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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 35 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 852 1,007 2,353
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.05% 7.75% 7.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.98% 17.06% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 571 805 1,907
10th Percentile £43,953 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -7.35%

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 4,490 5,904 13,166
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.60% 45.43% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,264 4,513 11,429
10th Percentile £39,438 £40,000 £38,500
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 £110,000 £97,500
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 25 March 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 26 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.11%) JBoss
4 13 (1.53%) Apache
4 13 (1.53%) WebSphere
5 9 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.59%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.35%) Camunda
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 19 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.59%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 488 (57.28%) AWS
2 200 (23.47%) Azure
3 160 (18.78%) GCP
4 89 (10.45%) SaaS
5 81 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (8.69%) GitHub
7 67 (7.86%) Serverless
8 39 (4.58%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (3.29%) dbt
12 25 (2.93%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (2.82%) Pulumi
14 23 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (2.23%) OCI
18 18 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
19 17 (2.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.58%) Broadband
2 33 (3.87%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.29%) HTTP
4 6 (0.70%) BGP
4 6 (0.70%) VLAN
4 6 (0.70%) VPN
5 5 (0.59%) AMQP
5 5 (0.59%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.23%) DHCP
7 2 (0.23%) DNS
7 2 (0.23%) DSL
7 2 (0.23%) LAN
7 2 (0.23%) NAS
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.23%) SNMP
7 2 (0.23%) SSH
7 2 (0.23%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
8 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.39%) NoSQL
1 80 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (4.93%) Relational Database
3 41 (4.81%) SQL Server
4 38 (4.46%) MySQL
5 27 (3.17%) MongoDB
6 24 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.35%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.23%) BigQuery
9 18 (2.11%) Tableau
10 17 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (1.76%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
13 12 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.29%) Power BI
15 10 (1.17%) Flink
16 9 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.06%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.06%) Looker
Development Applications
1 65 (7.63%) Jenkins
2 58 (6.81%) Git
3 55 (6.46%) Selenium
4 51 (5.99%) TeamCity
5 43 (5.05%) JIRA
6 30 (3.52%) Postman
7 29 (3.40%) GitLab
7 29 (3.40%) WebDriver
8 27 (3.17%) SoapUI
9 23 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 20 (2.35%) Oracle Forms
11 19 (2.23%) Jaeger
12 18 (2.11%) Cucumber
12 18 (2.11%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.76%) JUnit
14 14 (1.64%) JMeter
14 14 (1.64%) Maven
15 10 (1.17%) Claude Code
15 10 (1.17%) MLflow
16 8 (0.94%) REST Assured
General
1 312 (36.62%) Finance
2 213 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 140 (16.43%) Banking
4 137 (16.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (13.73%) Law
6 99 (11.62%) Retail
7 73 (8.57%) Financial Institution
8 71 (8.33%) Public Sector
9 57 (6.69%) Front Office
10 55 (6.46%) Back Office
11 43 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (3.99%) Games
13 29 (3.40%) Investment Banking
14 18 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.88%) Health Technology
16 15 (1.76%) Tech for Good
17 9 (1.06%) Marketing
18 7 (0.82%) Legal
18 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 281 (32.98%) Developer
2 245 (28.76%) Software Engineer
3 217 (25.47%) Senior
4 155 (18.19%) Lead
5 143 (16.78%) Java Developer
6 134 (15.73%) Java Engineer
7 96 (11.27%) Java Software Engineer
8 69 (8.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 57 (6.69%) Lead Software Engineer
10 54 (6.34%) Senior Developer
11 51 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (5.75%) Lead Developer
13 48 (5.63%) Software Developer
14 46 (5.40%) Architect
15 45 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (4.93%) Senior Java Engineer
17 36 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 32 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
20 31 (3.64%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (18.43%) Spring
2 130 (15.26%) React
3 128 (15.02%) Spring Boot
4 93 (10.92%) REST
5 91 (10.68%) .NET
6 88 (10.33%) Kafka
7 84 (9.86%) SOAP
8 83 (9.74%) Node.js
9 81 (9.51%) RESTful
10 46 (5.40%) GraphQL
11 45 (5.28%) AngularJS
12 40 (4.69%) HTML
13 37 (4.34%) CSS
14 36 (4.23%) Redux
15 35 (4.11%) XML
16 34 (3.99%) JSON
17 32 (3.76%) Middleware
18 31 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
19 29 (3.40%) Web Services
20 25 (2.93%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 163 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.39%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (5.05%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.76%) Blog
7 23 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.46%) FPGA
9 17 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.76%) Equities
11 14 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.53%) DataPower
13 11 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.29%) Derivative
13 11 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.29%) Sports Betting
14 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.06%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.15%) Linux
2 38 (4.46%) Unix
3 16 (1.88%) Android
4 15 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.94%) Windows
6 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (45.19%) Agile
2 331 (38.85%) Software Engineering
3 305 (35.80%) CI/CD
4 232 (27.23%) DevOps
5 214 (25.12%) Mentoring
6 194 (22.77%) Microservices
7 181 (21.24%) Test Automation
8 152 (17.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 117 (13.73%) AI
10 111 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (12.79%) Clean Code
12 106 (12.44%) Containerisation
13 101 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 100 (11.74%) Computer Science
15 93 (10.92%) Coaching
16 90 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
17 88 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
18 84 (9.86%) Fintech
19 83 (9.74%) Roadmaps
20 69 (8.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 297 (34.86%) Python
2 219 (25.70%) SQL
3 181 (21.24%) JavaScript
4 119 (13.97%) C#
5 112 (13.15%) TypeScript
6 100 (11.74%) Go
7 69 (8.10%) C++
8 33 (3.87%) Bash
9 26 (3.05%) PL/SQL
9 26 (3.05%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.93%) PHP
11 24 (2.82%) C
11 24 (2.82%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.70%) Scala
13 21 (2.46%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.17%) Ruby
15 9 (1.06%) Rust
16 8 (0.94%) Delphi
16 8 (0.94%) Groovy
17 4 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 144 (16.90%) Degree
2 107 (12.56%) Security Cleared
3 90 (10.56%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (2.70%) ISTQB
8 22 (2.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 22 (2.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.53%) OSCP
11 12 (1.41%) CREST Certified
12 11 (1.29%) PhD
13 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.59%) OSCE
16 3 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.28%) QA
2 28 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.53%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.41%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.17%) GDPR
6 9 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.59%) NIST
9 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.47%) NCSC
9 4 (0.47%) WCAG
10 2 (0.23%) ECSS
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 148 (17.37%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 191 (22.42%) Kubernetes
2 157 (18.43%) Terraform
3 67 (7.86%) Grafana
4 41 (4.81%) Ansible
5 32 (3.76%) Argo
6 23 (2.70%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (2.23%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.59%) FTK
9 5 (0.59%) Kibana
10 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.47%) Packer
11 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.12%) Icinga
12 1 (0.12%) Nagios
12 1 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (6.57%) Oracle
2 49 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.05%) Google
4 26 (3.05%) MuleSoft
5 21 (2.46%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.64%) Databricks
7 13 (1.53%) IBM
8 10 (1.17%) Dell
8 10 (1.17%) Okta
8 10 (1.17%) Palantir
9 8 (0.94%) Foundry
10 6 (0.70%) SAP
10 6 (0.70%) Talend
10 6 (0.70%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.59%) Epicor
11 5 (0.59%) Infor
11 5 (0.59%) Informatica
11 5 (0.59%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.59%) Software AG