Java Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,673 2,292 3,901
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.94% 7.23% 11.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.74% 18.45% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 761 1,919 2,818
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £148,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +10.71%

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 7,046 12,420 15,952
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 33.43% 39.17% 46.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,399 9,913 12,874
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £40,018
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Java.

Java salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 183 (10.94%) Confluence
2 149 (8.91%) Apache Airflow
3 133 (7.95%) Apache
4 39 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 23 (1.37%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 10 (0.60%) IIS
8 4 (0.24%) JBoss
8 4 (0.24%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.18%) GemFire
9 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.060%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.18%) Trello
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.18%) Adaptiv
2 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,109 (66.29%) AWS
2 729 (43.57%) Azure
3 502 (30.01%) GCP
4 215 (12.85%) Pulumi
5 148 (8.85%) dbt
6 99 (5.92%) Snowflake
7 85 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
8 71 (4.24%) Serverless
9 69 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 68 (4.06%) GitHub
11 48 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
13 39 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (2.33%) OpenShift
14 35 (2.09%) SaaS
15 31 (1.85%) Amazon S3
16 23 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (1.20%) Apigee
18 18 (1.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 220 (13.15%) Broadband
2 18 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.84%) SSL
4 12 (0.72%) Network Security
5 9 (0.54%) DMARC
6 6 (0.36%) SSH
7 2 (0.12%) Firewall
8 1 (0.060%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.060%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.060%) FCoE
8 1 (0.060%) HTTP
8 1 (0.060%) Internet
8 1 (0.060%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.060%) LAN
8 1 (0.060%) NAS
8 1 (0.060%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.060%) SAN
8 1 (0.060%) SCTP
8 1 (0.060%) VPN
8 1 (0.060%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (20.92%) SQL Server
2 299 (17.87%) NoSQL
3 254 (15.18%) Relational Database
4 226 (13.51%) RDBMS
5 149 (8.91%) Amazon Athena
6 146 (8.73%) Apache Arrow
6 146 (8.73%) Apache Iceberg
6 146 (8.73%) Dremio
7 109 (6.52%) Apache Ignite
8 88 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
9 87 (5.20%) Data Lake
10 82 (4.90%) MySQL
11 62 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (2.81%) Big Data
13 46 (2.75%) MongoDB
14 17 (1.02%) Redis
15 14 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.60%) Oracle Database
17 8 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 297 (17.75%) JIRA
2 290 (17.33%) GitLab
3 280 (16.74%) SonarQube
4 279 (16.68%) Maven
4 279 (16.68%) Selenium
5 276 (16.50%) Cucumber
6 266 (15.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 249 (14.88%) Bitbucket
8 215 (12.85%) Jaeger
9 91 (5.44%) Git
10 71 (4.24%) Jenkins
11 43 (2.57%) JUnit
12 34 (2.03%) Artifactory
13 24 (1.43%) Mockito
14 17 (1.02%) IntelliJ
15 15 (0.90%) Visual Studio
16 14 (0.84%) Cypress.io
16 14 (0.84%) Postman
17 13 (0.78%) WebDriver
18 9 (0.54%) SoapUI
General
1 761 (45.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 701 (41.90%) Finance
3 491 (29.35%) Banking
4 223 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 219 (13.09%) Front Office
6 202 (12.07%) Investment Banking
7 102 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
8 99 (5.92%) Retail
9 90 (5.38%) Corporate Banking
10 26 (1.55%) Law
10 26 (1.55%) Public Sector
11 21 (1.26%) Games
12 15 (0.90%) Back Office
13 14 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (0.72%) Electronics
14 12 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.54%) Billing
15 9 (0.54%) Czech Language
15 9 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 724 (43.28%) Software Engineer
2 421 (25.16%) Senior
3 403 (24.09%) Developer
4 318 (19.01%) Lead
5 298 (17.81%) Senior Software Engineer
6 220 (13.15%) Team Leader
7 194 (11.60%) Java Engineer
8 176 (10.52%) Java Software Engineer
9 160 (9.56%) Java Developer
10 158 (9.44%) AWS Engineer
11 119 (7.11%) AWS Software Engineer
12 107 (6.40%) Python Engineer
13 90 (5.38%) Senior Java Engineer
14 88 (5.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 82 (4.90%) Software Developer
16 76 (4.54%) Python Software Engineer
17 66 (3.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 59 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
19 58 (3.47%) Architect
20 57 (3.41%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (25.04%) React
2 396 (23.67%) Spring
3 375 (22.41%) Kafka
4 366 (21.88%) Spring Boot
5 347 (20.74%) .NET
6 337 (20.14%) HTML
7 325 (19.43%) CSS
8 315 (18.83%) Node.js
9 277 (16.56%) Redux
10 268 (16.02%) JPA
11 230 (13.75%) Elastic Stack
12 215 (12.85%) OpenTelemetry
13 188 (11.24%) Hibernate
14 163 (9.74%) RESTful
15 154 (9.21%) REST
16 150 (8.97%) Pandas
17 101 (6.04%) NumPy
18 100 (5.98%) SciPy
19 97 (5.80%) CSS3
19 97 (5.80%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 294 (17.57%) Product Ownership
2 272 (16.26%) Enterprise Software
3 250 (14.94%) Cyberattack
4 205 (12.25%) Self-Motivation
5 180 (10.76%) Linux Command Line
6 148 (8.85%) Fixed Income
7 136 (8.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 129 (7.71%) Derivative
9 127 (7.59%) Equities
10 92 (5.50%) Hedge funds
11 65 (3.89%) Pricing Data
12 61 (3.65%) Algorithms
13 60 (3.59%) Cloud Native
14 47 (2.81%) Management Information System
15 35 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
17 21 (1.26%) Mobile App
17 21 (1.26%) Public Cloud
18 19 (1.14%) Data Structures
18 19 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 550 (32.88%) Linux
2 247 (14.76%) Unix
3 76 (4.54%) Android
4 39 (2.33%) Windows
5 23 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.30%) Rocky
7 2 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.060%) CentOS
8 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.060%) Solaris
8 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,219 (72.86%) Agile
2 939 (56.13%) Software Engineering
3 745 (44.53%) DevOps
4 693 (41.42%) Microservices
5 656 (39.21%) Mentoring
6 627 (37.48%) Containerisation
7 528 (31.56%) CI/CD
8 469 (28.03%) Performance Optimisation
9 369 (22.06%) Test Automation
10 336 (20.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 325 (19.43%) SDLC
12 296 (17.69%) User Experience
13 278 (16.62%) Roadmaps
14 277 (16.56%) Infrastructure as Code
15 273 (16.32%) Machine Learning
16 260 (15.54%) Front End Development
17 259 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
18 258 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
19 236 (14.11%) Scrum
20 234 (13.99%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (60.91%) JavaScript
2 853 (50.99%) Python
3 526 (31.44%) Go
3 526 (31.44%) SQL
4 403 (24.09%) C++
5 321 (19.19%) TypeScript
6 280 (16.74%) Rust
7 235 (14.05%) Bash
8 224 (13.39%) C#
9 106 (6.34%) PHP
10 97 (5.80%) C
11 59 (3.53%) Ruby
12 52 (3.11%) R
13 50 (2.99%) MATLAB
14 49 (2.93%) Dart
15 27 (1.61%) PowerShell
16 24 (1.43%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.02%) Scala
18 16 (0.96%) Objective-C
18 16 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 425 (25.40%) AWS Certification
2 315 (18.83%) Security Cleared
3 263 (15.72%) DV Cleared
4 210 (12.55%) Degree
5 204 (12.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (10.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 168 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.75%) SC Cleared
9 16 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 14 (0.84%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.54%) PhD
12 6 (0.36%) CFA
12 6 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.36%) PMP
13 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (19.13%) QA
2 101 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.85%) GDPR
4 28 (1.67%) HIPAA
5 26 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.84%) NIST
7 13 (0.78%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.24%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.060%) DICOM
10 1 (0.060%) ECSS
10 1 (0.060%) HL7
10 1 (0.060%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.060%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.060%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.060%) WCAG
System Software
1 740 (44.23%) Docker
2 12 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.12%) KVM
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.12%) Xen
5 1 (0.060%) HDFS
5 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.060%) NFS
5 1 (0.060%) SRDF
5 1 (0.060%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 745 (44.53%) Kubernetes
2 366 (21.88%) Terraform
3 286 (17.10%) Ansible
4 245 (14.64%) Prometheus
5 216 (12.91%) Argo
5 216 (12.91%) Kustomize
6 22 (1.32%) Grafana
7 11 (0.66%) Istio
7 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.18%) Control-M
9 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 3 (0.18%) Packer
9 3 (0.18%) Puppet
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.060%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.060%) logstash
11 1 (0.060%) Marathon
11 1 (0.060%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 270 (16.14%) Google
2 253 (15.12%) Solace
3 81 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 41 (2.45%) Oracle
5 27 (1.61%) IBM
6 11 (0.66%) Guidewire
7 10 (0.60%) Databricks
8 9 (0.54%) Red Hat
8 9 (0.54%) SAP
9 8 (0.48%) Cisco
10 7 (0.42%) UiPath
11 6 (0.36%) Apple
11 6 (0.36%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.36%) F5
11 6 (0.36%) Murex
12 5 (0.30%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.30%) Blue Prism
12 5 (0.30%) Splunk
13 4 (0.24%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.24%) Dynatrace