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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 35 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 -12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 838 1,136 2,387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.11% 7.39% 8.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.86% 16.45% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 556 776 1,919
10th Percentile £44,259 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £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 4,444 6,905 12,536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.11% 44.93% 45.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,258 4,478 10,923
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 21 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 29 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.51%) Apache
4 17 (2.03%) JBoss
5 15 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (1.55%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.48%) Confluence
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 33 (3.94%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.60%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 2 (0.24%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 479 (57.16%) AWS
2 214 (25.54%) Azure
3 157 (18.74%) GCP
4 89 (10.62%) GitHub
5 84 (10.02%) Amazon EKS
6 79 (9.43%) SaaS
7 68 (8.11%) Serverless
8 42 (5.01%) Amazon S3
9 41 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (3.94%) OCI
13 31 (3.70%) dbt
14 30 (3.58%) GitHub Copilot
15 25 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (2.86%) Pulumi
17 23 (2.74%) Power Platform
18 20 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.39%) OpenShift
19 19 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 30 (3.58%) Broadband
3 11 (1.31%) HTTP
4 6 (0.72%) BGP
4 6 (0.72%) VLAN
4 6 (0.72%) VPN
5 5 (0.60%) AMQP
5 5 (0.60%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.36%) Internet
6 3 (0.36%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
7 2 (0.24%) DSL
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) NAS
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (8.71%) NoSQL
3 40 (4.77%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.06%) MySQL
4 34 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.34%) MongoDB
6 25 (2.98%) Tableau
7 23 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.39%) BigQuery
8 20 (2.39%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.27%) Power BI
10 18 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
11 17 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.79%) DynamoDB
14 14 (1.67%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.43%) Apache Ignite
16 10 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.19%) Flink
Development Applications
1 82 (9.79%) Jenkins
2 63 (7.52%) Selenium
3 61 (7.28%) Git
4 52 (6.21%) JIRA
5 48 (5.73%) TeamCity
6 35 (4.18%) Oracle Forms
6 35 (4.18%) WebDriver
7 33 (3.94%) Postman
8 31 (3.70%) SoapUI
9 27 (3.22%) GitLab
9 27 (3.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 19 (2.27%) Jaeger
11 18 (2.15%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.15%) JUnit
12 17 (2.03%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.79%) Maven
14 10 (1.19%) MLflow
15 9 (1.07%) JMeter
16 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 314 (37.47%) Finance
2 231 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 138 (16.47%) Banking
4 129 (15.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (13.84%) Law
6 95 (11.34%) Retail
7 73 (8.71%) Financial Institution
8 66 (7.88%) Public Sector
9 50 (5.97%) Back Office
10 49 (5.85%) Front Office
11 42 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
12 33 (3.94%) Games
13 31 (3.70%) Investment Banking
14 23 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.91%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.91%) Tech for Good
16 9 (1.07%) Billing
17 8 (0.95%) Legal
18 7 (0.84%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 247 (29.47%) Developer
2 213 (25.42%) Software Engineer
3 210 (25.06%) Senior
4 131 (15.63%) Lead
5 125 (14.92%) Java Developer
5 125 (14.92%) Java Engineer
6 90 (10.74%) Java Software Engineer
7 61 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 51 (6.09%) Architect
9 50 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 46 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (5.01%) Senior Java Engineer
12 41 (4.89%) Applications Engineer
12 41 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
12 41 (4.89%) Lead Developer
13 40 (4.77%) Senior Developer
14 39 (4.65%) Software Developer
15 36 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
16 34 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (3.46%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (19.09%) Spring
2 134 (15.99%) Spring Boot
3 124 (14.80%) React
4 99 (11.81%) RESTful
5 95 (11.34%) SOAP
6 91 (10.86%) .NET
6 91 (10.86%) Kafka
7 90 (10.74%) REST
8 61 (7.28%) Node.js
9 43 (5.13%) JSON
10 42 (5.01%) HTML
10 42 (5.01%) XML
11 38 (4.53%) AngularJS
12 32 (3.82%) GraphQL
12 32 (3.82%) Middleware
13 31 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
14 29 (3.46%) CSS
15 28 (3.34%) Web Services
16 26 (3.10%) Hibernate
17 23 (2.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 181 (21.60%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.88%) Enterprise Software
3 62 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (6.44%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.82%) Blog
6 31 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 21 (2.51%) FPGA
7 21 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.15%) Derivative
9 18 (2.15%) Equities
10 17 (2.03%) Algorithms
10 17 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.55%) DataPower
13 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.07%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.07%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.46%) Linux
2 38 (4.53%) Unix
3 16 (1.91%) Android
4 15 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.95%) Windows
6 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.36%) CentOS
7 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (43.79%) Agile
2 305 (36.40%) CI/CD
3 303 (36.16%) Software Engineering
4 237 (28.28%) DevOps
5 223 (26.61%) Mentoring
6 214 (25.54%) Microservices
7 178 (21.24%) Test Automation
8 139 (16.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 116 (13.84%) AI
10 115 (13.72%) Coaching
11 112 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (12.77%) Computer Science
13 101 (12.05%) Clean Code
14 100 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 93 (11.10%) Containerisation
16 85 (10.14%) Fintech
17 78 (9.31%) Roadmaps
18 75 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
19 72 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
20 70 (8.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 307 (36.63%) Python
2 215 (25.66%) SQL
3 165 (19.69%) JavaScript
4 125 (14.92%) C#
5 106 (12.65%) TypeScript
6 83 (9.90%) Go
7 68 (8.11%) C++
8 41 (4.89%) PL/SQL
9 40 (4.77%) Shell Script
10 33 (3.94%) Bash
11 28 (3.34%) Scala
12 26 (3.10%) C
13 24 (2.86%) Kotlin
14 19 (2.27%) PHP
15 17 (2.03%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.95%) Delphi
16 8 (0.95%) Groovy
16 8 (0.95%) R
17 7 (0.84%) Ruby
17 7 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 157 (18.74%) Degree
2 118 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 101 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 68 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 28 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (3.34%) ISTQB
8 27 (3.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (3.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 24 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.43%) OSCP
13 11 (1.31%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.31%) PhD
14 7 (0.84%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.60%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.48%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.80%) QA
2 21 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.55%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.31%) GDPR
5 9 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.72%) NCSC
6 6 (0.72%) NIST
7 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.24%) ECSS
8 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 141 (16.83%) Docker
2 21 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 190 (22.67%) Kubernetes
2 162 (19.33%) Terraform
3 63 (7.52%) Grafana
4 45 (5.37%) Ansible
5 34 (4.06%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (3.94%) Argo
7 24 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.27%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.84%) Kibana
10 5 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.60%) FTK
11 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.48%) Packer
11 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.12%) Nessus
13 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (8.35%) Oracle
2 57 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.01%) Google
4 25 (2.98%) MuleSoft
5 18 (2.15%) Okta
6 17 (2.03%) Databricks
6 17 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.43%) IBM
8 11 (1.31%) Palantir
9 10 (1.19%) Dell
10 7 (0.84%) Guidewire
10 7 (0.84%) SAP
11 6 (0.72%) Talend
11 6 (0.72%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.60%) Epicor
12 5 (0.60%) Foundry
12 5 (0.60%) Infor
12 5 (0.60%) Mercator
12 5 (0.60%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.60%) Software AG