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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -43 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 870 1,318 1,889
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.72% 7.99% 7.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.22% 24.70% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 551 651 1,523
10th Percentile £37,250 £28,500 £43,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £70,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 6,119 5,335 9,297
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.17% 32.32% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 3,679 6,882
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,450 £39,507
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +1.98% -3.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 30 August 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 14 (1.61%) Apache
2 10 (1.15%) Confluence
3 8 (0.92%) Camunda
3 8 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.23%) CMS
7 2 (0.23%) JBoss
7 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Documentum
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Moqups
2 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 513 (58.97%) AWS
2 241 (27.70%) Azure
3 167 (19.20%) GCP
4 84 (9.66%) SaaS
5 56 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (6.09%) Serverless
7 39 (4.48%) GitHub
8 36 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.87%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (1.84%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (1.61%) Azure AKS
16 13 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.91%) HTTP
2 13 (1.49%) Broadband
3 11 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.80%) AMQP
4 7 (0.80%) SMS
5 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.34%) Firewall
5 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.11%) ATM
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (6.55%) MongoDB
3 54 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 45 (5.17%) MySQL
5 40 (4.60%) NoSQL
6 34 (3.91%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.53%) DynamoDB
8 16 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.92%) Metadata
10 7 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.69%) Redis
11 6 (0.69%) Spark SQL
12 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.34%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 75 (8.62%) Git
2 56 (6.44%) TeamCity
3 44 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.79%) GitLab
5 30 (3.45%) JUnit
6 27 (3.10%) JIRA
7 23 (2.64%) Selenium
8 20 (2.30%) Maven
9 19 (2.18%) Postman
10 17 (1.95%) Mockito
11 14 (1.61%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.15%) Claude Code
13 9 (1.03%) JMeter
14 8 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.92%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.92%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.80%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.57%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
17 4 (0.46%) IntelliJ
General
1 300 (34.48%) Finance
2 173 (19.89%) Banking
3 164 (18.85%) Social Skills
4 140 (16.09%) Public Sector
5 98 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (8.16%) Law
7 70 (8.05%) Retail
8 53 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
9 51 (5.86%) Back Office
10 47 (5.40%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.64%) Health Technology
11 23 (2.64%) Tech for Good
12 21 (2.41%) Investment Banking
13 18 (2.07%) Front Office
14 12 (1.38%) Legal
15 11 (1.26%) Local Government
16 10 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.03%) Aviation
18 8 (0.92%) Marketing
19 6 (0.69%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 307 (35.29%) Software Engineer
2 246 (28.28%) Developer
3 199 (22.87%) Senior
4 152 (17.47%) Lead
5 146 (16.78%) Java Developer
6 131 (15.06%) Java Engineer
7 87 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 84 (9.66%) Lead Software Engineer
9 74 (8.51%) Java Software Engineer
10 62 (7.13%) Senior Developer
11 58 (6.67%) Software Developer
12 45 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
13 44 (5.06%) Graduate
13 44 (5.06%) Senior Java Engineer
14 41 (4.71%) Engineering Manager
15 37 (4.25%) Full-Stack Developer
16 33 (3.79%) Development Engineer
16 33 (3.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 33 (3.79%) Software Development Engineer
16 33 (3.79%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (21.84%) Spring
2 134 (15.40%) Terraform
3 131 (15.06%) Spring Boot
4 117 (13.45%) React
5 112 (12.87%) REST
6 84 (9.66%) Node.js
7 83 (9.54%) .NET
8 61 (7.01%) AngularJS
8 61 (7.01%) Kafka
9 44 (5.06%) RESTful
10 40 (4.60%) CSS
11 26 (2.99%) jQuery
12 23 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (2.07%) Vue
14 17 (1.95%) Web Services
15 14 (1.61%) HTML
15 14 (1.61%) JPA
15 14 (1.61%) OpenAPI
16 12 (1.38%) GraphQL
17 11 (1.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 142 (16.32%) Product Ownership
2 134 (15.40%) Cloud Native
3 76 (8.74%) Public Cloud
4 62 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 24 (2.76%) Virtual Team
7 23 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.30%) Blog
9 16 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.38%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.26%) Equities
12 11 (1.26%) FPGA
12 11 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.15%) e-Learning
14 9 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (0.92%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 77 (8.85%) Linux
2 29 (3.33%) Windows
3 24 (2.76%) Unix
4 13 (1.49%) Android
5 11 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (49.66%) Software Engineering
2 349 (40.11%) CI/CD
3 347 (39.89%) Agile
4 230 (26.44%) Mentoring
5 226 (25.98%) Test Automation
6 209 (24.02%) Microservices
7 200 (22.99%) DevOps
8 166 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
9 165 (18.97%) Technical Leadership
10 142 (16.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 138 (15.86%) AI
12 132 (15.17%) Coaching
13 127 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (13.79%) Roadmaps
15 119 (13.68%) Clean Code
15 119 (13.68%) TDD
16 89 (10.23%) Containerisation
17 83 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
18 80 (9.20%) OO
19 79 (9.08%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 251 (28.85%) Python
2 193 (22.18%) JavaScript
3 185 (21.26%) SQL
4 146 (16.78%) C#
5 97 (11.15%) TypeScript
6 82 (9.43%) C++
7 48 (5.52%) Go
8 35 (4.02%) PHP
9 30 (3.45%) Bash
9 30 (3.45%) Kotlin
10 26 (2.99%) C
11 21 (2.41%) Ruby
11 21 (2.41%) Rust
12 16 (1.84%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.49%) Scala
14 11 (1.26%) Groovy
15 10 (1.15%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.92%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.69%) Ada
18 5 (0.57%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 160 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 129 (14.83%) SC Cleared
3 85 (9.77%) Degree
4 47 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.03%) CREST Certified
7 9 (1.03%) OSCP
8 8 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.46%) PhD
12 3 (0.34%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.34%) GXPN
12 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.34%) OCP
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.34%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.82%) QA
2 38 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.80%) NIST
5 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.46%) WCAG
6 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.34%) MiFID
6 3 (0.34%) MIL-STD-1553
6 3 (0.34%) UCITS
7 2 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 119 (13.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 167 (19.20%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.47%) Grafana
3 34 (3.91%) Ansible
4 16 (1.84%) Argo
5 15 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.46%) Packer
7 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (5.17%) Oracle
2 36 (4.14%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.10%) Google
4 14 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.92%) MuleSoft
6 8 (0.92%) Splunk
7 7 (0.80%) IBM
8 6 (0.69%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.69%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.57%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.57%) Sybase
10 4 (0.46%) JDA
10 4 (0.46%) SAP
11 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.34%) Foundry
11 3 (0.34%) Perforce
11 3 (0.34%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.34%) Talend
12 2 (0.23%) Sage
717 hybrid/remote Java jobs