Hybrid/Remote Java Engineer Job Trends

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 279 312
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 124 155 228
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 0.99% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.03% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 100 113 208
10th Percentile £52,079 £63,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £115,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% +76.92% -25.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £140,677 £91,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £113,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £101,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +44.64% -20.00%

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 15,179 15,041 26,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.77% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,129 9,110 22,221
10th Percentile £30,921 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £81,250 £75,781
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 15 February 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 15 February 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.

1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 95 (76.61%) Software Engineering
3 88 (70.97%) AWS
4 50 (40.32%) Microservices
5 47 (37.90%) Agile
6 45 (36.29%) CI/CD
7 38 (30.65%) Test Automation
8 35 (28.23%) Spring
9 31 (25.00%) Kubernetes
10 28 (22.58%) Spring Boot
11 27 (21.77%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (20.97%) Continuous Deployment
13 24 (19.35%) Mentoring
14 22 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (17.74%) RESTful
14 22 (17.74%) SQL
15 21 (16.94%) Clean Code
15 21 (16.94%) Terraform
16 20 (16.13%) JavaScript
17 19 (15.32%) React
17 19 (15.32%) TypeScript
18 18 (14.52%) GCP
18 18 (14.52%) NoSQL
19 17 (13.71%) Deployment Automation
19 17 (13.71%) Grafana
19 17 (13.71%) Python
19 17 (13.71%) SaaS
19 17 (13.71%) TDD
20 16 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
20 16 (12.90%) Coaching

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 10 (8.06%) Apache
1 10 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 88 (70.97%) AWS
2 18 (14.52%) GCP
3 17 (13.71%) SaaS
4 16 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (10.48%) Azure
6 10 (8.06%) dbt
6 10 (8.06%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.84%) GitHub
7 6 (4.84%) Serverless
8 4 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.42%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.42%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.81%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.81%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.77%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (14.52%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.29%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.87%) MySQL
5 10 (8.06%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (8.06%) Apache Arrow
5 10 (8.06%) Apache Iceberg
5 10 (8.06%) Apache Ignite
5 10 (8.06%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.06%) Dremio
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (12.90%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.42%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.42%) GitLab
3 3 (2.42%) JMeter
4 2 (1.61%) Git
4 2 (1.61%) JUnit
4 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.61%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 51 (41.13%) Finance
2 30 (24.19%) Banking
3 19 (15.32%) Retail
4 17 (13.71%) Financial Institution
4 17 (13.71%) Front Office
5 16 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (12.90%) Law
6 13 (10.48%) Back Office
6 13 (10.48%) Public Sector
7 10 (8.06%) Games
7 10 (8.06%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.23%) Social Skills
8 4 (3.23%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.61%) Marketing
10 2 (1.61%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Aviation
11 1 (0.81%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (28.23%) Spring
2 28 (22.58%) Spring Boot
3 22 (17.74%) RESTful
4 19 (15.32%) React
5 13 (10.48%) Kafka
5 13 (10.48%) Node.js
6 10 (8.06%) gRPC
6 10 (8.06%) NumPy
6 10 (8.06%) Pandas
6 10 (8.06%) Protocol Buffers
6 10 (8.06%) SciPy
7 6 (4.84%) REST
8 5 (4.03%) GraphQL
8 5 (4.03%) Hibernate
8 5 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.03%) SOAP
8 5 (4.03%) Web Services
9 4 (3.23%) Redux
9 4 (3.23%) XML
10 3 (2.42%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 35 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.29%) Fixed Income
3 13 (10.48%) Derivative
4 10 (8.06%) Equities
4 10 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (8.06%) Hedge funds
4 10 (8.06%) Pricing Data
5 8 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.23%) NHS
7 3 (2.42%) Blog
8 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.81%) FPGA
8 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (76.61%) Software Engineering
2 50 (40.32%) Microservices
3 47 (37.90%) Agile
4 45 (36.29%) CI/CD
5 38 (30.65%) Test Automation
6 26 (20.97%) Continuous Deployment
7 24 (19.35%) Mentoring
8 22 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (16.94%) Clean Code
10 17 (13.71%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (13.71%) TDD
11 16 (12.90%) Coaching
12 15 (12.10%) Fintech
13 14 (11.29%) BDD
13 14 (11.29%) DevOps
13 14 (11.29%) Investment Management
14 10 (8.06%) Asset Management
14 10 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (8.06%) Open Source
14 10 (8.06%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (17.74%) SQL
3 20 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 19 (15.32%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.71%) Python
6 5 (4.03%) Go
6 5 (4.03%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.61%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) C
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (10.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.94%) Terraform
3 17 (13.71%) Grafana
4 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.61%) Ansible
5 2 (1.61%) Packer
6 1 (0.81%) Istio
6 1 (0.81%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (1.61%) VMware
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle
2 1 (0.81%) Solarflare
2 1 (0.81%) Splunk