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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 29 17
Rank change year-on-year -24 -12 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 666 1,455 2,207
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.35% 7.74% 10.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.15% 18.28% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 486 1,032 1,741
10th Percentile £39,750 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £84,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +19.02% +0.82%
75th Percentile £112,500 £116,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £147,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%

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 4,123 7,959 9,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 42.32% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,162 5,149 8,179
10th Percentile £35,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,837
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 13 December 2025.

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 59 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (8.56%) Apache
3 15 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.65%) JBoss
6 9 (1.35%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.75%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.45%) Confluence
8 3 (0.45%) Luigi
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.45%) Simulink
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 33 (4.95%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (1.80%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.75%) Shopify
4 3 (0.45%) Adaptiv
4 3 (0.45%) Maximo
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 380 (57.06%) AWS
2 204 (30.63%) Azure
3 101 (15.17%) GCP
4 90 (13.51%) GitHub
5 59 (8.86%) dbt
6 52 (7.81%) Snowflake
7 48 (7.21%) SaaS
8 44 (6.61%) Serverless
9 40 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (4.95%) OCI
12 28 (4.20%) Amazon S3
13 27 (4.05%) GitHub Copilot
14 25 (3.75%) Power Platform
15 24 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (3.00%) OpenShift
17 18 (2.70%) Entra ID
18 17 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.75%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.20%) HTTP
3 4 (0.60%) AMQP
3 4 (0.60%) Broadband
4 3 (0.45%) BGP
4 3 (0.45%) Internet
4 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.45%) VLAN
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 2 (0.30%) DHCP
5 2 (0.30%) DNS
5 2 (0.30%) LAN
5 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 2 (0.30%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) SNMP
5 2 (0.30%) SSH
5 2 (0.30%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (9.01%) SQL Server
3 57 (8.56%) Data Lake
4 53 (7.96%) Amazon Athena
4 53 (7.96%) Apache Arrow
4 53 (7.96%) Apache Iceberg
4 53 (7.96%) Dremio
5 52 (7.81%) Apache Ignite
6 41 (6.16%) MySQL
6 41 (6.16%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.90%) Relational Database
8 24 (3.60%) MongoDB
9 23 (3.45%) Power BI
10 17 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (2.55%) Tableau
11 10 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.20%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.20%) Flink
12 8 (1.20%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.90%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 75 (11.26%) Jenkins
2 54 (8.11%) Selenium
3 51 (7.66%) Git
4 42 (6.31%) JIRA
5 35 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
6 30 (4.50%) WebDriver
7 28 (4.20%) GitLab
8 26 (3.90%) Postman
9 24 (3.60%) SoapUI
10 22 (3.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (3.00%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.85%) JUnit
13 16 (2.40%) Cucumber
14 15 (2.25%) TeamCity
15 9 (1.35%) Maven
16 8 (1.20%) JMeter
17 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
17 5 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
18 4 (0.60%) Babel
18 4 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 317 (47.60%) Finance
2 189 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 126 (18.92%) Banking
4 104 (15.62%) Front Office
5 70 (10.51%) Investment Banking
6 47 (7.06%) Law
7 42 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (6.01%) Public Sector
9 38 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
10 37 (5.56%) Financial Institution
10 37 (5.56%) Retail
11 35 (5.26%) Back Office
12 25 (3.75%) Games
13 19 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (2.55%) Billing
15 13 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.80%) Legal
17 7 (1.05%) Aviation
17 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 242 (36.34%) Developer
2 187 (28.08%) Software Engineer
3 180 (27.03%) Senior
4 107 (16.07%) Java Engineer
5 90 (13.51%) Java Software Engineer
6 85 (12.76%) Lead
7 81 (12.16%) Java Developer
8 80 (12.01%) Senior Software Engineer
9 70 (10.51%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (9.16%) Senior Java Engineer
11 57 (8.56%) AWS Software Engineer
12 56 (8.41%) Python Engineer
12 56 (8.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 50 (7.51%) Python Software Engineer
14 45 (6.76%) Architect
15 40 (6.01%) Applications Engineer
16 39 (5.86%) Lead Developer
17 38 (5.71%) Graduate
17 38 (5.71%) Software Developer
18 37 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (18.02%) Spring
2 108 (16.22%) Spring Boot
3 107 (16.07%) React
4 94 (14.11%) RESTful
5 87 (13.06%) .NET
6 85 (12.76%) Kafka
7 71 (10.66%) SOAP
8 60 (9.01%) REST
9 58 (8.71%) Node.js
10 53 (7.96%) NumPy
10 53 (7.96%) Pandas
10 53 (7.96%) SciPy
11 50 (7.51%) gRPC
11 50 (7.51%) Protocol Buffers
12 48 (7.21%) CSS
13 39 (5.86%) XML
14 37 (5.56%) HTML
15 35 (5.26%) GraphQL
16 34 (5.11%) jQuery
16 34 (5.11%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 120 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 84 (12.61%) Fixed Income
3 62 (9.31%) Equities
4 59 (8.86%) Derivative
5 58 (8.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 57 (8.56%) Enterprise Software
7 49 (7.36%) Hedge funds
7 49 (7.36%) Pricing Data
8 37 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (3.60%) Algorithms
9 24 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (3.15%) FPGA
10 21 (3.15%) Product Ownership
11 17 (2.55%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.40%) Onboarding
13 14 (2.10%) Data Structures
13 14 (2.10%) NHS
14 13 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.50%) Management Information System
16 9 (1.35%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.76%) Linux
2 12 (1.80%) Windows
3 10 (1.50%) Unix
4 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.45%) Android
5 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) CentOS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (56.16%) Agile
2 254 (38.14%) Software Engineering
3 212 (31.83%) CI/CD
4 170 (25.53%) Microservices
5 164 (24.62%) DevOps
6 153 (22.97%) Mentoring
7 125 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (17.72%) Computer Science
9 116 (17.42%) Test Automation
10 93 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (13.66%) Asset Management
12 88 (13.21%) AI
13 86 (12.91%) Investment Management
14 81 (12.16%) Coaching
14 81 (12.16%) Full-Stack Development
15 66 (9.91%) Clean Code
16 57 (8.56%) Migration
17 56 (8.41%) API Integration
18 55 (8.26%) Containerisation
19 52 (7.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 275 (41.29%) Python
2 177 (26.58%) SQL
3 175 (26.28%) JavaScript
4 151 (22.67%) C#
5 135 (20.27%) TypeScript
6 71 (10.66%) C++
7 43 (6.46%) Shell Script
8 41 (6.16%) Go
9 39 (5.86%) PL/SQL
10 36 (5.41%) C
11 35 (5.26%) PHP
12 21 (3.15%) Scala
13 18 (2.70%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.50%) R
15 8 (1.20%) Bash
15 8 (1.20%) Delphi
16 6 (0.90%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.75%) Groovy
17 5 (0.75%) Objective-C
17 5 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 147 (22.07%) Degree
2 93 (13.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (11.71%) Security Cleared
4 71 (10.66%) SC Cleared
5 31 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (3.60%) ISTQB
9 21 (3.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 19 (2.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.90%) PhD
15 5 (0.75%) DV Cleared
16 4 (0.60%) CFA
16 4 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.60%) OSCE
16 4 (0.60%) OSCP
16 4 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.31%) QA
2 21 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.40%) GDPR
5 12 (1.80%) ISO 9001
6 11 (1.65%) NIST
7 6 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.90%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.90%) NCSC
8 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.60%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) ECSS
9 2 (0.30%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 83 (12.46%) Docker
2 21 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (16.97%) Kubernetes
2 74 (11.11%) Terraform
3 33 (4.95%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (4.35%) Grafana
5 19 (2.85%) Ansible
6 13 (1.95%) Argo
7 7 (1.05%) Kibana
8 5 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.75%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.45%) Control-M
10 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.30%) Puppet
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.15%) Icinga
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 61 (9.16%) Oracle
2 59 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 24 (3.60%) Google
4 18 (2.70%) MuleSoft
4 18 (2.70%) Okta
5 15 (2.25%) Guidewire
6 11 (1.65%) IBM
7 10 (1.50%) Dell
8 8 (1.20%) SAP
9 7 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.05%) SnapLogic
9 7 (1.05%) Talend
10 6 (0.90%) Databricks
10 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.75%) IFS
11 5 (0.75%) Informatica
11 5 (0.75%) Mercator
11 5 (0.75%) Software AG
11 5 (0.75%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.75%) Workday
1,057 hybrid/remote Java jobs