Java Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 29 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,083 2,361 5,186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.24% 6.98% 12.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.13% 17.13% 24.65%
Number of salaries quoted 837 1,923 3,379
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,805 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -1.59% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £140,000 £137,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% +10.71%

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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Java
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Java.

Java salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Java over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 181 (16.71%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (15.97%) Apache
3 90 (8.31%) Apache Spark
4 36 (3.32%) Confluence
5 23 (2.12%) Jupyter
6 12 (1.11%) Tomcat
7 8 (0.74%) NetWeaver
8 5 (0.46%) IIS
8 5 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.37%) JBoss
9 4 (0.37%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) GemFire
10 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.18%) WordPress
12 1 (0.092%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.37%) Trello
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Endur
2 5 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 517 (47.74%) AWS
2 344 (31.76%) Azure
3 221 (20.41%) GCP
4 180 (16.62%) dbt
5 130 (12.00%) Serverless
6 126 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
7 113 (10.43%) Amazon EKS
8 111 (10.25%) Amazon ECS
9 96 (8.86%) Snowflake
10 79 (7.29%) OpenShift
11 78 (7.20%) GitHub
12 74 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (4.62%) SaaS
15 45 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
16 39 (3.60%) Dagster
17 37 (3.42%) Amazon S3
18 28 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
19 22 (2.03%) Apigee
19 22 (2.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.75%) TCP/IP
2 18 (1.66%) Network Security
3 4 (0.37%) DMARC
3 4 (0.37%) SSL
4 3 (0.28%) Firewall
5 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.18%) DNS
5 2 (0.18%) FCoE
5 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.18%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.18%) LAN
5 2 (0.18%) Multicast
5 2 (0.18%) NAS
5 2 (0.18%) SAN
5 2 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.18%) WAN
6 1 (0.092%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.092%) 4G
6 1 (0.092%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.092%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (16.71%) Amazon Athena
2 177 (16.34%) Apache Iceberg
2 177 (16.34%) Dremio
3 172 (15.88%) Apache Arrow
4 147 (13.57%) Apache Ignite
5 103 (9.51%) NoSQL
6 95 (8.77%) Data Lake
7 83 (7.66%) SQL Server
8 74 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
9 67 (6.19%) MySQL
10 60 (5.54%) Elasticsearch
11 56 (5.17%) Big Data
12 41 (3.79%) MongoDB
13 39 (3.60%) Relational Database
14 16 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (1.39%) Redis
16 13 (1.20%) Hadoop
17 11 (1.02%) RDBMS
18 9 (0.83%) BigQuery
18 9 (0.83%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 143 (13.20%) Git
2 94 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 75 (6.93%) Artifactory
4 70 (6.46%) JUnit
5 61 (5.63%) JIRA
6 49 (4.52%) GitLab
7 44 (4.06%) Maven
8 42 (3.88%) Mockito
9 40 (3.69%) SonarQube
10 37 (3.42%) IntelliJ
11 34 (3.14%) Cucumber
12 29 (2.68%) Selenium
13 25 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
14 24 (2.22%) Eclipse
15 22 (2.03%) Jasmine
15 22 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
15 22 (2.03%) Protractor
16 21 (1.94%) Visual Studio
17 20 (1.85%) Gradle
18 18 (1.66%) Cypress.io
General
1 514 (47.46%) Finance
2 315 (29.09%) Banking
3 246 (22.71%) Social Skills
4 214 (19.76%) Front Office
5 129 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 110 (10.16%) Investment Banking
7 107 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (3.23%) Law
9 34 (3.14%) Games
10 25 (2.31%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.03%) Legal
12 20 (1.85%) Electronics
13 15 (1.39%) Retail
14 12 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.74%) Marketing
15 8 (0.74%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.65%) Cantonese Language
16 7 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
16 7 (0.65%) Military
16 7 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 380 (35.09%) Developer
2 314 (28.99%) Software Engineer
3 291 (26.87%) Senior
4 184 (16.99%) AWS Engineer
5 168 (15.51%) Java Engineer
6 158 (14.59%) Java Developer
7 142 (13.11%) Java Software Engineer
8 141 (13.02%) Python Engineer
9 130 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 104 (9.60%) AWS Software Engineer
11 100 (9.23%) Data Engineer
12 96 (8.86%) AWS DevOps
12 96 (8.86%) Lead
13 91 (8.40%) DevOps Engineer
14 90 (8.31%) Software Developer
15 76 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 76 (7.02%) Senior Java Engineer
16 72 (6.65%) Senior Developer
16 72 (6.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 64 (5.91%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (16.81%) React
2 181 (16.71%) Spring
3 169 (15.60%) Kafka
4 163 (15.05%) .NET
5 142 (13.11%) Spring Boot
6 139 (12.83%) Pandas
7 130 (12.00%) PySpark
8 113 (10.43%) Node.js
9 90 (8.31%) NumPy
9 90 (8.31%) SciPy
10 87 (8.03%) AngularJS
11 84 (7.76%) J2EE
12 81 (7.48%) CSS
13 79 (7.29%) RESTful
14 77 (7.11%) gRPC
15 73 (6.74%) Protocol Buffers
16 57 (5.26%) HTML
17 53 (4.89%) REST
18 47 (4.34%) ASP.NET
18 47 (4.34%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 113 (10.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 111 (10.25%) Derivative
3 105 (9.70%) Fixed Income
4 103 (9.51%) Equities
5 91 (8.40%) Hedge funds
6 82 (7.57%) Algorithms
7 72 (6.65%) Cyberattack
8 67 (6.19%) Cloud Native
9 54 (4.99%) Management Information System
10 53 (4.89%) Product Ownership
11 47 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
11 47 (4.34%) Mobile App
12 39 (3.60%) Pricing Data
13 34 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (2.95%) Public Cloud
15 31 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (2.49%) Data Structures
17 24 (2.22%) Mobile Games
18 19 (1.75%) FPGA
18 19 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 185 (17.08%) Linux
2 84 (7.76%) Android
3 43 (3.97%) Unix
4 41 (3.79%) Windows
5 35 (3.23%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.46%) AIX
7 5 (0.46%) Rocky
8 2 (0.18%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Solaris
8 2 (0.18%) VMS
9 1 (0.092%) CentOS
9 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (59.46%) Agile
2 632 (58.36%) Software Engineering
3 390 (36.01%) DevOps
4 364 (33.61%) CI/CD
5 308 (28.44%) Microservices
6 239 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
7 214 (19.76%) Containerisation
8 202 (18.65%) Mentoring
9 184 (16.99%) Asset Management
10 158 (14.59%) Test Automation
11 149 (13.76%) OO
12 144 (13.30%) Computer Science
13 120 (11.08%) SDLC
14 113 (10.43%) TDD
15 104 (9.60%) Design Patterns
16 97 (8.96%) Data Engineering
16 97 (8.96%) OOP
17 93 (8.59%) Fintech
18 92 (8.49%) Artificial Intelligence
18 92 (8.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 487 (44.97%) Python
2 343 (31.67%) JavaScript
3 242 (22.35%) SQL
4 187 (17.27%) C#
5 181 (16.71%) C++
6 171 (15.79%) Go
7 162 (14.96%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.36%) C
8 58 (5.36%) Kotlin
9 56 (5.17%) Rust
10 53 (4.89%) PHP
11 26 (2.40%) Bash
11 26 (2.40%) Objective-C
12 25 (2.31%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.94%) Swift
14 20 (1.85%) Scala
15 15 (1.39%) Ruby
16 13 (1.20%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.92%) VBA
18 9 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 188 (17.36%) Degree
2 138 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 117 (10.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 86 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.43%) SC Cleared
6 35 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.94%) PhD
10 10 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.092%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.092%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.092%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.092%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.76%) QA
2 27 (2.49%) GDPR
3 21 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.94%) HIPAA
4 8 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.55%) NIST
6 2 (0.18%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.092%) Basel III
7 1 (0.092%) DICOM
7 1 (0.092%) ECSS
7 1 (0.092%) HL7
7 1 (0.092%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS
7 1 (0.092%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.092%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.092%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.092%) WCAG
System Software
1 363 (33.52%) Docker
2 8 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.46%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.18%) KVM
4 2 (0.18%) NFS
4 2 (0.18%) SRDF
4 2 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.18%) Xen
5 1 (0.092%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 372 (34.35%) Kubernetes
2 210 (19.39%) Terraform
3 80 (7.39%) Ansible
4 38 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.12%) Grafana
6 13 (1.20%) Istio
7 8 (0.74%) Argo
8 7 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.46%) CA Endevor
9 5 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.28%) Packer
11 3 (0.28%) Puppet
12 2 (0.18%) Kibana
13 1 (0.092%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.092%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.092%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.092%) logstash
13 1 (0.092%) Marathon
13 1 (0.092%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 95 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.20%) Google
3 70 (6.46%) IBM
4 45 (4.16%) Oracle
5 17 (1.57%) Databricks
6 16 (1.48%) SAP
7 15 (1.39%) New Relic
8 9 (0.83%) Cisco
9 7 (0.65%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.65%) EMC
9 7 (0.65%) F5
9 7 (0.65%) Red Hat
9 7 (0.65%) Xamarin
10 6 (0.55%) Apple
10 6 (0.55%) OpenLink
11 5 (0.46%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.46%) Informatica
11 5 (0.46%) Solace
11 5 (0.46%) Splunk
11 5 (0.46%) UiPath