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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 33 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 696 1,261 2,135
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.56% 7.34% 10.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.83% 17.23% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 496 861 1,659
10th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.35% +0.82%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +7.59% -

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 4,136 7,319 9,475
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.09% 42.63% 46.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,146 4,670 8,015
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,875 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,875 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%

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 28 December 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 47 (6.75%) Apache
2 46 (6.61%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.72%) JBoss
5 10 (1.44%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.43%) Confluence
7 3 (0.43%) Luigi
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) Camunda
8 2 (0.29%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.14%) FileNet
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (5.32%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.72%) Shopify
4 3 (0.43%) Maximo
5 2 (0.29%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 381 (54.74%) AWS
2 212 (30.46%) Azure
3 96 (13.79%) GCP
3 96 (13.79%) GitHub
4 53 (7.61%) Serverless
5 50 (7.18%) SaaS
6 47 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
7 44 (6.32%) dbt
8 42 (6.03%) Snowflake
9 40 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (5.32%) OCI
11 31 (4.45%) Amazon S3
11 31 (4.45%) GitHub Copilot
12 29 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (3.88%) Power Platform
14 21 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (2.87%) Entra ID
16 19 (2.73%) OpenShift
17 18 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.59%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.44%) Broadband
2 10 (1.44%) HTTP
3 4 (0.57%) AMQP
3 4 (0.57%) PuTTY
4 3 (0.43%) BGP
4 3 (0.43%) Internet
4 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.43%) VLAN
4 3 (0.43%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) LAN
5 2 (0.29%) NAS
5 2 (0.29%) SAN
5 2 (0.29%) SNMP
5 2 (0.29%) SSH
5 2 (0.29%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) Firewall
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.48%) SQL Server
3 47 (6.75%) NoSQL
4 45 (6.47%) Data Lake
5 40 (5.75%) Apache Iceberg
5 40 (5.75%) Apache Ignite
5 40 (5.75%) MySQL
6 38 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
7 37 (5.32%) Apache Arrow
7 37 (5.32%) Dremio
8 31 (4.45%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.45%) Power BI
10 21 (3.02%) MongoDB
10 21 (3.02%) Tableau
11 16 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.44%) DynamoDB
13 10 (1.44%) Flink
14 9 (1.29%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 84 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 66 (9.48%) Selenium
3 58 (8.33%) Git
4 55 (7.90%) JIRA
5 40 (5.75%) WebDriver
6 39 (5.60%) Oracle Forms
7 37 (5.32%) Postman
8 34 (4.89%) SoapUI
9 32 (4.60%) Team Foundation Server
10 30 (4.31%) GitLab
11 24 (3.45%) Cypress.io
12 20 (2.87%) JUnit
13 17 (2.44%) TeamCity
14 16 (2.30%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.72%) Maven
16 9 (1.29%) JMeter
17 7 (1.01%) Jaeger
18 6 (0.86%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
19 4 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 300 (43.10%) Finance
2 205 (29.45%) Social Skills
3 123 (17.67%) Banking
4 75 (10.78%) Front Office
5 59 (8.48%) Investment Banking
6 57 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (8.19%) Law
7 44 (6.32%) Retail
8 43 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (6.18%) Public Sector
9 39 (5.60%) Financial Institution
10 35 (5.03%) Back Office
11 25 (3.59%) Games
12 21 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.16%) Billing
14 13 (1.87%) Legal
15 11 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.15%) Aviation
17 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
17 7 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 224 (32.18%) Developer
2 187 (26.87%) Senior
3 167 (23.99%) Software Engineer
4 101 (14.51%) Java Engineer
5 93 (13.36%) Lead
6 81 (11.64%) Java Developer
7 76 (10.92%) Java Software Engineer
8 70 (10.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 60 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (7.76%) Senior Java Engineer
11 48 (6.90%) Architect
12 46 (6.61%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 45 (6.47%) Applications Engineer
14 44 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
15 43 (6.18%) AWS Software Engineer
15 43 (6.18%) Python Engineer
16 39 (5.60%) Graduate
17 37 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
18 36 (5.17%) Software Developer
19 35 (5.03%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (17.82%) Spring
2 110 (15.80%) Spring Boot
3 96 (13.79%) React
4 95 (13.65%) .NET
5 94 (13.51%) RESTful
6 86 (12.36%) SOAP
7 71 (10.20%) Kafka
8 64 (9.20%) REST
9 47 (6.75%) CSS
9 47 (6.75%) HTML
10 42 (6.03%) XML
11 41 (5.89%) Node.js
12 38 (5.46%) gRPC
12 38 (5.46%) Protocol Buffers
13 37 (5.32%) NumPy
13 37 (5.32%) Pandas
13 37 (5.32%) SciPy
14 34 (4.89%) jQuery
14 34 (4.89%) JSON
15 30 (4.31%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 125 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 66 (9.48%) Enterprise Software
3 51 (7.33%) Fixed Income
4 48 (6.90%) Derivative
5 45 (6.47%) Equities
6 41 (5.89%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (5.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 37 (5.32%) Hedge funds
7 37 (5.32%) Pricing Data
8 28 (4.02%) Product Ownership
9 26 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (3.02%) Algorithms
10 21 (3.02%) FPGA
11 17 (2.44%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.16%) NHS
13 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.87%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.58%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 74 (10.63%) Linux
2 16 (2.30%) Unix
3 12 (1.72%) Windows
4 7 (1.01%) Android
5 6 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.29%) CentOS
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (52.16%) Agile
2 239 (34.34%) Software Engineering
3 227 (32.61%) CI/CD
4 183 (26.29%) DevOps
5 172 (24.71%) Mentoring
6 167 (23.99%) Microservices
7 127 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (18.25%) Test Automation
8 125 (17.96%) Computer Science
9 99 (14.22%) AI
10 95 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (13.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 84 (12.07%) Coaching
13 79 (11.35%) Asset Management
14 66 (9.48%) Clean Code
15 64 (9.20%) Scrum
16 61 (8.76%) API Integration
16 61 (8.76%) Migration
17 59 (8.48%) Containerisation
17 59 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 273 (39.22%) Python
2 192 (27.59%) SQL
3 162 (23.28%) C#
4 158 (22.70%) JavaScript
5 113 (16.24%) TypeScript
6 71 (10.20%) C++
7 47 (6.75%) Shell Script
8 44 (6.32%) PL/SQL
9 39 (5.60%) Go
10 35 (5.03%) C
10 35 (5.03%) PHP
11 25 (3.59%) Scala
12 20 (2.87%) Kotlin
13 18 (2.59%) Bash
14 10 (1.44%) R
15 8 (1.15%) Delphi
15 8 (1.15%) Groovy
16 7 (1.01%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.72%) Objective-C
18 4 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 165 (23.71%) Degree
2 97 (13.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (11.64%) Security Cleared
4 73 (10.49%) SC Cleared
5 39 (5.60%) AWS Certification
6 34 (4.89%) ISTQB
7 31 (4.45%) Azure Certification
7 31 (4.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 28 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 22 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.29%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.86%) CREST Certified
13 6 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.86%) OSCP
14 4 (0.57%) OSCE
14 4 (0.57%) PhD
15 3 (0.43%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.61%) QA
2 19 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.01%) GDPR
5 10 (1.44%) ISO 9001
6 9 (1.29%) NIST
7 7 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.86%) NCSC
8 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.86%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.57%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.29%) ECSS
10 2 (0.29%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 95 (13.65%) Docker
2 23 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 123 (17.67%) Kubernetes
2 93 (13.36%) Terraform
3 37 (5.32%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (4.45%) Grafana
5 29 (4.17%) Ansible
6 21 (3.02%) Argo
7 11 (1.58%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.01%) Kibana
8 7 (1.01%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.57%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.43%) Control-M
12 2 (0.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.14%) Icinga
13 1 (0.14%) Istio
13 1 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (9.48%) Oracle
2 65 (9.34%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.88%) Google
4 20 (2.87%) Okta
5 19 (2.73%) MuleSoft
6 13 (1.87%) Guidewire
7 11 (1.58%) Databricks
7 11 (1.58%) IBM
8 10 (1.44%) Dell
9 7 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.01%) SAP
9 7 (1.01%) Talend
10 6 (0.86%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.86%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.72%) Epicor
11 5 (0.72%) IFS
11 5 (0.72%) Informatica
11 5 (0.72%) Jitterbit
11 5 (0.72%) Software AG
11 5 (0.72%) Workday
1,048 hybrid/remote Java jobs