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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 922 1,075 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.09% 7.98% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.33% 19.30% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 602 828 1,906
10th Percentile £37,725 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £96,467
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £131,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 4,770 5,569 13,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.31% 41.35% 40.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,514 4,455 11,389
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 £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 29 April 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 26 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.74%) JBoss
4 10 (1.08%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 527 (57.16%) AWS
2 220 (23.86%) Azure
3 172 (18.66%) GCP
4 84 (9.11%) SaaS
5 78 (8.46%) GitHub
6 72 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (7.05%) Serverless
8 38 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (3.58%) GitHub Copilot
11 31 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (2.71%) dbt
13 24 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (2.60%) Pulumi
14 19 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (1.95%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (1.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (1.74%) OCI
17 16 (1.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.23%) Broadband
2 30 (3.25%) TCP/IP
3 28 (3.04%) HTTP
4 5 (0.54%) AMQP
4 5 (0.54%) PuTTY
5 4 (0.43%) BGP
5 4 (0.43%) VLAN
5 4 (0.43%) VPN
6 3 (0.33%) Network Security
7 2 (0.22%) DHCP
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) DSL
7 2 (0.22%) LAN
7 2 (0.22%) NAS
7 2 (0.22%) SAN
7 2 (0.22%) SNMP
7 2 (0.22%) WAN
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.07%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.77%) MongoDB
5 37 (4.01%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.90%) MySQL
7 21 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.06%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.06%) RDBMS
10 17 (1.84%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.84%) Tableau
11 13 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.30%) Flink
13 10 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.08%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.08%) Power BI
13 10 (1.08%) Redis
14 9 (0.98%) Looker
Development Applications
1 65 (7.05%) Jenkins
2 59 (6.40%) Git
3 51 (5.53%) Selenium
4 47 (5.10%) TeamCity
5 44 (4.77%) JIRA
6 42 (4.56%) GitLab
7 31 (3.36%) Postman
8 28 (3.04%) SoapUI
9 25 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (2.60%) WebDriver
11 19 (2.06%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.95%) Cucumber
13 16 (1.74%) Maven
13 16 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (1.63%) JUnit
15 14 (1.52%) JMeter
16 13 (1.41%) Cypress.io
17 11 (1.19%) Claude Code
18 10 (1.08%) MLflow
19 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 326 (35.36%) Finance
2 202 (21.91%) Social Skills
3 163 (17.68%) Banking
4 126 (13.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (10.52%) Law
6 86 (9.33%) Retail
7 82 (8.89%) Public Sector
8 58 (6.29%) Financial Institution
9 51 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (5.42%) Front Office
11 49 (5.31%) Back Office
12 29 (3.15%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.28%) Games
15 17 (1.84%) Health Technology
15 17 (1.84%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.98%) Aviation
16 9 (0.98%) Marketing
17 5 (0.54%) Legal
18 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 303 (32.86%) Developer
2 270 (29.28%) Software Engineer
3 236 (25.60%) Senior
4 169 (18.33%) Lead
5 162 (17.57%) Java Developer
6 148 (16.05%) Java Engineer
7 98 (10.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 73 (7.92%) Lead Software Engineer
9 71 (7.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 61 (6.62%) Senior Developer
11 57 (6.18%) Software Developer
12 51 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 47 (5.10%) Lead Developer
14 44 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (4.66%) Graduate
16 41 (4.45%) Senior Java Engineer
17 37 (4.01%) Architect
17 37 (4.01%) Graduate Developer
18 35 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
19 34 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (18.11%) Spring
2 136 (14.75%) React
3 133 (14.43%) Spring Boot
4 110 (11.93%) REST
5 99 (10.74%) Node.js
6 96 (10.41%) .NET
7 84 (9.11%) Kafka
8 76 (8.24%) SOAP
9 60 (6.51%) AngularJS
10 55 (5.97%) RESTful
11 43 (4.66%) CSS
11 43 (4.66%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.45%) HTML
13 36 (3.90%) Web Services
14 33 (3.58%) Redux
15 32 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (3.36%) jQuery
17 30 (3.25%) JSON
18 29 (3.15%) Middleware
18 29 (3.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 96 (10.41%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (5.53%) Public Cloud
5 39 (4.23%) Fixed Income
6 37 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.36%) Blog
8 25 (2.71%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.28%) FPGA
10 18 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.84%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.52%) e-Learning
13 14 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.41%) Equities
15 12 (1.30%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.19%) Sports Betting
17 10 (1.08%) DataPower
18 9 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
19 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 101 (10.95%) Linux
2 45 (4.88%) Unix
3 20 (2.17%) Windows
4 19 (2.06%) Android
5 18 (1.95%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.33%) CentOS
6 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (42.84%) Agile
2 360 (39.05%) Software Engineering
3 306 (33.19%) CI/CD
4 239 (25.92%) DevOps
5 237 (25.70%) Mentoring
6 200 (21.69%) Test Automation
7 195 (21.15%) Microservices
8 161 (17.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 123 (13.34%) Roadmaps
10 122 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
11 120 (13.02%) Technical Leadership
12 118 (12.80%) AI
13 115 (12.47%) Clean Code
14 105 (11.39%) Containerisation
15 102 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 101 (10.95%) Computer Science
17 95 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 93 (10.09%) Coaching
19 87 (9.44%) Fintech
20 84 (9.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 316 (34.27%) Python
2 223 (24.19%) SQL
3 179 (19.41%) JavaScript
4 137 (14.86%) C#
5 111 (12.04%) TypeScript
6 107 (11.61%) Go
7 73 (7.92%) C++
8 37 (4.01%) Bash
8 37 (4.01%) PHP
9 27 (2.93%) C
10 26 (2.82%) Scala
11 23 (2.49%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.28%) Kotlin
13 19 (2.06%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.84%) Shell Script
15 14 (1.52%) Rust
16 12 (1.30%) Ruby
17 9 (0.98%) Groovy
18 8 (0.87%) Delphi
19 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 145 (15.73%) Degree
2 121 (13.12%) Security Cleared
3 102 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 68 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.45%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.39%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 17 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (1.52%) DBS Check
10 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.52%) OSCP
11 13 (1.41%) CREST Certified
12 11 (1.19%) PhD
13 10 (1.08%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.43%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.38%) QA
2 28 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 7 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.54%) WCAG
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.22%) GDPR
8 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 142 (15.40%) Docker
2 10 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 183 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 168 (18.22%) Terraform
3 63 (6.83%) Grafana
4 47 (5.10%) Ansible
5 45 (4.88%) Argo
6 23 (2.49%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.06%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.76%) Packer
10 5 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.54%) FTK
10 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Kibana
12 2 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.11%) Icinga
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.75%) Oracle
3 44 (4.77%) Google
4 20 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 19 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.52%) Databricks
7 10 (1.08%) Palantir
8 9 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.87%) Foundry
9 8 (0.87%) Okta
10 7 (0.76%) IBM
10 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.54%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.43%) Dell
12 4 (0.43%) JDA
13 3 (0.33%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.33%) Revolut
14 2 (0.22%) Guidewire
14 2 (0.22%) iManage