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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 31 23
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 957 1,214 1,780
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 7.22% 8.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.46% 24.36% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 566 539 1,317
10th Percentile £41,625 £39,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 6,189 4,983 8,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.92% 29.65% 39.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,574 3,297 5,736
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 5 October 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 15 (1.57%) Apache
2 11 (1.15%) Confluence
3 9 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (0.94%) Camunda
4 8 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.21%) Hedera
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.10%) Appian
9 1 (0.10%) Documentum
9 1 (0.10%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Moqups
2 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 548 (57.26%) AWS
2 232 (24.24%) Azure
3 196 (20.48%) GCP
4 110 (11.49%) SaaS
5 85 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
6 75 (7.84%) Serverless
7 55 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (4.60%) GitHub
9 35 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 28 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
13 19 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
14 18 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (1.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (1.46%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.03%) HTTP
2 14 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.15%) AMQP
3 11 (1.15%) SMS
4 6 (0.63%) BGP
4 6 (0.63%) Firewall
4 6 (0.63%) VPN
5 5 (0.52%) Broadband
6 3 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.31%) Network Security
6 3 (0.31%) VLAN
7 1 (0.10%) ATM
7 1 (0.10%) DSL
7 1 (0.10%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 42 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 41 (4.28%) MySQL
5 38 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 35 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 21 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (2.19%) DynamoDB
8 20 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (1.78%) Spark SQL
10 10 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.84%) Metadata
13 7 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.73%) Parquet
14 6 (0.63%) Flink
14 6 (0.63%) Redis
15 4 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 90 (9.40%) TeamCity
2 80 (8.36%) Git
3 46 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 39 (4.08%) JUnit
5 30 (3.13%) GitLab
6 27 (2.82%) JIRA
7 23 (2.40%) Mockito
7 23 (2.40%) Selenium
8 22 (2.30%) Maven
9 20 (2.09%) Postman
10 15 (1.57%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.94%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.84%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.73%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.42%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.42%) JMeter
14 4 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 318 (33.23%) Finance
2 231 (24.14%) Banking
3 182 (19.02%) Social Skills
4 155 (16.20%) Public Sector
5 135 (14.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 111 (11.60%) Retail
7 109 (11.39%) Law
8 70 (7.31%) Back Office
9 67 (7.00%) Financial Institution
10 61 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
11 30 (3.13%) Tech for Good
12 27 (2.82%) Health Technology
13 17 (1.78%) Front Office
14 15 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.36%) Legal
16 10 (1.04%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.73%) Aviation
17 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.73%) Local Government
18 6 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 334 (34.90%) Software Engineer
2 257 (26.85%) Senior
3 225 (23.51%) Developer
4 186 (19.44%) Java Engineer
5 146 (15.26%) Lead
6 139 (14.52%) Java Developer
7 94 (9.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 90 (9.40%) Senior Java Engineer
9 88 (9.20%) Java Software Engineer
10 75 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
11 63 (6.58%) Senior Developer
12 41 (4.28%) Principal Engineer
12 41 (4.28%) Software Developer
13 38 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
13 38 (3.97%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 37 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
14 37 (3.87%) Graduate
15 36 (3.76%) Data Engineer
16 34 (3.55%) Principal Java Engineer
17 33 (3.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (20.90%) Spring
2 180 (18.81%) Terraform
3 144 (15.05%) Spring Boot
4 115 (12.02%) REST
5 105 (10.97%) React
6 88 (9.20%) .NET
7 76 (7.94%) Node.js
8 59 (6.17%) Kafka
9 51 (5.33%) AngularJS
9 51 (5.33%) RESTful
10 28 (2.93%) CSS
11 27 (2.82%) PySpark
11 27 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (1.88%) OAuth
13 17 (1.78%) OAuth2
14 16 (1.67%) JPA
15 14 (1.46%) jQuery
15 14 (1.46%) OpenAPI
16 13 (1.36%) Vue
16 13 (1.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (18.81%) Cloud Native
2 140 (14.63%) Product Ownership
3 74 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (7.11%) Public Cloud
5 39 (4.08%) Blog
6 26 (2.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 25 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.25%) Equities
11 12 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.25%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.94%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 69 (7.21%) Linux
2 26 (2.72%) Windows
3 25 (2.61%) Unix
4 24 (2.51%) Android
5 19 (1.99%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Solaris
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (49.32%) Software Engineering
2 404 (42.22%) CI/CD
3 327 (34.17%) Agile
4 262 (27.38%) Mentoring
5 243 (25.39%) Test Automation
6 242 (25.29%) Microservices
7 216 (22.57%) DevOps
8 184 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (16.72%) Technical Leadership
10 159 (16.61%) Coaching
11 150 (15.67%) AI
12 148 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
13 138 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 135 (14.11%) Clean Code
15 119 (12.43%) TDD
16 112 (11.70%) Roadmaps
17 92 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
18 91 (9.51%) Containerisation
19 89 (9.30%) Fintech
20 88 (9.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 252 (26.33%) Python
2 206 (21.53%) SQL
3 195 (20.38%) JavaScript
4 138 (14.42%) C#
5 97 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 81 (8.46%) C++
7 59 (6.17%) Go
8 39 (4.08%) Kotlin
9 33 (3.45%) Bash
10 25 (2.61%) PHP
11 22 (2.30%) C
12 21 (2.19%) PL/SQL
13 20 (2.09%) Rust
14 16 (1.67%) Ruby
14 16 (1.67%) Scala
15 9 (0.94%) Groovy
16 7 (0.73%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.73%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.63%) Ada
18 5 (0.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 169 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 139 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.73%) Degree
4 40 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.51%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.84%) OSCP
8 7 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.73%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.63%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.31%) CCSP
12 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.31%) CISSP
12 3 (0.31%) OCP
12 3 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.58%) QA
2 40 (4.18%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.57%) NIST
5 12 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.73%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.31%) MiFID
8 3 (0.31%) MIL-STD-1553
8 3 (0.31%) UCITS
9 2 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 139 (14.52%) Docker
2 4 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 229 (23.93%) Kubernetes
2 97 (10.14%) Grafana
3 41 (4.28%) Ansible
4 23 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.88%) Argo
6 8 (0.84%) Packer
7 5 (0.52%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.31%) Cilium
10 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.10%) logstash
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (4.91%) Oracle
2 35 (3.66%) Google
3 30 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 15 (1.57%) Splunk
5 13 (1.36%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.73%) MuleSoft
7 7 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.63%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.52%) IBM
9 5 (0.52%) New Relic
9 5 (0.52%) Sybase
10 4 (0.42%) Sage
10 4 (0.42%) SAP
11 3 (0.31%) Adobe
11 3 (0.31%) Apple
11 3 (0.31%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.31%) JDA
11 3 (0.31%) Red Hat
2,651 hybrid/remote Java jobs