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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,278 1,841 2,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.86% 7.88% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.03% 20.33% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 600 1,397 2,146
10th Percentile £39,300 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £117,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -6.25% +5.89% +7.93%

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 5,106 9,055 11,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.39% 38.74% 47.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,442 6,144 10,085
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,250 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java over the 6 months to 20 September 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
1 162 (12.68%) Confluence
2 115 (9.00%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (7.98%) Apache
4 11 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.70%) IIS
5 9 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.23%) Luigi
6 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.078%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.078%) CMS
8 1 (0.078%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.078%) JBoss
8 1 (0.078%) Mendix
8 1 (0.078%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.23%) Simulink
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.39%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.16%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 832 (65.10%) AWS
2 676 (52.90%) Azure
3 453 (35.45%) GCP
4 115 (9.00%) dbt
5 97 (7.59%) Snowflake
6 62 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 59 (4.62%) GitHub
9 40 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (2.58%) Serverless
11 28 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 27 (2.11%) SaaS
13 22 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (1.33%) Entra ID
16 16 (1.25%) OCI
17 15 (1.17%) Power Platform
18 13 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.10%) SSL
3 9 (0.70%) DMARC
4 5 (0.39%) Broadband
4 5 (0.39%) SSH
5 3 (0.23%) Internet
5 3 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.16%) AMQP
6 2 (0.16%) HTTP
7 1 (0.078%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.078%) 4G
7 1 (0.078%) 5G
7 1 (0.078%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.078%) Firewall
7 1 (0.078%) SCTP
7 1 (0.078%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (25.98%) SQL Server
2 116 (9.08%) Amazon Athena
3 113 (8.84%) Apache Arrow
3 113 (8.84%) Apache Iceberg
3 113 (8.84%) Dremio
4 97 (7.59%) Data Lake
5 92 (7.20%) Apache Ignite
6 83 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
7 65 (5.09%) MySQL
8 59 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
9 57 (4.46%) NoSQL
10 38 (2.97%) MongoDB
11 32 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.17%) Power BI
13 13 (1.02%) Big Data
13 13 (1.02%) Tableau
14 11 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.63%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 293 (22.93%) Selenium
2 282 (22.07%) JIRA
3 274 (21.44%) GitLab
4 267 (20.89%) Maven
4 267 (20.89%) SonarQube
5 258 (20.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 257 (20.11%) Cucumber
7 249 (19.48%) Bitbucket
8 62 (4.85%) Jenkins
9 50 (3.91%) Git
10 31 (2.43%) JUnit
11 21 (1.64%) WebDriver
12 17 (1.33%) Postman
13 16 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (1.17%) SoapUI
15 13 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.94%) Mockito
17 10 (0.78%) Visual Studio
18 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
General
1 574 (44.91%) Finance
2 513 (40.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 409 (32.00%) Banking
4 197 (15.41%) Investment Banking
5 192 (15.02%) Social Skills
6 181 (14.16%) Front Office
7 96 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
8 94 (7.36%) Retail
9 90 (7.04%) Corporate Banking
10 32 (2.50%) Public Sector
11 21 (1.64%) Law
12 20 (1.56%) Billing
13 16 (1.25%) Back Office
14 15 (1.17%) Games
15 13 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.78%) Legal
17 9 (0.70%) Czech Language
17 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 675 (52.82%) Software Engineer
2 401 (31.38%) Senior
3 332 (25.98%) Developer
4 302 (23.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 182 (14.24%) Java Engineer
6 172 (13.46%) Java Software Engineer
7 124 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
8 123 (9.62%) Java Developer
9 117 (9.15%) AWS Software Engineer
10 104 (8.14%) Senior Java Engineer
11 101 (7.90%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 92 (7.20%) Python Engineer
12 92 (7.20%) Python Software Engineer
13 75 (5.87%) Lead
14 67 (5.24%) Software Developer
15 48 (3.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 45 (3.52%) Graduate
17 43 (3.36%) Graduate Developer
18 38 (2.97%) IT Graduate
19 34 (2.66%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (31.06%) React
2 371 (29.03%) Spring
3 346 (27.07%) Spring Boot
4 337 (26.37%) Kafka
5 335 (26.21%) HTML
6 333 (26.06%) .NET
7 311 (24.33%) CSS
8 295 (23.08%) Node.js
9 279 (21.83%) Redux
10 256 (20.03%) JPA
11 178 (13.93%) Hibernate
12 166 (12.99%) RESTful
13 163 (12.75%) Pandas
14 139 (10.88%) REST
15 114 (8.92%) NumPy
16 113 (8.84%) SciPy
17 100 (7.82%) CSS3
17 100 (7.82%) HTML5
18 93 (7.28%) Jest
19 91 (7.12%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 282 (22.07%) Enterprise Software
2 267 (20.89%) Product Ownership
3 227 (17.76%) Cyberattack
4 219 (17.14%) Self-Motivation
5 178 (13.93%) Linux Command Line
6 142 (11.11%) Fixed Income
7 124 (9.70%) Derivative
8 123 (9.62%) Equities
8 123 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 89 (6.96%) Hedge funds
9 89 (6.96%) Pricing Data
10 77 (6.03%) Cloud Native
11 30 (2.35%) Algorithms
12 28 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (2.03%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.49%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.49%) Onboarding
15 18 (1.41%) FPGA
15 18 (1.41%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 308 (24.10%) Linux
2 59 (4.62%) Android
3 29 (2.27%) Windows
4 24 (1.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.31%) Rocky
7 2 (0.16%) Debian
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.078%) AIX
8 1 (0.078%) CentOS
8 1 (0.078%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (71.83%) Agile
2 792 (61.97%) Software Engineering
3 600 (46.95%) Microservices
4 463 (36.23%) CI/CD
5 416 (32.55%) DevOps
6 380 (29.73%) Mentoring
7 360 (28.17%) Containerisation
8 347 (27.15%) Test Automation
9 328 (25.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 303 (23.71%) SDLC
11 295 (23.08%) User Experience
12 261 (20.42%) Front End Development
12 261 (20.42%) Machine Learning
13 252 (19.72%) Performance Optimisation
14 239 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 226 (17.68%) Scrum
16 217 (16.98%) TDD
17 203 (15.88%) Clean Code
18 191 (14.95%) Data Engineering
19 188 (14.71%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 782 (61.19%) JavaScript
2 576 (45.07%) Python
3 486 (38.03%) SQL
4 379 (29.66%) C++
5 332 (25.98%) TypeScript
6 278 (21.75%) Rust
7 272 (21.28%) Go
8 217 (16.98%) C#
9 92 (7.20%) C
10 91 (7.12%) PHP
11 57 (4.46%) R
12 53 (4.15%) MATLAB
13 51 (3.99%) Ruby
14 49 (3.83%) Dart
15 22 (1.72%) Scala
16 21 (1.64%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.64%) Shell Script
17 20 (1.56%) PowerShell
18 15 (1.17%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 296 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 237 (18.54%) DV Cleared
3 209 (16.35%) AWS Certification
4 200 (15.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 183 (14.32%) Degree
6 178 (13.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 133 (10.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (4.46%) SC Cleared
9 23 (1.80%) ISTQB
10 18 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.02%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 11 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.86%) PhD
14 8 (0.63%) CFA
14 8 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.63%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.63%) PMP
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (23.55%) QA
2 104 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.56%) GDPR
5 19 (1.49%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.02%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.94%) NIST
8 5 (0.39%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.16%) SEPA
11 1 (0.078%) ECSS
11 1 (0.078%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 411 (32.16%) Docker
2 17 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.078%) HDFS
4 1 (0.078%) KVM
4 1 (0.078%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.078%) Xen
Systems Management
1 425 (33.26%) Kubernetes
2 102 (7.98%) Terraform
3 64 (5.01%) Ansible
4 24 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.02%) Grafana
7 10 (0.78%) Istio
8 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.31%) Kibana
11 3 (0.23%) Argo
11 3 (0.23%) Control-M
11 3 (0.23%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.078%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.078%) Marathon
Vendors
1 251 (19.64%) Solace
2 61 (4.77%) Microsoft
3 49 (3.83%) Oracle
4 32 (2.50%) Google
5 20 (1.56%) Guidewire
6 9 (0.70%) Red Hat
7 8 (0.63%) Murex
7 8 (0.63%) Okta
8 7 (0.55%) Cisco
9 6 (0.47%) Databricks
9 6 (0.47%) IBM
10 5 (0.39%) FIS
10 5 (0.39%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.39%) UiPath
11 3 (0.23%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.23%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.23%) Calypso
11 3 (0.23%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.23%) Roku
11 3 (0.23%) Splunk