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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 35 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -15 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 761 1,143 2,470
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.82% 7.08% 9.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.73% 16.18% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 515 762 1,959
10th Percentile £38,400 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,569 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +13.67% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 4,291 7,063 12,412
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.18% 43.76% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 4,423 10,749
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 1 February 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 30 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (3.68%) Apache
3 24 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 16 (2.10%) JBoss
6 13 (1.71%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.53%) Confluence
9 3 (0.39%) Luigi
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Camunda
10 2 (0.26%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) FileNet
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.39%) Simulink
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 37 (4.86%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.66%) Shopify
3 3 (0.39%) Maximo
4 2 (0.26%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 425 (55.85%) AWS
2 206 (27.07%) Azure
3 123 (16.16%) GCP
4 92 (12.09%) GitHub
5 71 (9.33%) SaaS
6 70 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
7 66 (8.67%) Serverless
8 41 (5.39%) Amazon S3
8 41 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (4.86%) OCI
10 35 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (4.20%) GitHub Copilot
13 26 (3.42%) dbt
14 25 (3.29%) Power Platform
14 25 (3.29%) Snowflake
15 21 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (2.63%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.50%) OpenShift
17 19 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.55%) TCP/IP
2 21 (2.76%) Broadband
3 11 (1.45%) HTTP
4 6 (0.79%) BGP
4 6 (0.79%) VLAN
4 6 (0.79%) VPN
5 5 (0.66%) AMQP
5 5 (0.66%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.39%) Internet
6 3 (0.39%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.26%) DHCP
7 2 (0.26%) DNS
7 2 (0.26%) DSL
7 2 (0.26%) LAN
7 2 (0.26%) NAS
7 2 (0.26%) SAN
7 2 (0.26%) SNMP
7 2 (0.26%) SSH
7 2 (0.26%) WAN
8 1 (0.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (8.41%) NoSQL
3 46 (6.04%) SQL Server
4 43 (5.65%) Relational Database
5 35 (4.60%) MySQL
6 26 (3.42%) Tableau
7 23 (3.02%) Apache Iceberg
8 21 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (2.76%) Power BI
8 21 (2.76%) RDBMS
9 20 (2.63%) Data Lake
10 19 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (2.50%) MongoDB
11 18 (2.37%) Apache Ignite
12 15 (1.97%) Apache Arrow
12 15 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.97%) Dremio
13 13 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.71%) DynamoDB
14 11 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 85 (11.17%) Jenkins
2 65 (8.54%) Git
3 64 (8.41%) Selenium
4 57 (7.49%) JIRA
5 39 (5.12%) Oracle Forms
6 37 (4.86%) WebDriver
7 35 (4.60%) Postman
7 35 (4.60%) TeamCity
8 34 (4.47%) SoapUI
9 30 (3.94%) GitLab
9 30 (3.94%) Team Foundation Server
10 21 (2.76%) Cypress.io
10 21 (2.76%) JUnit
11 19 (2.50%) Jaeger
12 17 (2.23%) Cucumber
13 14 (1.84%) Maven
14 9 (1.18%) JMeter
14 9 (1.18%) MLflow
15 7 (0.92%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 296 (38.90%) Finance
2 233 (30.62%) Social Skills
3 130 (17.08%) Banking
4 106 (13.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (11.96%) Law
6 78 (10.25%) Retail
7 60 (7.88%) Financial Institution
8 54 (7.10%) Public Sector
9 41 (5.39%) Back Office
10 40 (5.26%) Front Office
11 37 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
12 36 (4.73%) Investment Banking
13 30 (3.94%) Games
14 22 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.84%) Health Technology
15 14 (1.84%) Tech for Good
16 12 (1.58%) Billing
17 10 (1.31%) Legal
18 7 (0.92%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 226 (29.70%) Developer
2 191 (25.10%) Senior
3 171 (22.47%) Software Engineer
4 115 (15.11%) Lead
5 109 (14.32%) Java Developer
6 103 (13.53%) Java Engineer
7 70 (9.20%) Java Software Engineer
8 60 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 52 (6.83%) Architect
10 51 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
12 45 (5.91%) Applications Engineer
13 42 (5.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 42 (5.52%) Senior Java Engineer
14 37 (4.86%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.73%) Software Developer
16 31 (4.07%) Graduate
16 31 (4.07%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 30 (3.94%) Lead Developer
18 28 (3.68%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (19.45%) Spring
2 124 (16.29%) Spring Boot
3 103 (13.53%) React
4 97 (12.75%) .NET
4 97 (12.75%) RESTful
4 97 (12.75%) SOAP
5 80 (10.51%) REST
6 68 (8.94%) Kafka
7 47 (6.18%) HTML
8 43 (5.65%) Node.js
9 42 (5.52%) JSON
9 42 (5.52%) XML
10 40 (5.26%) CSS
11 33 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
12 31 (4.07%) AngularJS
13 29 (3.81%) Middleware
14 28 (3.68%) Hibernate
14 28 (3.68%) Web Services
15 27 (3.55%) jQuery
16 22 (2.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 156 (20.50%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.07%) Enterprise Software
3 53 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (6.18%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.42%) Blog
6 25 (3.29%) Derivative
6 25 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.76%) Equities
7 21 (2.76%) Fixed Income
8 20 (2.63%) FPGA
9 19 (2.50%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.37%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.97%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.97%) Pricing Data
13 13 (1.71%) DataPower
13 13 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
14 10 (1.31%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.09%) Linux
2 33 (4.34%) Unix
3 13 (1.71%) Android
4 12 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.31%) Windows
6 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.39%) CentOS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (45.34%) Agile
2 276 (36.27%) CI/CD
3 257 (33.77%) Software Engineering
4 220 (28.91%) DevOps
5 204 (26.81%) Mentoring
6 192 (25.23%) Microservices
7 152 (19.97%) Test Automation
8 121 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (15.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (14.98%) Computer Science
11 113 (14.85%) AI
12 109 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (13.01%) Coaching
14 79 (10.38%) Clean Code
15 78 (10.25%) Containerisation
16 72 (9.46%) Roadmaps
17 69 (9.07%) Scrum
17 69 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
18 68 (8.94%) Fintech
19 67 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 279 (36.66%) Python
2 203 (26.68%) SQL
3 148 (19.45%) JavaScript
4 138 (18.13%) C#
5 94 (12.35%) TypeScript
6 68 (8.94%) C++
7 60 (7.88%) Go
8 46 (6.04%) PL/SQL
9 44 (5.78%) Shell Script
10 34 (4.47%) Bash
11 28 (3.68%) PHP
12 26 (3.42%) C
12 26 (3.42%) Scala
13 22 (2.89%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.58%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.18%) Groovy
16 8 (1.05%) Delphi
16 8 (1.05%) R
17 5 (0.66%) Ruby
17 5 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (21.29%) Degree
2 105 (13.80%) Security Cleared
3 90 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 82 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (6.57%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 31 (4.07%) ISTQB
7 29 (3.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 28 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.84%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.18%) OSCP
14 8 (1.05%) CREST Certified
14 8 (1.05%) PhD
15 7 (0.92%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.53%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.83%) QA
2 21 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.58%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.58%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.45%) GDPR
5 10 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.79%) NCSC
7 6 (0.79%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.53%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.26%) ECSS
9 2 (0.26%) SEPA
9 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 127 (16.69%) Docker
2 23 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 169 (22.21%) Kubernetes
2 145 (19.05%) Terraform
3 49 (6.44%) Grafana
4 47 (6.18%) Ansible
5 37 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (4.34%) Argo
7 23 (3.02%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.50%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.92%) Kibana
10 6 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.53%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.39%) Packer
12 3 (0.39%) Puppet
13 2 (0.26%) FTK
13 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 1 (0.13%) Icinga
14 1 (0.13%) Istio
14 1 (0.13%) Nagios
14 1 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 73 (9.59%) Oracle
2 57 (7.49%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.34%) Google
4 22 (2.89%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.63%) Okta
6 16 (2.10%) Databricks
7 12 (1.58%) IBM
7 12 (1.58%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.31%) Dell
8 10 (1.31%) Guidewire
9 9 (1.18%) Palantir
10 7 (0.92%) SAP
11 6 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.79%) Talend
11 6 (0.79%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.66%) Epicor
12 5 (0.66%) Infor
12 5 (0.66%) Informatica
12 5 (0.66%) Mercator
12 5 (0.66%) Software AG