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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 917 1,095 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.13% 8.21% 7.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.20% 19.20% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 599 842 1,906
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £130,000
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 4,776 5,704 13,309
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.74% 42.75% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,491 4,529 11,428
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,425
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 £114,400 £97,792
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 21 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 24 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.96%) JBoss
4 12 (1.31%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
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 (0.55%) 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 3 (0.33%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 528 (57.58%) AWS
2 216 (23.56%) Azure
3 176 (19.19%) GCP
4 94 (10.25%) SaaS
5 84 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
6 81 (8.83%) GitHub
7 67 (7.31%) Serverless
8 41 (4.47%) Amazon S3
9 35 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
12 26 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (2.73%) dbt
14 24 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.62%) Pulumi
15 21 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
17 17 (1.85%) Power Platform
18 16 (1.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.25%) Broadband
2 30 (3.27%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.62%) HTTP
4 5 (0.55%) AMQP
4 5 (0.55%) BGP
4 5 (0.55%) PuTTY
4 5 (0.55%) VLAN
4 5 (0.55%) VPN
5 3 (0.33%) Network Security
6 2 (0.22%) DHCP
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) DSL
6 2 (0.22%) LAN
6 2 (0.22%) NAS
6 2 (0.22%) SAN
6 2 (0.22%) SNMP
6 2 (0.22%) WAN
7 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.94%) NoSQL
1 82 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 40 (4.36%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.03%) MySQL
5 36 (3.93%) MongoDB
6 24 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.18%) RDBMS
8 19 (2.07%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (1.85%) 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%) Power BI
14 9 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.98%) Delta Lake
14 9 (0.98%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (6.98%) Git
1 64 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 54 (5.89%) TeamCity
3 51 (5.56%) Selenium
4 44 (4.80%) JIRA
5 36 (3.93%) GitLab
6 31 (3.38%) Postman
7 28 (3.05%) SoapUI
8 25 (2.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 24 (2.62%) WebDriver
10 19 (2.07%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.96%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.74%) Maven
12 16 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (1.64%) JUnit
14 14 (1.53%) Cypress.io
14 14 (1.53%) JMeter
15 10 (1.09%) Claude Code
15 10 (1.09%) MLflow
16 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 332 (36.21%) Finance
2 214 (23.34%) Social Skills
3 164 (17.88%) Banking
4 136 (14.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (12.21%) Law
6 97 (10.58%) Retail
7 74 (8.07%) Public Sector
8 70 (7.63%) Financial Institution
9 58 (6.32%) Back Office
10 51 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
10 51 (5.56%) Front Office
11 27 (2.94%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.40%) 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 7 (0.76%) Legal
17 5 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 297 (32.39%) Developer
2 273 (29.77%) Software Engineer
3 225 (24.54%) Senior
4 165 (17.99%) Lead
5 154 (16.79%) Java Developer
6 146 (15.92%) Java Engineer
7 99 (10.80%) Java Software Engineer
8 71 (7.74%) Senior Software Engineer
9 69 (7.52%) Lead Software Engineer
10 57 (6.22%) Software Developer
11 56 (6.11%) Senior Developer
12 53 (5.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (5.23%) Lead Developer
14 45 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (4.80%) Graduate
16 42 (4.58%) Architect
17 39 (4.25%) Senior Java Engineer
18 38 (4.14%) Graduate Developer
19 36 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
20 34 (3.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (18.54%) Spring
2 141 (15.38%) React
3 132 (14.39%) Spring Boot
4 109 (11.89%) REST
5 97 (10.58%) .NET
6 91 (9.92%) Node.js
7 84 (9.16%) Kafka
8 79 (8.62%) SOAP
9 61 (6.65%) RESTful
10 60 (6.54%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.91%) GraphQL
12 44 (4.80%) CSS
13 41 (4.47%) HTML
14 36 (3.93%) Web Services
15 34 (3.71%) Redux
16 32 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (3.49%) jQuery
16 32 (3.49%) JSON
17 31 (3.38%) XML
18 30 (3.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 163 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 93 (10.14%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (4.80%) Public Cloud
5 40 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (4.36%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.49%) Blog
7 22 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 20 (2.18%) FPGA
9 18 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.53%) e-Learning
12 14 (1.53%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.42%) Equities
14 12 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.31%) DataPower
15 11 (1.20%) Sports Betting
16 10 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (10.25%) Linux
2 39 (4.25%) Unix
3 19 (2.07%) Android
4 18 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 14 (1.53%) Windows
6 3 (0.33%) CentOS
6 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (42.31%) Agile
2 365 (39.80%) Software Engineering
3 315 (34.35%) CI/CD
4 231 (25.19%) DevOps
4 231 (25.19%) Mentoring
5 202 (22.03%) Microservices
6 199 (21.70%) Test Automation
7 166 (18.10%) Full-Stack Development
8 127 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (12.98%) AI
9 119 (12.98%) Clean Code
10 114 (12.43%) Roadmaps
10 114 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
11 111 (12.10%) Containerisation
12 108 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 107 (11.67%) Computer Science
14 96 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
15 91 (9.92%) Coaching
16 90 (9.81%) Fintech
17 78 (8.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 318 (34.68%) Python
2 227 (24.75%) SQL
3 182 (19.85%) JavaScript
4 142 (15.49%) C#
5 117 (12.76%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.56%) Go
7 74 (8.07%) C++
8 38 (4.14%) PHP
9 37 (4.03%) Bash
10 25 (2.73%) C
10 25 (2.73%) Scala
11 23 (2.51%) Kotlin
11 23 (2.51%) PL/SQL
12 19 (2.07%) Apex Code
12 19 (2.07%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.31%) Rust
14 11 (1.20%) Ruby
15 9 (0.98%) Groovy
16 8 (0.87%) Delphi
17 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 152 (16.58%) Degree
2 117 (12.76%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 73 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.40%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (2.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 19 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.74%) OSCP
10 15 (1.64%) CREST Certified
11 14 (1.53%) DBS Check
12 11 (1.20%) PhD
13 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.55%) OSCE
15 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.44%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.63%) QA
2 27 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.65%) GDPR
5 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.55%) WCAG
7 2 (0.22%) ECSS
7 2 (0.22%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 147 (16.03%) Docker
2 10 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 198 (21.59%) Kubernetes
2 167 (18.21%) Terraform
3 71 (7.74%) Grafana
4 45 (4.91%) Ansible
5 38 (4.14%) Argo
6 24 (2.62%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.07%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.55%) FTK
9 5 (0.55%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.55%) Packer
10 3 (0.33%) Kibana
10 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Puppet
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 55 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.67%) Oracle
3 43 (4.69%) Google
4 22 (2.40%) MuleSoft
5 19 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.53%) Databricks
7 10 (1.09%) IBM
7 10 (1.09%) Palantir
8 8 (0.87%) Foundry
8 8 (0.87%) Okta
9 7 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.65%) Dell
10 6 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.55%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.55%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.44%) SAP
12 4 (0.44%) Talend
12 4 (0.44%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.33%) Informatica
13 3 (0.33%) Software AG