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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 34 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 848 1,057 2,400
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.14% 7.33% 8.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.15% 16.32% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 567 744 1,923
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -0.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £135,000 £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 4,429 6,475 12,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.83% 44.88% 44.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,237 4,346 11,072
10th Percentile £38,532 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £110,000 £100,000
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 3 March 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 27 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.12%) JBoss
4 16 (1.89%) Apache
5 14 (1.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (1.53%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.59%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.47%) Confluence
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 31 (3.66%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.59%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Maximo
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 488 (57.55%) AWS
2 209 (24.65%) Azure
3 161 (18.99%) GCP
4 87 (10.26%) GitHub
5 83 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (9.79%) SaaS
6 69 (8.14%) Serverless
7 41 (4.83%) Amazon S3
8 38 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (3.66%) OCI
12 30 (3.54%) dbt
13 29 (3.42%) GitHub Copilot
14 24 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (2.83%) Pulumi
15 21 (2.48%) Power Platform
16 20 (2.36%) OpenShift
17 19 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
18 18 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.89%) TCP/IP
2 31 (3.66%) Broadband
3 11 (1.30%) HTTP
4 6 (0.71%) BGP
4 6 (0.71%) VLAN
4 6 (0.71%) VPN
5 5 (0.59%) AMQP
5 5 (0.59%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
7 2 (0.24%) DSL
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) NAS
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (8.73%) NoSQL
3 42 (4.95%) Relational Database
4 33 (3.89%) MySQL
4 33 (3.89%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 24 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.71%) Tableau
8 20 (2.36%) BigQuery
8 20 (2.36%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (2.00%) Power BI
10 15 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
10 15 (1.77%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.18%) Flink
13 9 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.06%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (9.32%) Jenkins
2 63 (7.43%) Selenium
3 60 (7.08%) Git
4 50 (5.90%) JIRA
5 48 (5.66%) TeamCity
6 35 (4.13%) WebDriver
7 33 (3.89%) Oracle Forms
7 33 (3.89%) Postman
8 30 (3.54%) SoapUI
9 26 (3.07%) GitLab
9 26 (3.07%) Team Foundation Server
10 20 (2.36%) Cucumber
11 19 (2.24%) Cypress.io
11 19 (2.24%) Jaeger
12 17 (2.00%) JUnit
13 14 (1.65%) Maven
14 13 (1.53%) JMeter
15 10 (1.18%) MLflow
16 6 (0.71%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 319 (37.62%) Finance
2 225 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 134 (15.80%) Banking
4 133 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (13.68%) Law
6 96 (11.32%) Retail
7 73 (8.61%) Financial Institution
8 69 (8.14%) Public Sector
9 60 (7.08%) Front Office
10 51 (6.01%) Back Office
11 41 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (4.01%) Games
13 28 (3.30%) Investment Banking
14 23 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.89%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.89%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.94%) Billing
17 7 (0.83%) Legal
17 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 263 (31.01%) Developer
2 228 (26.89%) Software Engineer
3 211 (24.88%) Senior
4 145 (17.10%) Lead
5 132 (15.57%) Java Developer
6 126 (14.86%) Java Engineer
7 92 (10.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 60 (7.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 55 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 50 (5.90%) Architect
10 50 (5.90%) Lead Developer
10 50 (5.90%) Lead Software Engineer
11 44 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (5.19%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.72%) Senior Java Engineer
12 40 (4.72%) Software Developer
13 39 (4.60%) Applications Engineer
13 39 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 38 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
15 34 (4.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (18.99%) Spring
2 137 (16.16%) React
3 136 (16.04%) Spring Boot
4 105 (12.38%) Kafka
5 96 (11.32%) RESTful
6 95 (11.20%) SOAP
7 94 (11.08%) REST
8 93 (10.97%) .NET
9 77 (9.08%) Node.js
10 48 (5.66%) GraphQL
11 43 (5.07%) JSON
12 42 (4.95%) AngularJS
12 42 (4.95%) HTML
12 42 (4.95%) XML
13 38 (4.48%) Redux
14 33 (3.89%) Middleware
15 31 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (3.42%) CSS
16 29 (3.42%) Web Services
17 26 (3.07%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 177 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
3 61 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (6.49%) Product Ownership
5 44 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.77%) Blog
7 22 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.36%) FPGA
8 20 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.77%) Equities
11 14 (1.65%) Derivative
12 13 (1.53%) DataPower
13 11 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.06%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.20%) Linux
2 38 (4.48%) Unix
3 16 (1.89%) Android
4 15 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.94%) Windows
6 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (45.28%) Agile
2 317 (37.38%) Software Engineering
3 309 (36.44%) CI/CD
4 239 (28.18%) DevOps
5 219 (25.83%) Mentoring
6 211 (24.88%) Microservices
7 184 (21.70%) Test Automation
8 153 (18.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 116 (13.68%) AI
10 113 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (13.21%) Coaching
12 103 (12.15%) Computer Science
12 103 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 101 (11.91%) Clean Code
14 100 (11.79%) Containerisation
15 85 (10.02%) Fintech
16 81 (9.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
18 77 (9.08%) Roadmaps
19 71 (8.37%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 311 (36.67%) Python
2 215 (25.35%) SQL
3 181 (21.34%) JavaScript
4 124 (14.62%) C#
5 119 (14.03%) TypeScript
6 97 (11.44%) Go
7 66 (7.78%) C++
8 39 (4.60%) PL/SQL
9 38 (4.48%) Shell Script
10 32 (3.77%) Bash
11 25 (2.95%) C
11 25 (2.95%) Scala
12 23 (2.71%) Kotlin
13 18 (2.12%) Apex Code
13 18 (2.12%) PHP
14 8 (0.94%) Delphi
14 8 (0.94%) Groovy
15 7 (0.83%) Ruby
16 6 (0.71%) R
16 6 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 152 (17.92%) Degree
2 120 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 104 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.42%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.54%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (3.07%) ISTQB
8 26 (3.07%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (2.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 23 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.77%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.42%) OSCP
13 11 (1.30%) CREST Certified
14 10 (1.18%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.18%) PhD
15 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.47%) OSCE
16 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.43%) QA
2 24 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.53%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.53%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.30%) GDPR
5 10 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.83%) NIST
7 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.35%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) ECSS
10 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 148 (17.45%) Docker
2 21 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 193 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 165 (19.46%) Terraform
3 65 (7.67%) Grafana
4 44 (5.19%) Ansible
5 33 (3.89%) Argo
6 32 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.83%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.24%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.83%) Kibana
10 5 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.59%) FTK
11 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.47%) Packer
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.12%) Nessus
13 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (8.25%) Oracle
2 56 (6.60%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.95%) Google
4 26 (3.07%) MuleSoft
5 18 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.00%) Okta
7 16 (1.89%) Databricks
8 12 (1.42%) IBM
9 11 (1.30%) Palantir
10 10 (1.18%) Dell
11 7 (0.83%) SAP
12 6 (0.71%) Foundry
12 6 (0.71%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.71%) Talend
12 6 (0.71%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.59%) Cellebrite
13 5 (0.59%) IFS
13 5 (0.59%) Jitterbit
13 5 (0.59%) SnapLogic
13 5 (0.59%) Workday