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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 24 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 927 1,212 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.10% 8.72% 6.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.40% 21.28% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 602 831 1,910
10th Percentile £35,925 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +1.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £137,500
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 4,778 5,695 13,295
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.29% 40.96% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,506 4,451 11,386
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 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 May 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 25 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.73%) JBoss
4 11 (1.19%) Apache
5 10 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.73%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 531 (57.28%) AWS
2 220 (23.73%) Azure
3 170 (18.34%) GCP
4 85 (9.17%) SaaS
5 76 (8.20%) GitHub
6 70 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (6.90%) Serverless
8 39 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 30 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (2.70%) dbt
13 24 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (2.59%) Pulumi
14 21 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (1.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.53%) Broadband
2 30 (3.24%) TCP/IP
3 28 (3.02%) HTTP
4 5 (0.54%) AMQP
4 5 (0.54%) PuTTY
5 4 (0.43%) BGP
5 4 (0.43%) VLAN
5 4 (0.43%) VPN
6 3 (0.32%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (8.52%) NoSQL
3 59 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.75%) MongoDB
5 37 (3.99%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.88%) MySQL
7 21 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.05%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.05%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.05%) RDBMS
10 17 (1.83%) Tableau
11 14 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.40%) Metadata
13 11 (1.19%) Flink
14 10 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.08%) Pinecone
14 10 (1.08%) Power BI
14 10 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (7.01%) Jenkins
2 59 (6.36%) Git
3 51 (5.50%) Selenium
4 47 (5.07%) TeamCity
5 44 (4.75%) GitLab
5 44 (4.75%) JIRA
6 31 (3.34%) Postman
7 28 (3.02%) SoapUI
8 25 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 24 (2.59%) WebDriver
10 19 (2.05%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.94%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.73%) Maven
12 16 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (1.62%) JUnit
14 14 (1.51%) JMeter
15 13 (1.40%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.29%) Claude Code
17 10 (1.08%) MLflow
18 8 (0.86%) REST Assured
General
1 327 (35.28%) Finance
2 203 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 162 (17.48%) Banking
4 127 (13.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (10.25%) Law
6 87 (9.39%) Retail
7 82 (8.85%) Public Sector
8 57 (6.15%) Financial Institution
9 50 (5.39%) Back Office
10 49 (5.29%) Front Office
11 48 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
12 30 (3.24%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.05%) Games
15 18 (1.94%) Health Technology
15 18 (1.94%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.97%) Aviation
16 9 (0.97%) Marketing
17 6 (0.65%) Legal
18 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 303 (32.69%) Developer
2 272 (29.34%) Software Engineer
3 233 (25.13%) Senior
4 170 (18.34%) Lead
5 160 (17.26%) Java Developer
6 150 (16.18%) Java Engineer
7 102 (11.00%) Java Software Engineer
8 74 (7.98%) Lead Software Engineer
9 70 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (6.69%) Senior Developer
11 61 (6.58%) Software Developer
12 51 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 46 (4.96%) Graduate
14 44 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (4.64%) Lead Developer
16 40 (4.31%) Graduate Developer
16 40 (4.31%) Senior Java Engineer
17 37 (3.99%) Architect
18 36 (3.88%) Graduate Software Developer
18 36 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (18.02%) Spring
2 136 (14.67%) React
3 132 (14.24%) Spring Boot
4 106 (11.43%) REST
5 99 (10.68%) Node.js
6 96 (10.36%) .NET
7 84 (9.06%) Kafka
8 72 (7.77%) SOAP
9 60 (6.47%) AngularJS
10 55 (5.93%) RESTful
11 46 (4.96%) CSS
12 43 (4.64%) GraphQL
13 41 (4.42%) HTML
14 34 (3.67%) jQuery
15 33 (3.56%) Redux
15 33 (3.56%) Web Services
16 32 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
17 29 (3.13%) JSON
18 28 (3.02%) Middleware
18 28 (3.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 154 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 99 (10.68%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (5.50%) Public Cloud
5 38 (4.10%) Fixed Income
6 35 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.34%) Blog
8 24 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.27%) FPGA
10 19 (2.05%) Virtual Team
11 18 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.83%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.51%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.51%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.40%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.40%) Equities
15 10 (1.08%) DataPower
16 9 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.97%) Sports Betting
17 8 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.68%) Linux
2 43 (4.64%) Unix
3 20 (2.16%) Windows
4 18 (1.94%) Android
4 18 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.32%) CentOS
5 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (42.29%) Agile
2 361 (38.94%) Software Engineering
3 307 (33.12%) CI/CD
4 240 (25.89%) Mentoring
5 235 (25.35%) DevOps
6 207 (22.33%) Test Automation
7 197 (21.25%) Microservices
8 161 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 125 (13.48%) Roadmaps
10 122 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
11 120 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
12 117 (12.62%) Clean Code
13 116 (12.51%) AI
14 103 (11.11%) Computer Science
15 102 (11.00%) Containerisation
16 99 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 99 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
17 94 (10.14%) Coaching
18 84 (9.06%) Fintech
18 84 (9.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 321 (34.63%) Python
2 227 (24.49%) SQL
3 178 (19.20%) JavaScript
4 144 (15.53%) C#
5 110 (11.87%) TypeScript
6 107 (11.54%) Go
7 76 (8.20%) C++
8 40 (4.31%) PHP
9 39 (4.21%) Bash
10 27 (2.91%) C
11 26 (2.80%) Scala
12 23 (2.48%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.48%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.94%) Apex Code
14 16 (1.73%) Shell Script
15 14 (1.51%) Rust
16 12 (1.29%) Ruby
17 9 (0.97%) Groovy
18 8 (0.86%) Delphi
19 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 146 (15.75%) Degree
2 120 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 101 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 70 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.37%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.37%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 17 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (1.51%) DBS Check
10 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.51%) OSCP
11 13 (1.40%) CREST Certified
12 11 (1.19%) PhD
13 10 (1.08%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.43%) GPEN
15 4 (0.43%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.98%) QA
2 28 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 9 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.54%) WCAG
7 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.11%) GDPR
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 140 (15.10%) Docker
2 9 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 179 (19.31%) Kubernetes
2 167 (18.02%) Terraform
3 63 (6.80%) Grafana
4 46 (4.96%) Ansible
5 44 (4.75%) Argo
6 23 (2.48%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.05%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.76%) Packer
10 5 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.54%) FTK
10 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Kibana
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 57 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.61%) Oracle
3 44 (4.75%) Google
4 18 (1.94%) MuleSoft
4 18 (1.94%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.51%) Databricks
6 10 (1.08%) Palantir
7 9 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.86%) Foundry
8 8 (0.86%) Okta
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.65%) IBM
11 5 (0.54%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.43%) JDA
13 3 (0.32%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.32%) Revolut
14 2 (0.22%) iManage
14 2 (0.22%) Splunk
14 2 (0.22%) VMware