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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 882 1,017 2,352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.23% 7.92% 7.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.10% 17.56% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 582 814 1,910
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,698 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.01% -2.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -7.76%

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 4,617 5,793 13,205
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.40% 45.09% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,364 4,516 11,455
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +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 2 April 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 24 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.04%) JBoss
3 13 (1.47%) Apache
3 13 (1.47%) WebSphere
4 8 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.57%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.34%) Camunda
6 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.23%) nginx
7 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 16 (1.81%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.57%) Shopify
3 2 (0.23%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 511 (57.94%) AWS
2 204 (23.13%) Azure
3 167 (18.93%) GCP
4 92 (10.43%) SaaS
5 84 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 75 (8.50%) GitHub
7 66 (7.48%) Serverless
8 39 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 35 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (3.29%) dbt
12 27 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (2.72%) Pulumi
14 22 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.93%) Azure Machine Learning
18 16 (1.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 16 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.42%) Broadband
2 32 (3.63%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.93%) HTTP
4 6 (0.68%) BGP
4 6 (0.68%) VLAN
4 6 (0.68%) VPN
5 5 (0.57%) AMQP
5 5 (0.57%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.34%) Network Security
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%) WAN
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.11%) Multicast
8 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 80 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 43 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 38 (4.31%) MySQL
6 28 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.15%) BigQuery
10 17 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (1.93%) Tableau
11 16 (1.81%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
14 12 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.13%) Flink
15 10 (1.13%) Power BI
16 9 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.02%) Looker
16 9 (1.02%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 63 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 60 (6.80%) Git
3 54 (6.12%) Selenium
4 53 (6.01%) TeamCity
5 43 (4.88%) JIRA
6 30 (3.40%) Postman
7 29 (3.29%) GitLab
8 28 (3.17%) WebDriver
9 27 (3.06%) SoapUI
10 23 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (2.15%) Cucumber
11 19 (2.15%) Jaeger
12 17 (1.93%) Cypress.io
12 17 (1.93%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (1.70%) JMeter
13 15 (1.70%) JUnit
14 14 (1.59%) Maven
15 10 (1.13%) Claude Code
15 10 (1.13%) MLflow
16 8 (0.91%) REST Assured
General
1 331 (37.53%) Finance
2 214 (24.26%) Social Skills
3 157 (17.80%) Banking
4 140 (15.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 119 (13.49%) Law
6 103 (11.68%) Retail
7 75 (8.50%) Financial Institution
8 71 (8.05%) Public Sector
9 58 (6.58%) Back Office
10 55 (6.24%) Front Office
11 45 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (3.85%) Games
13 31 (3.51%) Investment Banking
14 21 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.70%) Tech for Good
16 14 (1.59%) Health Technology
17 9 (1.02%) Marketing
18 7 (0.79%) Legal
19 6 (0.68%) Aviation
19 6 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 290 (32.88%) Developer
2 261 (29.59%) Software Engineer
3 217 (24.60%) Senior
4 162 (18.37%) Lead
5 147 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 142 (16.10%) Java Engineer
7 101 (11.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 72 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 63 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
10 56 (6.35%) Senior Developer
11 55 (6.24%) Software Developer
12 53 (6.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (5.56%) Lead Developer
14 44 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (4.88%) Architect
16 42 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
17 38 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 33 (3.74%) Graduate
20 32 (3.63%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (18.93%) Spring
2 137 (15.53%) React
3 135 (15.31%) Spring Boot
4 103 (11.68%) REST
5 91 (10.32%) .NET
6 86 (9.75%) Kafka
7 83 (9.41%) Node.js
8 81 (9.18%) SOAP
9 77 (8.73%) RESTful
10 53 (6.01%) AngularJS
11 46 (5.22%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.65%) CSS
13 40 (4.54%) HTML
14 35 (3.97%) Redux
15 33 (3.74%) XML
16 32 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (3.63%) JSON
16 32 (3.63%) Web Services
17 31 (3.51%) Middleware
18 29 (3.29%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 160 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 76 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.88%) Fixed Income
5 42 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 33 (3.74%) Blog
8 21 (2.38%) FPGA
9 18 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.81%) Equities
12 14 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.47%) DataPower
13 13 (1.47%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.36%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.25%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.25%) Sports Betting
16 10 (1.13%) Derivative
17 9 (1.02%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 94 (10.66%) Linux
2 36 (4.08%) Unix
3 17 (1.93%) Android
4 16 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.13%) Windows
6 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.34%) CentOS
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (44.33%) Agile
2 351 (39.80%) Software Engineering
3 312 (35.37%) CI/CD
4 226 (25.62%) DevOps
5 220 (24.94%) Mentoring
6 192 (21.77%) Microservices
7 191 (21.66%) Test Automation
8 157 (17.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 118 (13.38%) AI
9 118 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (12.93%) Clean Code
11 110 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (12.13%) Containerisation
13 101 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
14 99 (11.22%) Computer Science
15 96 (10.88%) Roadmaps
16 92 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 90 (10.20%) Coaching
18 87 (9.86%) Fintech
19 73 (8.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 301 (34.13%) Python
2 223 (25.28%) SQL
3 181 (20.52%) JavaScript
4 126 (14.29%) C#
5 111 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.56%) Go
7 74 (8.39%) C++
8 35 (3.97%) Bash
9 29 (3.29%) PHP
10 26 (2.95%) C
10 26 (2.95%) Kotlin
11 24 (2.72%) PL/SQL
12 23 (2.61%) Scala
13 22 (2.49%) Shell Script
14 20 (2.27%) Apex Code
15 12 (1.36%) Ruby
16 11 (1.25%) Rust
17 8 (0.91%) Delphi
17 8 (0.91%) Groovy
18 6 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 144 (16.33%) Degree
2 112 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 93 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 65 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.61%) ISTQB
8 21 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 20 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.81%) OSCP
12 15 (1.70%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.25%) PhD
14 10 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 9 (1.02%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.79%) OSCE
17 5 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
18 4 (0.45%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.48%) QA
2 29 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.36%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.13%) GDPR
6 9 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.79%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.57%) NIST
8 5 (0.57%) WCAG
9 4 (0.45%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.45%) NCSC
10 2 (0.23%) ECSS
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 148 (16.78%) Docker
2 10 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 191 (21.66%) Kubernetes
2 160 (18.14%) Terraform
3 70 (7.94%) Grafana
4 40 (4.54%) Ansible
5 32 (3.63%) Argo
6 23 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.15%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.57%) FTK
9 5 (0.57%) Kibana
10 4 (0.45%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.45%) Packer
11 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (6.12%) Oracle
2 51 (5.78%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.88%) Google
4 25 (2.83%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.59%) Databricks
7 13 (1.47%) IBM
8 10 (1.13%) Palantir
9 8 (0.91%) Dell
9 8 (0.91%) Foundry
9 8 (0.91%) Okta
10 6 (0.68%) SAP
10 6 (0.68%) Talend
10 6 (0.68%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.57%) Epicor
11 5 (0.57%) Infor
11 5 (0.57%) Informatica
11 5 (0.57%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.57%) Software AG
11 5 (0.57%) Workday