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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 21 27
Rank change year-on-year -35 +6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 900 1,441 2,011
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.12% 8.74% 7.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.25% 25.03% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 589 751 1,693
10th Percentile £37,450 £31,250 £42,600
25th Percentile £52,775 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -3.23%

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 5,901 5,757 10,642
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.03% 34.93% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,440 4,005 8,537
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 26 July 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 14 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.44%) Apache
2 13 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (0.89%) Confluence
3 8 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.78%) Camunda
5 5 (0.56%) JBoss
5 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.22%) CMS
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Documentum
9 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) Moqups
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 502 (55.78%) AWS
2 234 (26.00%) Azure
3 167 (18.56%) GCP
4 74 (8.22%) SaaS
5 56 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (5.33%) Serverless
7 33 (3.67%) GitHub
8 26 (2.89%) Amazon S3
8 26 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (1.89%) dbt
12 16 (1.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 15 (1.67%) PaaS
14 14 (1.56%) Azure AKS
14 14 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.33%) HTTP
2 22 (2.44%) Broadband
2 22 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.33%) Network Security
4 2 (0.22%) AMQP
4 2 (0.22%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) ATM
5 1 (0.11%) BGP
5 1 (0.11%) DSL
5 1 (0.11%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.11%) VLAN
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.89%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.89%) NoSQL
3 53 (5.89%) SQL Server
4 51 (5.67%) MySQL
5 28 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 14 (1.56%) Metadata
8 13 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.22%) Redis
11 8 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.56%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 56 (6.22%) Git
2 50 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 36 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 30 (3.33%) GitLab
5 26 (2.89%) Selenium
6 23 (2.56%) JIRA
7 22 (2.44%) JUnit
8 17 (1.89%) Maven
8 17 (1.89%) Postman
9 14 (1.56%) JMeter
10 13 (1.44%) Claude Code
11 12 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.33%) Mockito
12 11 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.78%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.78%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.67%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 307 (34.11%) Finance
2 162 (18.00%) Banking
3 158 (17.56%) Social Skills
4 134 (14.89%) Public Sector
5 95 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (8.11%) Law
7 66 (7.33%) Retail
8 50 (5.56%) Financial Institution
9 49 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
10 47 (5.22%) Back Office
11 42 (4.67%) Front Office
12 26 (2.89%) Investment Banking
13 19 (2.11%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.89%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.89%) Aviation
16 8 (0.89%) Games
16 8 (0.89%) Legal
17 7 (0.78%) Marketing
18 6 (0.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 312 (34.67%) Software Engineer
2 282 (31.33%) Developer
3 213 (23.67%) Senior
4 165 (18.33%) Lead
5 158 (17.56%) Java Developer
6 150 (16.67%) Java Engineer
7 98 (10.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 97 (10.78%) Lead Software Engineer
9 87 (9.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 61 (6.78%) Software Developer
11 60 (6.67%) Senior Developer
12 47 (5.22%) Graduate
13 44 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (4.89%) Senior Java Engineer
14 41 (4.56%) Engineering Manager
14 41 (4.56%) Senior Java Developer
15 38 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 36 (4.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 34 (3.78%) Graduate Developer
18 32 (3.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (19.33%) Spring
2 125 (13.89%) React
3 121 (13.44%) Spring Boot
4 110 (12.22%) REST
5 97 (10.78%) Node.js
6 88 (9.78%) Kafka
7 83 (9.22%) .NET
8 60 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 53 (5.89%) RESTful
10 41 (4.56%) CSS
11 36 (4.00%) GraphQL
12 32 (3.56%) Redux
13 31 (3.44%) jQuery
14 22 (2.44%) Vue
15 18 (2.00%) Web Services
16 16 (1.78%) HTML
16 16 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
16 16 (1.78%) SOAP
17 14 (1.56%) Playwright
18 13 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 140 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 124 (13.78%) Product Ownership
3 72 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 62 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (4.00%) Fixed Income
6 29 (3.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 24 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 21 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.00%) Blog
9 18 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.78%) Equities
10 16 (1.78%) FPGA
11 14 (1.56%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.11%) e-Learning
13 10 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.22%) Linux
2 30 (3.33%) Windows
3 26 (2.89%) Unix
4 11 (1.22%) Android
4 11 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (47.56%) Software Engineering
2 386 (42.89%) Agile
3 336 (37.33%) CI/CD
4 235 (26.11%) Test Automation
5 223 (24.78%) Mentoring
6 206 (22.89%) Microservices
7 203 (22.56%) DevOps
8 161 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 153 (17.00%) Technical Leadership
10 146 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 129 (14.33%) TDD
12 127 (14.11%) Coaching
13 123 (13.67%) AI
14 122 (13.56%) Clean Code
15 118 (13.11%) Roadmaps
16 117 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
18 89 (9.89%) Containerisation
19 77 (8.56%) Computer Science
20 72 (8.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 275 (30.56%) Python
2 197 (21.89%) SQL
3 190 (21.11%) JavaScript
4 130 (14.44%) C#
5 93 (10.33%) TypeScript
6 85 (9.44%) C++
7 72 (8.00%) Go
8 38 (4.22%) PHP
9 27 (3.00%) C
10 26 (2.89%) Bash
11 22 (2.44%) Kotlin
12 19 (2.11%) Scala
13 16 (1.78%) Ruby
14 14 (1.56%) Apex Code
15 13 (1.44%) PL/SQL
15 13 (1.44%) Rust
16 11 (1.22%) Groovy
16 11 (1.22%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.56%) Tcl
18 4 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 152 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 125 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 97 (10.78%) Degree
4 48 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.22%) OSCP
7 10 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.11%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.89%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.78%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.78%) PhD
11 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.44%) GPEN
13 4 (0.44%) GXPN
14 3 (0.33%) CCSAM
14 3 (0.33%) OSCE
15 2 (0.22%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.89%) QA
2 39 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.78%) WCAG
5 4 (0.44%) NIST
6 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.22%) MiFID
7 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.22%) UCITS
8 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 114 (12.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 166 (18.44%) Kubernetes
2 126 (14.00%) Terraform
3 61 (6.78%) Grafana
4 25 (2.78%) Ansible
5 15 (1.67%) Argo
6 10 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.67%) Packer
8 5 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.33%) FTK
9 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.22%) Kibana
10 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.11%) Nessus
11 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (4.89%) Oracle
2 37 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.22%) Google
4 16 (1.78%) Salesforce
4 16 (1.78%) ServiceNow
5 12 (1.33%) MuleSoft
6 9 (1.00%) Splunk
7 8 (0.89%) Foundry
7 8 (0.89%) IBM
7 8 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.56%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.56%) Sybase
8 5 (0.56%) TIBCO
9 4 (0.44%) JDA
10 3 (0.33%) Cellebrite
10 3 (0.33%) Databricks
10 3 (0.33%) Palantir
10 3 (0.33%) SAP
11 2 (0.22%) Revolut
11 2 (0.22%) Solace
387 hybrid/remote Java jobs