Java Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,017 3,766 11,840
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.22% 11.48% 15.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.85% 24.82% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 2,714 5,590
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £122,500 £97,290 £89,852
90th Percentile £148,750 £120,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +7.69%

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 10,703 15,175 45,514
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.31% 46.24% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,410 12,366 24,728
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,500 £38,443
25th Percentile £46,923 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,918 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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
1 566 (28.06%) Apache Airflow
2 525 (26.03%) Apache
3 30 (1.49%) Tuxedo
4 25 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.99%) Confluence
7 17 (0.84%) Tomcat
8 15 (0.74%) nginx
9 12 (0.59%) IIS
10 9 (0.45%) JBoss
11 7 (0.35%) CMS
12 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.25%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.15%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
14 3 (0.15%) SAS
14 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 78 (3.87%) Simulink
2 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.15%) CPLEX
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.050%) CATIA
4 1 (0.050%) Notion
Business Applications
1 26 (1.29%) Endur
2 10 (0.50%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.15%) Shopify
7 2 (0.099%) Findur
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.050%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,240 (61.48%) AWS
2 564 (27.96%) dbt
3 521 (25.83%) Snowflake
4 457 (22.66%) Azure
5 379 (18.79%) GCP
6 127 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
7 110 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
8 91 (4.51%) Serverless
9 87 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
10 86 (4.26%) SaaS
11 56 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 56 (2.78%) GitHub
12 41 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (1.98%) Amazon S3
14 35 (1.74%) Dagster
15 31 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (1.29%) OpenShift
18 22 (1.09%) Azure AKS
19 20 (0.99%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.69%) DNS
2 33 (1.64%) Firewall
3 23 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.84%) Network Security
5 11 (0.55%) AMQP
5 11 (0.55%) SSL
6 7 (0.35%) HTTP
6 7 (0.35%) VPN
7 6 (0.30%) Internet
7 6 (0.30%) NAS
7 6 (0.30%) SAN
8 5 (0.25%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.25%) LAN
8 5 (0.25%) WAN
9 4 (0.20%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.20%) SNMP
10 3 (0.15%) BGP
10 3 (0.15%) OpenVPN
10 3 (0.15%) VLAN
10 3 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 565 (28.01%) Amazon Athena
2 563 (27.91%) Data Lake
3 561 (27.81%) Dremio
4 529 (26.23%) Apache Arrow
5 476 (23.60%) Apache Ignite
6 168 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
7 137 (6.79%) NoSQL
8 130 (6.45%) Relational Database
9 109 (5.40%) SQL Server
10 104 (5.16%) MySQL
11 88 (4.36%) MongoDB
12 79 (3.92%) Big Data
13 41 (2.03%) RDBMS
14 28 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (1.24%) Oracle Database
16 23 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
17 22 (1.09%) DynamoDB
17 22 (1.09%) Hadoop
18 15 (0.74%) Redis
19 12 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 152 (7.54%) Git
2 128 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 91 (4.51%) GitLab
4 67 (3.32%) JIRA
4 67 (3.32%) Selenium
5 51 (2.53%) Cucumber
6 42 (2.08%) JUnit
7 36 (1.78%) Maven
7 36 (1.78%) Postman
8 35 (1.74%) Vagrant
9 32 (1.59%) Cypress.io
10 30 (1.49%) TeamCity
11 28 (1.39%) JMeter
12 22 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 16 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.79%) IntelliJ
14 15 (0.74%) Eclipse
14 15 (0.74%) WebDriver
15 13 (0.64%) Subversion
16 12 (0.59%) TestNG
General
1 791 (39.22%) Finance
2 606 (30.04%) Banking
3 546 (27.07%) Front Office
4 512 (25.38%) Investment Banking
5 308 (15.27%) Social Skills
6 112 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 104 (5.16%) Public Sector
8 95 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
9 64 (3.17%) Law
10 61 (3.02%) Retail
11 50 (2.48%) Marketing
12 41 (2.03%) Games
13 24 (1.19%) Automotive
14 23 (1.14%) Publishing
15 22 (1.09%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.04%) Police
16 21 (1.04%) Tech for Good
17 20 (0.99%) Electronics
17 20 (0.99%) Telecoms
18 19 (0.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 643 (31.88%) Software Engineer
2 627 (31.09%) Developer
3 500 (24.79%) Senior
4 388 (19.24%) Lead
5 353 (17.50%) Java Engineer
6 296 (14.68%) Java Software Engineer
7 269 (13.34%) AWS Engineer
8 263 (13.04%) Java Developer
9 241 (11.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 216 (10.71%) Python Engineer
11 210 (10.41%) Software Developer
12 200 (9.92%) AWS Software Engineer
13 181 (8.97%) Python Software Engineer
14 174 (8.63%) Architect
15 170 (8.43%) Senior Java Engineer
16 165 (8.18%) Technical Leader
17 149 (7.39%) Lead Developer
18 142 (7.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 132 (6.54%) Senior Developer
20 130 (6.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (26.47%) gRPC
2 529 (26.23%) Protocol Buffers
3 505 (25.04%) NumPy
3 505 (25.04%) Pandas
3 505 (25.04%) SciPy
4 258 (12.79%) Spring
5 246 (12.20%) React
6 168 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 138 (6.84%) RESTful
8 136 (6.74%) HTML
8 136 (6.74%) REST
9 117 (5.80%) .NET
9 117 (5.80%) AngularJS
9 117 (5.80%) Node.js
10 115 (5.70%) CSS
11 106 (5.26%) Kafka
12 102 (5.06%) PySpark
13 67 (3.32%) Web Services
14 63 (3.12%) Hibernate
15 52 (2.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 538 (26.67%) Hedge funds
2 512 (25.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 499 (24.74%) Fixed Income
4 495 (24.54%) Equities
5 481 (23.85%) Derivative
6 72 (3.57%) Pricing Data
7 65 (3.22%) Cloud Native
8 59 (2.93%) Private Cloud
9 58 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
10 57 (2.83%) Algorithms
11 54 (2.68%) Clustering
12 44 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
14 33 (1.64%) Blog
15 27 (1.34%) Product Ownership
16 25 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 24 (1.19%) Mobile App
17 24 (1.19%) Swaptions
18 22 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
19 21 (1.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 227 (11.25%) Linux
2 62 (3.07%) Android
3 59 (2.93%) Windows
4 44 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (2.08%) CentOS
6 36 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 34 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
8 26 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 26 (1.29%) Unix
9 21 (1.04%) AIX
10 16 (0.79%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.25%) Solaris
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.15%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.050%) VMS
15 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,080 (53.54%) Software Engineering
2 1,015 (50.32%) Agile
3 590 (29.25%) Asset Management
4 431 (21.37%) Investment Management
5 346 (17.15%) DevOps
6 322 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
7 318 (15.77%) Microservices
8 246 (12.20%) CI/CD
9 241 (11.95%) Full Stack Development
10 235 (11.65%) Line Management
11 198 (9.82%) Mentoring
12 191 (9.47%) Computer Science
13 182 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
14 175 (8.68%) Greeks
15 173 (8.58%) TDD
16 170 (8.43%) Test Automation
17 150 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
18 146 (7.24%) BDD
19 144 (7.14%) Fintech
20 132 (6.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (51.07%) Python
2 912 (45.22%) JavaScript
3 665 (32.97%) TypeScript
4 405 (20.08%) SQL
5 186 (9.22%) C++
6 162 (8.03%) C#
7 151 (7.49%) Kotlin
8 128 (6.35%) C
9 127 (6.30%) Go
10 95 (4.71%) Scala
11 43 (2.13%) Ruby
12 38 (1.88%) VB
13 32 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 30 (1.49%) COBOL
14 30 (1.49%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 29 (1.44%) Groovy
15 29 (1.44%) PowerShell
16 26 (1.29%) PHP
17 24 (1.19%) Bash
18 21 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 308 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.00%) Degree
3 176 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 153 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 18 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 13 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.25%) PhD
10 4 (0.20%) CCNA
10 4 (0.20%) CCNP
10 4 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.15%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.15%) OSCE
11 3 (0.15%) OSCP
12 2 (0.099%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.77%) QA
3 43 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.40%) GDPR
6 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.25%) SLA
8 3 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.099%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.099%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.099%) PMO
10 1 (0.050%) AQAP
10 1 (0.050%) NCSC
10 1 (0.050%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.050%) TickIT
10 1 (0.050%) WCAG
System Software
1 203 (10.06%) Docker
2 21 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.15%) KVM
8 2 (0.099%) Firmware
9 1 (0.050%) GridGain
9 1 (0.050%) HDFS
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 306 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 242 (12.00%) Terraform
3 144 (7.14%) Ansible
4 71 (3.52%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.78%) Grafana
6 12 (0.59%) Progress Chef
7 10 (0.50%) Pingdom
7 10 (0.50%) Puppet
8 9 (0.45%) Kibana
9 8 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.25%) logstash
10 5 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.15%) Nessus
11 3 (0.15%) Nmap
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Statspack
11 3 (0.15%) Packer
11 3 (0.15%) Podman
12 2 (0.099%) Argo
12 2 (0.099%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 133 (6.59%) Oracle
2 78 (3.87%) Xilinx
3 64 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 60 (2.97%) Bloomberg
4 60 (2.97%) Reuters
5 45 (2.23%) Google
6 30 (1.49%) Micro Focus
7 28 (1.39%) Sybase
8 26 (1.29%) OpenLink
8 26 (1.29%) TIBCO
9 18 (0.89%) ForgeRock
9 18 (0.89%) SAP
10 16 (0.79%) Sitecore
11 13 (0.64%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.64%) SolarWinds
12 10 (0.50%) Adobe
12 10 (0.50%) F5
12 10 (0.50%) Facebook
12 10 (0.50%) NEC
13 8 (0.40%) Dynatrace