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

 6 months to
12 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 35 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 674 1,180 2,160
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.51% 7.18% 9.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.62% 16.64% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 476 800 1,677
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.35% +0.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £140,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.52% -2.65%

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 4,055 7,093 10,070
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.13% 43.16% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,056 4,451 8,585
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 12 January 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 41 (6.08%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (5.79%) Apache
3 20 (2.97%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.93%) JBoss
6 11 (1.63%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.74%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.45%) Confluence
8 3 (0.45%) Luigi
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.45%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (5.49%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.74%) Shopify
3 3 (0.45%) Maximo
4 2 (0.30%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 376 (55.79%) AWS
2 208 (30.86%) Azure
3 96 (14.24%) GCP
4 91 (13.50%) GitHub
5 58 (8.61%) Serverless
6 48 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
7 44 (6.53%) SaaS
8 41 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (5.49%) dbt
9 37 (5.49%) OCI
10 36 (5.34%) Snowflake
11 34 (5.04%) Amazon S3
12 32 (4.75%) GitHub Copilot
13 30 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (3.86%) Power Platform
15 21 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (2.97%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 18 (2.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.56%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.23%) Broadband
3 11 (1.63%) HTTP
4 5 (0.74%) AMQP
4 5 (0.74%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.45%) BGP
5 3 (0.45%) Internet
5 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.45%) VLAN
5 3 (0.45%) VPN
6 2 (0.30%) DHCP
6 2 (0.30%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) LAN
6 2 (0.30%) NAS
6 2 (0.30%) SAN
6 2 (0.30%) SNMP
6 2 (0.30%) SSH
6 2 (0.30%) WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (7.72%) NoSQL
3 45 (6.68%) SQL Server
4 36 (5.34%) Data Lake
5 35 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 34 (5.04%) Apache Iceberg
7 33 (4.90%) MySQL
8 32 (4.75%) Apache Ignite
9 31 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (4.30%) Apache Arrow
10 29 (4.30%) Dremio
11 23 (3.41%) Power BI
11 23 (3.41%) Tableau
12 16 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (2.37%) MongoDB
13 15 (2.23%) RDBMS
14 14 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.63%) DynamoDB
16 10 (1.48%) Flink
17 8 (1.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 85 (12.61%) Jenkins
2 67 (9.94%) Selenium
3 60 (8.90%) JIRA
4 57 (8.46%) Git
5 41 (6.08%) WebDriver
6 40 (5.93%) Postman
7 39 (5.79%) Oracle Forms
8 37 (5.49%) SoapUI
9 35 (5.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 29 (4.30%) GitLab
11 24 (3.56%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.82%) JUnit
13 17 (2.52%) TeamCity
14 16 (2.37%) Cucumber
15 13 (1.93%) Jaeger
16 9 (1.34%) Maven
17 8 (1.19%) JMeter
18 6 (0.89%) MLflow
18 6 (0.89%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 284 (42.14%) Finance
2 212 (31.45%) Social Skills
3 114 (16.91%) Banking
4 63 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (8.61%) Law
6 56 (8.31%) Front Office
7 50 (7.42%) Investment Banking
8 45 (6.68%) Public Sector
8 45 (6.68%) Retail
9 40 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (5.79%) Financial Institution
11 25 (3.71%) Back Office
12 24 (3.56%) Games
13 22 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.23%) Billing
15 13 (1.93%) Legal
16 9 (1.34%) Tech for Good
17 8 (1.19%) Health Technology
18 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 7 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 199 (29.53%) Developer
2 180 (26.71%) Senior
3 149 (22.11%) Software Engineer
4 96 (14.24%) Java Engineer
5 92 (13.65%) Lead
6 81 (12.02%) Java Developer
7 67 (9.94%) Java Software Engineer
8 62 (9.20%) Senior Software Engineer
9 53 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (7.12%) Architect
10 48 (7.12%) Senior Java Engineer
11 47 (6.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (6.53%) Applications Engineer
13 38 (5.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 36 (5.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 35 (5.19%) Python Engineer
16 34 (5.04%) AWS Software Engineer
16 34 (5.04%) Software Developer
17 31 (4.60%) Graduate
18 29 (4.30%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (19.29%) Spring
2 113 (16.77%) Spring Boot
3 95 (14.09%) RESTful
4 93 (13.80%) React
5 91 (13.50%) .NET
5 91 (13.50%) SOAP
6 64 (9.50%) REST
7 62 (9.20%) Kafka
8 53 (7.86%) HTML
9 42 (6.23%) CSS
10 36 (5.34%) JSON
10 36 (5.34%) XML
11 35 (5.19%) Node.js
12 30 (4.45%) gRPC
12 30 (4.45%) Protocol Buffers
13 29 (4.30%) NumPy
13 29 (4.30%) Pandas
13 29 (4.30%) SciPy
14 27 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
14 27 (4.01%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 123 (18.25%) Cloud Native
2 68 (10.09%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.79%) Derivative
5 35 (5.19%) Equities
5 35 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 32 (4.75%) Product Ownership
7 31 (4.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 29 (4.30%) Hedge funds
8 29 (4.30%) Pricing Data
9 26 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (3.12%) Algorithms
11 20 (2.97%) FPGA
12 17 (2.52%) Public Cloud
13 14 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.78%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.63%) DataPower
16 9 (1.34%) Data Structures
16 9 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 74 (10.98%) Linux
2 22 (3.26%) Unix
3 10 (1.48%) Windows
4 7 (1.04%) Android
5 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) CentOS
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.15%) AIX
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (50.59%) Agile
2 233 (34.57%) CI/CD
3 221 (32.79%) Software Engineering
4 188 (27.89%) DevOps
5 178 (26.41%) Mentoring
6 170 (25.22%) Microservices
7 124 (18.40%) Test Automation
8 117 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (16.17%) Computer Science
10 104 (15.43%) AI
11 97 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 96 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 86 (12.76%) Coaching
14 71 (10.53%) Asset Management
15 68 (10.09%) Containerisation
16 65 (9.64%) Scrum
17 64 (9.50%) Migration
18 63 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
19 62 (9.20%) API Integration
20 59 (8.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 265 (39.32%) Python
2 187 (27.74%) SQL
3 147 (21.81%) JavaScript
4 146 (21.66%) C#
5 100 (14.84%) TypeScript
6 63 (9.35%) C++
7 45 (6.68%) PL/SQL
8 44 (6.53%) Shell Script
9 39 (5.79%) Go
10 28 (4.15%) PHP
11 26 (3.86%) Bash
11 26 (3.86%) C
11 26 (3.86%) Scala
12 21 (3.12%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.34%) R
14 8 (1.19%) Delphi
15 7 (1.04%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.04%) Groovy
16 4 (0.59%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 154 (22.85%) Degree
2 84 (12.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (11.87%) Security Cleared
4 72 (10.68%) SC Cleared
5 45 (6.68%) AWS Certification
6 37 (5.49%) ISTQB
7 34 (5.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 31 (4.60%) Azure Certification
9 28 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (3.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.89%) CREST Certified
14 6 (0.89%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.89%) OSCP
15 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.59%) OSCE
15 4 (0.59%) PhD
15 4 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.82%) QA
2 19 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.78%) GDPR
4 11 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.04%) NIST
6 6 (0.89%) NCSC
6 6 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.89%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.59%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.30%) ECSS
8 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.30%) SEPA
8 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 105 (15.58%) Docker
2 23 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 132 (19.58%) Kubernetes
2 104 (15.43%) Terraform
3 37 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
4 34 (5.04%) Ansible
5 31 (4.60%) Grafana
6 27 (4.01%) Argo
7 17 (2.52%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.93%) Kustomize
9 7 (1.04%) Kibana
10 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.59%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.30%) Puppet
12 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.15%) Control-M
13 1 (0.15%) Icinga
13 1 (0.15%) Istio
13 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (9.79%) Oracle
2 59 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.30%) Google
4 20 (2.97%) Okta
5 18 (2.67%) MuleSoft
6 14 (2.08%) Databricks
7 13 (1.93%) Guidewire
8 11 (1.63%) IBM
9 10 (1.48%) Dell
10 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.04%) SAP
10 7 (1.04%) Talend
11 6 (0.89%) Palantir
12 5 (0.74%) Infor
12 5 (0.74%) Informatica
12 5 (0.74%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.74%) Mercator
12 5 (0.74%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.74%) Software AG
12 5 (0.74%) TIBCO
611 hybrid/remote Java jobs