Java Software Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Software 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 262 382 368
Rank change year-on-year +120 -14 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 142 218 339
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.95% 0.64% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.67% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 140 185 254
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £147,625 £148,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £107,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% -17.65% +21.43%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Java Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Software 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 Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (100.00%) Java
1 142 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 113 (79.58%) AWS
3 102 (71.83%) Agile
4 84 (59.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 83 (58.45%) Front Office
5 83 (58.45%) Finance
6 82 (57.75%) Fixed Income
6 82 (57.75%) Asset Management
6 82 (57.75%) Apache Airflow
6 82 (57.75%) Amazon Athena
6 82 (57.75%) Dremio
6 82 (57.75%) dbt
6 82 (57.75%) Apache Arrow
6 82 (57.75%) Apache Iceberg
7 80 (56.34%) Equities
8 77 (54.23%) JavaScript
9 75 (52.82%) Python
10 74 (52.11%) TypeScript
10 74 (52.11%) Pandas
10 74 (52.11%) SciPy
10 74 (52.11%) NumPy
11 72 (50.70%) Banking
12 70 (49.30%) Snowflake
12 70 (49.30%) Investment Banking
12 70 (49.30%) Derivative
12 70 (49.30%) Apache
12 70 (49.30%) Hedge funds
13 62 (43.66%) Protocol Buffers
13 62 (43.66%) Apache Ignite

Java Software 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 (57.75%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (49.30%) Apache
3 3 (2.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 113 (79.58%) AWS
2 82 (57.75%) dbt
3 70 (49.30%) Snowflake
4 47 (33.10%) GCP
5 25 (17.61%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (17.61%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (16.20%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (16.20%) Dagster
7 10 (7.04%) Azure
8 3 (2.11%) GitHub
8 3 (2.11%) SaaS
9 2 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.41%) Serverless
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.70%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (57.75%) Amazon Athena
1 82 (57.75%) Apache Arrow
1 82 (57.75%) Apache Iceberg
1 82 (57.75%) Dremio
2 62 (43.66%) Apache Ignite
2 62 (43.66%) Data Lake
3 13 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.93%) MySQL
5 6 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.70%) Big Data
7 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.70%) Git
2 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.70%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
General
1 83 (58.45%) Finance
1 83 (58.45%) Front Office
2 72 (50.70%) Banking
3 70 (49.30%) Investment Banking
4 11 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.11%) Social Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Games
8 1 (0.70%) Advertising
8 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.70%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (52.11%) NumPy
1 74 (52.11%) Pandas
1 74 (52.11%) SciPy
2 62 (43.66%) gRPC
2 62 (43.66%) Protocol Buffers
3 31 (21.83%) PySpark
4 22 (15.49%) Spring
5 15 (10.56%) React
6 13 (9.15%) AngularJS
6 13 (9.15%) Node.js
7 12 (8.45%) Vue
8 8 (5.63%) .NET
8 8 (5.63%) Kafka
9 7 (4.93%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.41%) Java EE
10 2 (1.41%) React Native
11 1 (0.70%) HTML
11 1 (0.70%) RESTful
11 1 (0.70%) SOAP
11 1 (0.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 84 (59.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 82 (57.75%) Fixed Income
3 80 (56.34%) Equities
4 70 (49.30%) Derivative
4 70 (49.30%) Hedge funds
5 39 (27.46%) Pricing Data
6 16 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.93%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.41%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 102 (71.83%) Agile
3 82 (57.75%) Asset Management
4 51 (35.92%) Investment Management
5 25 (17.61%) Fintech
6 24 (16.90%) Microservices
7 23 (16.20%) Migration
8 21 (14.79%) DevOps
8 21 (14.79%) Garbage Collection
9 17 (11.97%) Test Automation
10 16 (11.27%) Risk Management
11 12 (8.45%) Code Quality
11 12 (8.45%) Extreme Programming
11 12 (8.45%) Memory Management
11 12 (8.45%) Order Management
11 12 (8.45%) Pair Programming
11 12 (8.45%) Performance Attribution
12 11 (7.75%) CI/CD
13 10 (7.04%) Multithreading
13 10 (7.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 142 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (54.23%) JavaScript
3 75 (52.82%) Python
4 74 (52.11%) TypeScript
5 12 (8.45%) SQL
6 4 (2.82%) C#
7 1 (0.70%) Fortran
7 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.70%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (4.23%) Degree
2 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.41%) PhD
4 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.70%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 23 (16.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) Argo
2 1 (0.70%) Grafana
2 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
1 1 (0.70%) Google
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle
1 1 (0.70%) Splunk
93 Java Software Engineer jobs with Hybrid/WFH options