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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 29 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 919 1,081 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.09% 8.01% 7.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.22% 19.19% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 603 831 1,922
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £130,000
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 4,782 5,632 13,332
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.48% 41.74% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,506 4,477 11,435
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 26 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 25 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.85%) JBoss
4 11 (1.20%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
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 (0.44%) 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
1 524 (57.02%) AWS
2 217 (23.61%) Azure
3 169 (18.39%) GCP
4 85 (9.25%) SaaS
5 81 (8.81%) GitHub
6 74 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (6.96%) Serverless
8 39 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 32 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.72%) dbt
13 24 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (2.61%) Pulumi
14 20 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (1.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (1.74%) Power Platform
16 16 (1.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.24%) Broadband
2 30 (3.26%) TCP/IP
3 27 (2.94%) HTTP
4 5 (0.54%) AMQP
4 5 (0.54%) PuTTY
5 4 (0.44%) BGP
5 4 (0.44%) VLAN
5 4 (0.44%) 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 87 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (8.81%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 42 (4.57%) MongoDB
5 38 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.92%) MySQL
7 22 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.18%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.07%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.96%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.85%) Tableau
12 12 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.20%) Flink
14 10 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.09%) Pinecone
14 10 (1.09%) Power BI
15 9 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (6.96%) Git
1 64 (6.96%) Jenkins
2 51 (5.55%) Selenium
3 47 (5.11%) TeamCity
4 44 (4.79%) JIRA
5 41 (4.46%) GitLab
6 31 (3.37%) Postman
7 28 (3.05%) SoapUI
8 25 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 24 (2.61%) WebDriver
10 19 (2.07%) Jaeger
11 18 (1.96%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.74%) Maven
12 16 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (1.63%) JUnit
14 14 (1.52%) JMeter
15 13 (1.41%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.20%) Claude Code
17 10 (1.09%) MLflow
18 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 328 (35.69%) Finance
2 204 (22.20%) Social Skills
3 159 (17.30%) Banking
4 125 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (10.66%) Law
6 86 (9.36%) Retail
7 77 (8.38%) Public Sector
8 59 (6.42%) Financial Institution
9 51 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (5.44%) Front Office
11 49 (5.33%) Back Office
12 29 (3.16%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.29%) Games
15 17 (1.85%) Health Technology
15 17 (1.85%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.98%) Aviation
16 9 (0.98%) Marketing
17 5 (0.54%) Legal
17 5 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 302 (32.86%) Developer
2 273 (29.71%) Software Engineer
3 233 (25.35%) Senior
4 169 (18.39%) Lead
5 158 (17.19%) Java Developer
6 146 (15.89%) Java Engineer
7 98 (10.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 72 (7.83%) Lead Software Engineer
8 72 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
9 60 (6.53%) Senior Developer
10 56 (6.09%) Software Developer
11 54 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (5.22%) Lead Developer
13 45 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
14 43 (4.68%) Graduate
15 40 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
16 37 (4.03%) Architect
16 37 (4.03%) Graduate Developer
17 34 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
17 34 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (18.61%) Spring
2 140 (15.23%) React
3 133 (14.47%) Spring Boot
4 111 (12.08%) REST
5 97 (10.55%) .NET
5 97 (10.55%) Node.js
6 83 (9.03%) Kafka
7 77 (8.38%) SOAP
8 61 (6.64%) AngularJS
9 55 (5.98%) RESTful
10 44 (4.79%) GraphQL
11 43 (4.68%) CSS
12 41 (4.46%) HTML
13 36 (3.92%) Web Services
14 33 (3.59%) Redux
15 32 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (3.37%) jQuery
17 30 (3.26%) JSON
17 30 (3.26%) Middleware
18 29 (3.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 94 (10.23%) Product Ownership
3 61 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 39 (4.24%) Fixed Income
6 37 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.37%) Blog
8 24 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.29%) FPGA
10 18 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.85%) 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 (1.31%) Data Structures
16 11 (1.20%) DataPower
16 11 (1.20%) Sports Betting
17 9 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 98 (10.66%) Linux
2 42 (4.57%) Unix
3 19 (2.07%) Android
4 18 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.85%) Windows
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
1 393 (42.76%) Agile
2 361 (39.28%) Software Engineering
3 307 (33.41%) CI/CD
4 235 (25.57%) DevOps
5 234 (25.46%) Mentoring
6 199 (21.65%) Test Automation
7 194 (21.11%) Microservices
8 166 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 125 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (12.95%) AI
10 119 (12.95%) Roadmaps
11 117 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
12 113 (12.30%) Clean Code
13 109 (11.86%) Containerisation
14 104 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (11.21%) Computer Science
16 93 (10.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (9.90%) Coaching
18 87 (9.47%) Fintech
19 83 (9.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 315 (34.28%) Python
2 227 (24.70%) SQL
3 177 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 138 (15.02%) C#
5 113 (12.30%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.53%) Go
7 75 (8.16%) C++
8 37 (4.03%) Bash
8 37 (4.03%) PHP
9 27 (2.94%) C
10 25 (2.72%) Scala
11 23 (2.50%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.29%) Kotlin
13 19 (2.07%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.85%) Shell Script
15 13 (1.41%) Rust
16 11 (1.20%) Ruby
17 9 (0.98%) Groovy
18 8 (0.87%) Delphi
19 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 148 (16.10%) Degree
2 119 (12.95%) Security Cleared
3 100 (10.88%) SC Cleared
4 70 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.39%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 17 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.85%) 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 (1.20%) PhD
13 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.44%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.51%) QA
2 27 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.54%) WCAG
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) ECSS
8 2 (0.22%) GDPR
8 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 145 (15.78%) Docker
2 10 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 187 (20.35%) Kubernetes
2 165 (17.95%) Terraform
3 64 (6.96%) Grafana
4 46 (5.01%) Ansible
5 42 (4.57%) Argo
6 24 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.07%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.65%) 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 53 (5.77%) Microsoft
1 53 (5.77%) Oracle
2 43 (4.68%) Google
3 20 (2.18%) MuleSoft
4 19 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.52%) Databricks
6 10 (1.09%) Palantir
7 9 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.87%) Foundry
8 8 (0.87%) Okta
9 7 (0.76%) IBM
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.54%) Cellebrite
10 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.44%) Dell
11 4 (0.44%) JDA
12 3 (0.33%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.33%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.33%) Revolut
13 2 (0.22%) iManage