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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 956 1,498 2,295
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.12% 9.93% 7.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.17% 24.45% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 621 781 1,934
10th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.77% -1.59%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 4,987 6,126 13,360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.71% 40.60% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,683 4,290 11,371
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,564
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 £79,500
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 17 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 25 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.36%) JBoss
4 11 (1.15%) Apache
5 7 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.73%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.52%) Confluence
7 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.10%) Appian
9 1 (0.10%) FileNet
9 1 (0.10%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.10%) Maximo
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.10%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 538 (56.28%) AWS
2 230 (24.06%) Azure
3 176 (18.41%) GCP
4 87 (9.10%) SaaS
5 74 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
6 64 (6.69%) Serverless
7 55 (5.75%) GitHub
8 38 (3.97%) Amazon S3
8 38 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 24 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (2.51%) dbt
13 23 (2.41%) Pulumi
14 18 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
15 17 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (1.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (1.67%) Vertex AI
17 15 (1.57%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.18%) Broadband
2 30 (3.14%) HTTP
3 27 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.52%) PuTTY
5 4 (0.42%) AMQP
6 3 (0.31%) BGP
6 3 (0.31%) Network Security
6 3 (0.31%) VLAN
6 3 (0.31%) VPN
7 2 (0.21%) DSL
8 1 (0.10%) DHCP
8 1 (0.10%) DNS
8 1 (0.10%) LAN
8 1 (0.10%) NAS
8 1 (0.10%) SAN
8 1 (0.10%) SNMP
8 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 50 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 48 (5.02%) SQL Server
5 40 (4.18%) MySQL
6 31 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.09%) BigQuery
7 20 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 18 (1.88%) RDBMS
10 15 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (1.57%) Tableau
11 13 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.36%) Metadata
12 10 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.05%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.05%) Redis
13 9 (0.94%) Flink
13 9 (0.94%) Looker
Development Applications
1 55 (5.75%) Git
2 53 (5.54%) TeamCity
3 51 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 45 (4.71%) JIRA
5 42 (4.39%) Selenium
6 34 (3.56%) GitLab
7 30 (3.14%) Postman
8 26 (2.72%) SoapUI
9 25 (2.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (2.51%) WebDriver
11 20 (2.09%) Maven
12 18 (1.88%) Jaeger
13 15 (1.57%) JMeter
14 14 (1.46%) Claude Code
15 13 (1.36%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.26%) JUnit
16 12 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
17 10 (1.05%) Cucumber
17 10 (1.05%) MLflow
17 10 (1.05%) REST Assured
General
1 324 (33.89%) Finance
2 183 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 173 (18.10%) Banking
4 134 (14.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (11.40%) Public Sector
6 100 (10.46%) Law
7 92 (9.62%) Retail
8 59 (6.17%) Financial Institution
9 53 (5.54%) Back Office
10 48 (5.02%) Front Office
11 47 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
12 29 (3.03%) Investment Banking
13 20 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (2.09%) Tech for Good
14 19 (1.99%) Health Technology
15 18 (1.88%) Games
16 9 (0.94%) Aviation
17 8 (0.84%) Marketing
18 7 (0.73%) Legal
19 5 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 305 (31.90%) Developer
2 300 (31.38%) Software Engineer
3 243 (25.42%) Senior
4 188 (19.67%) Lead
5 172 (17.99%) Java Developer
6 151 (15.79%) Java Engineer
7 105 (10.98%) Java Software Engineer
8 86 (9.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 85 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 64 (6.69%) Senior Developer
11 56 (5.86%) Software Developer
12 50 (5.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 46 (4.81%) Lead Developer
14 45 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
15 44 (4.60%) Graduate
16 42 (4.39%) Senior Java Engineer
17 41 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
18 35 (3.66%) Graduate Developer
19 34 (3.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 31 (3.24%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (17.36%) Spring
2 138 (14.44%) React
3 127 (13.28%) Spring Boot
4 109 (11.40%) REST
5 103 (10.77%) Node.js
6 100 (10.46%) .NET
7 82 (8.58%) Kafka
8 64 (6.69%) SOAP
9 60 (6.28%) AngularJS
10 58 (6.07%) RESTful
11 41 (4.29%) CSS
12 40 (4.18%) HTML
13 39 (4.08%) GraphQL
14 33 (3.45%) Redux
15 32 (3.35%) Web Services
16 30 (3.14%) jQuery
17 29 (3.03%) JSON
18 26 (2.72%) XML
19 24 (2.51%) Middleware
19 24 (2.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 151 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 113 (11.82%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (5.86%) Public Cloud
5 36 (3.77%) Fixed Income
6 34 (3.56%) Blog
7 27 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 26 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.99%) FPGA
9 19 (1.99%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.57%) Equities
13 14 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.36%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.36%) e-Learning
15 11 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.94%) Sports Betting
17 8 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 7 (0.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 103 (10.77%) Linux
2 42 (4.39%) Unix
3 20 (2.09%) Windows
4 19 (1.99%) Android
4 19 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.21%) CentOS
5 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Debian
6 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (42.15%) Agile
2 392 (41.00%) Software Engineering
3 326 (34.10%) CI/CD
4 267 (27.93%) Mentoring
5 239 (25.00%) DevOps
6 221 (23.12%) Test Automation
7 199 (20.82%) Microservices
8 169 (17.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 132 (13.81%) Technical Leadership
10 129 (13.49%) Clean Code
10 129 (13.49%) Roadmaps
11 120 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
12 117 (12.24%) Coaching
13 115 (12.03%) AI
14 104 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 101 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
16 95 (9.94%) Computer Science
17 94 (9.83%) TDD
18 93 (9.73%) Containerisation
19 90 (9.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 299 (31.28%) Python
2 233 (24.37%) SQL
3 203 (21.23%) JavaScript
4 143 (14.96%) C#
5 107 (11.19%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.09%) Go
7 81 (8.47%) C++
8 41 (4.29%) Bash
9 34 (3.56%) PHP
10 26 (2.72%) C
11 25 (2.62%) Scala
12 24 (2.51%) PL/SQL
13 22 (2.30%) Kotlin
14 18 (1.88%) Apex Code
15 15 (1.57%) Rust
16 12 (1.26%) Shell Script
17 11 (1.15%) Ruby
18 9 (0.94%) Groovy
19 5 (0.52%) Perl
19 5 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 137 (14.33%) Degree
2 125 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 106 (11.09%) SC Cleared
4 59 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.41%) ISTQB
8 20 (2.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 15 (1.57%) OSCP
10 14 (1.46%) CREST Certified
10 14 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 13 (1.36%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.05%) PhD
14 7 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.42%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.32%) QA
2 38 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 9 (0.94%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.63%) WCAG
6 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.10%) GDPR
8 1 (0.10%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 135 (14.12%) Docker
2 7 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 184 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 170 (17.78%) Terraform
3 61 (6.38%) Grafana
4 44 (4.60%) Ansible
5 39 (4.08%) Argo
6 22 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.88%) Kustomize
8 13 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.73%) Packer
10 5 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.52%) FTK
10 5 (0.52%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.21%) Kibana
12 2 (0.21%) Puppet
13 1 (0.10%) Nessus
13 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 52 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.81%) Oracle
3 40 (4.18%) Google
4 18 (1.88%) Salesforce
5 17 (1.78%) MuleSoft
6 14 (1.46%) Databricks
7 10 (1.05%) Palantir
8 9 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.84%) Foundry
10 7 (0.73%) IBM
10 7 (0.73%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.63%) Okta
12 5 (0.52%) Cellebrite
13 4 (0.42%) JDA
14 3 (0.31%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.31%) Revolut
14 3 (0.31%) Splunk
14 3 (0.31%) TIBCO
15 2 (0.21%) Guidewire
15 2 (0.21%) iManage