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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -40 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 876 1,277 1,853
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.71% 7.89% 7.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.28% 25.08% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 552 615 1,469
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -19.44% +20.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.57%

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 6,136 5,091 9,076
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.01% 31.44% 38.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,610 3,464 6,551
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -0.78% -0.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
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 6 September 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 (1.60%) Apache
2 10 (1.14%) Confluence
3 8 (0.91%) Camunda
3 8 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.68%) 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%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Documentum
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
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
1 514 (58.68%) AWS
2 240 (27.40%) Azure
3 170 (19.41%) GCP
4 86 (9.82%) SaaS
5 61 (6.96%) Serverless
6 60 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
7 44 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (4.34%) GitHub
9 28 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (2.85%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
12 19 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 16 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
15 15 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (1.60%) Azure AKS
17 13 (1.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 13 (1.48%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.88%) HTTP
2 13 (1.48%) Broadband
3 10 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.91%) AMQP
4 8 (0.91%) 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 81 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.94%) SQL Server
4 41 (4.68%) MySQL
5 39 (4.45%) NoSQL
6 32 (3.65%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.40%) DynamoDB
8 16 (1.83%) Spark SQL
9 15 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.91%) Metadata
11 7 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.68%) Redis
13 4 (0.46%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.34%) Flink
14 3 (0.34%) GIS
14 3 (0.34%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 74 (8.45%) Git
2 59 (6.74%) TeamCity
3 43 (4.91%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.77%) GitLab
5 31 (3.54%) JUnit
6 26 (2.97%) JIRA
7 23 (2.63%) Selenium
8 21 (2.40%) Maven
9 19 (2.17%) Postman
10 18 (2.05%) Mockito
11 14 (1.60%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.03%) JMeter
13 8 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.91%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.91%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.80%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.57%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
16 4 (0.46%) IntelliJ
General
1 289 (32.99%) Finance
2 178 (20.32%) Banking
3 163 (18.61%) Social Skills
4 149 (17.01%) Public Sector
5 100 (11.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (8.45%) Law
7 72 (8.22%) Retail
8 59 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
9 53 (6.05%) Back Office
10 49 (5.59%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.74%) Health Technology
11 24 (2.74%) Tech for Good
12 19 (2.17%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.37%) Legal
14 11 (1.26%) Local Government
15 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.03%) Aviation
16 9 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.91%) Front Office
18 7 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 303 (34.59%) Software Engineer
2 227 (25.91%) Developer
3 203 (23.17%) Senior
4 146 (16.67%) Lead
5 139 (15.87%) Java Engineer
6 138 (15.75%) Java Developer
7 86 (9.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 79 (9.02%) Lead Software Engineer
9 71 (8.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (6.39%) Senior Developer
11 54 (6.16%) Senior Java Engineer
11 54 (6.16%) Software Developer
12 42 (4.79%) Graduate
13 41 (4.68%) Engineering Manager
13 41 (4.68%) Senior Java Developer
14 33 (3.77%) Development Engineer
14 33 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
14 33 (3.77%) Software Development Engineer
14 33 (3.77%) Software Engineering Manager
14 33 (3.77%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (21.69%) Spring
2 139 (15.87%) Terraform
3 130 (14.84%) Spring Boot
4 114 (13.01%) REST
5 107 (12.21%) React
6 90 (10.27%) .NET
7 73 (8.33%) Node.js
8 58 (6.62%) AngularJS
9 55 (6.28%) Kafka
10 44 (5.02%) RESTful
11 36 (4.11%) CSS
12 25 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (2.63%) jQuery
14 20 (2.28%) PySpark
15 17 (1.94%) Web Services
16 15 (1.71%) JPA
16 15 (1.71%) Vue
17 14 (1.60%) OpenAPI
18 13 (1.48%) HTML
19 12 (1.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 144 (16.44%) Product Ownership
2 138 (15.75%) Cloud Native
3 76 (8.68%) Public Cloud
4 62 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.31%) Distributed Architecture
6 24 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 23 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.40%) Blog
9 16 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.14%) e-Learning
13 10 (1.14%) Equities
13 10 (1.14%) FPGA
14 9 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 76 (8.68%) Linux
2 29 (3.31%) Windows
3 24 (2.74%) Unix
4 14 (1.60%) Android
5 12 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (48.63%) Software Engineering
2 358 (40.87%) CI/CD
3 341 (38.93%) Agile
4 244 (27.85%) Mentoring
5 227 (25.91%) Test Automation
6 212 (24.20%) Microservices
7 196 (22.37%) DevOps
8 166 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
9 165 (18.84%) Technical Leadership
10 143 (16.32%) Coaching
10 143 (16.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 136 (15.53%) AI
12 129 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (13.81%) Clean Code
13 121 (13.81%) Roadmaps
14 118 (13.47%) TDD
15 88 (10.05%) Containerisation
16 84 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (9.36%) OO
18 78 (8.90%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 245 (27.97%) Python
2 195 (22.26%) JavaScript
3 194 (22.15%) SQL
4 150 (17.12%) C#
5 90 (10.27%) C++
6 88 (10.05%) TypeScript
7 38 (4.34%) Go
8 33 (3.77%) PHP
9 30 (3.42%) Bash
10 29 (3.31%) Kotlin
11 25 (2.85%) C
12 21 (2.40%) Ruby
13 20 (2.28%) Rust
14 16 (1.83%) PL/SQL
15 13 (1.48%) Scala
16 11 (1.26%) Groovy
17 10 (1.14%) PowerShell
18 7 (0.80%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.68%) Ada
20 5 (0.57%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 161 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 129 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.36%) Degree
4 45 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.03%) CREST Certified
7 9 (1.03%) OSCP
8 8 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.34%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.34%) GPEN
12 3 (0.34%) GXPN
12 3 (0.34%) OCP
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.34%) OSCE
12 3 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.76%) QA
2 38 (4.34%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.54%) 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
1 121 (13.81%) 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
1 171 (19.52%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.76%) Grafana
3 35 (4.00%) Ansible
4 16 (1.83%) Argo
5 15 (1.71%) 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 (5.14%) Oracle
2 36 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.08%) Google
4 14 (1.60%) ServiceNow
5 10 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.91%) Splunk
7 7 (0.80%) IBM
7 7 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.68%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.68%) 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