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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 901 1,036 2,378
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.20% 7.96% 7.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.14% 18.14% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 588 829 1,922
10th Percentile £39,925 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,039 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +2.73% -4.63%
75th Percentile £87,813 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
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 4,707 5,712 13,343
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.16% 43.90% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,430 4,532 11,503
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £64,559 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.68% +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 11 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 24 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.89%) JBoss
4 12 (1.33%) WebSphere
5 9 (1.00%) Apache
6 8 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) FileNet
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.55%) 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
Business Applications
1 16 (1.78%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.55%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 518 (57.49%) AWS
2 214 (23.75%) Azure
3 174 (19.31%) GCP
4 94 (10.43%) SaaS
5 85 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
6 78 (8.66%) GitHub
7 65 (7.21%) Serverless
8 41 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (3.22%) GitHub Copilot
12 25 (2.77%) dbt
13 24 (2.66%) Pulumi
14 23 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
18 16 (1.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.33%) Broadband
2 33 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.22%) HTTP
4 6 (0.67%) BGP
4 6 (0.67%) VLAN
4 6 (0.67%) VPN
5 5 (0.55%) AMQP
5 5 (0.55%) PuTTY
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
8 1 (0.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.21%) NoSQL
2 79 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (5.55%) SQL Server
4 40 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 38 (4.22%) MySQL
6 30 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.22%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 18 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.89%) Tableau
12 16 (1.78%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.22%) Flink
15 10 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.11%) Power BI
16 9 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (1.00%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.00%) Pinecone
16 9 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 61 (6.77%) Git
1 61 (6.77%) Jenkins
2 54 (5.99%) TeamCity
3 53 (5.88%) Selenium
4 43 (4.77%) JIRA
5 32 (3.55%) GitLab
6 30 (3.33%) Postman
7 27 (3.00%) SoapUI
8 26 (2.89%) WebDriver
9 24 (2.66%) Team Foundation Server
10 19 (2.11%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.11%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
12 16 (1.78%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.66%) JMeter
14 14 (1.55%) JUnit
14 14 (1.55%) Maven
15 10 (1.11%) Claude Code
15 10 (1.11%) MLflow
16 8 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 329 (36.51%) Finance
2 219 (24.31%) Social Skills
3 164 (18.20%) Banking
4 142 (15.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 121 (13.43%) Law
6 102 (11.32%) Retail
7 76 (8.44%) Financial Institution
8 75 (8.32%) Public Sector
9 60 (6.66%) Back Office
10 51 (5.66%) Front Office
11 50 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
12 29 (3.22%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.44%) Games
14 20 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.78%) Tech for Good
16 15 (1.66%) Health Technology
17 9 (1.00%) Legal
17 9 (1.00%) Marketing
18 6 (0.67%) Aviation
19 5 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 296 (32.85%) Developer
2 262 (29.08%) Software Engineer
3 218 (24.20%) Senior
4 160 (17.76%) Lead
5 149 (16.54%) Java Developer
6 139 (15.43%) Java Engineer
7 96 (10.65%) Java Software Engineer
8 67 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
9 63 (6.99%) Lead Software Engineer
10 57 (6.33%) Senior Developer
10 57 (6.33%) Software Developer
11 55 (6.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 50 (5.55%) Lead Developer
13 44 (4.88%) Architect
14 40 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
15 39 (4.33%) Graduate
16 37 (4.11%) Senior Java Engineer
17 36 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
18 35 (3.88%) Graduate Developer
19 34 (3.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (18.76%) Spring
2 140 (15.54%) React
3 133 (14.76%) Spring Boot
4 104 (11.54%) REST
5 96 (10.65%) .NET
6 86 (9.54%) Kafka
7 82 (9.10%) Node.js
8 80 (8.88%) SOAP
9 65 (7.21%) RESTful
10 53 (5.88%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.99%) CSS
11 45 (4.99%) GraphQL
12 40 (4.44%) HTML
13 35 (3.88%) Redux
13 35 (3.88%) Web Services
14 33 (3.66%) jQuery
14 33 (3.66%) JSON
14 33 (3.66%) XML
15 31 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (3.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 163 (18.09%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.54%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (4.33%) Fixed Income
5 39 (4.33%) Public Cloud
6 33 (3.66%) Blog
7 22 (2.44%) FPGA
8 20 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.78%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.44%) Equities
12 13 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.33%) DataPower
13 12 (1.33%) e-Learning
14 11 (1.22%) Sports Betting
15 9 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 98 (10.88%) Linux
2 39 (4.33%) Unix
3 19 (2.11%) Android
4 18 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.44%) Windows
6 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.33%) CentOS
7 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (43.29%) Agile
2 355 (39.40%) Software Engineering
3 309 (34.30%) CI/CD
4 229 (25.42%) DevOps
5 222 (24.64%) Mentoring
6 198 (21.98%) Microservices
7 195 (21.64%) Test Automation
8 160 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 126 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (12.99%) AI
10 117 (12.99%) Clean Code
11 111 (12.32%) Containerisation
11 111 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 106 (11.76%) Computer Science
13 105 (11.65%) Roadmaps
14 104 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
15 95 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 88 (9.77%) Coaching
16 88 (9.77%) Fintech
17 74 (8.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 311 (34.52%) Python
2 227 (25.19%) SQL
3 179 (19.87%) JavaScript
4 138 (15.32%) C#
5 111 (12.32%) TypeScript
6 105 (11.65%) Go
7 78 (8.66%) C++
8 36 (4.00%) Bash
9 33 (3.66%) PHP
10 27 (3.00%) C
11 24 (2.66%) PL/SQL
12 23 (2.55%) Kotlin
13 21 (2.33%) Scala
13 21 (2.33%) Shell Script
14 20 (2.22%) Apex Code
15 11 (1.22%) Ruby
15 11 (1.22%) Rust
16 8 (0.89%) Delphi
16 8 (0.89%) Groovy
17 6 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 152 (16.87%) Degree
2 116 (12.87%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.88%) SC Cleared
4 73 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 21 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.22%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 20 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (2.00%) OSCP
11 17 (1.89%) CREST Certified
11 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.33%) DBS Check
13 11 (1.22%) PhD
14 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.78%) OSCE
16 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.44%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.44%) QA
2 28 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.11%) GDPR
6 9 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.55%) WCAG
10 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) ECSS
12 2 (0.22%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 145 (16.09%) Docker
2 10 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 194 (21.53%) Kubernetes
2 163 (18.09%) Terraform
3 72 (7.99%) Grafana
4 40 (4.44%) Ansible
5 35 (3.88%) Argo
6 24 (2.66%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.11%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.55%) FTK
9 5 (0.55%) Kibana
9 5 (0.55%) Packer
10 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (6.22%) Oracle
2 54 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.77%) Google
4 25 (2.77%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.55%) Databricks
7 12 (1.33%) IBM
8 10 (1.11%) Palantir
9 8 (0.89%) Dell
9 8 (0.89%) Foundry
9 8 (0.89%) Okta
10 7 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.67%) SAP
11 6 (0.67%) Talend
11 6 (0.67%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.55%) Epicor
12 5 (0.55%) Infor
12 5 (0.55%) Informatica
12 5 (0.55%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.55%) Software AG