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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 857 1,005 2,354
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.04% 7.70% 7.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.10% 16.99% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 571 801 1,909
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -7.35%

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 4,488 5,916 13,176
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.41% 45.34% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,248 4,501 11,432
10th Percentile £39,438 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £97,500
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 24 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 26 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.10%) JBoss
4 13 (1.52%) Apache
4 13 (1.52%) WebSphere
5 10 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.35%) Camunda
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 22 (2.57%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.58%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 490 (57.18%) AWS
2 203 (23.69%) Azure
3 160 (18.67%) GCP
4 89 (10.39%) SaaS
5 81 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (8.98%) GitHub
7 67 (7.82%) Serverless
8 39 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (3.27%) dbt
12 26 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (2.80%) Pulumi
14 22 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (2.57%) OCI
15 20 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.98%) Azure Machine Learning
17 17 (1.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.55%) Broadband
2 34 (3.97%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.28%) HTTP
4 6 (0.70%) BGP
4 6 (0.70%) VLAN
4 6 (0.70%) VPN
5 5 (0.58%) AMQP
5 5 (0.58%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.23%) DHCP
7 2 (0.23%) DNS
7 2 (0.23%) DSL
7 2 (0.23%) LAN
7 2 (0.23%) NAS
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.23%) SNMP
7 2 (0.23%) SSH
7 2 (0.23%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
8 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (9.22%) NoSQL
3 42 (4.90%) Relational Database
4 40 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.32%) MySQL
6 27 (3.15%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.33%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.22%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.22%) Tableau
10 17 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (1.75%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
13 12 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.40%) Power BI
14 10 (1.17%) Flink
15 9 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.05%) Looker
15 9 (1.05%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 68 (7.93%) Jenkins
2 58 (6.77%) Git
3 56 (6.53%) Selenium
4 51 (5.95%) TeamCity
5 44 (5.13%) JIRA
6 31 (3.62%) Postman
7 30 (3.50%) WebDriver
8 29 (3.38%) GitLab
9 28 (3.27%) SoapUI
10 24 (2.80%) Team Foundation Server
11 23 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
12 19 (2.22%) Jaeger
13 18 (2.10%) Cucumber
13 18 (2.10%) Cypress.io
14 15 (1.75%) JUnit
15 14 (1.63%) JMeter
15 14 (1.63%) Maven
16 10 (1.17%) Claude Code
16 10 (1.17%) MLflow
17 8 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 317 (36.99%) Finance
2 212 (24.74%) Social Skills
3 142 (16.57%) Banking
4 137 (15.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (13.65%) Law
6 99 (11.55%) Retail
7 73 (8.52%) Financial Institution
8 71 (8.28%) Public Sector
9 57 (6.65%) Front Office
10 55 (6.42%) Back Office
11 43 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (3.97%) Games
13 30 (3.50%) Investment Banking
14 18 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.87%) Health Technology
16 15 (1.75%) Tech for Good
17 9 (1.05%) Marketing
18 7 (0.82%) Legal
18 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 279 (32.56%) Developer
2 245 (28.59%) Software Engineer
3 219 (25.55%) Senior
4 155 (18.09%) Lead
5 142 (16.57%) Java Developer
6 134 (15.64%) Java Engineer
7 96 (11.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 69 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 57 (6.65%) Lead Software Engineer
10 53 (6.18%) Senior Developer
11 51 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (5.72%) Lead Developer
13 48 (5.60%) Software Developer
14 46 (5.37%) Architect
15 43 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
17 36 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
18 35 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
19 34 (3.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 31 (3.62%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (18.20%) Spring
2 130 (15.17%) React
3 129 (15.05%) Spring Boot
4 93 (10.85%) REST
5 91 (10.62%) .NET
6 88 (10.27%) Kafka
7 87 (10.15%) SOAP
8 83 (9.68%) RESTful
9 82 (9.57%) Node.js
10 46 (5.37%) GraphQL
11 44 (5.13%) AngularJS
12 40 (4.67%) HTML
13 37 (4.32%) XML
14 36 (4.20%) CSS
14 36 (4.20%) JSON
14 36 (4.20%) Redux
15 32 (3.73%) Middleware
16 31 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
17 28 (3.27%) Web Services
18 25 (2.92%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 165 (19.25%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 61 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (5.02%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.73%) Blog
7 24 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.57%) FPGA
9 17 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.75%) Equities
10 15 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.52%) DataPower
12 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.28%) Derivative
12 11 (1.28%) Sports Betting
13 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.05%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.09%) Linux
2 38 (4.43%) Unix
3 16 (1.87%) Android
4 15 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.93%) Windows
6 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (45.16%) Agile
2 333 (38.86%) Software Engineering
3 306 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 234 (27.30%) DevOps
5 216 (25.20%) Mentoring
6 194 (22.64%) Microservices
7 183 (21.35%) Test Automation
8 150 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 118 (13.77%) AI
10 109 (12.72%) Clean Code
10 109 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
11 106 (12.37%) Containerisation
12 100 (11.67%) Computer Science
12 100 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (11.20%) Coaching
14 89 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 88 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
16 84 (9.80%) Fintech
17 82 (9.57%) Roadmaps
18 69 (8.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 300 (35.01%) Python
2 221 (25.79%) SQL
3 179 (20.89%) JavaScript
4 119 (13.89%) C#
5 111 (12.95%) TypeScript
6 100 (11.67%) Go
7 70 (8.17%) C++
8 33 (3.85%) Bash
9 29 (3.38%) PL/SQL
9 29 (3.38%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.92%) C
10 25 (2.92%) PHP
11 24 (2.80%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.68%) Scala
13 21 (2.45%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.17%) Ruby
15 9 (1.05%) Rust
16 8 (0.93%) Delphi
16 8 (0.93%) Groovy
17 4 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 145 (16.92%) Degree
2 107 (12.49%) Security Cleared
3 90 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.90%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.80%) ISTQB
8 23 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (2.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 22 (2.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 19 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.52%) OSCP
12 12 (1.40%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.28%) PhD
14 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.58%) OSCE
17 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.23%) QA
2 28 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.40%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.17%) GDPR
6 9 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.82%) NIST
8 6 (0.70%) NCSC
9 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.47%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) ECSS
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 148 (17.27%) Docker
2 16 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 191 (22.29%) Kubernetes
2 160 (18.67%) Terraform
3 67 (7.82%) Grafana
4 41 (4.78%) Ansible
5 32 (3.73%) Argo
6 23 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (2.22%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.58%) FTK
8 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.47%) Packer
10 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.12%) Icinga
11 1 (0.12%) Nagios
11 1 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (6.77%) Oracle
2 50 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.02%) Google
4 26 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 21 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.63%) Databricks
7 13 (1.52%) IBM
8 12 (1.40%) Okta
9 10 (1.17%) Dell
9 10 (1.17%) Palantir
10 8 (0.93%) Foundry
11 6 (0.70%) SAP
11 6 (0.70%) Talend
11 6 (0.70%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.58%) Epicor
12 5 (0.58%) Infor
12 5 (0.58%) Informatica
12 5 (0.58%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.58%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.58%) Software AG