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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 22 29
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 951 1,447 2,413
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.71% 9.34% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.70% 24.76% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 603 743 2,025
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £109,500 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -8.93%

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 5,372 5,844 14,102
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.59% 37.72% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,995 4,051 11,675
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,638
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,184 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
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 21 June 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 21 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.16%) Apache
4 8 (0.84%) JBoss
4 8 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.53%) Confluence
5 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.32%) Camunda
6 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 537 (56.47%) AWS
2 222 (23.34%) Azure
3 180 (18.93%) GCP
4 89 (9.36%) SaaS
5 67 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
6 58 (6.10%) Serverless
7 35 (3.68%) Amazon S3
7 35 (3.68%) GitHub
8 30 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (2.42%) Pulumi
13 21 (2.21%) dbt
14 20 (2.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 17 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.68%) Vertex AI
17 15 (1.58%) Azure Machine Learning
17 15 (1.58%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.21%) Broadband
2 30 (3.15%) HTTP
3 27 (2.84%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.32%) AMQP
4 3 (0.32%) BGP
4 3 (0.32%) DSL
4 3 (0.32%) Network Security
4 3 (0.32%) VLAN
4 3 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.21%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (8.20%) NoSQL
3 54 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 51 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 47 (4.94%) MySQL
6 39 (4.10%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (2.10%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.00%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.89%) RDBMS
11 17 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.47%) Metadata
13 11 (1.16%) Redis
14 10 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.84%) Pinecone
17 7 (0.74%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (5.68%) Git
1 54 (5.68%) TeamCity
2 36 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.68%) GitLab
4 32 (3.36%) Selenium
5 31 (3.26%) JIRA
6 21 (2.21%) Postman
7 20 (2.10%) JUnit
8 19 (2.00%) Maven
9 18 (1.89%) Jaeger
10 15 (1.58%) JMeter
11 14 (1.47%) Claude Code
12 13 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.37%) SoapUI
12 13 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (1.37%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.05%) Mockito
14 9 (0.95%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 317 (33.33%) Finance
2 177 (18.61%) Social Skills
3 175 (18.40%) Banking
4 128 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (13.04%) Public Sector
6 93 (9.78%) Law
7 84 (8.83%) Retail
8 59 (6.20%) Financial Institution
9 54 (5.68%) Back Office
10 46 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (4.21%) Front Office
12 29 (3.05%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.31%) Tech for Good
14 21 (2.21%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.68%) Games
16 13 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.84%) Aviation
17 8 (0.84%) Legal
18 6 (0.63%) Local Government
18 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 310 (32.60%) Developer
2 309 (32.49%) Software Engineer
3 233 (24.50%) Senior
4 185 (19.45%) Java Developer
4 185 (19.45%) Lead
5 153 (16.09%) Java Engineer
6 104 (10.94%) Java Software Engineer
7 95 (9.99%) Lead Software Engineer
8 90 (9.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 63 (6.62%) Senior Developer
10 59 (6.20%) Software Developer
11 46 (4.84%) Senior Java Engineer
12 45 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 45 (4.73%) Graduate
13 42 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 42 (4.42%) Lead Developer
13 42 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
14 41 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
15 36 (3.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 34 (3.58%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (19.87%) Spring
2 135 (14.20%) React
3 128 (13.46%) Spring Boot
4 110 (11.57%) REST
5 100 (10.52%) Node.js
6 86 (9.04%) .NET
7 80 (8.41%) Kafka
8 64 (6.73%) AngularJS
9 55 (5.78%) RESTful
10 43 (4.52%) CSS
11 37 (3.89%) GraphQL
12 35 (3.68%) SOAP
13 32 (3.36%) Redux
14 31 (3.26%) jQuery
15 28 (2.94%) HTML
16 25 (2.63%) Web Services
17 24 (2.52%) Vue
18 21 (2.21%) Playwright
19 20 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
19 20 (2.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 150 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 128 (13.46%) Product Ownership
3 69 (7.26%) Public Cloud
4 65 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (3.68%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.26%) Blog
7 27 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 22 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 19 (2.00%) FPGA
9 19 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.89%) Equities
11 16 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.47%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.37%) e-Learning
15 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (0.95%) Sports Betting
17 8 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
18 7 (0.74%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 104 (10.94%) Linux
2 43 (4.52%) Unix
3 23 (2.42%) Windows
4 17 (1.79%) Android
4 17 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.11%) Debian
6 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (43.85%) Software Engineering
2 399 (41.96%) Agile
3 339 (35.65%) CI/CD
4 258 (27.13%) Mentoring
5 233 (24.50%) Test Automation
6 225 (23.66%) DevOps
7 204 (21.45%) Microservices
8 165 (17.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 153 (16.09%) Technical Leadership
10 143 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
11 141 (14.83%) Roadmaps
12 128 (13.46%) Clean Code
13 122 (12.83%) Coaching
14 113 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 112 (11.78%) TDD
16 111 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
17 110 (11.57%) AI
18 105 (11.04%) Containerisation
19 85 (8.94%) Computer Science
20 79 (8.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 281 (29.55%) Python
2 211 (22.19%) SQL
3 204 (21.45%) JavaScript
4 129 (13.56%) C#
5 103 (10.83%) TypeScript
6 101 (10.62%) Go
7 86 (9.04%) C++
8 44 (4.63%) Bash
9 38 (4.00%) PHP
10 26 (2.73%) Kotlin
11 24 (2.52%) C
12 23 (2.42%) Scala
13 16 (1.68%) Apex Code
14 15 (1.58%) Rust
15 13 (1.37%) PL/SQL
15 13 (1.37%) Ruby
16 8 (0.84%) Groovy
16 8 (0.84%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.42%) Perl
17 4 (0.42%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 140 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 113 (11.88%) Degree
4 49 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.47%) ISTQB
8 13 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.37%) OSCP
9 12 (1.26%) CREST Certified
10 10 (1.05%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.05%) PhD
11 8 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.78%) QA
2 42 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 7 (0.74%) SOC 2
4 7 (0.74%) WCAG
5 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 139 (14.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 191 (20.08%) Kubernetes
2 161 (16.93%) Terraform
3 64 (6.73%) Grafana
4 46 (4.84%) Ansible
5 32 (3.36%) Argo
6 24 (2.52%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.89%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.84%) Packer
9 5 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.53%) FTK
10 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
11 2 (0.21%) Puppet
12 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
12 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (4.52%) Google
2 41 (4.31%) Oracle
3 37 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.26%) MuleSoft
6 11 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 8 (0.84%) Databricks
7 8 (0.84%) Foundry
7 8 (0.84%) Palantir
8 7 (0.74%) IBM
8 7 (0.74%) Splunk
9 6 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.53%) Cellebrite
10 5 (0.53%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.42%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.42%) JDA
11 4 (0.42%) Sybase
12 3 (0.32%) Revolut
12 3 (0.32%) SAP
13 2 (0.21%) Cognos