Java Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 329 247
Rank change year-on-year +91 -82 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 168 291 567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 0.86% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.90% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 160 247 447
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £70,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -24.05% +31.67%
75th Percentile £140,000 £106,250 £127,500
90th Percentile £147,500 £142,500 £152,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.22% +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 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Java Engineer.

Java Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 1 May 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 1 May 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Java
2 144 (85.71%) Software Engineering
3 123 (73.21%) AWS
4 113 (67.26%) Agile
5 99 (58.93%) Finance
6 87 (51.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 86 (51.19%) Front Office
8 85 (50.60%) Fixed Income
8 85 (50.60%) Banking
9 83 (49.40%) Equities
10 82 (48.81%) Asset Management
10 82 (48.81%) Apache Airflow
10 82 (48.81%) Amazon Athena
10 82 (48.81%) Dremio
10 82 (48.81%) dbt
10 82 (48.81%) Apache Arrow
10 82 (48.81%) Apache Iceberg
11 81 (48.21%) Python
12 79 (47.02%) JavaScript
13 75 (44.64%) TypeScript
14 74 (44.05%) Pandas
14 74 (44.05%) SciPy
14 74 (44.05%) NumPy
14 74 (44.05%) Apache
15 73 (43.45%) Derivative
16 70 (41.67%) Investment Banking
16 70 (41.67%) Hedge funds
16 70 (41.67%) Snowflake
17 65 (38.69%) Apache Ignite
18 64 (38.10%) gRPC

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 82 (48.81%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (44.05%) Apache
3 4 (2.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.79%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 123 (73.21%) AWS
2 82 (48.81%) dbt
3 70 (41.67%) Snowflake
4 57 (33.93%) GCP
5 25 (14.88%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (14.88%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (13.69%) Dagster
8 21 (12.50%) Azure
9 8 (4.76%) npm
10 6 (3.57%) SaaS
11 3 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.79%) GitHub
11 3 (1.79%) Serverless
12 2 (1.19%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.60%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.60%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.60%) PaaS
13 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) Network Security
2 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (48.81%) Amazon Athena
1 82 (48.81%) Apache Arrow
1 82 (48.81%) Apache Iceberg
1 82 (48.81%) Dremio
2 65 (38.69%) Apache Ignite
3 62 (36.90%) Data Lake
4 18 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.95%) MySQL
6 9 (5.36%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.17%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.98%) Redis
10 3 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.79%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.60%) Big Data
11 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (5.95%) Git
2 8 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 8 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 8 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (4.76%) webpack
3 5 (2.98%) JIRA
4 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.60%) Gradle
4 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) JUnit
4 1 (0.60%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.60%) TestNG
General
1 99 (58.93%) Finance
2 86 (51.19%) Front Office
3 85 (50.60%) Banking
4 70 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 13 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.95%) Social Skills
7 5 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.79%) Law
10 2 (1.19%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.19%) Games
10 2 (1.19%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.60%) Advertising
11 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.60%) Local Government
11 1 (0.60%) Military
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (44.05%) NumPy
1 74 (44.05%) Pandas
1 74 (44.05%) SciPy
2 64 (38.10%) gRPC
3 62 (36.90%) Protocol Buffers
4 31 (18.45%) PySpark
5 30 (17.86%) Spring
6 21 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 17 (10.12%) React
8 15 (8.93%) AngularJS
8 15 (8.93%) Kafka
9 14 (8.33%) Node.js
10 12 (7.14%) Vue
11 10 (5.95%) RESTful
12 8 (4.76%) .NET
12 8 (4.76%) Jest
12 8 (4.76%) Web Services
13 6 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (1.79%) Middleware
15 2 (1.19%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 87 (51.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 85 (50.60%) Fixed Income
3 83 (49.40%) Equities
4 73 (43.45%) Derivative
5 70 (41.67%) Hedge funds
6 39 (23.21%) Pricing Data
7 16 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (7.14%) Cloud Native
9 11 (6.55%) Public Cloud
10 10 (5.95%) Algorithms
11 8 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (2.98%) Data Structures
13 3 (1.79%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (1.19%) Online Games
14 2 (1.19%) Private Cloud
15 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
15 1 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.79%) Linux
1 3 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 113 (67.26%) Agile
3 82 (48.81%) Asset Management
4 51 (30.36%) Investment Management
5 44 (26.19%) Microservices
6 29 (17.26%) DevOps
7 28 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 27 (16.07%) Fintech
9 26 (15.48%) Test Automation
10 23 (13.69%) Migration
11 21 (12.50%) Garbage Collection
12 19 (11.31%) Containerisation
13 16 (9.52%) Risk Management
14 15 (8.93%) Multithreading
15 12 (7.14%) Event-Driven
15 12 (7.14%) Extreme Programming
15 12 (7.14%) Memory Management
15 12 (7.14%) Order Management
15 12 (7.14%) Pair Programming
15 12 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 168 (100.00%) Java
2 81 (48.21%) Python
3 79 (47.02%) JavaScript
4 75 (44.64%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.33%) SQL
6 5 (2.98%) C#
7 3 (1.79%) Rust
8 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.60%) Fortran
9 1 (0.60%) Go
9 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (5.36%) Degree
2 4 (2.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.19%) PhD
5 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.98%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 40 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.57%) Terraform
3 4 (2.38%) Grafana
4 3 (1.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (2.38%) Oracle
2 3 (1.79%) Solace
2 3 (1.79%) TIBCO
3 2 (1.19%) Revolut
3 2 (1.19%) Splunk
4 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.60%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft