Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 252 199
Rank change year-on-year -68 -53 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 140 181 379
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 1.12% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.20% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 104 173 302
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £56,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -29.55% +10.00% +17.65%

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 22,450 15,036 22,559
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 92.63% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,884 9,073 14,801
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 September 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 September 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (61.43%) Software Engineering
3 62 (44.29%) AWS
4 45 (32.14%) Spring
5 38 (27.14%) Security Cleared
5 38 (27.14%) Spring Boot
6 36 (25.71%) CI/CD
7 35 (25.00%) SC Cleared
8 34 (24.29%) Test Automation
9 26 (18.57%) Kubernetes
10 25 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (17.86%) Microservices
11 24 (17.14%) Clean Code
12 23 (16.43%) GCP
13 21 (15.00%) Agile
14 20 (14.29%) REST
14 20 (14.29%) Workflow
15 19 (13.57%) Terraform
16 17 (12.14%) AI
16 17 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (12.14%) Mentoring
17 16 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
18 15 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
18 15 (10.71%) Grafana
18 15 (10.71%) Kafka
18 15 (10.71%) React
18 15 (10.71%) TeamCity
19 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
20 13 (9.29%) Architectural Patterns
20 13 (9.29%) SaaS

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 7 (5.00%) 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 62 (44.29%) AWS
2 23 (16.43%) GCP
3 17 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (9.29%) SaaS
5 10 (7.14%) Azure
6 6 (4.29%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.57%) Serverless
8 3 (2.14%) GitHub
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.71%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.71%) Flink
3 1 (0.71%) MySQL
3 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (10.71%) TeamCity
2 6 (4.29%) Claude Code
3 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.14%) JUnit
5 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.43%) Git
5 2 (1.43%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.43%) Maven
5 2 (1.43%) Mockito
5 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 30 (21.43%) Banking
2 18 (12.86%) Finance
3 15 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (10.71%) Law
3 15 (10.71%) Retail
4 13 (9.29%) Health Technology
5 10 (7.14%) Social Skills
6 9 (6.43%) Tech for Good
7 8 (5.71%) Back Office
7 8 (5.71%) Financial Institution
7 8 (5.71%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.86%) Digital Health
10 3 (2.14%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (32.14%) Spring
2 38 (27.14%) Spring Boot
3 20 (14.29%) REST
4 19 (13.57%) Terraform
5 15 (10.71%) Kafka
5 15 (10.71%) React
6 10 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.14%) Next.js
8 3 (2.14%) RESTful
9 2 (1.43%) Spring Batch
9 2 (1.43%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) WireMock
10 1 (0.71%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.71%) JWT
10 1 (0.71%) Model Context Protocol
10 1 (0.71%) Mustache
10 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.00%) Blog
2 7 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (61.43%) Software Engineering
2 36 (25.71%) CI/CD
3 34 (24.29%) Test Automation
4 25 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (17.86%) Microservices
5 24 (17.14%) Clean Code
6 21 (15.00%) Agile
7 20 (14.29%) Workflow
8 17 (12.14%) AI
8 17 (12.14%) Mentoring
9 16 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
11 13 (9.29%) Architectural Patterns
12 12 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.57%) Observability
12 12 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (7.14%) Design Patterns
14 9 (6.43%) DevOps
14 9 (6.43%) Secure Coding
15 8 (5.71%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (8.57%) Python
3 10 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 9 (6.43%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.00%) SQL
7 2 (1.43%) Scala
8 1 (0.71%) C++
8 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.14%) Degree
5 1 (0.71%) OCP
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.71%) Grafana
3 2 (1.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (0.71%) Google
1 1 (0.71%) OpenAI