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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 34 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 -12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 767 1,144 2,435
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.81% 7.16% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.65% 16.31% 19.56%
Number of salaries quoted 516 771 1,957
10th Percentile £40,625 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £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 4,346 7,016 12,448
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.23% 43.92% 45.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 4,453 10,812
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 5 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 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.65%) Apache
3 24 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.22%) JBoss
4 17 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.69%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.65%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.52%) Confluence
8 3 (0.39%) Luigi
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) FileNet
10 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.39%) Simulink
3 1 (0.13%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 37 (4.82%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.65%) Shopify
3 3 (0.39%) 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
1 425 (55.41%) AWS
2 202 (26.34%) Azure
3 122 (15.91%) GCP
4 92 (11.99%) GitHub
5 70 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
6 69 (9.00%) SaaS
7 67 (8.74%) Serverless
8 42 (5.48%) Amazon S3
9 41 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (4.82%) OCI
11 36 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
14 26 (3.39%) dbt
15 25 (3.26%) Power Platform
15 25 (3.26%) Snowflake
16 22 (2.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (2.61%) Entra ID
18 19 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (2.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.65%) TCP/IP
2 21 (2.74%) Broadband
3 11 (1.43%) HTTP
4 6 (0.78%) BGP
4 6 (0.78%) VLAN
4 6 (0.78%) VPN
5 5 (0.65%) AMQP
5 5 (0.65%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.39%) Internet
6 3 (0.39%) 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%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (8.34%) NoSQL
3 42 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 41 (5.35%) Relational Database
5 31 (4.04%) MySQL
6 26 (3.39%) Tableau
7 23 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 21 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (2.74%) Power BI
8 21 (2.74%) RDBMS
9 20 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (2.61%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.48%) MongoDB
11 18 (2.35%) Apache Ignite
12 16 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.96%) Apache Arrow
13 15 (1.96%) Dremio
14 14 (1.83%) DynamoDB
15 13 (1.69%) BigQuery
16 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (10.95%) Jenkins
2 64 (8.34%) Git
2 64 (8.34%) Selenium
3 57 (7.43%) JIRA
4 39 (5.08%) Oracle Forms
5 37 (4.82%) WebDriver
6 35 (4.56%) Postman
6 35 (4.56%) TeamCity
7 34 (4.43%) SoapUI
8 30 (3.91%) Team Foundation Server
9 28 (3.65%) GitLab
10 20 (2.61%) Cypress.io
10 20 (2.61%) JUnit
11 19 (2.48%) Jaeger
12 17 (2.22%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.83%) Maven
14 9 (1.17%) JMeter
14 9 (1.17%) MLflow
15 7 (0.91%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 298 (38.85%) Finance
2 230 (29.99%) Social Skills
3 131 (17.08%) Banking
4 106 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (11.99%) Law
6 78 (10.17%) Retail
7 61 (7.95%) Financial Institution
8 54 (7.04%) Public Sector
9 40 (5.22%) Back Office
9 40 (5.22%) Front Office
10 38 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
11 37 (4.82%) Investment Banking
12 30 (3.91%) Games
13 23 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.83%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.83%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.43%) Billing
16 10 (1.30%) Legal
17 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 224 (29.20%) Developer
2 192 (25.03%) Senior
3 173 (22.56%) Software Engineer
4 116 (15.12%) Lead
5 111 (14.47%) Java Developer
6 106 (13.82%) Java Engineer
7 72 (9.39%) Java Software Engineer
8 60 (7.82%) Senior Software Engineer
9 52 (6.78%) Architect
10 51 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
12 45 (5.87%) Applications Engineer
13 43 (5.61%) Senior Java Engineer
14 42 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 37 (4.82%) Senior Developer
16 36 (4.69%) Software Developer
17 31 (4.04%) Lead Developer
17 31 (4.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 28 (3.65%) Graduate
19 25 (3.26%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (19.69%) Spring
2 127 (16.56%) Spring Boot
3 102 (13.30%) React
4 97 (12.65%) SOAP
5 95 (12.39%) RESTful
6 93 (12.13%) .NET
7 82 (10.69%) REST
8 69 (9.00%) Kafka
9 45 (5.87%) HTML
10 44 (5.74%) Node.js
11 42 (5.48%) JSON
12 41 (5.35%) XML
13 35 (4.56%) CSS
14 33 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (4.04%) AngularJS
16 29 (3.78%) Middleware
17 28 (3.65%) Web Services
18 27 (3.52%) Hibernate
19 24 (3.13%) jQuery
20 22 (2.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 157 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 70 (9.13%) Enterprise Software
3 56 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (6.13%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.39%) Blog
6 25 (3.26%) Derivative
6 25 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.87%) Equities
8 21 (2.74%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.74%) FPGA
9 19 (2.48%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.96%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.96%) Pricing Data
14 13 (1.69%) DataPower
15 9 (1.17%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 92 (11.99%) Linux
2 33 (4.30%) Unix
3 13 (1.69%) Android
4 12 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.17%) Windows
6 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.39%) 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
1 345 (44.98%) Agile
2 276 (35.98%) CI/CD
3 262 (34.16%) Software Engineering
4 218 (28.42%) DevOps
5 204 (26.60%) Mentoring
6 194 (25.29%) Microservices
7 153 (19.95%) Test Automation
8 118 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 116 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (14.86%) AI
11 111 (14.47%) Computer Science
12 103 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (12.91%) Coaching
14 78 (10.17%) Containerisation
15 77 (10.04%) Clean Code
16 72 (9.39%) Roadmaps
17 71 (9.26%) Fintech
18 69 (9.00%) Scrum
18 69 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
19 67 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 283 (36.90%) Python
2 204 (26.60%) SQL
3 147 (19.17%) JavaScript
4 134 (17.47%) C#
5 93 (12.13%) TypeScript
6 66 (8.60%) C++
7 61 (7.95%) Go
8 46 (6.00%) PL/SQL
9 44 (5.74%) Shell Script
10 33 (4.30%) Bash
11 26 (3.39%) C
11 26 (3.39%) Scala
12 25 (3.26%) PHP
13 23 (3.00%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.56%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.17%) Groovy
16 8 (1.04%) Delphi
16 8 (1.04%) R
17 5 (0.65%) Ruby
17 5 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 159 (20.73%) Degree
2 105 (13.69%) Security Cleared
3 90 (11.73%) SC Cleared
4 78 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (6.39%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.04%) Azure Certification
6 31 (4.04%) ISTQB
7 29 (3.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 28 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.17%) OSCP
14 8 (1.04%) CREST Certified
14 8 (1.04%) PhD
15 7 (0.91%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.65%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.52%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.91%) QA
2 21 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.56%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.43%) GDPR
5 9 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.78%) NCSC
6 6 (0.78%) NIST
7 4 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.52%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.26%) ECSS
8 2 (0.26%) SEPA
8 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 128 (16.69%) Docker
2 23 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 168 (21.90%) Kubernetes
2 145 (18.90%) Terraform
3 49 (6.39%) Grafana
4 46 (6.00%) Ansible
5 38 (4.95%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (4.30%) Argo
7 23 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.48%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.91%) Kibana
10 6 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.52%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.39%) FTK
12 3 (0.39%) Packer
12 3 (0.39%) 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 74 (9.65%) Oracle
2 56 (7.30%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.43%) Google
4 22 (2.87%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.61%) Okta
6 16 (2.09%) Databricks
7 12 (1.56%) IBM
7 12 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.30%) Dell
8 10 (1.30%) Palantir
9 9 (1.17%) Guidewire
10 7 (0.91%) SAP
11 6 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.78%) Talend
11 6 (0.78%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.65%) IFS
12 5 (0.65%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.65%) Mercator
12 5 (0.65%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.65%) Workday