Java Software Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Software Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £115,000 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 371 551 529
Rank change year-on-year +180 -22 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 26 41 144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.12% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26 41 142
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £46,250 £68,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £135,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +54.29% -
75th Percentile £137,500 £165,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £148,750 - £125,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £65,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year +74.90% -22.65% -5.56%

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 Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Software Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java Software Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java Software Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Java Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (96.15%) Agile
3 24 (92.31%) AWS
4 22 (84.62%) Finance
5 20 (76.92%) Fixed Income
5 20 (76.92%) Asset Management
5 20 (76.92%) Software Engineering
5 20 (76.92%) Front Office
5 20 (76.92%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (76.92%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (76.92%) Dremio
5 20 (76.92%) dbt
5 20 (76.92%) Apache Arrow
5 20 (76.92%) Apache Iceberg
6 18 (69.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (69.23%) Equities
7 15 (57.69%) AngularJS
7 15 (57.69%) React
8 14 (53.85%) TypeScript
8 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
9 12 (46.15%) Risk Management
9 12 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (46.15%) Pandas
9 12 (46.15%) SciPy
9 12 (46.15%) NumPy
9 12 (46.15%) Node.js
9 12 (46.15%) Investment Management
9 12 (46.15%) GCP
9 12 (46.15%) Performance Attribution
9 12 (46.15%) Vue

Java Software Developer 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 20 (76.92%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (30.77%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) AWS
2 20 (76.92%) dbt
3 12 (46.15%) GCP
4 8 (30.77%) Snowflake
5 6 (23.08%) Azure
6 3 (11.54%) SaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (76.92%) Amazon Athena
1 20 (76.92%) Apache Arrow
1 20 (76.92%) Apache Iceberg
1 20 (76.92%) Dremio
2 12 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Eclipse
1 3 (11.54%) IntelliJ
1 3 (11.54%) Jasmine
1 3 (11.54%) JUnit
1 3 (11.54%) Karma Test Runner
1 3 (11.54%) Mockito
1 3 (11.54%) Protractor
2 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 2 (7.69%) Gatling
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JMeter
2 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
2 2 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 22 (84.62%) Finance
2 20 (76.92%) Front Office
3 8 (30.77%) Banking
3 8 (30.77%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) AngularJS
1 15 (57.69%) React
2 12 (46.15%) Node.js
2 12 (46.15%) NumPy
2 12 (46.15%) Pandas
2 12 (46.15%) SciPy
2 12 (46.15%) Vue
3 8 (30.77%) PySpark
4 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 3 (11.54%) JPA
5 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (7.69%) Playwright
7 1 (3.85%) Spring
7 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (76.92%) Fixed Income
2 18 (69.23%) Equities
2 18 (69.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (30.77%) Derivative
3 8 (30.77%) Hedge funds
4 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Agile
2 20 (76.92%) Asset Management
2 20 (76.92%) Software Engineering
3 12 (46.15%) Fintech
3 12 (46.15%) Investment Management
3 12 (46.15%) Order Management
3 12 (46.15%) Performance Attribution
3 12 (46.15%) Risk Management
4 8 (30.77%) Data Management
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
6 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Kanban
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Testing
7 2 (7.69%) SDET
7 2 (7.69%) Software Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 14 (53.85%) TypeScript
3 11 (42.31%) SQL
4 10 (38.46%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) Ruby
5 2 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) IBM
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