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

 6 months to
2 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 36 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 759 1,138 2,488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.81% 7.09% 9.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.73% 16.17% 19.78%
Number of salaries quoted 512 758 1,980
10th Percentile £37,725 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,640 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% +9.49% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 4,281 7,037 12,581
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.13% 43.83% 45.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,177 4,403 10,906
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £98,750
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 2 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 30 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.69%) Apache
3 24 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 16 (2.11%) JBoss
6 13 (1.71%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.53%) Confluence
9 3 (0.40%) Luigi
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Camunda
10 2 (0.26%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.40%) Simulink
3 1 (0.13%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 37 (4.87%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.66%) Shopify
3 3 (0.40%) Maximo
4 2 (0.26%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 424 (55.86%) AWS
2 205 (27.01%) Azure
3 122 (16.07%) GCP
4 91 (11.99%) GitHub
5 70 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
5 70 (9.22%) SaaS
6 66 (8.70%) Serverless
7 41 (5.40%) Amazon S3
7 41 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (4.87%) OCI
9 35 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (4.22%) GitHub Copilot
12 26 (3.43%) dbt
13 25 (3.29%) Power Platform
13 25 (3.29%) Snowflake
14 21 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (2.64%) Entra ID
16 19 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.56%) TCP/IP
2 21 (2.77%) Broadband
3 11 (1.45%) HTTP
4 6 (0.79%) BGP
4 6 (0.79%) VLAN
4 6 (0.79%) VPN
5 5 (0.66%) AMQP
5 5 (0.66%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.40%) Internet
6 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.26%) DHCP
7 2 (0.26%) DNS
7 2 (0.26%) DSL
7 2 (0.26%) LAN
7 2 (0.26%) NAS
7 2 (0.26%) SAN
7 2 (0.26%) SNMP
7 2 (0.26%) SSH
7 2 (0.26%) WAN
8 1 (0.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (8.30%) NoSQL
3 45 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 42 (5.53%) Relational Database
5 34 (4.48%) MySQL
6 26 (3.43%) Tableau
7 23 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
8 21 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (2.77%) Power BI
8 21 (2.77%) RDBMS
9 20 (2.64%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (2.37%) Apache Ignite
11 18 (2.37%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.98%) Apache Arrow
12 15 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.98%) Dremio
13 13 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.71%) DynamoDB
14 11 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (11.07%) Jenkins
2 64 (8.43%) Git
2 64 (8.43%) Selenium
3 57 (7.51%) JIRA
4 39 (5.14%) Oracle Forms
5 37 (4.87%) WebDriver
6 35 (4.61%) Postman
6 35 (4.61%) TeamCity
7 34 (4.48%) SoapUI
8 30 (3.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 29 (3.82%) GitLab
10 20 (2.64%) Cypress.io
10 20 (2.64%) JUnit
11 19 (2.50%) Jaeger
12 17 (2.24%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.84%) Maven
14 9 (1.19%) JMeter
14 9 (1.19%) MLflow
15 7 (0.92%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 296 (39.00%) Finance
2 232 (30.57%) Social Skills
3 130 (17.13%) Banking
4 106 (13.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (12.12%) Law
6 78 (10.28%) Retail
7 60 (7.91%) Financial Institution
8 54 (7.11%) Public Sector
9 40 (5.27%) Back Office
9 40 (5.27%) Front Office
10 37 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
11 36 (4.74%) Investment Banking
12 30 (3.95%) Games
13 22 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.84%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.84%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.45%) Billing
16 10 (1.32%) Legal
17 7 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 223 (29.38%) Developer
2 191 (25.16%) Senior
3 171 (22.53%) Software Engineer
4 115 (15.15%) Lead
5 108 (14.23%) Java Developer
6 103 (13.57%) Java Engineer
7 70 (9.22%) Java Software Engineer
8 60 (7.91%) Senior Software Engineer
9 52 (6.85%) Architect
10 51 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
12 45 (5.93%) Applications Engineer
13 42 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 42 (5.53%) Senior Java Engineer
14 37 (4.87%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.74%) Software Developer
16 31 (4.08%) Graduate
16 31 (4.08%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 30 (3.95%) Lead Developer
18 28 (3.69%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (19.37%) Spring
2 123 (16.21%) Spring Boot
3 102 (13.44%) React
4 97 (12.78%) SOAP
5 96 (12.65%) .NET
6 95 (12.52%) RESTful
7 79 (10.41%) REST
8 68 (8.96%) Kafka
9 46 (6.06%) HTML
10 43 (5.67%) Node.js
11 42 (5.53%) JSON
12 41 (5.40%) XML
13 39 (5.14%) CSS
14 33 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (3.95%) AngularJS
16 29 (3.82%) Middleware
17 28 (3.69%) Hibernate
17 28 (3.69%) Web Services
18 27 (3.56%) jQuery
19 22 (2.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 156 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 53 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.43%) Blog
6 25 (3.29%) Derivative
6 25 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.77%) Equities
7 21 (2.77%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.64%) FPGA
9 19 (2.50%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.37%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.98%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.98%) Pricing Data
13 13 (1.71%) DataPower
13 13 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (1.19%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.12%) Linux
2 33 (4.35%) Unix
3 13 (1.71%) Android
4 12 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.32%) Windows
6 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.40%) CentOS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (45.32%) Agile
2 275 (36.23%) CI/CD
3 257 (33.86%) Software Engineering
4 218 (28.72%) DevOps
5 203 (26.75%) Mentoring
6 190 (25.03%) Microservices
7 151 (19.89%) Test Automation
8 120 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (15.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (15.02%) Computer Science
11 113 (14.89%) AI
12 107 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (13.04%) Coaching
14 78 (10.28%) Clean Code
15 77 (10.14%) Containerisation
16 72 (9.49%) Roadmaps
17 69 (9.09%) Scrum
17 69 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
18 68 (8.96%) Fintech
19 67 (8.83%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 280 (36.89%) Python
2 203 (26.75%) SQL
3 147 (19.37%) JavaScript
4 136 (17.92%) C#
5 94 (12.38%) TypeScript
6 68 (8.96%) C++
7 60 (7.91%) Go
8 46 (6.06%) PL/SQL
9 44 (5.80%) Shell Script
10 34 (4.48%) Bash
11 28 (3.69%) PHP
12 26 (3.43%) Scala
13 25 (3.29%) C
14 22 (2.90%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.58%) Apex Code
16 9 (1.19%) Groovy
17 8 (1.05%) Delphi
17 8 (1.05%) R
18 5 (0.66%) Ruby
18 5 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (21.34%) Degree
2 105 (13.83%) Security Cleared
3 90 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 81 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (6.59%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 31 (4.08%) ISTQB
7 29 (3.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 28 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.84%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.19%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.19%) OSCP
14 8 (1.05%) CREST Certified
14 8 (1.05%) PhD
15 7 (0.92%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.53%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.85%) QA
2 21 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.58%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.58%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.45%) GDPR
5 9 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.79%) NCSC
7 6 (0.79%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.53%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.26%) ECSS
9 2 (0.26%) SEPA
9 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 126 (16.60%) Docker
2 23 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 168 (22.13%) Kubernetes
2 145 (19.10%) Terraform
3 49 (6.46%) Grafana
4 47 (6.19%) Ansible
5 37 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (4.35%) Argo
7 23 (3.03%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.50%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.92%) Kibana
10 6 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.53%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.40%) FTK
12 3 (0.40%) Packer
12 3 (0.40%) Puppet
13 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.13%) Icinga
14 1 (0.13%) Istio
14 1 (0.13%) Nagios
14 1 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 73 (9.62%) Oracle
2 56 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.35%) Google
4 22 (2.90%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.64%) Okta
6 16 (2.11%) Databricks
7 12 (1.58%) IBM
7 12 (1.58%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.32%) Dell
9 9 (1.19%) Guidewire
9 9 (1.19%) Palantir
10 7 (0.92%) SAP
11 6 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.79%) Talend
11 6 (0.79%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.66%) Epicor
12 5 (0.66%) Infor
12 5 (0.66%) Informatica
12 5 (0.66%) Mercator
12 5 (0.66%) Software AG
510 hybrid/remote Java jobs