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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 35 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 845 1,093 2,395
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.14% 7.31% 8.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.06% 16.27% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 564 755 1,923
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £92,625 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £126,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 4,433 6,719 12,503
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.94% 44.91% 44.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 4,425 10,911
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £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 28 February 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 27 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
1 27 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.13%) Apache
2 18 (2.13%) JBoss
3 14 (1.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 13 (1.54%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.47%) Confluence
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Camunda
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 31 (3.67%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.59%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 485 (57.40%) AWS
2 210 (24.85%) Azure
3 160 (18.93%) GCP
4 87 (10.30%) GitHub
5 84 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
6 83 (9.82%) SaaS
7 70 (8.28%) Serverless
8 42 (4.97%) Amazon S3
9 39 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (3.67%) dbt
11 31 (3.67%) OCI
12 29 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (2.84%) Pulumi
14 21 (2.49%) Power Platform
15 20 (2.37%) OpenShift
16 19 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.91%) TCP/IP
2 31 (3.67%) Broadband
3 11 (1.30%) HTTP
4 6 (0.71%) BGP
4 6 (0.71%) VLAN
4 6 (0.71%) VPN
5 5 (0.59%) AMQP
5 5 (0.59%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.36%) Internet
6 3 (0.36%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
7 2 (0.24%) DSL
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) NAS
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (8.76%) NoSQL
3 41 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 33 (3.91%) MySQL
4 33 (3.91%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 24 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.72%) Tableau
8 20 (2.37%) BigQuery
8 20 (2.37%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (2.01%) Power BI
10 16 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
11 15 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (1.78%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.18%) Apache Ignite
13 10 (1.18%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.18%) Flink
Development Applications
1 80 (9.47%) Jenkins
2 63 (7.46%) Selenium
3 61 (7.22%) Git
4 50 (5.92%) JIRA
5 48 (5.68%) TeamCity
6 35 (4.14%) WebDriver
7 33 (3.91%) Oracle Forms
7 33 (3.91%) Postman
8 30 (3.55%) SoapUI
9 27 (3.20%) GitLab
10 26 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (2.37%) Cucumber
12 19 (2.25%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.25%) Jaeger
13 17 (2.01%) JUnit
14 15 (1.78%) Maven
15 13 (1.54%) JMeter
16 10 (1.18%) MLflow
17 7 (0.83%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 314 (37.16%) Finance
2 226 (26.75%) Social Skills
3 135 (15.98%) Banking
4 133 (15.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (13.73%) Law
6 95 (11.24%) Retail
7 74 (8.76%) Financial Institution
8 70 (8.28%) Public Sector
9 53 (6.27%) Front Office
10 50 (5.92%) Back Office
11 41 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (4.02%) Games
13 29 (3.43%) Investment Banking
14 23 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.89%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.89%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.95%) Billing
17 7 (0.83%) Legal
17 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 255 (30.18%) Developer
2 224 (26.51%) Software Engineer
3 210 (24.85%) Senior
4 141 (16.69%) Lead
5 130 (15.38%) Java Developer
6 127 (15.03%) Java Engineer
7 93 (11.01%) Java Software Engineer
8 61 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 54 (6.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 50 (5.92%) Architect
11 45 (5.33%) Lead Developer
11 45 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 44 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
13 42 (4.97%) Senior Developer
14 41 (4.85%) Senior Java Engineer
15 39 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
15 39 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
15 39 (4.62%) Software Developer
16 37 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (3.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (19.53%) Spring
2 139 (16.45%) Spring Boot
3 131 (15.50%) React
4 98 (11.60%) Kafka
5 96 (11.36%) RESTful
6 95 (11.24%) SOAP
7 94 (11.12%) REST
8 92 (10.89%) .NET
9 70 (8.28%) Node.js
10 43 (5.09%) HTML
10 43 (5.09%) JSON
11 42 (4.97%) XML
12 40 (4.73%) AngularJS
12 40 (4.73%) GraphQL
13 33 (3.91%) Middleware
14 31 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (3.55%) CSS
15 30 (3.55%) Redux
16 29 (3.43%) Web Services
17 26 (3.08%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 179 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.57%) Enterprise Software
3 62 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (6.51%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.38%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.79%) Blog
7 22 (2.60%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.37%) FPGA
8 20 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.89%) Equities
11 15 (1.78%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.78%) Derivative
11 15 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.54%) DataPower
13 11 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.07%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.24%) Linux
2 38 (4.50%) Unix
3 16 (1.89%) Android
4 15 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.95%) Windows
6 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.36%) CentOS
7 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (44.73%) Agile
2 314 (37.16%) Software Engineering
3 309 (36.57%) CI/CD
4 240 (28.40%) DevOps
5 221 (26.15%) Mentoring
6 212 (25.09%) Microservices
7 185 (21.89%) Test Automation
8 148 (17.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 117 (13.85%) AI
10 114 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (13.37%) Coaching
12 104 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (12.19%) Computer Science
14 101 (11.95%) Clean Code
15 100 (11.83%) Containerisation
16 86 (10.18%) Fintech
17 81 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
19 77 (9.11%) Roadmaps
20 72 (8.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 306 (36.21%) Python
2 214 (25.33%) SQL
3 174 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 123 (14.56%) C#
5 112 (13.25%) TypeScript
6 89 (10.53%) Go
7 66 (7.81%) C++
8 39 (4.62%) PL/SQL
9 38 (4.50%) Shell Script
10 32 (3.79%) Bash
11 25 (2.96%) C
11 25 (2.96%) Scala
12 24 (2.84%) Kotlin
13 18 (2.13%) Apex Code
13 18 (2.13%) PHP
14 8 (0.95%) Delphi
14 8 (0.95%) Groovy
15 7 (0.83%) Ruby
16 6 (0.71%) R
16 6 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 153 (18.11%) Degree
2 121 (14.32%) Security Cleared
3 105 (12.43%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.44%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (3.08%) ISTQB
8 26 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (2.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 23 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.78%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.42%) OSCP
13 11 (1.30%) CREST Certified
14 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.18%) PhD
15 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.47%) OSCE
16 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.57%) QA
2 24 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.54%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.30%) GDPR
5 10 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.83%) NIST
7 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.36%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) ECSS
10 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 148 (17.51%) Docker
2 21 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 195 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 165 (19.53%) Terraform
3 65 (7.69%) Grafana
4 44 (5.21%) Ansible
5 33 (3.91%) Argo
6 32 (3.79%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.84%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.25%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.83%) Kibana
10 5 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.59%) FTK
11 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.47%) Packer
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.12%) Nessus
13 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (8.28%) Oracle
2 57 (6.75%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.09%) Google
4 26 (3.08%) MuleSoft
5 18 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.01%) Okta
7 16 (1.89%) Databricks
8 12 (1.42%) IBM
9 11 (1.30%) Palantir
10 10 (1.18%) Dell
11 7 (0.83%) SAP
12 6 (0.71%) Foundry
12 6 (0.71%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.71%) Talend
12 6 (0.71%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.59%) Cellebrite
13 5 (0.59%) IFS
13 5 (0.59%) Jitterbit
13 5 (0.59%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.59%) Workday