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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 35 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 709 1,175 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.64% 7.16% 9.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.00% 16.54% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 497 790 1,668
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.35% +0.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.52% -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 4,171 7,105 10,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.27% 43.29% 46.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,140 4,447 8,567
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 January 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 41 (5.78%) Apache
1 41 (5.78%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 13 (1.83%) JBoss
5 11 (1.55%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.71%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.42%) Confluence
7 3 (0.42%) Luigi
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.14%) FileNet
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.42%) Simulink
3 1 (0.14%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 37 (5.22%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.71%) Shopify
3 3 (0.42%) Maximo
4 2 (0.28%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 400 (56.42%) AWS
2 213 (30.04%) Azure
3 107 (15.09%) GCP
4 94 (13.26%) GitHub
5 61 (8.60%) Serverless
6 53 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (7.19%) SaaS
8 41 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (5.22%) dbt
9 37 (5.22%) OCI
10 36 (5.08%) Snowflake
11 35 (4.94%) Amazon S3
12 32 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (4.51%) GitHub Copilot
13 31 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (3.81%) Power Platform
15 21 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (2.82%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.53%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.12%) Broadband
3 11 (1.55%) HTTP
4 6 (0.85%) AMQP
5 5 (0.71%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.42%) BGP
6 3 (0.42%) Internet
6 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.42%) VLAN
6 3 (0.42%) VPN
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) DNS
7 2 (0.28%) DSL
7 2 (0.28%) LAN
7 2 (0.28%) NAS
7 2 (0.28%) SAN
7 2 (0.28%) SNMP
7 2 (0.28%) SSH
7 2 (0.28%) WAN
8 1 (0.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (7.90%) NoSQL
3 45 (6.35%) SQL Server
4 36 (5.08%) Relational Database
5 35 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 35 (4.94%) MySQL
6 34 (4.80%) Apache Iceberg
7 31 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
7 31 (4.37%) Apache Ignite
8 28 (3.95%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (3.95%) Dremio
9 24 (3.39%) Tableau
10 23 (3.24%) Power BI
11 20 (2.82%) MongoDB
12 16 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (2.12%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.69%) DynamoDB
15 10 (1.41%) Flink
16 9 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 71 (10.01%) Selenium
3 60 (8.46%) Git
3 60 (8.46%) JIRA
4 42 (5.92%) Postman
5 41 (5.78%) WebDriver
6 39 (5.50%) Oracle Forms
6 39 (5.50%) SoapUI
7 35 (4.94%) Team Foundation Server
8 29 (4.09%) GitLab
9 24 (3.39%) Cypress.io
10 21 (2.96%) TeamCity
11 20 (2.82%) JUnit
12 16 (2.26%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.83%) Jaeger
14 10 (1.41%) JMeter
14 10 (1.41%) Maven
15 7 (0.99%) MLflow
16 6 (0.85%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 290 (40.90%) Finance
2 221 (31.17%) Social Skills
3 121 (17.07%) Banking
4 72 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (9.31%) Law
6 54 (7.62%) Front Office
7 52 (7.33%) Retail
8 50 (7.05%) Investment Banking
9 47 (6.63%) Public Sector
10 42 (5.92%) Financial Institution
11 40 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (3.81%) Back Office
13 25 (3.53%) Games
14 22 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.97%) Billing
16 13 (1.83%) Legal
17 11 (1.55%) Health Technology
17 11 (1.55%) Tech for Good
18 7 (0.99%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 207 (29.20%) Developer
2 186 (26.23%) Senior
3 158 (22.28%) Software Engineer
4 102 (14.39%) Lead
5 99 (13.96%) Java Engineer
6 88 (12.41%) Java Developer
7 69 (9.73%) Java Software Engineer
8 62 (8.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 53 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
10 50 (7.05%) Architect
11 48 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (6.77%) Senior Java Engineer
12 44 (6.21%) Applications Engineer
13 40 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 38 (5.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 35 (4.94%) Software Developer
16 34 (4.80%) Python Engineer
17 33 (4.65%) AWS Software Engineer
18 31 (4.37%) Graduate
18 31 (4.37%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (19.46%) Spring
2 119 (16.78%) Spring Boot
3 100 (14.10%) React
4 96 (13.54%) RESTful
5 95 (13.40%) SOAP
6 92 (12.98%) .NET
7 69 (9.73%) REST
8 65 (9.17%) Kafka
9 53 (7.48%) HTML
10 42 (5.92%) CSS
11 39 (5.50%) Node.js
11 39 (5.50%) XML
12 38 (5.36%) JSON
13 30 (4.23%) AngularJS
13 30 (4.23%) gRPC
14 29 (4.09%) Protocol Buffers
15 28 (3.95%) NumPy
15 28 (3.95%) Pandas
15 28 (3.95%) SciPy
16 27 (3.81%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 133 (18.76%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.73%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 38 (5.36%) Derivative
6 34 (4.80%) Equities
6 34 (4.80%) Fixed Income
7 29 (4.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (3.95%) Hedge funds
8 28 (3.95%) Pricing Data
8 28 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.96%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.96%) FPGA
10 18 (2.54%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (1.55%) DataPower
13 11 (1.55%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.41%) Blog
15 9 (1.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 80 (11.28%) Linux
2 27 (3.81%) Unix
3 9 (1.27%) Android
3 9 (1.27%) Windows
4 8 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
8 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (50.21%) Agile
2 246 (34.70%) CI/CD
3 236 (33.29%) Software Engineering
4 203 (28.63%) DevOps
5 188 (26.52%) Mentoring
6 179 (25.25%) Microservices
7 132 (18.62%) Test Automation
8 118 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (15.66%) Computer Science
10 107 (15.09%) AI
10 107 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 106 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (12.83%) Coaching
13 74 (10.44%) Containerisation
14 71 (10.01%) Scrum
15 70 (9.87%) Asset Management
16 67 (9.45%) Clean Code
17 64 (9.03%) Migration
17 64 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (8.89%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 275 (38.79%) Python
2 196 (27.64%) SQL
3 153 (21.58%) JavaScript
4 145 (20.45%) C#
5 107 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 64 (9.03%) C++
7 45 (6.35%) PL/SQL
8 44 (6.21%) Shell Script
9 43 (6.06%) Go
10 28 (3.95%) PHP
11 27 (3.81%) Bash
11 27 (3.81%) C
11 27 (3.81%) Scala
12 22 (3.10%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.27%) Groovy
14 8 (1.13%) Apex Code
14 8 (1.13%) Delphi
14 8 (1.13%) R
15 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (22.14%) Degree
2 94 (13.26%) Security Cleared
3 84 (11.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 81 (11.42%) SC Cleared
5 46 (6.49%) AWS Certification
6 37 (5.22%) ISTQB
7 34 (4.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 32 (4.51%) Azure Certification
9 29 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (3.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.97%) DV Cleared
13 13 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.99%) CREST Certified
14 7 (0.99%) OSCP
15 6 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.56%) OSCE
16 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.05%) QA
2 21 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.69%) GDPR
4 11 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.13%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.99%) NIST
6 7 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.85%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.56%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.28%) ECSS
9 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) SEPA
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 115 (16.22%) Docker
2 23 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 143 (20.17%) Kubernetes
2 115 (16.22%) Terraform
3 40 (5.64%) Ansible
4 37 (5.22%) Single Sign-On
5 35 (4.94%) Grafana
6 27 (3.81%) Argo
7 17 (2.40%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.83%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.99%) Kibana
10 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.56%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.42%) Puppet
13 2 (0.28%) Packer
13 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.14%) Icinga
14 1 (0.14%) Istio
14 1 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 69 (9.73%) Oracle
2 59 (8.32%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.23%) Google
4 20 (2.82%) Okta
5 19 (2.68%) MuleSoft
6 15 (2.12%) Databricks
7 12 (1.69%) Guidewire
8 11 (1.55%) IBM
9 10 (1.41%) Dell
10 8 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.99%) Palantir
11 7 (0.99%) SAP
11 7 (0.99%) Talend
12 6 (0.85%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.85%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.71%) Epicor
13 5 (0.71%) Infor
13 5 (0.71%) Informatica
13 5 (0.71%) Mercator
13 5 (0.71%) Software AG