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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 905 1,424 1,903
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.06% 8.59% 7.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.06% 25.05% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 588 733 1,591
10th Percentile £37,012 £32,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £78,966
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.49% +1.89%

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 6,010 5,684 9,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.99% 34.27% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,524 3,940 7,656
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 2 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 13 (1.44%) Apache
1 13 (1.44%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (0.99%) Confluence
4 8 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.77%) Camunda
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Documentum
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.33%) Moqups
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 518 (57.24%) AWS
2 242 (26.74%) Azure
3 174 (19.23%) GCP
4 76 (8.40%) SaaS
5 57 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
6 47 (5.19%) Serverless
7 33 (3.65%) GitHub
8 26 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (1.88%) dbt
14 16 (1.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (1.66%) PaaS
16 14 (1.55%) Azure AKS
16 14 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.43%) HTTP
2 22 (2.43%) Broadband
3 20 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.33%) AMQP
4 3 (0.33%) Network Security
4 3 (0.33%) SMS
5 2 (0.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.11%) ATM
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.85%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 51 (5.64%) MySQL
5 50 (5.52%) NoSQL
6 29 (3.20%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 17 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (1.55%) Metadata
10 11 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.22%) Redis
11 8 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
16 3 (0.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 61 (6.74%) Git
2 53 (5.86%) TeamCity
3 38 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 30 (3.31%) GitLab
5 27 (2.98%) Selenium
6 24 (2.65%) JIRA
6 24 (2.65%) JUnit
7 19 (2.10%) Maven
8 18 (1.99%) Postman
9 15 (1.66%) Mockito
10 14 (1.55%) JMeter
11 12 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 12 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.22%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.77%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.77%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.55%) WebDriver
General
1 313 (34.59%) Finance
2 165 (18.23%) Banking
3 161 (17.79%) Social Skills
4 134 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 99 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (8.40%) Law
7 68 (7.51%) Retail
8 49 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (5.41%) Financial Institution
9 48 (5.30%) Back Office
10 42 (4.64%) Front Office
11 25 (2.76%) Investment Banking
12 21 (2.32%) Health Technology
13 20 (2.21%) Tech for Good
14 11 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.99%) Legal
16 8 (0.88%) Games
17 7 (0.77%) Aviation
17 7 (0.77%) Local Government
17 7 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 323 (35.69%) Software Engineer
2 278 (30.72%) Developer
3 208 (22.98%) Senior
4 169 (18.67%) Lead
5 156 (17.24%) Java Developer
6 149 (16.46%) Java Engineer
7 100 (11.05%) Lead Software Engineer
8 97 (10.72%) Java Software Engineer
9 87 (9.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 59 (6.52%) Software Developer
11 58 (6.41%) Senior Developer
12 48 (5.30%) Graduate
13 44 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
14 43 (4.75%) Senior Java Engineer
15 41 (4.53%) Senior Java Developer
16 40 (4.42%) Engineering Manager
17 38 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 35 (3.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 34 (3.76%) Graduate Developer
20 32 (3.54%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (19.78%) Spring
2 130 (14.36%) React
3 124 (13.70%) Spring Boot
4 111 (12.27%) REST
5 99 (10.94%) Node.js
6 88 (9.72%) Kafka
7 81 (8.95%) .NET
8 61 (6.74%) AngularJS
9 51 (5.64%) RESTful
10 42 (4.64%) CSS
11 36 (3.98%) GraphQL
12 32 (3.54%) Redux
13 31 (3.43%) jQuery
14 22 (2.43%) Vue
15 18 (1.99%) Web Services
16 17 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (1.66%) HTML
17 15 (1.66%) SOAP
18 13 (1.44%) Playwright
19 12 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 141 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 129 (14.25%) Product Ownership
3 75 (8.29%) Public Cloud
4 62 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.98%) Fixed Income
6 28 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 24 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 22 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.99%) Blog
9 18 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.66%) Equities
10 15 (1.66%) FPGA
11 14 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.10%) e-Learning
15 8 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.28%) Linux
2 29 (3.20%) Windows
3 27 (2.98%) Unix
4 10 (1.10%) Android
4 10 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (48.62%) Software Engineering
2 386 (42.65%) Agile
3 338 (37.35%) CI/CD
4 234 (25.86%) Test Automation
5 226 (24.97%) Mentoring
6 208 (22.98%) Microservices
7 203 (22.43%) DevOps
8 163 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
9 157 (17.35%) Technical Leadership
10 148 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
11 131 (14.48%) TDD
12 130 (14.36%) AI
13 129 (14.25%) Coaching
14 125 (13.81%) Clean Code
15 120 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 120 (13.26%) Roadmaps
16 91 (10.06%) Containerisation
17 90 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
18 77 (8.51%) Computer Science
19 74 (8.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 276 (30.50%) Python
2 193 (21.33%) SQL
3 192 (21.22%) JavaScript
4 135 (14.92%) C#
5 99 (10.94%) TypeScript
6 84 (9.28%) C++
7 71 (7.85%) Go
8 38 (4.20%) PHP
9 28 (3.09%) Bash
10 27 (2.98%) C
11 23 (2.54%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.99%) Ruby
12 18 (1.99%) Scala
13 14 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.55%) Rust
14 13 (1.44%) Apex Code
15 11 (1.22%) Groovy
15 11 (1.22%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.55%) Tcl
17 4 (0.44%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 153 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 127 (14.03%) SC Cleared
3 97 (10.72%) Degree
4 49 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.10%) CREST Certified
6 10 (1.10%) OSCP
7 9 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.77%) PhD
10 6 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.33%) CCSAM
13 3 (0.33%) GPEN
13 3 (0.33%) GXPN
13 3 (0.33%) OSCE
14 2 (0.22%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.96%) QA
2 39 (4.31%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.77%) WCAG
5 6 (0.66%) NIST
6 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) MiFID
7 3 (0.33%) UCITS
8 2 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.11%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 113 (12.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 167 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 130 (14.36%) Terraform
3 64 (7.07%) Grafana
4 26 (2.87%) Ansible
5 15 (1.66%) Argo
6 11 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (0.55%) Packer
8 2 (0.22%) FTK
8 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.22%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (4.86%) Oracle
2 38 (4.20%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.31%) Google
4 16 (1.77%) Salesforce
4 16 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 12 (1.33%) MuleSoft
6 9 (0.99%) Splunk
7 8 (0.88%) Foundry
7 8 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.77%) IBM
9 6 (0.66%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.55%) Sybase
11 4 (0.44%) JDA
11 4 (0.44%) SAP
12 3 (0.33%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.33%) Talend
13 2 (0.22%) Cellebrite
13 2 (0.22%) Palantir
13 2 (0.22%) Solace