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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -42 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 867 1,336 1,907
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.80% 8.05% 7.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.24% 24.79% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 553 674 1,573
10th Percentile £36,457 £28,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -19.44% +20.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 6,090 5,389 9,483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.67% 32.49% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,570 3,713 7,344
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,229
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 16 August 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 14 (1.61%) Apache
2 12 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.15%) Confluence
5 8 (0.92%) Camunda
5 8 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.35%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Documentum
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.46%) Moqups
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 501 (57.79%) AWS
2 241 (27.80%) Azure
3 164 (18.92%) GCP
4 76 (8.77%) SaaS
5 50 (5.77%) Serverless
6 49 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (4.38%) GitHub
8 30 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.88%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
14 14 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (1.61%) Azure AKS
15 13 (1.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 13 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.69%) HTTP
2 22 (2.54%) Broadband
3 13 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.58%) AMQP
4 5 (0.58%) SMS
5 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.35%) Firewall
5 3 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.35%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) ATM
6 1 (0.12%) DSL
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (6.46%) SQL Server
3 54 (6.23%) MongoDB
4 46 (5.31%) MySQL
5 41 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 35 (4.04%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 16 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.50%) Metadata
10 9 (1.04%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.69%) Redis
13 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.46%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.35%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 72 (8.30%) Git
2 49 (5.65%) TeamCity
3 43 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 32 (3.69%) GitLab
5 28 (3.23%) JUnit
6 27 (3.11%) JIRA
7 26 (3.00%) Selenium
8 20 (2.31%) Maven
9 19 (2.19%) Postman
10 17 (1.96%) Mockito
11 14 (1.61%) Cypress.io
12 13 (1.50%) JMeter
13 11 (1.27%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.27%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.92%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.81%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.69%) REST Assured
17 5 (0.58%) Locust
17 5 (0.58%) SpecFlow
General
1 295 (34.03%) Finance
2 165 (19.03%) Social Skills
3 157 (18.11%) Banking
4 135 (15.57%) Public Sector
5 90 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (7.61%) Law
7 60 (6.92%) Retail
8 48 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
9 44 (5.07%) Back Office
10 42 (4.84%) Financial Institution
11 26 (3.00%) Front Office
12 23 (2.65%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.54%) Tech for Good
14 21 (2.42%) Health Technology
15 12 (1.38%) Legal
16 10 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.15%) Local Government
17 9 (1.04%) Aviation
18 8 (0.92%) Marketing
19 7 (0.81%) Games
Job Titles
1 305 (35.18%) Software Engineer
2 256 (29.53%) Developer
3 207 (23.88%) Senior
4 155 (17.88%) Lead
5 149 (17.19%) Java Developer
6 133 (15.34%) Java Engineer
7 90 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 88 (10.15%) Lead Software Engineer
9 78 (9.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 60 (6.92%) Senior Developer
10 60 (6.92%) Software Developer
11 48 (5.54%) Graduate
12 44 (5.07%) Senior Java Engineer
13 43 (4.96%) Senior Java Developer
14 39 (4.50%) Engineering Manager
14 39 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 35 (4.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 34 (3.92%) Graduate Developer
17 33 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 31 (3.58%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (21.45%) Spring
2 128 (14.76%) Spring Boot
3 121 (13.96%) React
4 111 (12.80%) REST
5 89 (10.27%) Node.js
6 83 (9.57%) .NET
7 73 (8.42%) Kafka
8 62 (7.15%) AngularJS
9 46 (5.31%) CSS
10 43 (4.96%) RESTful
11 30 (3.46%) jQuery
12 21 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (2.31%) GraphQL
13 20 (2.31%) Vue
14 18 (2.08%) Web Services
15 16 (1.85%) HTML
15 16 (1.85%) Redux
16 14 (1.61%) OpenAPI
17 13 (1.50%) SOAP
18 12 (1.38%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 129 (14.88%) Product Ownership
2 125 (14.42%) Cloud Native
3 76 (8.77%) Public Cloud
4 61 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (3.11%) Distributed Architecture
6 24 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.77%) Virtual Team
7 20 (2.31%) Fixed Income
8 18 (2.08%) Blog
8 18 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.50%) Equities
10 13 (1.50%) FPGA
11 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.15%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.04%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.34%) Linux
2 30 (3.46%) Windows
3 24 (2.77%) Unix
4 10 (1.15%) Android
4 10 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (48.90%) Software Engineering
2 360 (41.52%) Agile
3 334 (38.52%) CI/CD
4 221 (25.49%) Test Automation
5 217 (25.03%) Mentoring
6 199 (22.95%) DevOps
6 199 (22.95%) Microservices
7 165 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (18.45%) Technical Leadership
9 140 (16.15%) AI
10 138 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 127 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (14.19%) Coaching
13 118 (13.61%) Roadmaps
14 117 (13.49%) TDD
15 114 (13.15%) Clean Code
16 94 (10.84%) Containerisation
17 90 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (9.00%) OO
18 78 (9.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 265 (30.57%) Python
2 189 (21.80%) JavaScript
3 187 (21.57%) SQL
4 145 (16.72%) C#
5 95 (10.96%) TypeScript
6 86 (9.92%) C++
7 53 (6.11%) Go
8 38 (4.38%) PHP
9 30 (3.46%) Bash
10 28 (3.23%) C
11 26 (3.00%) Kotlin
12 21 (2.42%) Ruby
13 19 (2.19%) Rust
14 18 (2.08%) Scala
15 16 (1.85%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.27%) Groovy
16 11 (1.27%) PowerShell
17 10 (1.15%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.69%) Ada
19 5 (0.58%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 161 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.61%) Degree
4 51 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.92%) CREST Certified
8 8 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.92%) OSCP
9 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.58%) PhD
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.35%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.35%) GPEN
12 3 (0.35%) GXPN
12 3 (0.35%) OCP
12 3 (0.35%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.54%) QA
2 41 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.92%) NIST
5 7 (0.81%) WCAG
6 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
7 3 (0.35%) MIL-STD-1553
7 3 (0.35%) UCITS
8 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 118 (13.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 159 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 127 (14.65%) Terraform
3 58 (6.69%) Grafana
4 32 (3.69%) Ansible
5 16 (1.85%) Argo
6 12 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.46%) Packer
8 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (5.31%) Oracle
2 39 (4.50%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.46%) Google
4 16 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 13 (1.50%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.04%) Splunk
8 7 (0.81%) Foundry
8 7 (0.81%) IBM
9 6 (0.69%) OpenAI
9 6 (0.69%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.58%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.58%) Sybase
11 4 (0.46%) JDA
11 4 (0.46%) SAP
12 3 (0.35%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.35%) Perforce
12 3 (0.35%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.35%) Talend
13 2 (0.23%) Solace
263 hybrid/remote Java jobs