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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 947 1,471 2,321
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.43% 8.90% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.41% 24.83% 18.24%
Number of salaries quoted 609 764 1,963
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £140,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.62% -4.77%

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 5,772 5,925 12,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.00% 35.83% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 4,135 10,405
10th Percentile £39,080 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 12 July 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 17 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.48%) Apache
4 8 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.74%) JBoss
6 6 (0.63%) Confluence
7 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.42%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.21%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Documentum
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 536 (56.60%) AWS
2 227 (23.97%) Azure
3 186 (19.64%) GCP
4 90 (9.50%) SaaS
5 71 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (5.60%) Serverless
7 35 (3.70%) GitHub
8 31 (3.27%) Amazon S3
9 28 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (2.11%) dbt
14 18 (1.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 17 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (1.80%) PaaS
16 15 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (1.48%) Azure AKS
17 14 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
17 14 (1.48%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.06%) HTTP
2 28 (2.96%) Broadband
3 25 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.32%) BGP
4 3 (0.32%) DSL
4 3 (0.32%) Network Security
4 3 (0.32%) VLAN
4 3 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.21%) AMQP
6 1 (0.11%) ATM
6 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.76%) NoSQL
3 63 (6.65%) MongoDB
4 52 (5.49%) MySQL
4 52 (5.49%) SQL Server
5 35 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 17 (1.80%) BigQuery
8 16 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.48%) Metadata
11 11 (1.16%) Redis
12 8 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (6.34%) TeamCity
2 57 (6.02%) Git
3 37 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 32 (3.38%) GitLab
5 27 (2.85%) Selenium
6 21 (2.22%) JIRA
6 21 (2.22%) JUnit
7 19 (2.01%) Maven
8 16 (1.69%) JMeter
8 16 (1.69%) Postman
9 14 (1.48%) Claude Code
10 13 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.06%) Mockito
12 8 (0.84%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.84%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.74%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.63%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.63%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.53%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 316 (33.37%) Finance
2 182 (19.22%) Banking
3 168 (17.74%) Social Skills
4 130 (13.73%) Public Sector
5 125 (13.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 99 (10.45%) Law
7 90 (9.50%) Retail
8 63 (6.65%) Financial Institution
9 58 (6.12%) Back Office
10 47 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
11 41 (4.33%) Front Office
12 27 (2.85%) Investment Banking
13 20 (2.11%) Health Technology
14 18 (1.90%) Tech for Good
15 14 (1.48%) Games
16 11 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.84%) Aviation
17 8 (0.84%) Legal
18 6 (0.63%) Local Government
18 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 324 (34.21%) Software Engineer
2 302 (31.89%) Developer
3 229 (24.18%) Senior
4 179 (18.90%) Lead
5 178 (18.80%) Java Developer
6 152 (16.05%) Java Engineer
7 107 (11.30%) Java Software Engineer
8 102 (10.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 93 (9.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (6.55%) Senior Developer
10 62 (6.55%) Software Developer
11 47 (4.96%) Graduate
11 47 (4.96%) Senior Java Engineer
12 45 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 43 (4.54%) Senior Java Developer
14 42 (4.44%) Engineering Manager
14 42 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 39 (4.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 36 (3.80%) Lead Developer
17 34 (3.59%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (19.75%) Spring
2 132 (13.94%) React
3 128 (13.52%) Spring Boot
4 112 (11.83%) REST
5 101 (10.67%) Node.js
6 90 (9.50%) Kafka
7 84 (8.87%) .NET
8 64 (6.76%) AngularJS
9 57 (6.02%) RESTful
10 42 (4.44%) CSS
11 38 (4.01%) GraphQL
12 32 (3.38%) Redux
13 31 (3.27%) jQuery
14 25 (2.64%) SOAP
14 25 (2.64%) Vue
15 23 (2.43%) Web Services
16 18 (1.90%) Playwright
17 17 (1.80%) HTML
18 16 (1.69%) Middleware
19 15 (1.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 163 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 130 (13.73%) Product Ownership
3 71 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 68 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.80%) Blog
6 35 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 27 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 24 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 21 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.80%) Equities
11 17 (1.80%) FPGA
12 15 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.37%) e-Learning
14 11 (1.16%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.06%) Mobile App
16 9 (0.95%) Sports Betting
17 8 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 8 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.14%) Linux
2 35 (3.70%) Unix
3 28 (2.96%) Windows
4 14 (1.48%) Android
4 14 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.11%) Debian
6 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (46.46%) Software Engineering
2 393 (41.50%) Agile
3 355 (37.49%) CI/CD
4 247 (26.08%) Test Automation
5 241 (25.45%) Mentoring
6 224 (23.65%) DevOps
7 216 (22.81%) Microservices
8 160 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
9 158 (16.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 153 (16.16%) Technical Leadership
11 136 (14.36%) Clean Code
12 129 (13.62%) Coaching
13 127 (13.41%) TDD
14 126 (13.31%) Roadmaps
15 124 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 117 (12.35%) AI
17 103 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
18 92 (9.71%) Containerisation
19 82 (8.66%) Computer Science
20 79 (8.34%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 284 (29.99%) Python
2 209 (22.07%) SQL
3 196 (20.70%) JavaScript
4 127 (13.41%) C#
5 99 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 88 (9.29%) Go
7 85 (8.98%) C++
8 38 (4.01%) PHP
9 32 (3.38%) Bash
10 24 (2.53%) C
10 24 (2.53%) Kotlin
11 21 (2.22%) Scala
12 16 (1.69%) Rust
13 15 (1.58%) Apex Code
13 15 (1.58%) Ruby
14 11 (1.16%) Groovy
14 11 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.16%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.53%) Tcl
16 4 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 153 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 124 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 102 (10.77%) Degree
4 46 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.96%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.37%) OSCP
8 12 (1.27%) CREST Certified
9 11 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.16%) PhD
10 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.42%) GPEN
14 4 (0.42%) GXPN
15 3 (0.32%) CCSAM
15 3 (0.32%) OSCE
16 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.81%) QA
2 41 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.84%) SOC 2
5 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.74%) WCAG
6 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (13.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 185 (19.54%) Kubernetes
2 152 (16.05%) Terraform
3 72 (7.60%) Grafana
4 34 (3.59%) Ansible
5 21 (2.22%) Argo
6 15 (1.58%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.84%) Packer
8 6 (0.63%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.53%) FTK
10 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
11 2 (0.21%) Puppet
11 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 45 (4.75%) Oracle
2 35 (3.70%) Google
2 35 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 17 (1.80%) Salesforce
4 15 (1.58%) ServiceNow
5 13 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 9 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 9 (0.95%) Splunk
7 8 (0.84%) Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) IBM
8 6 (0.63%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.53%) Cellebrite
9 5 (0.53%) Databricks
9 5 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.53%) Palantir
9 5 (0.53%) Sybase
10 4 (0.42%) JDA
11 3 (0.32%) Revolut
11 3 (0.32%) SAP
12 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics