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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 31 24
Rank change year-on-year -33 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 968 1,193 1,714
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.88% 7.22% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.59% 24.28% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 547 523 1,271
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -16.67% +24.14%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £139,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 6,210 4,914 8,687
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.92% 29.73% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,539 3,243 5,588
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,112
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.97% -2.90%

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 12 October 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 16 (1.65%) Apache
2 11 (1.14%) Confluence
3 10 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.93%) Camunda
5 8 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.62%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.21%) Hedera
9 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.10%) Documentum
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Moqups
2 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 557 (57.54%) AWS
2 227 (23.45%) Azure
3 208 (21.49%) GCP
4 123 (12.71%) SaaS
5 100 (10.33%) Amazon EKS
6 75 (7.75%) Serverless
7 54 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (4.75%) GitHub
9 36 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 29 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
12 20 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
13 19 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
14 18 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (1.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (1.55%) Google Compute Engine
17 15 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.79%) HTTP
2 22 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.55%) BGP
3 15 (1.55%) VPN
4 13 (1.34%) AMQP
5 12 (1.24%) SMS
6 10 (1.03%) Firewall
7 8 (0.83%) VLAN
8 7 (0.72%) Network Security
9 5 (0.52%) Broadband
10 3 (0.31%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.10%) ATM
11 1 (0.10%) DSL
11 1 (0.10%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.10%) LTE
11 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (11.78%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (5.89%) MongoDB
3 40 (4.13%) MySQL
4 38 (3.93%) Relational Database
4 38 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 35 (3.62%) NoSQL
6 31 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 20 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (1.76%) Spark SQL
10 10 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.83%) Metadata
13 7 (0.72%) Parquet
14 6 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.62%) Flink
14 6 (0.62%) Redis
15 4 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 106 (10.95%) TeamCity
2 78 (8.06%) Git
3 48 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.55%) JUnit
5 27 (2.79%) GitLab
6 26 (2.69%) JIRA
6 26 (2.69%) Mockito
7 23 (2.38%) Selenium
8 22 (2.27%) Maven
9 20 (2.07%) Postman
10 15 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.14%) Claude Code
12 10 (1.03%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.83%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.72%) IntelliJ
15 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.62%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.52%) Android Studio
17 4 (0.41%) JMeter
17 4 (0.41%) Snyk
General
1 333 (34.40%) Finance
2 248 (25.62%) Banking
3 183 (18.90%) Social Skills
4 155 (16.01%) Public Sector
5 152 (15.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (12.81%) Retail
7 121 (12.50%) Law
8 82 (8.47%) Back Office
9 79 (8.16%) Financial Institution
10 55 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
11 29 (3.00%) Tech for Good
12 26 (2.69%) Health Technology
13 19 (1.96%) Front Office
14 13 (1.34%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.14%) Legal
16 10 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.93%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.72%) Aviation
18 7 (0.72%) Local Government
19 6 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 348 (35.95%) Software Engineer
2 274 (28.31%) Senior
3 219 (22.62%) Developer
4 195 (20.14%) Java Engineer
5 146 (15.08%) Lead
6 139 (14.36%) Java Developer
7 104 (10.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 103 (10.64%) Senior Java Engineer
9 90 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 73 (7.54%) Lead Software Engineer
11 64 (6.61%) Senior Developer
12 44 (4.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 42 (4.34%) Principal Engineer
14 39 (4.03%) Senior Java Developer
15 36 (3.72%) Engineering Manager
15 36 (3.72%) Software Developer
16 35 (3.62%) Data Engineer
16 35 (3.62%) Graduate
17 34 (3.51%) Principal Java Engineer
18 33 (3.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (21.07%) Spring
2 197 (20.35%) Terraform
3 149 (15.39%) Spring Boot
4 118 (12.19%) REST
5 99 (10.23%) React
6 81 (8.37%) .NET
7 74 (7.64%) Node.js
8 62 (6.40%) Kafka
9 56 (5.79%) RESTful
10 52 (5.37%) AngularJS
11 28 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
12 27 (2.79%) PySpark
13 24 (2.48%) CSS
14 19 (1.96%) OAuth
15 18 (1.86%) OAuth2
16 17 (1.76%) JPA
17 16 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
18 14 (1.45%) OpenAPI
19 13 (1.34%) OpenID
19 13 (1.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 205 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 139 (14.36%) Product Ownership
3 86 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
4 66 (6.82%) Public Cloud
5 52 (5.37%) Blog
6 26 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.34%) Equities
11 13 (1.34%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.14%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.71%) Linux
2 25 (2.58%) Android
3 23 (2.38%) Windows
4 22 (2.27%) Unix
5 19 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Solaris
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 421 (43.49%) CI/CD
3 321 (33.16%) Agile
4 260 (26.86%) Mentoring
5 255 (26.34%) Test Automation
6 247 (25.52%) Microservices
7 222 (22.93%) DevOps
8 182 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (16.53%) Coaching
10 159 (16.43%) AI
11 158 (16.32%) Technical Leadership
12 148 (15.29%) Clean Code
13 146 (15.08%) Full-Stack Development
14 142 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 124 (12.81%) TDD
16 106 (10.95%) Roadmaps
17 101 (10.43%) Fintech
18 95 (9.81%) Infrastructure as Code
19 94 (9.71%) Containerisation
20 91 (9.40%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 261 (26.96%) Python
2 212 (21.90%) SQL
3 191 (19.73%) JavaScript
4 127 (13.12%) C#
5 101 (10.43%) TypeScript
6 76 (7.85%) C++
7 72 (7.44%) Go
8 45 (4.65%) Kotlin
9 37 (3.82%) Bash
10 26 (2.69%) Rust
11 22 (2.27%) C
12 21 (2.17%) PHP
12 21 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.86%) Scala
14 15 (1.55%) Ruby
15 9 (0.93%) Groovy
16 7 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.62%) Ada
17 6 (0.62%) PowerShell
18 5 (0.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 165 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 135 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.71%) Degree
4 31 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (0.72%) CCSP
9 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.72%) CISM
9 7 (0.72%) CISSP
9 7 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.62%) OSCP
11 4 (0.41%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.31%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.10%) QA
2 44 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 40 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.96%) NIST
5 19 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.31%) MiFID
7 3 (0.31%) MIL-STD-1553
7 3 (0.31%) UCITS
8 2 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.21%) WCAG
9 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 148 (15.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 251 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 112 (11.57%) Grafana
3 41 (4.24%) Ansible
4 27 (2.79%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.65%) Argo
6 9 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.72%) Cilium
7 7 (0.72%) Packer
8 5 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.10%) logstash
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (5.17%) Google
2 49 (5.06%) Oracle
3 27 (2.79%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.76%) Splunk
5 11 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.14%) ServiceNow
6 7 (0.72%) MuleSoft
6 7 (0.72%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.62%) New Relic
7 6 (0.62%) TIBCO
8 5 (0.52%) IBM
8 5 (0.52%) Sybase
9 4 (0.41%) Adobe
9 4 (0.41%) Sage
9 4 (0.41%) SAP
10 3 (0.31%) Apple
10 3 (0.31%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.31%) Solace
10 3 (0.31%) Talend