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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 920 1,512 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.99% 10.34% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.64% 24.95% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 599 841 1,919
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +1.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -9.68%

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 4,936 6,060 13,367
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.77% 41.46% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,655 4,451 11,420
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 May 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 24 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.63%) JBoss
4 11 (1.20%) Apache
5 9 (0.98%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.11%) Maximo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 517 (56.20%) AWS
2 217 (23.59%) Azure
3 165 (17.93%) GCP
4 80 (8.70%) SaaS
5 65 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
5 65 (7.07%) Serverless
6 62 (6.74%) GitHub
7 38 (4.13%) Amazon S3
8 33 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (3.15%) GitHub Copilot
12 25 (2.72%) dbt
13 24 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (2.50%) Pulumi
15 18 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (1.74%) Vertex AI
18 15 (1.63%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.35%) Broadband
2 29 (3.15%) HTTP
2 29 (3.15%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.54%) PuTTY
4 4 (0.43%) AMQP
5 3 (0.33%) BGP
5 3 (0.33%) Network Security
5 3 (0.33%) VLAN
5 3 (0.33%) VPN
6 2 (0.22%) DHCP
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) DSL
6 2 (0.22%) LAN
6 2 (0.22%) NAS
6 2 (0.22%) SAN
6 2 (0.22%) SNMP
6 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.26%) NoSQL
3 48 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 43 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 35 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.48%) MySQL
7 20 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.07%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 18 (1.96%) RDBMS
10 16 (1.74%) Tableau
11 14 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.41%) Metadata
13 10 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.09%) Flink
13 10 (1.09%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.09%) Redis
14 9 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (5.87%) Jenkins
2 50 (5.43%) Git
3 46 (5.00%) JIRA
4 44 (4.78%) Selenium
5 43 (4.67%) TeamCity
6 34 (3.70%) GitLab
7 31 (3.37%) Postman
8 28 (3.04%) SoapUI
9 25 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (2.61%) WebDriver
11 19 (2.07%) Maven
12 18 (1.96%) Jaeger
13 15 (1.63%) JMeter
14 14 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (1.41%) Claude Code
15 13 (1.41%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.20%) Cucumber
16 11 (1.20%) JUnit
17 10 (1.09%) MLflow
18 9 (0.98%) REST Assured
General
1 320 (34.78%) Finance
2 190 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 160 (17.39%) Banking
4 120 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (9.57%) Law
6 84 (9.13%) Public Sector
7 81 (8.80%) Retail
8 51 (5.54%) Financial Institution
9 50 (5.43%) Front Office
10 47 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
11 45 (4.89%) Back Office
12 31 (3.37%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.17%) Tech for Good
15 19 (2.07%) Health Technology
16 18 (1.96%) Games
17 9 (0.98%) Aviation
17 9 (0.98%) Marketing
18 6 (0.65%) Legal
19 5 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 301 (32.72%) Developer
2 270 (29.35%) Software Engineer
3 227 (24.67%) Senior
4 174 (18.91%) Lead
5 168 (18.26%) Java Developer
6 148 (16.09%) Java Engineer
7 101 (10.98%) Java Software Engineer
8 75 (8.15%) Lead Software Engineer
9 70 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 60 (6.52%) Senior Developer
11 54 (5.87%) Software Developer
12 53 (5.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 46 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 45 (4.89%) Lead Developer
15 44 (4.78%) Graduate
16 39 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
16 39 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
17 35 (3.80%) Graduate Developer
18 34 (3.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 33 (3.59%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (17.83%) Spring
2 138 (15.00%) React
3 126 (13.70%) Spring Boot
4 109 (11.85%) REST
5 98 (10.65%) Node.js
6 94 (10.22%) .NET
7 80 (8.70%) Kafka
8 69 (7.50%) SOAP
9 61 (6.63%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.54%) RESTful
11 44 (4.78%) CSS
12 43 (4.67%) HTML
13 41 (4.46%) GraphQL
14 33 (3.59%) Redux
15 32 (3.48%) Web Services
16 30 (3.26%) jQuery
16 30 (3.26%) JSON
17 27 (2.93%) XML
18 26 (2.83%) Middleware
18 26 (2.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 146 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 104 (11.30%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (5.76%) Public Cloud
5 37 (4.02%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.37%) Blog
7 30 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.28%) FPGA
10 19 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.63%) Equities
13 14 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.41%) e-Learning
15 10 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.98%) DataPower
16 9 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (0.98%) Sports Betting
17 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 102 (11.09%) Linux
2 42 (4.57%) Unix
3 20 (2.17%) Windows
4 18 (1.96%) Android
4 18 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.33%) CentOS
5 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (42.17%) Agile
2 352 (38.26%) Software Engineering
3 299 (32.50%) CI/CD
4 238 (25.87%) Mentoring
5 229 (24.89%) DevOps
6 200 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 188 (20.43%) Microservices
8 165 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 127 (13.80%) Roadmaps
10 122 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
11 118 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
12 116 (12.61%) AI
12 116 (12.61%) Clean Code
13 100 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (10.76%) Computer Science
14 99 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 95 (10.33%) Containerisation
16 91 (9.89%) Coaching
17 88 (9.57%) Scrum
18 83 (9.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 306 (33.26%) Python
2 221 (24.02%) SQL
3 182 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 138 (15.00%) C#
5 109 (11.85%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.52%) Go
7 74 (8.04%) C++
8 39 (4.24%) Bash
9 36 (3.91%) PHP
10 27 (2.93%) C
11 25 (2.72%) PL/SQL
11 25 (2.72%) Scala
12 22 (2.39%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.85%) Apex Code
14 15 (1.63%) Rust
15 14 (1.52%) Shell Script
16 12 (1.30%) Ruby
17 9 (0.98%) Groovy
18 6 (0.65%) Perl
19 5 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 140 (15.22%) Degree
2 124 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 106 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 64 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.39%) ISTQB
8 20 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 15 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.52%) DBS Check
10 14 (1.52%) OSCP
10 14 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (1.41%) CREST Certified
12 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.09%) PhD
14 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.43%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.72%) QA
2 30 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 9 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.98%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.65%) WCAG
6 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.11%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 134 (14.57%) Docker
2 8 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 170 (18.48%) Kubernetes
2 160 (17.39%) Terraform
3 51 (5.54%) Grafana
4 45 (4.89%) Ansible
5 42 (4.57%) Argo
6 21 (2.28%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.96%) Kustomize
8 15 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.76%) Packer
10 5 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.54%) FTK
10 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Kibana
12 2 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.00%) Oracle
3 40 (4.35%) Google
4 17 (1.85%) MuleSoft
4 17 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.52%) Databricks
6 10 (1.09%) Palantir
7 9 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.87%) Foundry
9 7 (0.76%) IBM
9 7 (0.76%) Okta
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.54%) Cellebrite
10 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.43%) JDA
12 3 (0.33%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.33%) Revolut
12 3 (0.33%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.22%) Adobe
13 2 (0.22%) iManage
393 hybrid/remote Java jobs