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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 900 1,024 2,364
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.23% 7.97% 7.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.14% 17.82% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 590 822 1,916
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -5.27%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%

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 4,703 5,745 13,280
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.32% 44.72% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,433 4,527 11,465
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8 April 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 24 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.00%) JBoss
3 13 (1.44%) Apache
3 13 (1.44%) WebSphere
4 8 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.56%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.33%) Camunda
6 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 16 (1.78%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.56%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 520 (57.78%) AWS
2 208 (23.11%) Azure
3 171 (19.00%) GCP
4 92 (10.22%) SaaS
5 85 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (8.56%) GitHub
7 67 (7.44%) Serverless
8 41 (4.56%) Amazon S3
9 35 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (3.22%) dbt
12 28 (3.11%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (2.67%) Pulumi
14 22 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
18 16 (1.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.33%) Broadband
2 33 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 19 (2.11%) HTTP
4 6 (0.67%) BGP
4 6 (0.67%) VLAN
4 6 (0.67%) VPN
5 5 (0.56%) AMQP
5 5 (0.56%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.33%) Network Security
7 2 (0.22%) DHCP
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) DSL
7 2 (0.22%) LAN
7 2 (0.22%) NAS
7 2 (0.22%) SAN
7 2 (0.22%) SNMP
7 2 (0.22%) WAN
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.22%) NoSQL
2 79 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 43 (4.78%) Relational Database
5 37 (4.11%) MySQL
6 27 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.22%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 18 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.89%) Tableau
12 16 (1.78%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
15 12 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.22%) Flink
17 10 (1.11%) Power BI
18 9 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (1.00%) Looker
18 9 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (7.11%) Jenkins
2 63 (7.00%) Git
3 53 (5.89%) TeamCity
4 52 (5.78%) Selenium
5 42 (4.67%) JIRA
6 29 (3.22%) GitLab
6 29 (3.22%) Postman
7 26 (2.89%) SoapUI
7 26 (2.89%) WebDriver
8 23 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 19 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.11%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (1.78%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.67%) JMeter
12 15 (1.67%) JUnit
13 14 (1.56%) Maven
14 10 (1.11%) Claude Code
14 10 (1.11%) MLflow
15 8 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 338 (37.56%) Finance
2 213 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 163 (18.11%) Banking
4 139 (15.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 118 (13.11%) Law
6 103 (11.44%) Retail
7 74 (8.22%) Financial Institution
8 72 (8.00%) Public Sector
9 58 (6.44%) Back Office
10 55 (6.11%) Front Office
11 48 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (3.78%) Games
13 33 (3.67%) Investment Banking
14 23 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.67%) Tech for Good
16 14 (1.56%) Health Technology
17 9 (1.00%) Legal
17 9 (1.00%) Marketing
18 6 (0.67%) Aviation
18 6 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 293 (32.56%) Developer
2 268 (29.78%) Software Engineer
3 220 (24.44%) Senior
4 165 (18.33%) Lead
5 149 (16.56%) Java Developer
6 146 (16.22%) Java Engineer
7 103 (11.44%) Java Software Engineer
8 72 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 65 (7.22%) Lead Software Engineer
10 58 (6.44%) Senior Developer
11 55 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 53 (5.89%) Software Developer
13 49 (5.44%) Lead Developer
14 46 (5.11%) Architect
15 42 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
15 42 (4.67%) Senior Java Engineer
16 39 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
17 34 (3.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 34 (3.78%) Graduate
18 33 (3.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (19.11%) Spring
2 137 (15.22%) React
3 136 (15.11%) Spring Boot
4 106 (11.78%) REST
5 93 (10.33%) .NET
6 86 (9.56%) Kafka
7 82 (9.11%) Node.js
8 80 (8.89%) SOAP
9 78 (8.67%) RESTful
10 55 (6.11%) AngularJS
11 46 (5.11%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.56%) CSS
13 39 (4.33%) HTML
14 35 (3.89%) Redux
15 34 (3.78%) Web Services
16 33 (3.67%) JSON
16 33 (3.67%) XML
17 32 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
17 32 (3.56%) Middleware
18 29 (3.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 161 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 82 (9.11%) Product Ownership
3 63 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.78%) Fixed Income
5 42 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (4.00%) Public Cloud
7 33 (3.67%) Blog
8 22 (2.44%) FPGA
9 20 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.89%) Equities
10 17 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.56%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.44%) DataPower
12 13 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.22%) Sports Betting
14 10 (1.11%) Derivative
14 10 (1.11%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 95 (10.56%) Linux
2 36 (4.00%) Unix
3 17 (1.89%) Android
4 16 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.11%) Windows
6 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.33%) CentOS
7 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (43.67%) Agile
2 361 (40.11%) Software Engineering
3 316 (35.11%) CI/CD
4 229 (25.44%) DevOps
5 224 (24.89%) Mentoring
6 196 (21.78%) Microservices
7 192 (21.33%) Test Automation
8 158 (17.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 122 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (13.11%) AI
11 115 (12.78%) Clean Code
12 113 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (12.33%) Containerisation
14 109 (12.11%) Technical Leadership
15 104 (11.56%) Roadmaps
16 100 (11.11%) Computer Science
17 95 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 92 (10.22%) Coaching
19 86 (9.56%) Fintech
20 76 (8.44%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 308 (34.22%) Python
2 223 (24.78%) SQL
3 183 (20.33%) JavaScript
4 128 (14.22%) C#
5 112 (12.44%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.33%) Go
7 75 (8.33%) C++
8 36 (4.00%) Bash
9 29 (3.22%) PHP
10 27 (3.00%) C
11 24 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 24 (2.67%) PL/SQL
12 23 (2.56%) Scala
13 21 (2.33%) Shell Script
14 20 (2.22%) Apex Code
15 13 (1.44%) Ruby
16 11 (1.22%) Rust
17 8 (0.89%) Delphi
17 8 (0.89%) Groovy
18 6 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 144 (16.00%) Degree
2 116 (12.89%) Security Cleared
3 97 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.56%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 21 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 20 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.78%) OSCP
12 15 (1.67%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.22%) PhD
14 10 (1.11%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.78%) OSCE
16 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.44%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.56%) QA
2 28 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.11%) GDPR
6 9 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.56%) WCAG
10 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) ECSS
12 2 (0.22%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 148 (16.44%) Docker
2 10 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 193 (21.44%) Kubernetes
2 159 (17.67%) Terraform
3 71 (7.89%) Grafana
4 42 (4.67%) Ansible
5 32 (3.56%) Argo
6 24 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.11%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.56%) FTK
9 5 (0.56%) Kibana
9 5 (0.56%) Packer
10 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (6.22%) Oracle
2 51 (5.67%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.78%) Google
4 25 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.56%) Databricks
7 13 (1.44%) IBM
8 10 (1.11%) Palantir
9 8 (0.89%) Dell
9 8 (0.89%) Foundry
9 8 (0.89%) Okta
10 7 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.67%) SAP
11 6 (0.67%) Talend
11 6 (0.67%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.56%) Epicor
12 5 (0.56%) Infor
12 5 (0.56%) Informatica
12 5 (0.56%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.56%) Software AG