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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 35 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 860 1,100 2,433
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.13% 7.46% 8.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.23% 16.34% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 577 790 1,951
10th Percentile £45,454 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,246 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +2.37% -0.02%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £133,500 £138,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 4,472 6,730 12,954
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.68% 45.62% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,277 4,613 11,276
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 7 March 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 27 (3.14%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.98%) JBoss
4 16 (1.86%) Apache
5 13 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.51%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Camunda
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 29 (3.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.58%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Maximo
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 496 (57.67%) AWS
2 210 (24.42%) Azure
3 160 (18.60%) GCP
4 87 (10.12%) GitHub
5 84 (9.77%) SaaS
6 83 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
7 72 (8.37%) Serverless
8 42 (4.88%) Amazon S3
9 39 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (3.49%) dbt
13 29 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 29 (3.37%) OCI
14 25 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (2.79%) Pulumi
16 20 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (2.33%) OpenShift
17 19 (2.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 19 (2.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.95%) TCP/IP
2 31 (3.60%) Broadband
3 11 (1.28%) HTTP
4 6 (0.70%) BGP
4 6 (0.70%) VLAN
4 6 (0.70%) VPN
5 5 (0.58%) AMQP
5 5 (0.58%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.23%) DHCP
7 2 (0.23%) DNS
7 2 (0.23%) DSL
7 2 (0.23%) LAN
7 2 (0.23%) NAS
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.23%) SNMP
7 2 (0.23%) SSH
7 2 (0.23%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.84%) NoSQL
3 43 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.30%) MySQL
5 36 (4.19%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.14%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.56%) Tableau
9 20 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 20 (2.33%) RDBMS
10 17 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.86%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
12 15 (1.74%) Power BI
13 13 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.16%) Flink
15 9 (1.05%) Looker
15 9 (1.05%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 77 (8.95%) Jenkins
2 61 (7.09%) Git
3 60 (6.98%) Selenium
4 50 (5.81%) JIRA
5 48 (5.58%) TeamCity
6 33 (3.84%) Postman
6 33 (3.84%) WebDriver
7 31 (3.60%) Oracle Forms
8 30 (3.49%) SoapUI
9 26 (3.02%) GitLab
9 26 (3.02%) Team Foundation Server
10 19 (2.21%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.21%) Jaeger
11 18 (2.09%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.86%) JUnit
13 14 (1.63%) Maven
14 12 (1.40%) JMeter
15 10 (1.16%) MLflow
16 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
16 6 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 323 (37.56%) Finance
2 225 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 137 (15.93%) Banking
4 133 (15.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (13.37%) Law
6 96 (11.16%) Retail
7 73 (8.49%) Financial Institution
8 69 (8.02%) Public Sector
9 62 (7.21%) Front Office
10 51 (5.93%) Back Office
11 41 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
12 35 (4.07%) Games
13 30 (3.49%) Investment Banking
14 23 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.86%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.86%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.93%) Marketing
17 7 (0.81%) Billing
17 7 (0.81%) Legal
17 7 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 275 (31.98%) Developer
2 232 (26.98%) Software Engineer
3 217 (25.23%) Senior
4 145 (16.86%) Lead
5 139 (16.16%) Java Developer
6 129 (15.00%) Java Engineer
7 95 (11.05%) Java Software Engineer
8 63 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 56 (6.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 51 (5.93%) Lead Software Engineer
11 50 (5.81%) Architect
11 50 (5.81%) Lead Developer
12 49 (5.70%) Senior Developer
13 42 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
13 42 (4.88%) Software Developer
14 41 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
16 37 (4.30%) Applications Engineer
17 34 (3.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (19.19%) Spring
2 140 (16.28%) React
2 140 (16.28%) Spring Boot
3 104 (12.09%) Kafka
4 95 (11.05%) SOAP
5 94 (10.93%) .NET
5 94 (10.93%) RESTful
6 93 (10.81%) REST
7 81 (9.42%) Node.js
8 48 (5.58%) GraphQL
9 44 (5.12%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.00%) HTML
11 41 (4.77%) JSON
11 41 (4.77%) XML
12 38 (4.42%) Redux
13 34 (3.95%) Middleware
14 33 (3.84%) CSS
15 31 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (3.37%) Web Services
17 26 (3.02%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 175 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.09%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (6.40%) Product Ownership
5 45 (5.23%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.72%) Blog
7 22 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.44%) FPGA
9 19 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.86%) Equities
12 15 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.74%) Derivative
12 15 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.51%) DataPower
14 12 (1.40%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.05%) Data Centre
16 9 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.05%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 97 (11.28%) Linux
2 38 (4.42%) Unix
3 16 (1.86%) Android
4 15 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.93%) Windows
6 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (45.23%) Agile
2 325 (37.79%) Software Engineering
3 314 (36.51%) CI/CD
4 243 (28.26%) DevOps
5 217 (25.23%) Mentoring
6 210 (24.42%) Microservices
7 180 (20.93%) Test Automation
8 158 (18.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 121 (14.07%) AI
10 115 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (12.79%) Coaching
12 106 (12.33%) Computer Science
13 103 (11.98%) Clean Code
14 101 (11.74%) Containerisation
15 100 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 85 (9.88%) Fintech
17 81 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
19 77 (8.95%) Roadmaps
20 73 (8.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 312 (36.28%) Python
2 219 (25.47%) SQL
3 186 (21.63%) JavaScript
4 128 (14.88%) C#
5 123 (14.30%) TypeScript
6 99 (11.51%) Go
7 71 (8.26%) C++
8 37 (4.30%) PL/SQL
9 36 (4.19%) Shell Script
10 32 (3.72%) Bash
11 26 (3.02%) C
12 24 (2.79%) Kotlin
12 24 (2.79%) Scala
13 21 (2.44%) PHP
14 19 (2.21%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.93%) Delphi
15 8 (0.93%) Groovy
16 7 (0.81%) Ruby
16 7 (0.81%) Rust
17 6 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 156 (18.14%) Degree
2 119 (13.84%) Security Cleared
3 104 (12.09%) SC Cleared
4 68 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.35%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (3.02%) ISTQB
8 26 (3.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (2.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 23 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.74%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.40%) OSCP
13 11 (1.28%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.28%) PhD
14 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.47%) OSCE
16 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.09%) QA
2 22 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.51%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.51%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.28%) GDPR
5 10 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.81%) NIST
7 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.70%) NCSC
8 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.35%) WCAG
10 2 (0.23%) ECSS
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 149 (17.33%) Docker
2 20 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 193 (22.44%) Kubernetes
2 163 (18.95%) Terraform
3 65 (7.56%) Grafana
4 44 (5.12%) Ansible
5 33 (3.84%) Argo
6 30 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.79%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.21%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.81%) Kibana
10 5 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.58%) FTK
11 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.47%) Packer
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.12%) Nessus
13 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 67 (7.79%) Oracle
2 55 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.88%) Google
4 27 (3.14%) MuleSoft
5 19 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.86%) Databricks
6 16 (1.86%) Okta
7 12 (1.40%) IBM
8 11 (1.28%) Palantir
9 10 (1.16%) Dell
10 7 (0.81%) SAP
11 6 (0.70%) Foundry
11 6 (0.70%) Talend
11 6 (0.70%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.58%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.58%) Infor
12 5 (0.58%) Informatica
12 5 (0.58%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.58%) Mercator
12 5 (0.58%) Software AG