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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 35 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 752 1,166 2,392
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.77% 7.14% 9.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.53% 16.29% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 505 772 1,890
10th Percentile £36,450 £43,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £139,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 4,290 7,159 11,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.21% 43.85% 45.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 4,488 10,167
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,342
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
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 29 January 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 33 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (4.26%) Apache
3 23 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 15 (1.99%) JBoss
6 13 (1.73%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.53%) Confluence
9 3 (0.40%) Luigi
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.27%) Camunda
10 2 (0.27%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.40%) Simulink
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 37 (4.92%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.66%) Shopify
3 3 (0.40%) Maximo
4 2 (0.27%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 427 (56.78%) AWS
2 206 (27.39%) Azure
3 123 (16.36%) GCP
4 93 (12.37%) GitHub
5 71 (9.44%) SaaS
6 70 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (8.38%) Serverless
8 41 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (5.32%) Amazon S3
10 37 (4.92%) OCI
11 34 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (4.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (3.99%) dbt
14 28 (3.72%) Snowflake
15 26 (3.46%) Power Platform
16 21 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (2.66%) Entra ID
17 20 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (2.53%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.72%) TCP/IP
2 21 (2.79%) Broadband
3 11 (1.46%) HTTP
4 6 (0.80%) BGP
4 6 (0.80%) VLAN
4 6 (0.80%) VPN
5 5 (0.66%) AMQP
5 5 (0.66%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.40%) Internet
6 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.27%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) DNS
7 2 (0.27%) DSL
7 2 (0.27%) LAN
7 2 (0.27%) NAS
7 2 (0.27%) SAN
7 2 (0.27%) SNMP
7 2 (0.27%) SSH
7 2 (0.27%) WAN
8 1 (0.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 45 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 43 (5.72%) Relational Database
5 35 (4.65%) MySQL
6 26 (3.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 25 (3.32%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.32%) Tableau
8 23 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
9 22 (2.93%) Apache Ignite
9 22 (2.93%) Power BI
10 21 (2.79%) RDBMS
11 20 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (2.53%) Apache Arrow
12 19 (2.53%) Dremio
12 19 (2.53%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.73%) DynamoDB
15 12 (1.60%) BigQuery
16 10 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 86 (11.44%) Jenkins
2 66 (8.78%) Selenium
3 64 (8.51%) Git
4 59 (7.85%) JIRA
5 39 (5.19%) Oracle Forms
6 38 (5.05%) Postman
6 38 (5.05%) WebDriver
7 36 (4.79%) SoapUI
8 35 (4.65%) TeamCity
9 32 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
10 31 (4.12%) GitLab
11 22 (2.93%) Cypress.io
11 22 (2.93%) JUnit
12 19 (2.53%) Jaeger
13 18 (2.39%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.73%) Maven
15 10 (1.33%) JMeter
16 8 (1.06%) MLflow
17 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 303 (40.29%) Finance
2 232 (30.85%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.95%) Banking
4 104 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (12.10%) Law
6 78 (10.37%) Retail
7 59 (7.85%) Financial Institution
8 48 (6.38%) Public Sector
9 44 (5.85%) Front Office
10 41 (5.45%) Back Office
10 41 (5.45%) Investment Banking
11 38 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
12 30 (3.99%) Games
13 22 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.86%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.86%) Tech for Good
15 12 (1.60%) Billing
16 10 (1.33%) Legal
17 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 215 (28.59%) Developer
2 192 (25.53%) Senior
3 172 (22.87%) Software Engineer
4 114 (15.16%) Lead
5 102 (13.56%) Java Engineer
6 100 (13.30%) Java Developer
7 71 (9.44%) Java Software Engineer
8 63 (8.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 52 (6.91%) Architect
10 51 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
10 51 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (5.98%) Senior Java Engineer
12 44 (5.85%) Applications Engineer
13 42 (5.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 34 (4.52%) Senior Developer
14 34 (4.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 34 (4.52%) Software Developer
15 31 (4.12%) Graduate
16 30 (3.99%) Lead Developer
17 28 (3.72%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (19.02%) Spring
2 118 (15.69%) Spring Boot
3 102 (13.56%) React
4 97 (12.90%) RESTful
4 97 (12.90%) SOAP
5 95 (12.63%) .NET
6 75 (9.97%) REST
7 67 (8.91%) Kafka
8 49 (6.52%) HTML
9 43 (5.72%) Node.js
10 41 (5.45%) JSON
10 41 (5.45%) XML
11 40 (5.32%) CSS
12 33 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (4.12%) AngularJS
14 28 (3.72%) Hibernate
14 28 (3.72%) Web Services
15 27 (3.59%) jQuery
15 27 (3.59%) Middleware
16 22 (2.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 155 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.18%) Enterprise Software
3 53 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.86%) Derivative
6 28 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (3.46%) Blog
8 25 (3.32%) Equities
8 25 (3.32%) Fixed Income
9 21 (2.79%) FPGA
10 20 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 19 (2.53%) Algorithms
11 19 (2.53%) Hedge funds
11 19 (2.53%) Pricing Data
12 18 (2.39%) Public Cloud
13 16 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.73%) DataPower
14 13 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
15 10 (1.33%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.23%) Linux
2 33 (4.39%) Unix
3 13 (1.73%) Android
4 12 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.33%) Windows
6 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.40%) CentOS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (45.88%) Agile
2 268 (35.64%) CI/CD
3 254 (33.78%) Software Engineering
4 215 (28.59%) DevOps
5 202 (26.86%) Mentoring
6 188 (25.00%) Microservices
7 148 (19.68%) Test Automation
8 121 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (15.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (15.16%) Computer Science
11 111 (14.76%) AI
12 106 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 97 (12.90%) Coaching
14 77 (10.24%) Clean Code
15 76 (10.11%) Containerisation
16 71 (9.44%) Roadmaps
17 70 (9.31%) Scrum
18 69 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
19 66 (8.78%) Fintech
19 66 (8.78%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 279 (37.10%) Python
2 199 (26.46%) SQL
3 148 (19.68%) JavaScript
4 139 (18.48%) C#
5 97 (12.90%) TypeScript
6 69 (9.18%) C++
7 59 (7.85%) Go
8 46 (6.12%) PL/SQL
9 44 (5.85%) Shell Script
10 33 (4.39%) Bash
11 28 (3.72%) PHP
12 27 (3.59%) C
13 26 (3.46%) Scala
14 22 (2.93%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.33%) Apex Code
16 9 (1.20%) Groovy
17 8 (1.06%) Delphi
17 8 (1.06%) R
18 5 (0.66%) Ruby
18 5 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (21.54%) Degree
2 100 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 86 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 83 (11.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (6.65%) AWS Certification
6 33 (4.39%) ISTQB
7 31 (4.12%) Azure Certification
7 31 (4.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 28 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.20%) OSCP
14 8 (1.06%) CREST Certified
14 8 (1.06%) PhD
15 7 (0.93%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.53%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.78%) QA
2 21 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.60%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.60%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.46%) GDPR
5 10 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.80%) NCSC
7 6 (0.80%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.53%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.27%) ECSS
9 2 (0.27%) SEPA
9 2 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 122 (16.22%) Docker
2 23 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 165 (21.94%) Kubernetes
2 144 (19.15%) Terraform
3 49 (6.52%) Grafana
4 47 (6.25%) Ansible
5 37 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (4.39%) Argo
7 23 (3.06%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.53%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.93%) Kibana
10 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.53%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.40%) Puppet
13 2 (0.27%) FTK
13 2 (0.27%) Packer
13 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.13%) Icinga
14 1 (0.13%) Istio
14 1 (0.13%) Nagios
14 1 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 72 (9.57%) Oracle
2 57 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.52%) Google
4 20 (2.66%) MuleSoft
4 20 (2.66%) Okta
5 16 (2.13%) Databricks
6 11 (1.46%) IBM
7 10 (1.33%) Dell
7 10 (1.33%) Guidewire
7 10 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.06%) Palantir
9 7 (0.93%) SAP
10 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.80%) Talend
10 6 (0.80%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.66%) Epicor
11 5 (0.66%) Infor
11 5 (0.66%) Informatica
11 5 (0.66%) Mercator
11 5 (0.66%) Software AG