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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 837 1,053 2,405
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.99% 7.58% 8.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.89% 16.50% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 562 781 1,936
10th Percentile £44,259 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.73% -0.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £124,750 £140,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 4,431 6,381 13,075
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.42% 45.95% 43.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 4,545 11,380
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £110,000 £97,625
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 March 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 26 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 25 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.15%) JBoss
4 13 (1.55%) Apache
4 13 (1.55%) WebSphere
5 11 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.48%) Confluence
8 3 (0.36%) Camunda
8 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 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
4 2 (0.24%) Simulink
5 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 25 (2.99%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.60%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 486 (58.06%) AWS
2 198 (23.66%) Azure
3 154 (18.40%) GCP
4 84 (10.04%) GitHub
4 84 (10.04%) SaaS
5 82 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
6 68 (8.12%) Serverless
7 40 (4.78%) Amazon S3
8 35 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
8 35 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (3.46%) dbt
11 27 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 25 (2.99%) OCI
13 24 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (2.87%) Pulumi
14 21 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (2.39%) OpenShift
16 19 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 19 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 31 (3.70%) Broadband
3 10 (1.19%) 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%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
7 2 (0.24%) DSL
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
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 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.96%) NoSQL
3 42 (5.02%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.42%) MySQL
5 36 (4.30%) SQL Server
6 25 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.39%) BigQuery
8 20 (2.39%) RDBMS
8 20 (2.39%) Tableau
9 17 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
12 13 (1.55%) Power BI
13 12 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.19%) Flink
15 9 (1.08%) Looker
15 9 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (8.96%) Jenkins
2 60 (7.17%) Git
3 57 (6.81%) Selenium
4 48 (5.73%) TeamCity
5 46 (5.50%) JIRA
6 32 (3.82%) Postman
6 32 (3.82%) WebDriver
7 29 (3.46%) SoapUI
8 28 (3.35%) GitLab
9 26 (3.11%) Oracle Forms
10 25 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (2.39%) Cucumber
11 20 (2.39%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.27%) Jaeger
13 17 (2.03%) JUnit
14 15 (1.79%) JMeter
15 14 (1.67%) Maven
16 10 (1.19%) MLflow
17 8 (0.96%) Claude Code
18 7 (0.84%) REST Assured
General
1 315 (37.63%) Finance
2 215 (25.69%) Social Skills
3 135 (16.13%) Banking
3 135 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (13.74%) Law
5 96 (11.47%) Retail
6 71 (8.48%) Financial Institution
6 71 (8.48%) Public Sector
7 58 (6.93%) Front Office
8 51 (6.09%) Back Office
9 40 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
10 34 (4.06%) Games
11 29 (3.46%) Investment Banking
12 20 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.91%) Health Technology
13 16 (1.91%) Tech for Good
14 9 (1.08%) Marketing
15 7 (0.84%) Aviation
15 7 (0.84%) Legal
15 7 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 271 (32.38%) Developer
2 229 (27.36%) Software Engineer
3 214 (25.57%) Senior
4 146 (17.44%) Lead
5 139 (16.61%) Java Developer
6 131 (15.65%) Java Engineer
7 94 (11.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 65 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 54 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 52 (6.21%) Lead Software Engineer
11 50 (5.97%) Lead Developer
12 49 (5.85%) Senior Developer
13 48 (5.73%) Architect
14 43 (5.14%) Software Developer
15 42 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
15 42 (5.02%) Senior Java Engineer
16 38 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
17 37 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (4.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 33 (3.94%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (19.12%) Spring
2 137 (16.37%) React
3 133 (15.89%) Spring Boot
4 94 (11.23%) Kafka
5 92 (10.99%) .NET
5 92 (10.99%) REST
6 91 (10.87%) SOAP
7 88 (10.51%) RESTful
8 82 (9.80%) Node.js
9 47 (5.62%) GraphQL
10 45 (5.38%) AngularJS
11 42 (5.02%) HTML
12 38 (4.54%) JSON
12 38 (4.54%) Redux
12 38 (4.54%) XML
13 33 (3.94%) CSS
14 32 (3.82%) Middleware
15 31 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (3.35%) Web Services
17 27 (3.23%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 165 (19.71%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (6.69%) Product Ownership
4 55 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (5.26%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.82%) Blog
7 22 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.51%) FPGA
9 18 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.67%) Equities
13 13 (1.55%) DataPower
14 12 (1.43%) Derivative
15 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.31%) Sports Betting
16 10 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (1.08%) Algorithms
17 9 (1.08%) Data Centre
17 9 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 98 (11.71%) Linux
2 38 (4.54%) Unix
3 16 (1.91%) Android
4 15 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.84%) 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
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (44.92%) Agile
2 320 (38.23%) Software Engineering
3 305 (36.44%) CI/CD
4 237 (28.32%) DevOps
5 211 (25.21%) Mentoring
6 197 (23.54%) Microservices
7 177 (21.15%) Test Automation
8 155 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 115 (13.74%) AI
10 111 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
11 103 (12.31%) Containerisation
12 102 (12.19%) Clean Code
13 101 (12.07%) Computer Science
14 100 (11.95%) Coaching
15 99 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (9.80%) Fintech
18 80 (9.56%) Technical Leadership
19 77 (9.20%) Roadmaps
20 70 (8.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 298 (35.60%) Python
2 215 (25.69%) SQL
3 179 (21.39%) JavaScript
4 120 (14.34%) C#
5 119 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 99 (11.83%) Go
7 70 (8.36%) C++
8 32 (3.82%) Bash
8 32 (3.82%) PL/SQL
8 32 (3.82%) Shell Script
9 25 (2.99%) C
10 24 (2.87%) Kotlin
11 23 (2.75%) Scala
12 21 (2.51%) PHP
13 20 (2.39%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.96%) Delphi
14 8 (0.96%) Ruby
14 8 (0.96%) Rust
15 7 (0.84%) Groovy
16 4 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 150 (17.92%) Degree
2 113 (13.50%) Security Cleared
3 98 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 65 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (2.99%) ISTQB
8 24 (2.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 24 (2.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.91%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.43%) OSCP
12 11 (1.31%) CREST Certified
12 11 (1.31%) PhD
13 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.48%) OSCE
17 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.17%) QA
2 22 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.55%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.31%) GDPR
5 10 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.84%) NIST
7 6 (0.72%) NCSC
8 5 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.48%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) ECSS
10 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 148 (17.68%) Docker
2 18 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 190 (22.70%) Kubernetes
2 161 (19.24%) Terraform
3 65 (7.77%) Grafana
4 44 (5.26%) Ansible
5 33 (3.94%) Argo
6 26 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.87%) 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 61 (7.29%) Oracle
2 50 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.66%) Google
4 26 (3.11%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.79%) Databricks
7 14 (1.67%) Okta
8 13 (1.55%) IBM
9 11 (1.31%) Palantir
10 10 (1.19%) Dell
11 7 (0.84%) SAP
12 6 (0.72%) Foundry
12 6 (0.72%) Talend
12 6 (0.72%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.60%) Epicor
13 5 (0.60%) Infor
13 5 (0.60%) Informatica
13 5 (0.60%) Jitterbit
13 5 (0.60%) Mercator
13 5 (0.60%) Software AG