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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 905 1,039 2,395
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.16% 7.88% 7.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.07% 18.30% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 587 823 1,928
10th Percentile £39,900 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -9.68%

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 4,745 5,678 13,376
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.04% 43.04% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,451 4,505 11,531
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £113,788 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 16 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 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.88%) JBoss
4 12 (1.33%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.99%) Apache
6 8 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 16 (1.77%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.55%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 522 (57.68%) AWS
2 209 (23.09%) Azure
3 177 (19.56%) GCP
4 96 (10.61%) SaaS
5 87 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
6 80 (8.84%) GitHub
7 64 (7.07%) Serverless
8 41 (4.53%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
12 25 (2.76%) dbt
13 24 (2.65%) Pulumi
14 23 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
18 16 (1.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.31%) Broadband
2 32 (3.54%) TCP/IP
3 22 (2.43%) HTTP
4 6 (0.66%) BGP
4 6 (0.66%) VLAN
4 6 (0.66%) VPN
5 5 (0.55%) AMQP
5 5 (0.55%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.33%) Network Security
7 2 (0.22%) DHCP
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) DSL
7 2 (0.22%) LAN
7 2 (0.22%) NAS
7 2 (0.22%) SAN
7 2 (0.22%) SNMP
7 2 (0.22%) WAN
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.17%) NoSQL
2 78 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 41 (4.53%) Relational Database
5 37 (4.09%) MySQL
6 30 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.21%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.10%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.88%) Tableau
12 16 (1.77%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.22%) Flink
15 10 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.10%) Power BI
16 9 (0.99%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (0.99%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.99%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.99%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 62 (6.85%) Git
1 62 (6.85%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.19%) TeamCity
3 53 (5.86%) Selenium
4 44 (4.86%) JIRA
5 32 (3.54%) GitLab
6 31 (3.43%) Postman
7 28 (3.09%) SoapUI
8 26 (2.87%) WebDriver
9 25 (2.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 19 (2.10%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.10%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.77%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.77%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (1.66%) JMeter
12 15 (1.66%) Maven
13 14 (1.55%) JUnit
14 10 (1.10%) Claude Code
14 10 (1.10%) MLflow
15 8 (0.88%) REST Assured
General
1 332 (36.69%) Finance
2 219 (24.20%) Social Skills
3 168 (18.56%) Banking
4 144 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (13.59%) Law
6 103 (11.38%) Retail
7 77 (8.51%) Financial Institution
8 74 (8.18%) Public Sector
9 62 (6.85%) Back Office
10 52 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
11 51 (5.64%) Front Office
12 29 (3.20%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.32%) Games
15 16 (1.77%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.77%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.99%) Legal
16 9 (0.99%) Marketing
17 6 (0.66%) Aviation
18 5 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 290 (32.04%) Developer
2 267 (29.50%) Software Engineer
3 219 (24.20%) Senior
4 161 (17.79%) Lead
5 147 (16.24%) Java Developer
6 144 (15.91%) Java Engineer
7 98 (10.83%) Java Software Engineer
8 69 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 65 (7.18%) Lead Software Engineer
10 56 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 56 (6.19%) Software Developer
11 54 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (5.30%) Lead Developer
13 44 (4.86%) Architect
14 40 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (4.20%) Graduate
16 37 (4.09%) Senior Java Engineer
17 36 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 34 (3.76%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (18.78%) Spring
2 138 (15.25%) React
3 132 (14.59%) Spring Boot
4 108 (11.93%) REST
5 96 (10.61%) .NET
6 85 (9.39%) Kafka
7 83 (9.17%) Node.js
8 81 (8.95%) SOAP
9 65 (7.18%) RESTful
10 54 (5.97%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.97%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.75%) CSS
13 40 (4.42%) HTML
14 36 (3.98%) Web Services
15 35 (3.87%) Redux
16 33 (3.65%) JSON
16 33 (3.65%) XML
17 32 (3.54%) jQuery
17 32 (3.54%) Middleware
18 31 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 165 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.94%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 41 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (4.42%) Fixed Income
7 33 (3.65%) Blog
8 21 (2.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 21 (2.32%) FPGA
9 17 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.77%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.44%) e-Learning
12 13 (1.44%) Equities
12 13 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.33%) DataPower
14 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.22%) Sports Betting
15 9 (0.99%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 97 (10.72%) Linux
2 39 (4.31%) Unix
3 19 (2.10%) Android
4 18 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.44%) Windows
6 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.33%) CentOS
7 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (42.54%) Agile
2 360 (39.78%) Software Engineering
3 312 (34.48%) CI/CD
4 229 (25.30%) DevOps
5 224 (24.75%) Mentoring
6 199 (21.99%) Microservices
7 197 (21.77%) Test Automation
8 161 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 129 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (13.15%) Clean Code
11 117 (12.93%) AI
12 112 (12.38%) Containerisation
13 110 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (12.15%) Roadmaps
14 109 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
15 104 (11.49%) Computer Science
16 97 (10.72%) Infrastructure as Code
17 89 (9.83%) Coaching
17 89 (9.83%) Fintech
18 74 (8.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 309 (34.14%) Python
2 226 (24.97%) SQL
3 176 (19.45%) JavaScript
4 139 (15.36%) C#
5 111 (12.27%) TypeScript
6 105 (11.60%) Go
7 76 (8.40%) C++
8 36 (3.98%) Bash
9 32 (3.54%) PHP
10 26 (2.87%) C
11 24 (2.65%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.54%) PL/SQL
13 21 (2.32%) Scala
13 21 (2.32%) Shell Script
14 20 (2.21%) Apex Code
15 11 (1.22%) Ruby
15 11 (1.22%) Rust
16 8 (0.88%) Delphi
16 8 (0.88%) Groovy
17 6 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 150 (16.57%) Degree
2 116 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 71 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.43%) ISTQB
8 20 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 19 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (1.99%) OSCP
11 17 (1.88%) CREST Certified
12 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.44%) DBS Check
14 11 (1.22%) PhD
15 10 (1.10%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.77%) OSCE
17 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
17 4 (0.44%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.62%) QA
2 28 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.10%) GDPR
6 9 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.66%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.55%) WCAG
10 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) ECSS
12 2 (0.22%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 144 (15.91%) Docker
2 10 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 196 (21.66%) Kubernetes
2 165 (18.23%) Terraform
3 74 (8.18%) Grafana
4 41 (4.53%) Ansible
5 35 (3.87%) Argo
6 24 (2.65%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.10%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.55%) FTK
9 5 (0.55%) Kibana
9 5 (0.55%) Packer
10 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.11%) Icinga
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 55 (6.08%) Oracle
2 52 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.75%) Google
4 25 (2.76%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.55%) Databricks
7 12 (1.33%) IBM
8 10 (1.10%) Palantir
9 8 (0.88%) Dell
9 8 (0.88%) Foundry
9 8 (0.88%) Okta
10 7 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.66%) SAP
11 6 (0.66%) Talend
11 6 (0.66%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.55%) Epicor
12 5 (0.55%) Infor
12 5 (0.55%) Informatica
12 5 (0.55%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.55%) Software AG