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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 35 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 874 1,003 2,357
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.24% 7.82% 7.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.09% 17.29% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 579 805 1,910
10th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -3.98%
75th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -7.63%

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 4,579 5,802 13,198
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.44% 45.22% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,336 4,522 11,439
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 31 March 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 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.06%) JBoss
4 13 (1.49%) Apache
4 13 (1.49%) WebSphere
5 9 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.57%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.46%) Confluence
8 3 (0.34%) Camunda
8 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 19 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.57%) Shopify
3 2 (0.23%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 504 (57.67%) AWS
2 204 (23.34%) Azure
3 161 (18.42%) GCP
4 90 (10.30%) SaaS
5 81 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
6 78 (8.92%) GitHub
7 66 (7.55%) Serverless
8 40 (4.58%) Amazon S3
9 35 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (3.32%) dbt
12 28 (3.20%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (2.75%) Pulumi
14 23 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (2.17%) OCI
17 18 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (1.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 17 (1.95%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.46%) Broadband
2 34 (3.89%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.95%) HTTP
4 6 (0.69%) BGP
4 6 (0.69%) VLAN
4 6 (0.69%) VPN
5 5 (0.57%) AMQP
5 5 (0.57%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.23%) DHCP
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) DSL
6 2 (0.23%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.23%) LAN
6 2 (0.23%) NAS
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SNMP
6 2 (0.23%) SSH
6 2 (0.23%) WAN
7 1 (0.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.50%) NoSQL
2 80 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 43 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 38 (4.35%) MySQL
6 28 (3.20%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.29%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.17%) BigQuery
10 18 (2.06%) Tableau
11 17 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.83%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
15 12 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.26%) Power BI
17 10 (1.14%) Flink
18 9 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (1.03%) Looker
18 9 (1.03%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 66 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 60 (6.86%) Git
3 54 (6.18%) Selenium
4 51 (5.84%) TeamCity
5 42 (4.81%) JIRA
6 29 (3.32%) GitLab
6 29 (3.32%) Postman
7 28 (3.20%) WebDriver
8 26 (2.97%) SoapUI
9 22 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
10 20 (2.29%) Oracle Forms
11 19 (2.17%) Cucumber
11 19 (2.17%) Jaeger
12 18 (2.06%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.72%) JMeter
13 15 (1.72%) JUnit
14 14 (1.60%) Maven
15 10 (1.14%) Claude Code
15 10 (1.14%) MLflow
16 8 (0.92%) REST Assured
General
1 328 (37.53%) Finance
2 211 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 151 (17.28%) Banking
4 137 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (13.27%) Law
6 100 (11.44%) Retail
7 73 (8.35%) Financial Institution
8 71 (8.12%) Public Sector
9 56 (6.41%) Back Office
9 56 (6.41%) Front Office
10 44 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (3.89%) Games
12 30 (3.43%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.83%) Health Technology
15 15 (1.72%) Tech for Good
16 9 (1.03%) Marketing
17 7 (0.80%) Legal
18 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 289 (33.07%) Developer
2 258 (29.52%) Software Engineer
3 221 (25.29%) Senior
4 159 (18.19%) Lead
5 147 (16.82%) Java Developer
6 138 (15.79%) Java Engineer
7 100 (11.44%) Java Software Engineer
8 72 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 60 (6.86%) Lead Software Engineer
10 56 (6.41%) Senior Developer
11 54 (6.18%) Software Developer
12 52 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (5.61%) Lead Developer
14 45 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (4.92%) Architect
16 42 (4.81%) Senior Java Engineer
17 38 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 33 (3.78%) Graduate
20 32 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (18.76%) Spring
2 135 (15.45%) React
3 134 (15.33%) Spring Boot
4 100 (11.44%) REST
5 89 (10.18%) .NET
6 87 (9.95%) Kafka
7 83 (9.50%) Node.js
8 82 (9.38%) SOAP
9 81 (9.27%) RESTful
10 51 (5.84%) AngularJS
11 46 (5.26%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.69%) CSS
13 39 (4.46%) HTML
14 36 (4.12%) Redux
15 35 (4.00%) XML
16 34 (3.89%) JSON
17 31 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
17 31 (3.55%) Middleware
18 29 (3.32%) jQuery
18 29 (3.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 161 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.01%) Product Ownership
3 61 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (4.92%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.66%) Blog
7 31 (3.55%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.52%) FPGA
9 18 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.83%) Equities
12 14 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.49%) DataPower
14 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.26%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.26%) Sports Betting
16 10 (1.14%) Data Structures
16 10 (1.14%) Derivative
16 10 (1.14%) Security Posture
17 9 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.98%) Linux
2 37 (4.23%) Unix
3 16 (1.83%) Android
4 15 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.03%) Windows
6 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.34%) CentOS
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (44.62%) Agile
2 345 (39.47%) Software Engineering
3 310 (35.47%) CI/CD
4 231 (26.43%) DevOps
5 219 (25.06%) Mentoring
6 193 (22.08%) Microservices
7 187 (21.40%) Test Automation
8 155 (17.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 121 (13.84%) AI
10 113 (12.93%) Clean Code
11 112 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (12.01%) Containerisation
13 103 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (11.33%) Computer Science
14 99 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
15 94 (10.76%) Coaching
16 93 (10.64%) Roadmaps
17 90 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 84 (9.61%) Fintech
19 75 (8.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 298 (34.10%) Python
2 223 (25.51%) SQL
3 179 (20.48%) JavaScript
4 122 (13.96%) C#
5 110 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.67%) Go
7 74 (8.47%) C++
8 34 (3.89%) Bash
9 29 (3.32%) PHP
10 26 (2.97%) C
10 26 (2.97%) PL/SQL
10 26 (2.97%) Shell Script
11 25 (2.86%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.63%) Scala
13 20 (2.29%) Apex Code
14 11 (1.26%) Ruby
15 10 (1.14%) Rust
16 8 (0.92%) Delphi
16 8 (0.92%) Groovy
17 5 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 143 (16.36%) Degree
2 111 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 93 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 66 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.52%) ISTQB
8 21 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 20 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.60%) OSCP
12 13 (1.49%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.26%) PhD
14 10 (1.14%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.69%) OSCE
17 3 (0.34%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.32%) QA
2 29 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.37%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.14%) GDPR
6 9 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.57%) NIST
9 5 (0.57%) WCAG
10 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.46%) NCSC
11 2 (0.23%) ECSS
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 147 (16.82%) Docker
2 13 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 189 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 158 (18.08%) Terraform
3 68 (7.78%) Grafana
4 40 (4.58%) Ansible
5 32 (3.66%) Argo
6 23 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (2.17%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.57%) FTK
9 5 (0.57%) Kibana
10 4 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.46%) Packer
11 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (6.41%) Oracle
2 51 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.92%) Google
4 25 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.60%) Databricks
7 12 (1.37%) IBM
8 10 (1.14%) Okta
8 10 (1.14%) Palantir
9 9 (1.03%) Dell
10 8 (0.92%) Foundry
11 6 (0.69%) SAP
11 6 (0.69%) Talend
11 6 (0.69%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.57%) Epicor
12 5 (0.57%) Infor
12 5 (0.57%) Informatica
12 5 (0.57%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.57%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.57%) Software AG