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

 6 months to
9 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 35 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 676 1,189 2,137
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.48% 7.22% 10.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.61% 16.78% 21.81%
Number of salaries quoted 479 806 1,659
10th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.35% +0.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,000 £140,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -2.65%

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 4,071 7,084 9,800
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 43.01% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,095 4,446 8,332
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,584 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 9 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 41 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (5.77%) Apache
3 20 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (1.78%) JBoss
6 10 (1.48%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.74%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.44%) Confluence
8 3 (0.44%) Luigi
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (5.47%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.74%) Shopify
3 3 (0.44%) Maximo
4 2 (0.30%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 371 (54.88%) AWS
2 215 (31.80%) Azure
3 99 (14.64%) GCP
4 91 (13.46%) GitHub
5 57 (8.43%) Serverless
6 47 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (6.36%) SaaS
8 41 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (5.47%) dbt
9 37 (5.47%) OCI
10 36 (5.33%) Snowflake
11 33 (4.88%) Amazon S3
12 32 (4.73%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (3.99%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.96%) Entra ID
18 19 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 18 (2.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.63%) HTTP
3 10 (1.48%) Broadband
4 5 (0.74%) AMQP
4 5 (0.74%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.44%) BGP
5 3 (0.44%) Internet
5 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.44%) VLAN
5 3 (0.44%) VPN
6 2 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.30%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) LAN
6 2 (0.30%) NAS
6 2 (0.30%) SAN
6 2 (0.30%) SNMP
6 2 (0.30%) SSH
6 2 (0.30%) WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (7.10%) SQL Server
3 47 (6.95%) NoSQL
4 37 (5.47%) Data Lake
5 36 (5.33%) MySQL
6 34 (5.03%) Apache Iceberg
7 32 (4.73%) Apache Ignite
8 31 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
9 30 (4.44%) Relational Database
10 29 (4.29%) Apache Arrow
10 29 (4.29%) Dremio
11 24 (3.55%) Power BI
12 23 (3.40%) Tableau
13 17 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (2.51%) MongoDB
14 15 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.63%) DynamoDB
16 10 (1.48%) Flink
17 9 (1.33%) RDBMS
18 8 (1.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 85 (12.57%) Jenkins
2 68 (10.06%) Selenium
3 60 (8.88%) JIRA
4 57 (8.43%) Git
5 42 (6.21%) WebDriver
6 40 (5.92%) Postman
7 39 (5.77%) Oracle Forms
8 37 (5.47%) SoapUI
9 35 (5.18%) Team Foundation Server
10 29 (4.29%) GitLab
11 24 (3.55%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.81%) JUnit
13 17 (2.51%) TeamCity
14 16 (2.37%) Cucumber
15 9 (1.33%) Maven
16 8 (1.18%) JMeter
17 7 (1.04%) Jaeger
18 6 (0.89%) MLflow
18 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 288 (42.60%) Finance
2 211 (31.21%) Social Skills
3 115 (17.01%) Banking
4 58 (8.58%) Law
5 57 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (8.28%) Front Office
7 51 (7.54%) Investment Banking
8 45 (6.66%) Public Sector
8 45 (6.66%) Retail
9 40 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (5.77%) Financial Institution
11 25 (3.70%) Back Office
12 24 (3.55%) Games
13 22 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.22%) Billing
15 14 (2.07%) Legal
16 9 (1.33%) Tech for Good
17 8 (1.18%) Health Technology
18 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 7 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 207 (30.62%) Developer
2 182 (26.92%) Senior
3 148 (21.89%) Software Engineer
4 94 (13.91%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.72%) Lead
6 85 (12.57%) Java Developer
7 67 (9.91%) Java Software Engineer
8 62 (9.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 52 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
10 49 (7.25%) Architect
11 47 (6.95%) Senior Java Engineer
12 45 (6.66%) Applications Engineer
13 44 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (5.62%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 35 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 35 (5.18%) Graduate
15 35 (5.18%) Python Engineer
16 34 (5.03%) AWS Software Engineer
16 34 (5.03%) Software Developer
17 31 (4.59%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (18.79%) Spring
2 112 (16.57%) Spring Boot
3 94 (13.91%) RESTful
4 93 (13.76%) .NET
5 90 (13.31%) React
5 90 (13.31%) SOAP
6 63 (9.32%) Kafka
6 63 (9.32%) REST
7 53 (7.84%) HTML
8 45 (6.66%) CSS
9 36 (5.33%) JSON
9 36 (5.33%) XML
10 34 (5.03%) Node.js
11 30 (4.44%) gRPC
11 30 (4.44%) jQuery
11 30 (4.44%) Protocol Buffers
12 29 (4.29%) NumPy
12 29 (4.29%) Pandas
12 29 (4.29%) SciPy
13 26 (3.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 124 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 68 (10.06%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.77%) Derivative
5 36 (5.33%) Equities
6 35 (5.18%) Fixed Income
7 31 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 31 (4.59%) Product Ownership
8 29 (4.29%) Hedge funds
8 29 (4.29%) Pricing Data
9 27 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (3.11%) Algorithms
10 21 (3.11%) FPGA
11 18 (2.66%) Public Cloud
12 14 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.78%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.63%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.48%) DataPower
16 9 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 70 (10.36%) Linux
2 16 (2.37%) Unix
3 10 (1.48%) Windows
4 7 (1.04%) Android
5 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) CentOS
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.15%) AIX
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (50.44%) Agile
2 233 (34.47%) CI/CD
3 222 (32.84%) Software Engineering
4 182 (26.92%) DevOps
5 173 (25.59%) Mentoring
6 169 (25.00%) Microservices
7 123 (18.20%) Test Automation
8 120 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (16.86%) Computer Science
10 105 (15.53%) AI
11 97 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (13.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 86 (12.72%) Coaching
14 71 (10.50%) Asset Management
15 64 (9.47%) Migration
15 64 (9.47%) Scrum
16 63 (9.32%) Containerisation
16 63 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
17 62 (9.17%) API Integration
18 57 (8.43%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 263 (38.91%) Python
2 192 (28.40%) SQL
3 150 (22.19%) C#
4 140 (20.71%) JavaScript
5 98 (14.50%) TypeScript
6 67 (9.91%) C++
7 45 (6.66%) PL/SQL
8 44 (6.51%) Shell Script
9 33 (4.88%) Go
10 31 (4.59%) PHP
11 28 (4.14%) Scala
12 27 (3.99%) C
13 21 (3.11%) Kotlin
14 20 (2.96%) Bash
15 10 (1.48%) R
16 8 (1.18%) Delphi
16 8 (1.18%) Groovy
17 7 (1.04%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.59%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 158 (23.37%) Degree
2 87 (12.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (11.83%) Security Cleared
4 72 (10.65%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.92%) AWS Certification
6 38 (5.62%) ISTQB
7 35 (5.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 32 (4.73%) Azure Certification
9 29 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.33%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.89%) CREST Certified
14 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.89%) OSCP
15 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.59%) OSCE
15 4 (0.59%) PhD
15 4 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.80%) QA
2 19 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.92%) GDPR
4 11 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.18%) NIST
6 7 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.89%) NCSC
7 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.89%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.59%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.30%) ECSS
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.30%) SEPA
10 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 101 (14.94%) Docker
2 23 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 127 (18.79%) Kubernetes
2 97 (14.35%) Terraform
3 37 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (4.59%) Grafana
5 28 (4.14%) Ansible
6 21 (3.11%) Argo
7 11 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.04%) Kibana
8 7 (1.04%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.59%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.30%) Puppet
11 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.15%) Control-M
12 1 (0.15%) Icinga
12 1 (0.15%) Istio
12 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 67 (9.91%) Oracle
2 60 (8.88%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.85%) Google
4 20 (2.96%) Okta
5 18 (2.66%) MuleSoft
6 14 (2.07%) Databricks
7 13 (1.92%) Guidewire
8 11 (1.63%) IBM
9 10 (1.48%) Dell
10 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.04%) SAP
10 7 (1.04%) Talend
11 6 (0.89%) Palantir
12 5 (0.74%) Epicor
12 5 (0.74%) IFS
12 5 (0.74%) Infor
12 5 (0.74%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.74%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.74%) Workday
693 hybrid/remote Java jobs