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

 6 months to
21 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 26 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 911 1,273 1,839
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.73% 7.85% 7.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.76% 25.06% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 557 595 1,396
10th Percentile £38,772 £39,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.89%

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 6,170 5,079 9,007
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.27% 31.34% 38.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,610 3,418 6,109
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,451 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,875 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 21 September 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 14 (1.54%) Apache
2 11 (1.21%) Confluence
3 8 (0.88%) Camunda
3 8 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Documentum
8 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.11%) Hedera
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Moqups
2 4 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 532 (58.40%) AWS
2 235 (25.80%) Azure
3 182 (19.98%) GCP
4 98 (10.76%) SaaS
5 75 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (7.68%) Serverless
7 53 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (4.50%) GitHub
9 33 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 27 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
12 20 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
15 15 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (1.54%) Azure AKS
16 14 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.73%) HTTP
2 10 (1.10%) AMQP
2 10 (1.10%) SMS
3 9 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.55%) Broadband
5 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.33%) Firewall
5 3 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.11%) ATM
7 1 (0.11%) DSL
7 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.37%) MongoDB
3 47 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 40 (4.39%) MySQL
5 36 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.84%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.41%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (1.87%) Spark SQL
10 11 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.88%) Metadata
14 7 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.77%) Parquet
15 6 (0.66%) Redis
16 5 (0.55%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.44%) Flink
Development Applications
1 83 (9.11%) Git
2 75 (8.23%) TeamCity
3 42 (4.61%) Jenkins
4 34 (3.73%) JUnit
5 30 (3.29%) GitLab
6 29 (3.18%) JIRA
7 22 (2.41%) Maven
7 22 (2.41%) Selenium
8 20 (2.20%) Mockito
8 20 (2.20%) Postman
9 14 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.77%) IntelliJ
13 5 (0.55%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.55%) JMeter
13 5 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
General
1 309 (33.92%) Finance
2 208 (22.83%) Banking
3 174 (19.10%) Social Skills
4 146 (16.03%) Public Sector
5 120 (13.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 95 (10.43%) Law
7 93 (10.21%) Retail
8 62 (6.81%) Back Office
9 60 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
10 58 (6.37%) Financial Institution
11 27 (2.96%) Tech for Good
12 26 (2.85%) Health Technology
13 17 (1.87%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.43%) Legal
15 11 (1.21%) Front Office
16 10 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.99%) Local Government
18 8 (0.88%) Aviation
19 6 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 316 (34.69%) Software Engineer
2 223 (24.48%) Developer
3 217 (23.82%) Senior
4 159 (17.45%) Java Engineer
5 147 (16.14%) Lead
6 136 (14.93%) Java Developer
7 81 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
8 80 (8.78%) Lead Software Engineer
9 77 (8.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 68 (7.46%) Senior Java Engineer
11 59 (6.48%) Senior Developer
12 48 (5.27%) Software Developer
13 40 (4.39%) Engineering Manager
13 40 (4.39%) Senior Java Developer
14 38 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
15 37 (4.06%) Data Engineer
15 37 (4.06%) Graduate
16 34 (3.73%) Software Engineering Manager
16 34 (3.73%) Software Manager
17 33 (3.62%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (21.73%) Spring
2 160 (17.56%) Terraform
3 139 (15.26%) Spring Boot
4 118 (12.95%) REST
5 112 (12.29%) React
6 89 (9.77%) .NET
7 76 (8.34%) Node.js
8 60 (6.59%) AngularJS
9 56 (6.15%) Kafka
10 46 (5.05%) RESTful
11 32 (3.51%) CSS
12 27 (2.96%) PySpark
12 27 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
13 18 (1.98%) jQuery
14 17 (1.87%) Web Services
15 16 (1.76%) JPA
16 15 (1.65%) OAuth
16 15 (1.65%) Vue
17 14 (1.54%) OAuth2
17 14 (1.54%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 154 (16.90%) Cloud Native
2 153 (16.79%) Product Ownership
3 77 (8.45%) Public Cloud
4 65 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.18%) Blog
5 29 (3.18%) Distributed Architecture
6 23 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.10%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (0.99%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.99%) Equities
13 9 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (0.99%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 73 (8.01%) Linux
2 28 (3.07%) Windows
3 25 (2.74%) Unix
4 20 (2.20%) Android
5 17 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (49.40%) Software Engineering
2 380 (41.71%) CI/CD
3 328 (36.00%) Agile
4 251 (27.55%) Mentoring
5 234 (25.69%) Test Automation
6 224 (24.59%) Microservices
7 207 (22.72%) DevOps
8 180 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (18.00%) Technical Leadership
10 149 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 148 (16.25%) Coaching
12 141 (15.48%) AI
13 131 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 127 (13.94%) Clean Code
15 124 (13.61%) Roadmaps
16 114 (12.51%) TDD
17 84 (9.22%) Containerisation
18 82 (9.00%) OO
19 81 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
19 81 (8.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 241 (26.45%) Python
2 201 (22.06%) JavaScript
3 196 (21.51%) SQL
4 149 (16.36%) C#
5 92 (10.10%) TypeScript
6 87 (9.55%) C++
7 42 (4.61%) Go
8 33 (3.62%) Kotlin
9 30 (3.29%) Bash
10 29 (3.18%) PHP
11 23 (2.52%) C
12 18 (1.98%) Ruby
12 18 (1.98%) Rust
13 16 (1.76%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.54%) Scala
15 10 (1.10%) Groovy
16 9 (0.99%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.77%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.66%) Ada
19 5 (0.55%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 169 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 136 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.45%) Degree
4 42 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.07%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.99%) OSCP
8 8 (0.88%) CREST Certified
8 8 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.88%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.33%) OCP
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.22%) GPEN
11 2 (0.22%) GXPN
11 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.22%) OSCE
11 2 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.57%) QA
2 39 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 38 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.99%) NIST
5 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.33%) MiFID
6 3 (0.33%) MIL-STD-1553
6 3 (0.33%) UCITS
6 3 (0.33%) WCAG
7 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 127 (13.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 190 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 84 (9.22%) Grafana
3 38 (4.17%) Ansible
4 18 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.76%) Argo
6 6 (0.66%) Packer
7 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (4.94%) Oracle
2 33 (3.62%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.31%) Google
4 13 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 9 (0.99%) Splunk
7 7 (0.77%) MuleSoft
7 7 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.66%) IBM
8 6 (0.66%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.55%) Sybase
10 4 (0.44%) JDA
10 4 (0.44%) Sage
10 4 (0.44%) SAP
11 3 (0.33%) Apple
11 3 (0.33%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.33%) Perforce
11 3 (0.33%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.33%) Solace
1,376 hybrid/remote Java jobs