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

 6 months to
6 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 25 18
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 831 1,558 2,348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.24% 7.85% 10.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.01% 18.81% 22.72%
Number of salaries quoted 528 1,110 1,880
10th Percentile £36,975 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +23.98% +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% +4.74%

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 4,613 8,283 10,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.09% 41.73% 47.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,265 5,257 8,714
10th Percentile £34,750 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +2.36%

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 6 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 79 (9.51%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (8.78%) Apache
3 10 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.60%) Confluence
5 5 (0.60%) JBoss
6 4 (0.48%) IIS
6 4 (0.48%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.36%) Luigi
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.36%) Simulink
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (1.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.60%) Adaptiv
3 5 (0.60%) Shopify
4 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.24%) Maximo
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 463 (55.72%) AWS
2 296 (35.62%) Azure
3 162 (19.49%) GCP
4 79 (9.51%) dbt
5 71 (8.54%) Snowflake
6 70 (8.42%) GitHub
7 40 (4.81%) SaaS
8 35 (4.21%) Serverless
9 32 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (2.65%) OCI
12 21 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (2.05%) Power Platform
14 16 (1.93%) Entra ID
15 15 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (1.81%) OpenShift
16 14 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.65%) TCP/IP
2 8 (0.96%) SSL
3 6 (0.72%) Broadband
3 6 (0.72%) SSH
4 4 (0.48%) DMARC
5 3 (0.36%) HTTP
5 3 (0.36%) Internet
5 3 (0.36%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.24%) AMQP
6 2 (0.24%) BGP
6 2 (0.24%) VLAN
6 2 (0.24%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) Firewall
7 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 77 (9.27%) Amazon Athena
2 77 (9.27%) Apache Arrow
2 77 (9.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 77 (9.27%) Dremio
3 73 (8.78%) Data Lake
4 72 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
5 68 (8.18%) Apache Ignite
6 59 (7.10%) MySQL
7 43 (5.17%) NoSQL
8 30 (3.61%) MongoDB
9 29 (3.49%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.93%) Power BI
11 12 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.44%) Tableau
12 11 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.08%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.96%) Big Data
15 7 (0.84%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 84 (10.11%) Selenium
2 71 (8.54%) JIRA
3 61 (7.34%) GitLab
4 60 (7.22%) Jenkins
5 49 (5.90%) Cucumber
6 43 (5.17%) SonarQube
7 41 (4.93%) Git
7 41 (4.93%) Maven
8 39 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 38 (4.57%) Bitbucket
10 26 (3.13%) WebDriver
11 23 (2.77%) Oracle Forms
12 20 (2.41%) Cypress.io
13 19 (2.29%) Postman
14 18 (2.17%) JUnit
15 17 (2.05%) SoapUI
16 16 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
17 12 (1.44%) TeamCity
18 7 (0.84%) JMeter
19 4 (0.48%) Mockito
General
1 353 (42.48%) Finance
2 195 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 173 (20.82%) Banking
4 134 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 132 (15.88%) Front Office
6 120 (14.44%) Investment Banking
7 62 (7.46%) Retail
8 42 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (4.93%) Law
9 41 (4.93%) Public Sector
10 37 (4.45%) Corporate Banking
11 30 (3.61%) Financial Institution
12 29 (3.49%) Back Office
13 27 (3.25%) Games
14 21 (2.53%) Billing
15 15 (1.81%) Legal
16 13 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.84%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 300 (36.10%) Software Engineer
2 258 (31.05%) Developer
3 253 (30.45%) Senior
4 156 (18.77%) Senior Software Engineer
5 132 (15.88%) Java Engineer
6 116 (13.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 89 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
8 84 (10.11%) Java Developer
9 81 (9.75%) Lead
10 80 (9.63%) AWS Software Engineer
11 77 (9.27%) Senior Java Engineer
12 72 (8.66%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 69 (8.30%) Python Engineer
14 66 (7.94%) Python Software Engineer
15 45 (5.42%) Graduate
16 43 (5.17%) Graduate Developer
17 37 (4.45%) Architect
17 37 (4.45%) IT Graduate
18 36 (4.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 36 (4.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (19.37%) .NET
2 159 (19.13%) React
3 153 (18.41%) Spring
4 144 (17.33%) Spring Boot
5 126 (15.16%) Node.js
6 123 (14.80%) RESTful
7 117 (14.08%) HTML
8 115 (13.84%) Kafka
9 94 (11.31%) CSS
10 88 (10.59%) REST
11 78 (9.39%) NumPy
11 78 (9.39%) Pandas
12 77 (9.27%) SciPy
13 72 (8.66%) Redux
14 65 (7.82%) gRPC
14 65 (7.82%) Protocol Buffers
15 52 (6.26%) SOAP
16 43 (5.17%) CSS3
16 43 (5.17%) HTML5
16 43 (5.17%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 108 (13.00%) Fixed Income
2 102 (12.27%) Cloud Native
3 98 (11.79%) Self-Motivation
4 89 (10.71%) Equities
5 87 (10.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 86 (10.35%) Derivative
7 79 (9.51%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (8.06%) Cyberattack
9 66 (7.94%) Linux Command Line
10 65 (7.82%) Hedge funds
10 65 (7.82%) Pricing Data
11 49 (5.90%) Product Ownership
12 35 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (2.89%) Algorithms
14 19 (2.29%) FPGA
14 19 (2.29%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.56%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.56%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.56%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 127 (15.28%) Linux
2 16 (1.93%) Unix
2 16 (1.93%) Windows
3 7 (0.84%) Android
4 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (61.37%) Agile
2 368 (44.28%) Software Engineering
3 267 (32.13%) Microservices
4 234 (28.16%) CI/CD
5 228 (27.44%) Mentoring
6 186 (22.38%) DevOps
7 165 (19.86%) Computer Science
8 154 (18.53%) Machine Learning
9 148 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
10 141 (16.97%) Test Automation
11 130 (15.64%) User Experience
12 121 (14.56%) AI
13 116 (13.96%) Scrum
14 114 (13.72%) Full-Stack Development
15 106 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (12.52%) Investment Management
17 101 (12.15%) Asset Management
18 95 (11.43%) Migration
19 92 (11.07%) Containerisation
20 76 (9.15%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 379 (45.61%) Python
2 346 (41.64%) JavaScript
3 256 (30.81%) SQL
4 243 (29.24%) TypeScript
5 212 (25.51%) C#
6 198 (23.83%) C++
7 113 (13.60%) Rust
8 100 (12.03%) Go
9 92 (11.07%) PHP
10 84 (10.11%) C
11 58 (6.98%) R
12 53 (6.38%) Ruby
13 52 (6.26%) MATLAB
14 49 (5.90%) Dart
15 31 (3.73%) Shell Script
16 27 (3.25%) PL/SQL
17 21 (2.53%) Kotlin
18 20 (2.41%) Scala
19 11 (1.32%) PowerShell
20 8 (0.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 190 (22.86%) Degree
2 142 (17.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 137 (16.49%) Security Cleared
4 92 (11.07%) AWS Certification
5 84 (10.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 67 (8.06%) DV Cleared
6 67 (8.06%) SC Cleared
7 63 (7.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 25 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.53%) ISTQB
10 16 (1.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 14 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.20%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.96%) CFA
15 8 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.96%) PMP
16 6 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (10.11%) QA
2 53 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.53%) GDPR
5 14 (1.68%) NIST
6 12 (1.44%) ISO 9001
7 11 (1.32%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.72%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.72%) NCSC
9 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.24%) ECSS
10 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.24%) SEPA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 115 (13.84%) Docker
2 19 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) KVM
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 146 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.98%) Terraform
3 25 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.89%) Grafana
5 18 (2.17%) Ansible
6 8 (0.96%) Kibana
7 7 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.72%) Argo
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.36%) Control-M
10 3 (0.36%) Puppet
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.12%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 52 (6.26%) Oracle
2 50 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.81%) Solace
4 28 (3.37%) Google
5 19 (2.29%) Guidewire
6 13 (1.56%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.44%) Okta
8 9 (1.08%) IBM
9 8 (0.96%) Dell
9 8 (0.96%) Murex
9 8 (0.96%) SAP
10 7 (0.84%) SnapLogic
10 7 (0.84%) Talend
11 6 (0.72%) Informatica
12 5 (0.60%) Epicor
12 5 (0.60%) Infor
12 5 (0.60%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.60%) Mercator
12 5 (0.60%) Software AG
12 5 (0.60%) TIBCO
1,724 hybrid/remote Java jobs