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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 29 17
Rank change year-on-year -24 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 661 1,501 2,232
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.37% 7.78% 10.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.24% 18.47% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 491 1,070 1,765
10th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £71,649
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +18.63% +2.36%
75th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £147,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 4,069 8,127 9,763
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.92% 42.11% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 5,236 8,280
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,309 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 December 2025.

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 63 (9.53%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (9.23%) Apache
3 14 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.66%) JBoss
6 9 (1.36%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.76%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.45%) Confluence
8 3 (0.45%) Luigi
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.15%) Camunda
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.45%) Simulink
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (4.69%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.76%) Shopify
4 3 (0.45%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.30%) Maximo
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 373 (56.43%) AWS
2 207 (31.32%) Azure
3 98 (14.83%) GCP
4 86 (13.01%) GitHub
5 63 (9.53%) dbt
6 56 (8.47%) Snowflake
7 46 (6.96%) SaaS
8 41 (6.20%) Serverless
9 37 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (4.69%) OCI
12 27 (4.08%) Amazon S3
13 25 (3.78%) GitHub Copilot
14 24 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (3.63%) Power Platform
15 23 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (3.03%) OpenShift
17 19 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 17 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.78%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.06%) HTTP
3 4 (0.61%) Broadband
4 3 (0.45%) AMQP
4 3 (0.45%) BGP
4 3 (0.45%) Internet
4 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.45%) VLAN
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.30%) DHCP
5 2 (0.30%) DNS
5 2 (0.30%) LAN
5 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) SNMP
5 2 (0.30%) SSH
5 2 (0.30%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 62 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (9.23%) Data Lake
4 57 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
4 57 (8.62%) Apache Arrow
4 57 (8.62%) Apache Iceberg
4 57 (8.62%) Dremio
5 56 (8.47%) Apache Ignite
6 49 (7.41%) MySQL
7 41 (6.20%) NoSQL
8 26 (3.93%) Relational Database
9 25 (3.78%) MongoDB
10 22 (3.33%) Power BI
11 16 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (2.42%) Tableau
12 10 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.21%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.21%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.91%) Big Data
14 6 (0.91%) Flink
Development Applications
1 72 (10.89%) Jenkins
2 51 (7.72%) Selenium
3 48 (7.26%) Git
4 37 (5.60%) JIRA
5 33 (4.99%) Oracle Forms
6 28 (4.24%) GitLab
7 27 (4.08%) WebDriver
8 22 (3.33%) Postman
9 20 (3.03%) Cypress.io
9 20 (3.03%) SoapUI
10 18 (2.72%) JUnit
10 18 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (2.42%) Cucumber
12 14 (2.12%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.21%) JMeter
13 8 (1.21%) Maven
14 6 (0.91%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.61%) Babel
15 4 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 317 (47.96%) Finance
2 193 (29.20%) Social Skills
3 125 (18.91%) Banking
4 106 (16.04%) Front Office
5 73 (11.04%) Investment Banking
6 46 (6.96%) Law
7 40 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (5.90%) Public Sector
9 36 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.45%) Financial Institution
9 36 (5.45%) Retail
10 34 (5.14%) Back Office
11 26 (3.93%) Games
12 18 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (2.57%) Billing
14 13 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.82%) Legal
16 7 (1.06%) Aviation
16 7 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 244 (36.91%) Developer
2 186 (28.14%) Software Engineer
3 180 (27.23%) Senior
4 110 (16.64%) Java Engineer
5 93 (14.07%) Java Software Engineer
6 83 (12.56%) Lead
6 83 (12.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 77 (11.65%) Java Developer
8 74 (11.20%) AWS Engineer
9 65 (9.83%) Senior Java Engineer
10 61 (9.23%) AWS Software Engineer
11 60 (9.08%) Python Engineer
11 60 (9.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 54 (8.17%) Python Software Engineer
13 46 (6.96%) Graduate
14 44 (6.66%) Architect
15 43 (6.51%) Graduate Developer
16 39 (5.90%) Lead Developer
16 39 (5.90%) Software Developer
17 38 (5.75%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (17.70%) Spring
2 106 (16.04%) React
3 105 (15.89%) Spring Boot
4 91 (13.77%) .NET
4 91 (13.77%) RESTful
5 82 (12.41%) Kafka
6 64 (9.68%) SOAP
7 59 (8.93%) Node.js
8 57 (8.62%) NumPy
8 57 (8.62%) Pandas
8 57 (8.62%) REST
8 57 (8.62%) SciPy
9 56 (8.47%) CSS
10 54 (8.17%) gRPC
10 54 (8.17%) Protocol Buffers
11 42 (6.35%) jQuery
12 37 (5.60%) XML
13 35 (5.30%) ASP.NET
13 35 (5.30%) GraphQL
13 35 (5.30%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 119 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.46%) Fixed Income
3 67 (10.14%) Equities
4 63 (9.53%) Derivative
4 63 (9.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 53 (8.02%) Enterprise Software
5 53 (8.02%) Hedge funds
5 53 (8.02%) Pricing Data
6 36 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (3.63%) Algorithms
7 24 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (3.18%) FPGA
9 18 (2.72%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.12%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.97%) NHS
13 12 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.51%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.36%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.53%) Linux
2 12 (1.82%) Windows
3 10 (1.51%) Unix
4 4 (0.61%) Android
4 4 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.30%) CentOS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (57.34%) Agile
2 252 (38.12%) Software Engineering
3 207 (31.32%) CI/CD
4 165 (24.96%) Microservices
5 158 (23.90%) DevOps
6 146 (22.09%) Mentoring
7 132 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
8 123 (18.61%) Computer Science
9 113 (17.10%) Test Automation
10 101 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (13.92%) Asset Management
12 88 (13.31%) Investment Management
13 85 (12.86%) AI
14 80 (12.10%) Full-Stack Development
15 78 (11.80%) Coaching
16 65 (9.83%) Clean Code
17 58 (8.77%) OOP
18 57 (8.62%) OO
19 56 (8.47%) Containerisation
20 55 (8.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 276 (41.75%) Python
2 177 (26.78%) JavaScript
3 174 (26.32%) SQL
4 154 (23.30%) C#
5 139 (21.03%) TypeScript
6 80 (12.10%) C++
7 43 (6.51%) PHP
8 41 (6.20%) Shell Script
9 39 (5.90%) Go
10 37 (5.60%) PL/SQL
11 36 (5.45%) C
12 21 (3.18%) Scala
13 19 (2.87%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.51%) R
15 8 (1.21%) Bash
15 8 (1.21%) Delphi
16 6 (0.91%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.91%) Objective-C
17 5 (0.76%) Groovy
17 5 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 149 (22.54%) Degree
2 98 (14.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (11.80%) Security Cleared
4 71 (10.74%) SC Cleared
5 30 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (3.18%) ISTQB
9 18 (2.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 17 (2.57%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.76%) PhD
15 4 (0.61%) CFA
15 4 (0.61%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.61%) OSCP
15 4 (0.61%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.51%) QA
2 21 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.57%) GDPR
5 12 (1.82%) ISO 9001
5 12 (1.82%) NIST
6 7 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.91%) NCSC
8 4 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.61%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) ECSS
9 2 (0.30%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 78 (11.80%) Docker
2 20 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (16.34%) Kubernetes
2 68 (10.29%) Terraform
3 31 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (4.24%) Grafana
5 19 (2.87%) Ansible
6 11 (1.66%) Argo
7 7 (1.06%) Kibana
8 5 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.76%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.45%) Control-M
10 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.30%) Puppet
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.15%) Icinga
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 58 (8.77%) Oracle
2 56 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.78%) Google
4 17 (2.57%) MuleSoft
4 17 (2.57%) Okta
5 15 (2.27%) Guidewire
6 10 (1.51%) Dell
6 10 (1.51%) IBM
7 8 (1.21%) SAP
8 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.06%) SnapLogic
8 7 (1.06%) Talend
9 6 (0.91%) Databricks
9 6 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.76%) Epicor
10 5 (0.76%) Infor
10 5 (0.76%) Informatica
10 5 (0.76%) Mercator
10 5 (0.76%) Software AG
10 5 (0.76%) TIBCO
504 hybrid/remote Java jobs