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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 29 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,674 2,404 4,115
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 7.06% 11.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.53% 17.68% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 762 2,014 2,974
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,688 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £97,328
90th Percentile £140,677 £148,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,805 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.77% -4.77% +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 7,115 13,600 17,000
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.49% 39.97% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,463 10,958 13,393
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £40,500
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 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £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 6 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
1 185 (11.05%) Confluence
2 153 (9.14%) Apache Airflow
3 137 (8.18%) Apache
4 48 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 23 (1.37%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.72%) Tomcat
7 10 (0.60%) IIS
8 4 (0.24%) JBoss
8 4 (0.24%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
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 Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.060%) ColdFusion
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 7 (0.42%) 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 1,115 (66.61%) AWS
2 730 (43.61%) Azure
3 502 (29.99%) GCP
4 215 (12.84%) Pulumi
5 152 (9.08%) dbt
6 94 (5.62%) Snowflake
7 85 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
8 82 (4.90%) Serverless
9 80 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (4.18%) GitHub
11 69 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 54 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
13 48 (2.87%) OpenShift
14 42 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (1.97%) SaaS
17 31 (1.85%) Amazon S3
18 27 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (1.19%) Apigee
20 18 (1.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 217 (12.96%) 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 3 (0.18%) Firewall
8 2 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.12%) FCoE
8 2 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.12%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.12%) LAN
8 2 (0.12%) Multicast
8 2 (0.12%) NAS
8 2 (0.12%) SAN
8 2 (0.12%) VPN
8 2 (0.12%) WAN
9 1 (0.060%) 4G
9 1 (0.060%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.060%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (20.79%) SQL Server
2 300 (17.92%) NoSQL
3 253 (15.11%) Relational Database
4 226 (13.50%) RDBMS
5 153 (9.14%) Amazon Athena
6 150 (8.96%) Apache Arrow
6 150 (8.96%) Apache Iceberg
6 150 (8.96%) Dremio
7 113 (6.75%) Apache Ignite
8 89 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
9 84 (5.02%) MySQL
10 81 (4.84%) Data Lake
11 62 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
12 47 (2.81%) Big Data
13 45 (2.69%) MongoDB
14 17 (1.02%) Redis
15 13 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (0.54%) Oracle Database
17 8 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 295 (17.62%) JIRA
2 289 (17.26%) GitLab
3 282 (16.85%) SonarQube
4 280 (16.73%) Maven
5 276 (16.49%) Cucumber
6 275 (16.43%) Selenium
7 267 (15.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 249 (14.87%) Bitbucket
9 215 (12.84%) Jaeger
10 95 (5.68%) Git
11 74 (4.42%) Jenkins
12 45 (2.69%) JUnit
13 43 (2.57%) Artifactory
14 26 (1.55%) Mockito
15 19 (1.14%) IntelliJ
16 16 (0.96%) Visual Studio
17 15 (0.90%) Cypress.io
18 10 (0.60%) Eclipse
18 10 (0.60%) Postman
19 9 (0.54%) Jasmine
General
1 763 (45.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 701 (41.88%) Finance
3 488 (29.15%) Banking
4 228 (13.62%) Social Skills
5 223 (13.32%) Front Office
6 196 (11.71%) Investment Banking
7 104 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
8 100 (5.97%) Retail
9 90 (5.38%) Corporate Banking
10 27 (1.61%) Public Sector
11 26 (1.55%) Games
11 26 (1.55%) Law
12 14 (0.84%) Electronics
13 12 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.54%) Back Office
15 9 (0.54%) Czech Language
15 9 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.42%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 721 (43.07%) Software Engineer
2 418 (24.97%) Senior
3 402 (24.01%) Developer
4 319 (19.06%) Lead
5 294 (17.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 221 (13.20%) Team Leader
7 189 (11.29%) Java Engineer
8 171 (10.22%) Java Software Engineer
9 162 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
10 160 (9.56%) Java Developer
11 114 (6.81%) AWS Software Engineer
12 111 (6.63%) Python Engineer
13 85 (5.08%) Senior Java Engineer
14 84 (5.02%) Software Developer
15 83 (4.96%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 71 (4.24%) Python Software Engineer
17 67 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
18 66 (3.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 63 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
20 58 (3.46%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (25.51%) React
2 401 (23.95%) Spring
3 387 (23.12%) Kafka
4 368 (21.98%) Spring Boot
5 344 (20.55%) .NET
6 334 (19.95%) HTML
7 326 (19.47%) CSS
8 316 (18.88%) Node.js
9 277 (16.55%) Redux
10 270 (16.13%) JPA
11 232 (13.86%) Elastic Stack
12 215 (12.84%) OpenTelemetry
13 190 (11.35%) Hibernate
14 165 (9.86%) RESTful
15 155 (9.26%) REST
16 145 (8.66%) Pandas
17 97 (5.79%) CSS3
17 97 (5.79%) HTML5
17 97 (5.79%) Jest
18 96 (5.73%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 294 (17.56%) Product Ownership
2 272 (16.25%) Enterprise Software
3 250 (14.93%) Cyberattack
4 203 (12.13%) Self-Motivation
5 180 (10.75%) Linux Command Line
6 143 (8.54%) Fixed Income
7 129 (7.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 124 (7.41%) Derivative
9 119 (7.11%) Equities
10 87 (5.20%) Hedge funds
11 65 (3.88%) Algorithms
12 60 (3.58%) Cloud Native
12 60 (3.58%) Pricing Data
13 45 (2.69%) Management Information System
14 34 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.14%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.14%) Virtual Team
17 18 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 550 (32.86%) Linux
2 249 (14.87%) Unix
3 79 (4.72%) Android
4 40 (2.39%) Windows
5 28 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.30%) Rocky
7 2 (0.12%) Debian
7 2 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.060%) CentOS
8 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (73.06%) Agile
2 950 (56.75%) Software Engineering
3 756 (45.16%) DevOps
4 699 (41.76%) Microservices
5 651 (38.89%) Mentoring
6 632 (37.75%) Containerisation
7 542 (32.38%) CI/CD
8 471 (28.14%) Performance Optimisation
9 369 (22.04%) Test Automation
10 337 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 326 (19.47%) SDLC
12 299 (17.86%) User Experience
13 277 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 277 (16.55%) Roadmaps
14 273 (16.31%) Machine Learning
15 263 (15.71%) Front End Development
16 260 (15.53%) Continuous Integration
17 254 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 235 (14.04%) High Availability
19 234 (13.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (60.75%) JavaScript
2 857 (51.19%) Python
3 536 (32.02%) Go
4 520 (31.06%) SQL
5 405 (24.19%) C++
6 319 (19.06%) TypeScript
7 280 (16.73%) Rust
8 235 (14.04%) Bash
9 216 (12.90%) C#
10 107 (6.39%) PHP
11 93 (5.56%) C
12 61 (3.64%) Ruby
13 50 (2.99%) MATLAB
13 50 (2.99%) R
14 49 (2.93%) Dart
15 27 (1.61%) PowerShell
16 24 (1.43%) Kotlin
17 19 (1.14%) Objective-C
18 15 (0.90%) Swift
19 14 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 426 (25.45%) AWS Certification
2 316 (18.88%) Security Cleared
3 263 (15.71%) DV Cleared
4 209 (12.49%) Degree
5 205 (12.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (10.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 169 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.81%) SC Cleared
9 15 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 14 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.54%) PhD
13 6 (0.36%) CFA
13 6 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.36%) PMP
14 2 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.12%) SAP Certification
15 1 (0.060%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 323 (19.30%) QA
2 101 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.79%) GDPR
4 27 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 22 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.78%) NIST
7 9 (0.54%) 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
1 754 (45.04%) Docker
2 13 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) KVM
3 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.18%) Xen
4 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.12%) NFS
4 2 (0.12%) SRDF
4 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.060%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 757 (45.22%) Kubernetes
2 375 (22.40%) Terraform
3 286 (17.08%) Ansible
4 247 (14.76%) Prometheus
5 218 (13.02%) Argo
6 216 (12.90%) Kustomize
7 22 (1.31%) Grafana
8 11 (0.66%) Istio
8 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.24%) Puppet
11 3 (0.18%) Kibana
11 3 (0.18%) Packer
12 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.060%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.060%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.060%) logstash
13 1 (0.060%) Marathon
13 1 (0.060%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 269 (16.07%) Google
2 253 (15.11%) Solace
3 75 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 43 (2.57%) Oracle
5 30 (1.79%) IBM
6 10 (0.60%) Databricks
7 9 (0.54%) Cisco
7 9 (0.54%) Guidewire
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat
7 9 (0.54%) SAP
8 7 (0.42%) F5
9 6 (0.36%) Apple
9 6 (0.36%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.36%) Murex
9 6 (0.36%) Splunk
9 6 (0.36%) UiPath
10 5 (0.30%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.30%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.24%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.24%) MuleSoft