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

 6 months to
31 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 20 29
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 964 1,449 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.02% 9.70% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.83% 24.54% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 619 738 1,953
10th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 5,119 5,904 13,614
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.68% 39.52% 40.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 4,084 11,470
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,731
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £79,600
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 31 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 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.35%) Apache
4 9 (0.93%) JBoss
5 8 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.52%) Confluence
6 5 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.31%) Camunda
8 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.10%) Maximo
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.10%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 542 (56.22%) AWS
2 225 (23.34%) Azure
3 178 (18.46%) GCP
4 89 (9.23%) SaaS
5 75 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
6 63 (6.54%) Serverless
7 42 (4.36%) GitHub
8 36 (3.73%) Amazon S3
9 33 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (2.39%) Pulumi
14 22 (2.28%) dbt
15 19 (1.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 19 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
17 16 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (1.66%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.15%) Broadband
2 29 (3.01%) HTTP
3 28 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.41%) AMQP
4 4 (0.41%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.31%) BGP
5 3 (0.31%) Network Security
5 3 (0.31%) VLAN
5 3 (0.31%) VPN
6 2 (0.21%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (8.61%) NoSQL
3 55 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 46 (4.77%) SQL Server
5 42 (4.36%) MySQL
6 34 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.07%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
8 19 (1.97%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.87%) RDBMS
10 17 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.35%) Metadata
12 12 (1.24%) Tableau
13 11 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.04%) Pinecone
14 10 (1.04%) Redis
15 9 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (0.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 57 (5.91%) Git
2 55 (5.71%) TeamCity
3 43 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.46%) JIRA
4 39 (4.05%) Selenium
5 36 (3.73%) GitLab
6 29 (3.01%) Postman
7 24 (2.49%) SoapUI
8 23 (2.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 23 (2.39%) WebDriver
9 21 (2.18%) Maven
10 19 (1.97%) JUnit
11 18 (1.87%) Jaeger
12 14 (1.45%) Claude Code
12 14 (1.45%) JMeter
13 11 (1.14%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.04%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.04%) MLflow
15 9 (0.93%) Mockito
15 9 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 327 (33.92%) Finance
2 187 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 181 (18.78%) Banking
4 137 (14.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (12.14%) Public Sector
6 101 (10.48%) Law
7 90 (9.34%) Retail
8 60 (6.22%) Financial Institution
9 55 (5.71%) Back Office
10 50 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
11 45 (4.67%) Front Office
12 32 (3.32%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.39%) Tech for Good
14 21 (2.18%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.66%) Games
16 14 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.93%) Aviation
18 7 (0.73%) Legal
18 7 (0.73%) Marketing
19 6 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 309 (32.05%) Developer
2 303 (31.43%) Software Engineer
3 242 (25.10%) Senior
4 193 (20.02%) Lead
5 180 (18.67%) Java Developer
6 154 (15.98%) Java Engineer
7 105 (10.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 93 (9.65%) Lead Software Engineer
9 84 (8.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 67 (6.95%) Senior Developer
11 57 (5.91%) Software Developer
12 49 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 45 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
13 45 (4.67%) Lead Developer
14 43 (4.46%) Senior Java Developer
14 43 (4.46%) Senior Java Engineer
15 41 (4.25%) Graduate
16 34 (3.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 33 (3.42%) Engineering Manager
17 33 (3.42%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (18.46%) Spring
2 143 (14.83%) React
3 126 (13.07%) Spring Boot
4 109 (11.31%) REST
5 103 (10.68%) Node.js
6 97 (10.06%) .NET
7 82 (8.51%) Kafka
8 63 (6.54%) AngularJS
9 58 (6.02%) RESTful
10 53 (5.50%) SOAP
11 39 (4.05%) CSS
11 39 (4.05%) HTML
12 38 (3.94%) GraphQL
13 32 (3.32%) Redux
14 29 (3.01%) Web Services
15 27 (2.80%) jQuery
16 26 (2.70%) JSON
17 23 (2.39%) Vue
18 22 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
19 21 (2.18%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 150 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 122 (12.66%) Product Ownership
3 66 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (6.33%) Public Cloud
5 34 (3.53%) Blog
5 34 (3.53%) Fixed Income
6 26 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 20 (2.07%) FPGA
7 20 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 19 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.56%) Equities
12 14 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.35%) e-Learning
13 13 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.93%) Sports Betting
15 8 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 104 (10.79%) Linux
2 42 (4.36%) Unix
3 20 (2.07%) Windows
4 19 (1.97%) Android
4 19 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.10%) CentOS
6 1 (0.10%) Debian
6 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (42.12%) Agile
2 403 (41.80%) Software Engineering
3 334 (34.65%) CI/CD
4 266 (27.59%) Mentoring
5 235 (24.38%) DevOps
6 230 (23.86%) Test Automation
7 207 (21.47%) Microservices
8 174 (18.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 143 (14.83%) Technical Leadership
10 135 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (13.90%) Roadmaps
12 133 (13.80%) Clean Code
13 120 (12.45%) Coaching
14 114 (11.83%) AI
15 109 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
16 107 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 107 (11.10%) TDD
17 98 (10.17%) Containerisation
18 94 (9.75%) Scrum
19 91 (9.44%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 286 (29.67%) Python
2 228 (23.65%) SQL
3 212 (21.99%) JavaScript
4 138 (14.32%) C#
5 107 (11.10%) Go
5 107 (11.10%) TypeScript
6 81 (8.40%) C++
7 46 (4.77%) Bash
8 32 (3.32%) PHP
9 26 (2.70%) C
9 26 (2.70%) Scala
10 24 (2.49%) Kotlin
11 20 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.76%) Apex Code
13 15 (1.56%) Rust
14 12 (1.24%) Ruby
15 10 (1.04%) Groovy
16 7 (0.73%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.62%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 135 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.28%) Degree
3 114 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 51 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.73%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 15 (1.56%) OSCP
10 14 (1.45%) CREST Certified
10 14 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.04%) PhD
12 10 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.41%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.57%) QA
2 40 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 9 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 7 (0.73%) WCAG
6 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.10%) NIST
System Software
1 139 (14.42%) Docker
2 4 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 190 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 170 (17.63%) Terraform
3 65 (6.74%) Grafana
4 46 (4.77%) Ansible
5 36 (3.73%) Argo
6 24 (2.49%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.87%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.73%) Packer
8 7 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.52%) FTK
10 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
11 2 (0.21%) Puppet
12 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.10%) Nessus
Vendors
1 45 (4.67%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.56%) Oracle
3 41 (4.25%) Google
4 17 (1.76%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 12 (1.24%) Databricks
7 11 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.04%) Palantir
9 8 (0.83%) Foundry
10 7 (0.73%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.62%) IBM
11 6 (0.62%) Splunk
12 5 (0.52%) Cellebrite
13 4 (0.41%) JDA
14 3 (0.31%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.31%) Okta
14 3 (0.31%) Revolut
14 3 (0.31%) SAP
14 3 (0.31%) TIBCO
15 2 (0.21%) iManage
179 hybrid/remote Java jobs