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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 840 1,029 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.98% 7.63% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.78% 16.68% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 562 785 1,919
10th Percentile £44,458 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £94,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,250 £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 4,473 6,170 13,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 45.73% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 4,510 11,369
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,975 £38,500
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 £97,500
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 18 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 (3.10%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.14%) JBoss
4 13 (1.55%) Apache
4 13 (1.55%) WebSphere
5 10 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.60%) Confluence
7 3 (0.36%) Camunda
7 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 22 (2.62%) 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
1 488 (58.10%) AWS
2 201 (23.93%) Azure
3 159 (18.93%) GCP
4 86 (10.24%) SaaS
5 82 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
6 79 (9.40%) GitHub
7 68 (8.10%) Serverless
8 39 (4.64%) Amazon S3
9 34 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (3.33%) dbt
12 27 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 24 (2.86%) Pulumi
15 23 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (2.62%) OCI
17 20 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
18 18 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (2.14%) OpenShift
19 17 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.64%) Broadband
2 33 (3.93%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.31%) HTTP
4 6 (0.71%) BGP
4 6 (0.71%) VLAN
4 6 (0.71%) 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%) 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 83 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (9.17%) NoSQL
3 42 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 38 (4.52%) MySQL
5 36 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.26%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.26%) Tableau
10 17 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (1.79%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
13 12 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.43%) Power BI
14 10 (1.19%) Flink
15 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.07%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.07%) Looker
Development Applications
1 70 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 59 (7.02%) Git
3 57 (6.79%) Selenium
4 50 (5.95%) TeamCity
5 45 (5.36%) JIRA
6 31 (3.69%) Postman
7 30 (3.57%) WebDriver
8 29 (3.45%) GitLab
9 28 (3.33%) SoapUI
10 24 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
11 23 (2.74%) Oracle Forms
12 19 (2.26%) Cucumber
12 19 (2.26%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.26%) Jaeger
13 16 (1.90%) JUnit
14 15 (1.79%) JMeter
15 14 (1.67%) Maven
16 10 (1.19%) MLflow
17 8 (0.95%) Claude Code
17 8 (0.95%) REST Assured
General
1 311 (37.02%) Finance
2 215 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 137 (16.31%) Banking
4 136 (16.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (13.81%) Law
6 98 (11.67%) Retail
7 73 (8.69%) Financial Institution
8 72 (8.57%) Public Sector
9 57 (6.79%) Front Office
10 53 (6.31%) Back Office
11 43 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (4.05%) Games
13 28 (3.33%) Investment Banking
14 20 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.90%) Health Technology
16 15 (1.79%) Tech for Good
17 9 (1.07%) Marketing
18 7 (0.83%) Legal
18 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 272 (32.38%) Developer
2 234 (27.86%) Software Engineer
3 214 (25.48%) Senior
4 152 (18.10%) Lead
5 139 (16.55%) Java Developer
6 131 (15.60%) Java Engineer
7 95 (11.31%) Java Software Engineer
8 66 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
9 55 (6.55%) Lead Software Engineer
10 52 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 50 (5.95%) Senior Developer
12 49 (5.83%) Lead Developer
13 48 (5.71%) Architect
14 43 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 43 (5.12%) Software Developer
15 40 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
16 36 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
17 35 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
18 34 (4.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 30 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (18.93%) Spring
2 131 (15.60%) React
2 131 (15.60%) Spring Boot
3 93 (11.07%) REST
4 92 (10.95%) .NET
4 92 (10.95%) Kafka
5 88 (10.48%) SOAP
6 85 (10.12%) RESTful
7 82 (9.76%) Node.js
8 46 (5.48%) GraphQL
9 44 (5.24%) AngularJS
10 40 (4.76%) HTML
11 37 (4.40%) Redux
12 36 (4.29%) JSON
12 36 (4.29%) XML
13 32 (3.81%) CSS
13 32 (3.81%) Middleware
14 31 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
15 28 (3.33%) Web Services
16 26 (3.10%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 166 (19.76%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 52 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (5.12%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.81%) Blog
7 23 (2.74%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.50%) FPGA
9 17 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.67%) Equities
12 13 (1.55%) DataPower
13 11 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.31%) Derivative
13 11 (1.31%) Sports Betting
14 10 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.07%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.31%) Linux
2 38 (4.52%) Unix
3 16 (1.90%) Android
4 15 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.83%) 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
1 381 (45.36%) Agile
2 323 (38.45%) Software Engineering
3 305 (36.31%) CI/CD
4 236 (28.10%) DevOps
5 215 (25.60%) Mentoring
6 198 (23.57%) Microservices
7 181 (21.55%) Test Automation
8 152 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 115 (13.69%) AI
10 111 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 104 (12.38%) Clean Code
13 103 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (11.79%) Coaching
15 98 (11.67%) Computer Science
16 89 (10.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 85 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
18 84 (10.00%) Fintech
19 77 (9.17%) Roadmaps
20 71 (8.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 296 (35.24%) Python
2 212 (25.24%) SQL
3 174 (20.71%) JavaScript
4 118 (14.05%) C#
5 114 (13.57%) TypeScript
6 99 (11.79%) Go
7 64 (7.62%) C++
8 32 (3.81%) Bash
9 29 (3.45%) PL/SQL
9 29 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.86%) Kotlin
11 23 (2.74%) C
11 23 (2.74%) Scala
12 21 (2.50%) Apex Code
12 21 (2.50%) PHP
13 9 (1.07%) Ruby
14 8 (0.95%) Delphi
14 8 (0.95%) Groovy
14 8 (0.95%) Rust
15 4 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 143 (17.02%) Degree
2 104 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 88 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (5.24%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (2.86%) ISTQB
8 24 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 23 (2.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 21 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (2.14%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.43%) OSCP
13 11 (1.31%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.31%) PhD
14 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.48%) OSCE
17 3 (0.36%) IBM Certification
17 3 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.26%) QA
2 23 (2.74%) 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 (0.83%) NIST
7 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.48%) WCAG
9 2 (0.24%) ECSS
9 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 149 (17.74%) Docker
2 16 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 191 (22.74%) Kubernetes
2 161 (19.17%) Terraform
3 67 (7.98%) Grafana
4 43 (5.12%) Ansible
5 33 (3.93%) Argo
6 24 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 23 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (2.26%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.71%) Kibana
10 5 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.60%) FTK
11 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.48%) Packer
12 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.12%) Icinga
14 1 (0.12%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) Nessus
14 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (6.90%) Oracle
2 47 (5.60%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.24%) Google
4 26 (3.10%) MuleSoft
5 21 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.67%) Databricks
7 13 (1.55%) IBM
8 12 (1.43%) Okta
9 10 (1.19%) Dell
9 10 (1.19%) Palantir
10 8 (0.95%) Foundry
11 7 (0.83%) SAP
12 6 (0.71%) Talend
12 6 (0.71%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.60%) Epicor
13 5 (0.60%) Infor
13 5 (0.60%) Informatica
13 5 (0.60%) Mercator
13 5 (0.60%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.60%) Software AG