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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 846 1,058 2,411
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.11% 7.53% 8.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.28% 16.38% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 565 787 1,939
10th Percentile £45,055 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.73% -0.02%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £134,000 £140,000 £115,000
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 4,388 6,458 13,090
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.51% 45.95% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,196 4,583 11,385
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 £110,000 £97,500
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 9 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 26 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
1 26 (3.07%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.01%) JBoss
3 15 (1.77%) Apache
4 13 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 13 (1.54%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.47%) Confluence
7 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Camunda
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) 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 (3.43%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.59%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 489 (57.80%) AWS
2 203 (24.00%) Azure
3 155 (18.32%) GCP
4 87 (10.28%) GitHub
5 84 (9.93%) SaaS
6 83 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
7 69 (8.16%) Serverless
8 41 (4.85%) Amazon S3
9 38 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (3.43%) dbt
12 29 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
12 29 (3.43%) OCI
13 25 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (2.84%) Pulumi
15 20 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (2.36%) OpenShift
16 19 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 19 (2.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.90%) TCP/IP
2 31 (3.66%) Broadband
3 10 (1.18%) HTTP
4 6 (0.71%) BGP
4 6 (0.71%) VLAN
4 6 (0.71%) VPN
5 5 (0.59%) AMQP
5 5 (0.59%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
7 2 (0.24%) DSL
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) NAS
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.87%) NoSQL
3 42 (4.96%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.37%) MySQL
5 35 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.07%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (2.60%) Tableau
9 20 (2.36%) BigQuery
9 20 (2.36%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.89%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
12 15 (1.77%) Power BI
13 12 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.18%) Flink
15 9 (1.06%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.06%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (8.98%) Jenkins
2 61 (7.21%) Git
3 57 (6.74%) Selenium
4 49 (5.79%) JIRA
5 48 (5.67%) TeamCity
6 33 (3.90%) Postman
6 33 (3.90%) WebDriver
7 30 (3.55%) Oracle Forms
7 30 (3.55%) SoapUI
8 26 (3.07%) GitLab
8 26 (3.07%) Team Foundation Server
9 19 (2.25%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.25%) Jaeger
10 18 (2.13%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.89%) JUnit
12 14 (1.65%) Maven
13 12 (1.42%) JMeter
14 10 (1.18%) MLflow
15 6 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 322 (38.06%) Finance
2 218 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 137 (16.19%) Banking
4 133 (15.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (13.59%) Law
6 96 (11.35%) Retail
7 73 (8.63%) Financial Institution
8 67 (7.92%) Public Sector
9 62 (7.33%) Front Office
10 51 (6.03%) Back Office
11 40 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (4.02%) Games
13 30 (3.55%) Investment Banking
14 21 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.89%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.89%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.95%) Marketing
17 7 (0.83%) Billing
17 7 (0.83%) Legal
17 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 270 (31.91%) Developer
2 232 (27.42%) Software Engineer
3 213 (25.18%) Senior
4 145 (17.14%) Lead
5 137 (16.19%) Java Developer
6 130 (15.37%) Java Engineer
7 95 (11.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 63 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 56 (6.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 51 (6.03%) Lead Software Engineer
11 50 (5.91%) Lead Developer
12 48 (5.67%) Architect
12 48 (5.67%) Senior Developer
13 42 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (4.96%) Senior Java Engineer
13 42 (4.96%) Software Developer
14 41 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
16 37 (4.37%) Applications Engineer
17 34 (4.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (19.27%) Spring
2 139 (16.43%) React
3 138 (16.31%) Spring Boot
4 99 (11.70%) Kafka
5 94 (11.11%) .NET
5 94 (11.11%) SOAP
6 93 (10.99%) RESTful
7 91 (10.76%) REST
8 81 (9.57%) Node.js
9 47 (5.56%) GraphQL
10 44 (5.20%) AngularJS
11 43 (5.08%) HTML
12 40 (4.73%) JSON
12 40 (4.73%) XML
13 38 (4.49%) Redux
14 33 (3.90%) CSS
15 32 (3.78%) Middleware
16 31 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
17 28 (3.31%) Web Services
18 26 (3.07%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 172 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.97%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (6.50%) Product Ownership
5 45 (5.32%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.78%) Blog
7 22 (2.60%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.48%) FPGA
9 19 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.89%) Equities
12 15 (1.77%) Derivative
12 15 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.54%) DataPower
14 12 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.06%) Data Centre
16 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.06%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.35%) Linux
2 38 (4.49%) Unix
3 16 (1.89%) Android
4 15 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.83%) Windows
6 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (45.15%) Agile
2 323 (38.18%) Software Engineering
3 307 (36.29%) CI/CD
4 243 (28.72%) DevOps
5 213 (25.18%) Mentoring
6 203 (24.00%) Microservices
7 177 (20.92%) Test Automation
8 157 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 119 (14.07%) AI
10 113 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
11 106 (12.53%) Coaching
12 103 (12.17%) Clean Code
13 102 (12.06%) Computer Science
14 101 (11.94%) Containerisation
15 99 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 84 (9.93%) Fintech
17 82 (9.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
19 76 (8.98%) Roadmaps
20 71 (8.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 307 (36.29%) Python
2 217 (25.65%) SQL
3 183 (21.63%) JavaScript
4 122 (14.42%) C#
5 120 (14.18%) TypeScript
6 99 (11.70%) Go
7 71 (8.39%) C++
8 36 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 36 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 32 (3.78%) Bash
10 26 (3.07%) C
11 24 (2.84%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.72%) Scala
13 21 (2.48%) PHP
14 20 (2.36%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.95%) Delphi
15 8 (0.95%) Ruby
16 7 (0.83%) Groovy
16 7 (0.83%) Rust
17 5 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 152 (17.97%) Degree
2 116 (13.71%) Security Cleared
3 102 (12.06%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (5.20%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 26 (3.07%) ISTQB
8 25 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (2.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 24 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.65%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.42%) OSCP
13 11 (1.30%) CREST Certified
14 10 (1.18%) PhD
15 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.47%) OSCE
18 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.09%) QA
2 20 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.54%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.30%) GDPR
5 10 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.83%) NIST
7 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 5 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) ECSS
11 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 148 (17.49%) Docker
2 20 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 192 (22.70%) Kubernetes
2 163 (19.27%) Terraform
3 65 (7.68%) Grafana
4 44 (5.20%) Ansible
5 33 (3.90%) Argo
6 30 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.84%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.25%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.83%) Kibana
10 5 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.59%) FTK
11 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.47%) Packer
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) 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 65 (7.68%) Oracle
2 52 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.85%) Google
4 26 (3.07%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.89%) Okta
7 15 (1.77%) Databricks
8 12 (1.42%) IBM
9 11 (1.30%) Palantir
10 10 (1.18%) Dell
11 7 (0.83%) SAP
12 6 (0.71%) Foundry
12 6 (0.71%) Talend
12 6 (0.71%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.59%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.59%) Infor
13 5 (0.59%) Informatica
13 5 (0.59%) Jitterbit
13 5 (0.59%) Mercator
13 5 (0.59%) Software AG