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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 31 17
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 681 1,349 2,140
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.44% 7.67% 10.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.34% 17.97% 22.99%
Number of salaries quoted 495 949 1,682
10th Percentile £36,450 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +13.35% +0.82%
75th Percentile £107,500 £116,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £139,000 £144,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 4,168 7,509 9,308
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.17% 42.67% 46.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,202 4,867 7,873
10th Percentile £35,800 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.17% -3.08%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 16 December 2025.

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 53 (7.78%) Apache
2 52 (7.64%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 14 (2.06%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.62%) JBoss
6 9 (1.32%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.73%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.44%) Confluence
8 3 (0.44%) Luigi
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 35 (5.14%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (1.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.73%) Shopify
4 3 (0.44%) Maximo
5 2 (0.29%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (56.98%) AWS
2 210 (30.84%) Azure
3 99 (14.54%) GCP
4 94 (13.80%) GitHub
5 51 (7.49%) dbt
6 49 (7.20%) SaaS
6 49 (7.20%) Serverless
7 48 (7.05%) Snowflake
8 45 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (5.14%) OCI
11 29 (4.26%) Amazon S3
11 29 (4.26%) GitHub Copilot
12 27 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (3.82%) Power Platform
14 25 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (2.94%) OpenShift
17 19 (2.79%) Entra ID
18 17 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.67%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.32%) HTTP
3 4 (0.59%) AMQP
3 4 (0.59%) Broadband
4 3 (0.44%) BGP
4 3 (0.44%) Internet
4 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.44%) PuTTY
4 3 (0.44%) VLAN
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) LAN
5 2 (0.29%) NAS
5 2 (0.29%) SAN
5 2 (0.29%) SNMP
5 2 (0.29%) SSH
5 2 (0.29%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
1 61 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 52 (7.64%) Data Lake
3 48 (7.05%) Apache Ignite
4 46 (6.75%) Apache Iceberg
5 45 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (6.61%) Apache Arrow
5 45 (6.61%) Dremio
6 42 (6.17%) NoSQL
7 41 (6.02%) MySQL
8 26 (3.82%) Relational Database
9 23 (3.38%) MongoDB
9 23 (3.38%) Power BI
10 18 (2.64%) Tableau
11 17 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.47%) Flink
13 9 (1.32%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.32%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 81 (11.89%) Jenkins
2 58 (8.52%) Selenium
3 56 (8.22%) Git
4 46 (6.75%) JIRA
5 37 (5.43%) Oracle Forms
6 33 (4.85%) WebDriver
7 29 (4.26%) GitLab
7 29 (4.26%) Postman
8 27 (3.96%) SoapUI
9 25 (3.67%) Team Foundation Server
10 21 (3.08%) Cypress.io
11 19 (2.79%) JUnit
12 16 (2.35%) Cucumber
12 16 (2.35%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.62%) Maven
14 8 (1.17%) JMeter
15 6 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (0.73%) SonarQube
17 4 (0.59%) Babel
17 4 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 315 (46.26%) Finance
2 190 (27.90%) Social Skills
3 127 (18.65%) Banking
4 99 (14.54%) Front Office
5 67 (9.84%) Investment Banking
6 52 (7.64%) Law
7 47 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (6.17%) Public Sector
9 41 (6.02%) Retail
10 39 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
11 38 (5.58%) Financial Institution
12 36 (5.29%) Back Office
13 25 (3.67%) Games
14 20 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (2.35%) Billing
16 13 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.76%) Legal
18 7 (1.03%) Aviation
18 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 241 (35.39%) Developer
2 184 (27.02%) Senior
3 183 (26.87%) Software Engineer
4 105 (15.42%) Java Engineer
5 89 (13.07%) Lead
6 84 (12.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 80 (11.75%) Java Developer
8 77 (11.31%) Senior Software Engineer
9 64 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
10 59 (8.66%) Senior Java Engineer
11 52 (7.64%) Python Engineer
11 52 (7.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 50 (7.34%) AWS Software Engineer
13 47 (6.90%) Architect
14 46 (6.75%) Python Software Engineer
15 42 (6.17%) Applications Engineer
16 39 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
16 39 (5.73%) Graduate
17 38 (5.58%) Lead Developer
18 37 (5.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (17.91%) Spring
2 111 (16.30%) Spring Boot
3 109 (16.01%) React
4 95 (13.95%) RESTful
5 90 (13.22%) .NET
6 88 (12.92%) Kafka
7 77 (11.31%) SOAP
8 63 (9.25%) REST
9 56 (8.22%) Node.js
10 48 (7.05%) CSS
11 46 (6.75%) gRPC
11 46 (6.75%) Protocol Buffers
12 45 (6.61%) NumPy
12 45 (6.61%) Pandas
12 45 (6.61%) SciPy
13 42 (6.17%) XML
14 40 (5.87%) HTML
15 35 (5.14%) GraphQL
16 34 (4.99%) jQuery
16 34 (4.99%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 122 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 75 (11.01%) Fixed Income
3 62 (9.10%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (8.22%) Derivative
5 53 (7.78%) Equities
6 49 (7.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 45 (6.61%) Hedge funds
7 45 (6.61%) Pricing Data
8 40 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (3.38%) Algorithms
10 23 (3.38%) Product Ownership
11 21 (3.08%) FPGA
12 17 (2.50%) Public Cloud
13 16 (2.35%) NHS
14 15 (2.20%) Onboarding
15 14 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.76%) Data Structures
17 10 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
17 10 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.84%) Linux
2 12 (1.76%) Windows
3 10 (1.47%) Unix
4 4 (0.59%) Android
4 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.29%) CentOS
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (55.07%) Agile
2 254 (37.30%) Software Engineering
3 220 (32.31%) CI/CD
4 174 (25.55%) DevOps
5 172 (25.26%) Microservices
6 158 (23.20%) Mentoring
7 124 (18.21%) Computer Science
8 123 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (17.77%) Test Automation
10 91 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 91 (13.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 90 (13.22%) AI
12 85 (12.48%) Asset Management
13 83 (12.19%) Coaching
14 80 (11.75%) Investment Management
15 68 (9.99%) Clean Code
16 58 (8.52%) API Integration
16 58 (8.52%) Migration
17 57 (8.37%) Scrum
18 54 (7.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 276 (40.53%) Python
2 182 (26.73%) SQL
3 173 (25.40%) JavaScript
4 155 (22.76%) C#
5 131 (19.24%) TypeScript
6 72 (10.57%) C++
7 45 (6.61%) Go
7 45 (6.61%) Shell Script
8 42 (6.17%) PL/SQL
9 37 (5.43%) C
10 35 (5.14%) PHP
11 22 (3.23%) Scala
12 19 (2.79%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.47%) Bash
13 10 (1.47%) R
14 8 (1.17%) Delphi
15 7 (1.03%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.88%) Groovy
17 5 (0.73%) Objective-C
17 5 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 157 (23.05%) Degree
2 98 (14.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (11.89%) Security Cleared
4 74 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 33 (4.85%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.41%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (3.96%) ISTQB
8 24 (3.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 22 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 20 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.73%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.73%) OSCP
13 5 (0.73%) PhD
14 4 (0.59%) OSCE
15 3 (0.44%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.17%) QA
2 21 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.20%) GDPR
5 12 (1.76%) ISO 9001
6 10 (1.47%) NIST
7 6 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.88%) NCSC
8 5 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.59%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.29%) ECSS
10 2 (0.29%) SEPA
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 87 (12.78%) Docker
2 22 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (17.18%) Kubernetes
2 80 (11.75%) Terraform
3 35 (5.14%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (4.41%) Grafana
5 21 (3.08%) Ansible
6 15 (2.20%) Argo
7 7 (1.03%) Kibana
8 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.44%) Control-M
9 3 (0.44%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.29%) Puppet
10 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.15%) Icinga
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 64 (9.40%) Oracle
2 63 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.23%) Google
4 19 (2.79%) MuleSoft
4 19 (2.79%) Okta
5 14 (2.06%) Guidewire
6 11 (1.62%) IBM
7 10 (1.47%) Dell
8 8 (1.17%) SAP
9 7 (1.03%) Databricks
9 7 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.03%) Talend
10 6 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.88%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.73%) Epicor
11 5 (0.73%) Infor
11 5 (0.73%) Informatica
11 5 (0.73%) Mercator
11 5 (0.73%) Software AG
11 5 (0.73%) TIBCO
566 hybrid/remote Java jobs