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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 918 1,080 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.06% 8.00% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.13% 19.30% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 599 831 1,905
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £131,500
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 4,798 5,597 13,291
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.43% 41.44% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,510 4,479 11,385
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 28 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 25 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.85%) JBoss
4 11 (1.20%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
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 (0.44%) 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 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 524 (57.08%) AWS
2 219 (23.86%) Azure
3 170 (18.52%) GCP
4 85 (9.26%) SaaS
5 81 (8.82%) GitHub
6 73 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (6.97%) Serverless
8 38 (4.14%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 33 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (2.72%) dbt
14 24 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.61%) Pulumi
15 20 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
17 16 (1.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (1.74%) Power Platform
17 16 (1.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.25%) Broadband
2 30 (3.27%) TCP/IP
3 28 (3.05%) HTTP
4 5 (0.54%) AMQP
4 5 (0.54%) PuTTY
5 4 (0.44%) BGP
5 4 (0.44%) VLAN
5 4 (0.44%) 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
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (8.71%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.10%) SQL Server
4 42 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 37 (4.03%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.92%) MySQL
7 22 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (2.07%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.07%) RDBMS
9 18 (1.96%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.85%) Tableau
11 12 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.20%) Flink
13 10 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.09%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.09%) Power BI
14 9 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (6.97%) Jenkins
2 61 (6.64%) Git
3 51 (5.56%) Selenium
4 47 (5.12%) TeamCity
5 44 (4.79%) JIRA
6 42 (4.58%) GitLab
7 31 (3.38%) Postman
8 28 (3.05%) SoapUI
9 25 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (2.61%) WebDriver
11 19 (2.07%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.96%) Cucumber
13 16 (1.74%) Maven
13 16 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (1.63%) JUnit
15 14 (1.53%) JMeter
16 13 (1.42%) Cypress.io
17 11 (1.20%) Claude Code
18 10 (1.09%) MLflow
19 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 326 (35.51%) Finance
2 201 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 162 (17.65%) Banking
4 126 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (10.57%) Law
6 86 (9.37%) Retail
7 78 (8.50%) Public Sector
8 58 (6.32%) Financial Institution
9 50 (5.45%) Front Office
10 49 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
10 49 (5.34%) Back Office
11 29 (3.16%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.29%) Games
14 17 (1.85%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.85%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.98%) Aviation
15 9 (0.98%) Marketing
16 5 (0.54%) Legal
16 5 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 301 (32.79%) Developer
2 271 (29.52%) Software Engineer
3 235 (25.60%) Senior
4 170 (18.52%) Lead
5 159 (17.32%) Java Developer
6 147 (16.01%) Java Engineer
7 98 (10.68%) Java Software Engineer
8 73 (7.95%) Lead Software Engineer
9 72 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 60 (6.54%) Senior Developer
11 56 (6.10%) Software Developer
12 53 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (5.23%) Lead Developer
14 44 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (4.68%) Graduate
16 41 (4.47%) Senior Java Engineer
17 37 (4.03%) Graduate Developer
18 36 (3.92%) Architect
19 34 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
19 34 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (18.19%) Spring
2 137 (14.92%) React
3 132 (14.38%) Spring Boot
4 111 (12.09%) REST
5 98 (10.68%) Node.js
6 96 (10.46%) .NET
7 83 (9.04%) Kafka
8 77 (8.39%) SOAP
9 61 (6.64%) AngularJS
10 54 (5.88%) RESTful
11 44 (4.79%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.68%) CSS
13 41 (4.47%) HTML
14 36 (3.92%) Web Services
15 33 (3.59%) Redux
16 32 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
17 31 (3.38%) jQuery
18 30 (3.27%) JSON
18 30 (3.27%) Middleware
19 29 (3.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 95 (10.35%) Product Ownership
3 61 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 39 (4.25%) Fixed Income
6 37 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.38%) Blog
8 24 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.29%) FPGA
10 18 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.53%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.53%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.42%) Equities
15 12 (1.31%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.20%) DataPower
16 11 (1.20%) Sports Betting
17 9 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.78%) Linux
2 43 (4.68%) Unix
3 19 (2.07%) Android
4 18 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 18 (1.96%) Windows
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
1 391 (42.59%) Agile
2 360 (39.22%) Software Engineering
3 306 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 234 (25.49%) DevOps
4 234 (25.49%) Mentoring
5 197 (21.46%) Test Automation
6 193 (21.02%) Microservices
7 163 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 122 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (13.29%) Roadmaps
9 120 (13.07%) AI
10 117 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
11 113 (12.31%) Clean Code
12 108 (11.76%) Containerisation
13 103 (11.22%) Computer Science
14 101 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 92 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 91 (9.91%) Coaching
17 87 (9.48%) Fintech
18 83 (9.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 317 (34.53%) Python
2 226 (24.62%) SQL
3 179 (19.50%) JavaScript
4 137 (14.92%) C#
5 111 (12.09%) TypeScript
6 107 (11.66%) Go
7 75 (8.17%) C++
8 37 (4.03%) Bash
8 37 (4.03%) PHP
9 27 (2.94%) C
10 25 (2.72%) Scala
11 23 (2.51%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.29%) Kotlin
13 19 (2.07%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.85%) Shell Script
15 14 (1.53%) Rust
16 12 (1.31%) Ruby
17 9 (0.98%) Groovy
18 8 (0.87%) Delphi
19 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 147 (16.01%) Degree
2 117 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.68%) SC Cleared
4 70 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.40%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 17 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (1.53%) DBS Check
10 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.53%) OSCP
11 13 (1.42%) CREST Certified
12 11 (1.20%) PhD
13 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.44%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.52%) QA
2 28 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.54%) WCAG
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) ECSS
8 2 (0.22%) GDPR
8 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 144 (15.69%) Docker
2 10 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 185 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 165 (17.97%) Terraform
3 64 (6.97%) Grafana
4 46 (5.01%) Ansible
5 43 (4.68%) Argo
6 24 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.07%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.65%) 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 53 (5.77%) Microsoft
1 53 (5.77%) Oracle
2 42 (4.58%) Google
3 20 (2.18%) MuleSoft
4 19 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.53%) Databricks
6 10 (1.09%) Palantir
7 9 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.87%) Foundry
8 8 (0.87%) Okta
9 7 (0.76%) IBM
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.54%) Cellebrite
10 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.44%) Dell
11 4 (0.44%) JDA
12 3 (0.33%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.33%) Revolut
13 2 (0.22%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.22%) iManage