Hybrid/Remote Java Job Trends

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 801 1,136 2,402
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.92% 7.22% 8.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.12% 16.21% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 534 775 1,934
10th Percentile £41,925 £43,750 £42,150
25th Percentile £54,468 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £92,875 £115,000 £93,438
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,421 7,007 12,461
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.15% 44.53% 45.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,250 4,499 10,837
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,241 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,125 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Java job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Java
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Java over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Java salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Java
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 31 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (3.37%) Apache
3 26 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.12%) JBoss
4 17 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.62%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.50%) Confluence
8 3 (0.37%) Luigi
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) Camunda
9 2 (0.25%) nginx
9 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.37%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 37 (4.62%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.62%) Shopify
3 3 (0.37%) Maximo
4 2 (0.25%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 453 (56.55%) AWS
2 209 (26.09%) Azure
3 135 (16.85%) GCP
4 92 (11.49%) GitHub
5 77 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (9.24%) SaaS
7 65 (8.11%) Serverless
8 42 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 41 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (4.62%) OCI
11 35 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
14 26 (3.25%) dbt
15 25 (3.12%) Power Platform
16 24 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (3.00%) Snowflake
17 20 (2.50%) Entra ID
17 20 (2.50%) OpenShift
18 19 (2.37%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.50%) TCP/IP
2 22 (2.75%) Broadband
3 11 (1.37%) HTTP
4 6 (0.75%) BGP
4 6 (0.75%) VLAN
4 6 (0.75%) VPN
5 5 (0.62%) AMQP
5 5 (0.62%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.37%) Internet
6 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.25%) DHCP
7 2 (0.25%) DNS
7 2 (0.25%) DSL
7 2 (0.25%) LAN
7 2 (0.25%) NAS
7 2 (0.25%) SAN
7 2 (0.25%) SNMP
7 2 (0.25%) SSH
7 2 (0.25%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (8.74%) NoSQL
3 40 (4.99%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 32 (4.00%) MySQL
6 27 (3.37%) Tableau
7 24 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
9 21 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (2.62%) Power BI
10 20 (2.50%) RDBMS
11 19 (2.37%) Data Lake
12 18 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (2.12%) Apache Ignite
14 16 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (1.87%) BigQuery
16 14 (1.75%) Apache Arrow
16 14 (1.75%) Dremio
16 14 (1.75%) DynamoDB
17 12 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 85 (10.61%) Jenkins
2 63 (7.87%) Git
3 62 (7.74%) Selenium
4 55 (6.87%) JIRA
5 42 (5.24%) TeamCity
6 39 (4.87%) Oracle Forms
7 35 (4.37%) WebDriver
8 33 (4.12%) Postman
9 32 (4.00%) SoapUI
10 28 (3.50%) GitLab
10 28 (3.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (2.50%) JUnit
12 19 (2.37%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.37%) Jaeger
13 17 (2.12%) Cucumber
14 14 (1.75%) Maven
15 10 (1.25%) MLflow
16 9 (1.12%) JMeter
17 7 (0.87%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 307 (38.33%) Finance
2 232 (28.96%) Social Skills
3 139 (17.35%) Banking
4 115 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (12.73%) Law
6 87 (10.86%) Retail
7 67 (8.36%) Financial Institution
8 59 (7.37%) Public Sector
9 47 (5.87%) Front Office
10 45 (5.62%) Back Office
11 39 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
12 36 (4.49%) Investment Banking
13 32 (4.00%) Games
14 23 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (2.00%) Health Technology
16 15 (1.87%) Tech for Good
17 10 (1.25%) Billing
18 9 (1.12%) Legal
19 7 (0.87%) Aviation
19 7 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 234 (29.21%) Developer
2 197 (24.59%) Senior
3 193 (24.09%) Software Engineer
4 124 (15.48%) Lead
5 118 (14.73%) Java Developer
6 116 (14.48%) Java Engineer
7 81 (10.11%) Java Software Engineer
8 62 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 52 (6.49%) Architect
10 50 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 46 (5.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 45 (5.62%) Applications Engineer
12 45 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
13 44 (5.49%) Senior Java Engineer
14 37 (4.62%) Lead Developer
14 37 (4.62%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.49%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 29 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (3.62%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (19.23%) Spring
2 129 (16.10%) Spring Boot
3 114 (14.23%) React
4 99 (12.36%) RESTful
5 96 (11.99%) SOAP
6 91 (11.36%) .NET
7 85 (10.61%) REST
8 80 (9.99%) Kafka
9 53 (6.62%) Node.js
10 43 (5.37%) HTML
10 43 (5.37%) JSON
11 42 (5.24%) XML
12 34 (4.24%) AngularJS
13 33 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
14 31 (3.87%) CSS
15 30 (3.75%) Middleware
16 28 (3.50%) Web Services
17 27 (3.37%) Hibernate
18 23 (2.87%) GraphQL
19 22 (2.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 170 (21.22%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.74%) Enterprise Software
3 61 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (6.24%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.75%) Blog
6 28 (3.50%) Fixed Income
7 24 (3.00%) Derivative
8 23 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.75%) Equities
10 21 (2.62%) FPGA
11 19 (2.37%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.25%) Public Cloud
13 17 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
14 15 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (1.75%) Hedge funds
15 14 (1.75%) Pricing Data
16 13 (1.62%) DataPower
17 9 (1.12%) Data Centre
17 9 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 92 (11.49%) Linux
2 33 (4.12%) Unix
3 14 (1.75%) Android
4 13 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.12%) Windows
6 5 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.37%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.12%) AIX
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (44.19%) Agile
2 292 (36.45%) CI/CD
3 284 (35.46%) Software Engineering
4 227 (28.34%) DevOps
5 213 (26.59%) Mentoring
6 208 (25.97%) Microservices
7 169 (21.10%) Test Automation
8 129 (16.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 117 (14.61%) AI
10 115 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (13.73%) Computer Science
12 108 (13.48%) Coaching
13 105 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 87 (10.86%) Clean Code
15 84 (10.49%) Containerisation
16 78 (9.74%) Fintech
17 76 (9.49%) Roadmaps
18 71 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
19 69 (8.61%) Scrum
20 67 (8.36%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 297 (37.08%) Python
2 207 (25.84%) SQL
3 158 (19.73%) JavaScript
4 129 (16.10%) C#
5 100 (12.48%) TypeScript
6 74 (9.24%) Go
7 64 (7.99%) C++
8 45 (5.62%) PL/SQL
9 44 (5.49%) Shell Script
10 33 (4.12%) Bash
11 27 (3.37%) Scala
12 26 (3.25%) C
13 24 (3.00%) Kotlin
14 21 (2.62%) PHP
15 14 (1.75%) Apex Code
16 9 (1.12%) Groovy
17 8 (1.00%) Delphi
17 8 (1.00%) R
18 6 (0.75%) Ruby
18 6 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 158 (19.73%) Degree
2 110 (13.73%) Security Cleared
3 94 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 73 (9.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.99%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.87%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.62%) ISTQB
8 28 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 27 (3.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.87%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.25%) OSCP
14 10 (1.25%) PhD
15 9 (1.12%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.87%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.62%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.50%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.74%) QA
2 21 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.62%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.62%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.37%) GDPR
5 9 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.75%) NCSC
6 6 (0.75%) NIST
7 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.50%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.25%) ECSS
8 2 (0.25%) SEPA
8 2 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 132 (16.48%) Docker
2 23 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 181 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 153 (19.10%) Terraform
3 56 (6.99%) Grafana
4 47 (5.87%) Ansible
5 38 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (4.12%) Argo
7 23 (2.87%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.37%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.87%) Kibana
10 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.50%) FTK
11 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.37%) Packer
12 3 (0.37%) Puppet
13 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.12%) Icinga
14 1 (0.12%) Istio
14 1 (0.12%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) Nessus
Vendors
1 74 (9.24%) Oracle
2 56 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.24%) Google
4 23 (2.87%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.50%) Okta
6 17 (2.12%) Databricks
7 14 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.50%) IBM
9 11 (1.37%) Palantir
10 10 (1.25%) Dell
11 8 (1.00%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.87%) SAP
13 6 (0.75%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.75%) Talend
13 6 (0.75%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.62%) IFS
14 5 (0.62%) Jitterbit
14 5 (0.62%) Mercator
14 5 (0.62%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.62%) Workday