt
10 113 (62.09%) Apache Arrow
10 113 (62.09%) Apache Iceberg
10 113 (62.09%) SciPy
10 113 (62.09%) NumPy
10 113 (62.09%) Asset Management
11 111 (60.99%) Equities
11 111 (60.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 106 (58.24%) Python
13 95 (52.20%) Banking
14 90 (49.45%) gRPC
14 90 (49.45%) Apache
15 89 (48.90%) Investment Banking
15 89 (48.90%) Hedge funds
15 89 (48.90%) Protocol Buffers
15 89 (48.90%) Derivative

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 113 (62.09%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (49.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 159 (87.36%) AWS
2 113 (62.09%) dbt
3 89 (48.90%) Snowflake
4 36 (19.78%) GCP
5 12 (6.59%) Azure
6 7 (3.85%) GitHub
7 4 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.65%) SaaS
8 3 (1.65%) Serverless
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (62.09%) Amazon Athena
1 113 (62.09%) Apache Arrow
1 113 (62.09%) Apache Iceberg
1 113 (62.09%) Dremio
2 89 (48.90%) Apache Ignite
2 89 (48.90%) Data Lake
3 29 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.30%) MySQL
5 4 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.65%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.10%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.10%) GitLab
2 2 (1.10%) JUnit
2 2 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.10%) Spock
2 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) JMeter
3 1 (0.55%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.55%) Storybook
General
1 129 (70.88%) Finance
2 120 (65.93%) Front Office
3 95 (52.20%) Banking
4 89 (48.90%) Investment Banking
5 10 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.75%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Games
9 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.55%) Automotive
9 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
9 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Military
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (62.09%) NumPy
1 113 (62.09%) Pandas
1 113 (62.09%) SciPy
2 90 (49.45%) gRPC
3 89 (48.90%) Protocol Buffers
4 40 (21.98%) React
5 34 (18.68%) Spring
6 33 (18.13%) Node.js
7 25 (13.74%) AngularJS
8 24 (13.19%) Vue
9 19 (10.44%) Kafka
10 15 (8.24%) Spring Boot
11 10 (5.49%) .NET
12 8 (4.40%) Redux
13 7 (3.85%) GraphQL
14 3 (1.65%) ActiveMQ
14 3 (1.65%) REST
15 2 (1.10%) HTML
15 2 (1.10%) Middleware
15 2 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 119 (65.38%) Fixed Income
2 111 (60.99%) Equities
2 111 (60.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 89 (48.90%) Derivative
3 89 (48.90%) Hedge funds
3 89 (48.90%) Pricing Data
4 9 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Online Games
8 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.55%) FPGA
9 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (93.96%) Software Engineering
2 143 (78.57%) Agile
3 119 (65.38%) Investment Management
4 113 (62.09%) Asset Management
5 36 (19.78%) Microservices
6 31 (17.03%) Fintech
7 30 (16.48%) Order Management
8 25 (13.74%) Risk Management
9 24 (13.19%) DevOps
9 24 (13.19%) Performance Attribution
10 20 (10.99%) CI/CD
11 14 (7.69%) Code Quality
11 14 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (7.14%) Design Patterns
12 13 (7.14%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.14%) SDLC
13 12 (6.59%) Containerisation
13 12 (6.59%) TDD
14 11 (6.04%) Garbage Collection
14 11 (6.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 182 (100.00%) Java
2 128 (70.33%) JavaScript
3 124 (68.13%) TypeScript
4 106 (58.24%) Python
5 7 (3.85%) Go
5 7 (3.85%) SQL
6 5 (2.75%) C#
7 2 (1.10%) C++
7 2 (1.10%) Groovy
7 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.10%) Rust
8 1 (0.55%) C
8 1 (0.55%) Fortran
8 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (1.65%) Degree
1 3 (1.65%) Master's Degree
1 3 (1.65%) PhD
2 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.20%) QA
2 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 31 (17.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (15.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.20%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Grafana
3 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Istio
4 1 (0.55%) Kibana
4 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (1.65%) Oracle
2 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.55%) Solarflare
3 1 (0.55%) Splunk
3 1 (0.55%) VMware