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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 691 1,536 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.52% 7.82% 10.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.32% 18.73% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 526 1,096 1,802
10th Percentile £32,750 £44,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +20.44% +0.82%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%

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 4,235 8,199 9,987
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.69% 41.73% 46.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,302 5,227 8,415
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £114,388 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 20 November 2025.

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 74 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (9.99%) Apache
3 11 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.16%) JBoss
5 6 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.58%) Confluence
8 3 (0.43%) Luigi
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.14%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) IIS
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.43%) Simulink
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (3.62%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (1.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.72%) Adaptiv
3 5 (0.72%) Shopify
4 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.29%) Maximo
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 379 (54.85%) AWS
2 205 (29.67%) Azure
3 103 (14.91%) GCP
4 79 (11.43%) GitHub
5 74 (10.71%) dbt
6 65 (9.41%) Snowflake
7 47 (6.80%) SaaS
8 37 (5.35%) Serverless
9 35 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (3.76%) OCI
12 24 (3.47%) Amazon S3
13 22 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (2.89%) OpenShift
15 20 (2.89%) Power Platform
16 19 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.62%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.58%) Broadband
2 4 (0.58%) HTTP
2 4 (0.58%) SSH
3 3 (0.43%) AMQP
3 3 (0.43%) BGP
3 3 (0.43%) Internet
3 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.43%) SSL
3 3 (0.43%) VLAN
3 3 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DHCP
4 1 (0.14%) DMARC
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) LAN
4 1 (0.14%) Multicast
4 1 (0.14%) SAN
4 1 (0.14%) SNMP
4 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 69 (9.99%) Amazon Athena
2 69 (9.99%) Apache Arrow
2 69 (9.99%) Apache Iceberg
2 69 (9.99%) Data Lake
2 69 (9.99%) Dremio
2 69 (9.99%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (9.26%) Apache Ignite
4 58 (8.39%) MySQL
5 43 (6.22%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.78%) Relational Database
7 29 (4.20%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.75%) Power BI
9 16 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (1.88%) Tableau
11 10 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.16%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.01%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.87%) Data Vault
14 6 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 51 (7.38%) Selenium
3 47 (6.80%) Git
4 36 (5.21%) JIRA
5 28 (4.05%) GitLab
6 27 (3.91%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (3.62%) WebDriver
8 21 (3.04%) Postman
9 19 (2.75%) Cypress.io
9 19 (2.75%) JUnit
9 19 (2.75%) SoapUI
10 16 (2.32%) Cucumber
10 16 (2.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (2.03%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.01%) JMeter
13 5 (0.72%) Maven
13 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.58%) Babel
14 4 (0.58%) webpack
15 3 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 329 (47.61%) Finance
2 202 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 140 (20.26%) Banking
4 120 (17.37%) Front Office
5 82 (11.87%) Investment Banking
6 48 (6.95%) Law
7 44 (6.37%) Public Sector
8 41 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 35 (5.07%) Financial Institution
10 35 (5.07%) Retail
11 34 (4.92%) Back Office
12 26 (3.76%) Games
13 19 (2.75%) Billing
14 15 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.17%) Legal
15 13 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.01%) Aviation
16 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 265 (38.35%) Developer
2 196 (28.36%) Software Engineer
3 187 (27.06%) Senior
4 122 (17.66%) Java Engineer
5 106 (15.34%) Java Software Engineer
6 89 (12.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 84 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
7 84 (12.16%) Java Developer
8 81 (11.72%) Lead
9 74 (10.71%) Senior Java Engineer
10 73 (10.56%) AWS Software Engineer
11 69 (9.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 66 (9.55%) Python Engineer
13 62 (8.97%) Python Software Engineer
14 50 (7.24%) Graduate
15 47 (6.80%) Graduate Developer
16 40 (5.79%) Architect
16 40 (5.79%) Software Developer
17 38 (5.50%) Lead Developer
18 35 (5.07%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (17.22%) React
2 118 (17.08%) Spring
3 107 (15.48%) Spring Boot
4 96 (13.89%) .NET
5 89 (12.88%) RESTful
6 81 (11.72%) Kafka
7 70 (10.13%) NumPy
7 70 (10.13%) Pandas
8 69 (9.99%) SciPy
9 65 (9.41%) CSS
10 63 (9.12%) Node.js
11 62 (8.97%) gRPC
11 62 (8.97%) Protocol Buffers
12 57 (8.25%) SOAP
13 55 (7.96%) REST
14 45 (6.51%) jQuery
15 38 (5.50%) ASP.NET
16 36 (5.21%) HTML
17 35 (5.07%) AngularJS
17 35 (5.07%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 100 (14.47%) Fixed Income
3 80 (11.58%) Equities
4 76 (11.00%) Derivative
4 76 (11.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 61 (8.83%) Hedge funds
5 61 (8.83%) Pricing Data
6 46 (6.66%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (3.62%) Algorithms
10 21 (3.04%) FPGA
11 18 (2.60%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.46%) Product Ownership
13 14 (2.03%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.88%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.88%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.74%) NHS
16 11 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.97%) Linux
2 12 (1.74%) Windows
3 11 (1.59%) Unix
4 7 (1.01%) Android
5 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) CentOS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (58.76%) Agile
2 267 (38.64%) Software Engineering
3 209 (30.25%) CI/CD
4 172 (24.89%) Microservices
5 153 (22.14%) DevOps
6 146 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (20.41%) Mentoring
8 127 (18.38%) Computer Science
9 111 (16.06%) Test Automation
10 107 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (14.04%) Asset Management
11 97 (14.04%) Investment Management
12 82 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 81 (11.72%) AI
14 74 (10.71%) Coaching
15 65 (9.41%) Clean Code
16 63 (9.12%) OOP
17 59 (8.54%) Containerisation
17 59 (8.54%) OO
18 56 (8.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 281 (40.67%) Python
2 194 (28.08%) JavaScript
3 179 (25.90%) SQL
4 165 (23.88%) C#
5 153 (22.14%) TypeScript
6 87 (12.59%) C++
7 48 (6.95%) PHP
8 41 (5.93%) Go
9 37 (5.35%) C
10 35 (5.07%) Shell Script
11 32 (4.63%) PL/SQL
12 22 (3.18%) Kotlin
13 20 (2.89%) Scala
14 11 (1.59%) R
15 8 (1.16%) Delphi
16 7 (1.01%) Bash
16 7 (1.01%) Objective-C
16 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.87%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (22.00%) Degree
2 102 (14.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 77 (11.14%) Security Cleared
4 70 (10.13%) SC Cleared
5 29 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.76%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (3.04%) ISTQB
9 16 (2.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 15 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.16%) CFA
12 8 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (1.16%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.16%) PMP
13 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.72%) PhD
15 4 (0.58%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.09%) QA
2 22 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.60%) GDPR
4 17 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.88%) NIST
6 12 (1.74%) ISO 9001
7 8 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.87%) NCSC
9 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.29%) ECSS
11 2 (0.29%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 78 (11.29%) Docker
2 18 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 63 (9.12%) Terraform
3 27 (3.91%) Grafana
4 26 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (2.60%) Ansible
6 8 (1.16%) Argo
6 8 (1.16%) Kibana
7 6 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.58%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.43%) Control-M
10 2 (0.29%) Puppet
11 1 (0.14%) Icinga
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.14%) Nagios
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 53 (7.67%) Oracle
2 52 (7.53%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.05%) Google
4 17 (2.46%) Guidewire
5 16 (2.32%) MuleSoft
6 14 (2.03%) Okta
7 9 (1.30%) Dell
7 9 (1.30%) IBM
8 8 (1.16%) Murex
8 8 (1.16%) SAP
9 7 (1.01%) SnapLogic
9 7 (1.01%) Talend
10 6 (0.87%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.72%) Epicor
11 5 (0.72%) Informatica
11 5 (0.72%) Jitterbit
11 5 (0.72%) Mercator
11 5 (0.72%) Software AG
11 5 (0.72%) TIBCO
870 hybrid/remote Java jobs