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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 20 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 923 1,404 2,272
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.04% 9.94% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.15% 23.87% 17.08%
Number of salaries quoted 596 831 1,912
10th Percentile £38,625 £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 4,819 5,882 13,301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.30% 41.64% 40.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,535 4,448 11,389
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 6 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 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.63%) JBoss
4 11 (1.19%) Apache
5 9 (0.98%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.33%) 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 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) 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
1 528 (57.20%) AWS
2 215 (23.29%) Azure
3 170 (18.42%) GCP
4 84 (9.10%) SaaS
5 75 (8.13%) GitHub
6 71 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (6.93%) Serverless
8 38 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
11 25 (2.71%) dbt
12 24 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (2.60%) Pulumi
13 21 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (1.95%) Azure Machine Learning
15 17 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (1.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (1.73%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.55%) Broadband
2 30 (3.25%) TCP/IP
3 29 (3.14%) 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 (0.33%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (8.34%) NoSQL
3 55 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.77%) MongoDB
5 38 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.47%) MySQL
7 20 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.06%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.06%) RDBMS
9 18 (1.95%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.84%) Tableau
11 14 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.41%) 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 66 (7.15%) Jenkins
2 60 (6.50%) Git
3 51 (5.53%) Selenium
4 47 (5.09%) TeamCity
5 45 (4.88%) JIRA
6 43 (4.66%) GitLab
7 31 (3.36%) Postman
8 28 (3.03%) SoapUI
9 25 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (2.60%) WebDriver
11 19 (2.06%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.95%) Cucumber
13 16 (1.73%) Maven
13 16 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (1.63%) JUnit
15 14 (1.52%) JMeter
16 13 (1.41%) Cypress.io
17 12 (1.30%) Claude Code
18 10 (1.08%) MLflow
19 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 324 (35.10%) Finance
2 202 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 164 (17.77%) Banking
4 127 (13.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (10.29%) Law
6 87 (9.43%) Retail
7 82 (8.88%) Public Sector
8 57 (6.18%) Financial Institution
9 50 (5.42%) Back Office
10 49 (5.31%) Front Office
11 48 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
12 30 (3.25%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.06%) Games
14 19 (2.06%) Health Technology
14 19 (2.06%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.98%) Aviation
15 9 (0.98%) Marketing
16 6 (0.65%) Legal
17 5 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 299 (32.39%) Developer
2 274 (29.69%) Software Engineer
3 233 (25.24%) Senior
4 170 (18.42%) Lead
5 161 (17.44%) Java Developer
6 149 (16.14%) Java Engineer
7 102 (11.05%) Java Software Engineer
8 75 (8.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 71 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 62 (6.72%) Senior Developer
11 57 (6.18%) Software Developer
12 51 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 44 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (4.55%) Graduate
14 42 (4.55%) Lead Developer
15 40 (4.33%) Senior Java Engineer
16 36 (3.90%) Architect
16 36 (3.90%) Graduate Developer
16 36 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
17 34 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (17.98%) Spring
2 132 (14.30%) React
3 131 (14.19%) Spring Boot
4 107 (11.59%) REST
5 99 (10.73%) Node.js
6 95 (10.29%) .NET
7 84 (9.10%) Kafka
8 71 (7.69%) SOAP
9 58 (6.28%) AngularJS
10 53 (5.74%) RESTful
11 42 (4.55%) CSS
11 42 (4.55%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.44%) HTML
13 33 (3.58%) Redux
13 33 (3.58%) Web Services
14 32 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (3.25%) jQuery
16 29 (3.14%) JSON
17 28 (3.03%) XML
18 27 (2.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 152 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 101 (10.94%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 38 (4.12%) Fixed Income
6 34 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.36%) Blog
8 25 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.28%) FPGA
10 19 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 18 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.84%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.52%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.41%) Equities
15 9 (0.98%) DataPower
15 9 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.98%) Sports Betting
16 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.73%) Linux
2 43 (4.66%) Unix
3 20 (2.17%) Windows
4 18 (1.95%) Android
4 18 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.33%) CentOS
5 3 (0.33%) 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
1 385 (41.71%) Agile
2 363 (39.33%) Software Engineering
3 306 (33.15%) CI/CD
4 240 (26.00%) Mentoring
5 236 (25.57%) DevOps
6 207 (22.43%) Test Automation
7 195 (21.13%) Microservices
8 160 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 126 (13.65%) Roadmaps
10 122 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
11 121 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
12 118 (12.78%) Clean Code
13 114 (12.35%) AI
14 102 (11.05%) Containerisation
15 100 (10.83%) Computer Science
15 100 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 99 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (10.18%) Coaching
18 85 (9.21%) TDD
19 84 (9.10%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 321 (34.78%) Python
2 219 (23.73%) SQL
3 177 (19.18%) JavaScript
4 140 (15.17%) C#
5 110 (11.92%) TypeScript
6 107 (11.59%) Go
7 73 (7.91%) C++
8 39 (4.23%) Bash
9 36 (3.90%) PHP
10 27 (2.93%) C
11 26 (2.82%) Scala
12 23 (2.49%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.49%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.95%) Apex Code
14 16 (1.73%) Shell Script
15 14 (1.52%) Rust
16 12 (1.30%) Ruby
17 9 (0.98%) Groovy
18 8 (0.87%) Delphi
19 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 143 (15.49%) Degree
2 121 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 103 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 23 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.38%) ISTQB
8 20 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 17 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.52%) OSCP
12 13 (1.41%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.19%) PhD
14 10 (1.08%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.43%) GPEN
16 4 (0.43%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.91%) QA
2 28 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 9 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.54%) WCAG
7 3 (0.33%) 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%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 139 (15.06%) Docker
2 9 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 179 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 167 (18.09%) Terraform
3 63 (6.83%) Grafana
4 47 (5.09%) Ansible
5 44 (4.77%) Argo
6 23 (2.49%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.06%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.84%) 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 (0.33%) 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 (6.18%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.63%) Oracle
3 44 (4.77%) Google
4 18 (1.95%) MuleSoft
4 18 (1.95%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.52%) Databricks
6 10 (1.08%) Palantir
7 9 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.87%) Foundry
8 8 (0.87%) 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 (0.33%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.33%) Revolut
14 2 (0.22%) iManage
14 2 (0.22%) Splunk
14 2 (0.22%) VMware