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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 924 1,452 2,232
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.29% 8.80% 7.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.93% 24.91% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 592 757 1,888
10th Percentile £37,670 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £114,750 £140,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -3.23%

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 5,800 5,830 12,053
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.91% 35.34% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 4,068 9,797
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 19 July 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 15 (1.62%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.19%) Apache
4 8 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.76%) Confluence
6 6 (0.65%) JBoss
7 5 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.43%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Documentum
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Moqups
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 523 (56.60%) AWS
2 224 (24.24%) Azure
3 179 (19.37%) GCP
4 87 (9.42%) SaaS
5 68 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
6 50 (5.41%) Serverless
7 33 (3.57%) GitHub
8 30 (3.25%) Amazon S3
9 26 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (2.06%) dbt
14 17 (1.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 17 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (1.62%) PaaS
16 14 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (1.52%) Azure AKS
16 14 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.25%) HTTP
2 28 (3.03%) Broadband
3 24 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.32%) BGP
4 3 (0.32%) Network Security
4 3 (0.32%) VLAN
4 3 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.22%) AMQP
6 1 (0.11%) ATM
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (6.39%) MongoDB
2 59 (6.39%) NoSQL
3 52 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 50 (5.41%) MySQL
5 36 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (1.95%) DynamoDB
7 16 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (1.62%) BigQuery
9 14 (1.52%) Metadata
10 13 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.19%) Redis
12 8 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.65%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 58 (6.28%) TeamCity
2 56 (6.06%) Git
3 34 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 31 (3.35%) GitLab
5 24 (2.60%) Selenium
6 22 (2.38%) JIRA
7 21 (2.27%) JUnit
8 19 (2.06%) Maven
9 15 (1.62%) Postman
10 14 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 14 (1.52%) JMeter
11 12 (1.30%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.19%) Mockito
13 9 (0.97%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.76%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.76%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.65%) Jaeger
15 6 (0.65%) WebDriver
16 5 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 318 (34.42%) Finance
2 179 (19.37%) Banking
3 160 (17.32%) Social Skills
4 132 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 119 (12.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (9.96%) Law
7 85 (9.20%) Retail
8 62 (6.71%) Financial Institution
9 57 (6.17%) Back Office
10 48 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
11 42 (4.55%) Front Office
12 26 (2.81%) Investment Banking
13 20 (2.16%) Health Technology
14 18 (1.95%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.19%) Games
15 11 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.87%) Aviation
16 8 (0.87%) Legal
17 6 (0.65%) Local Government
17 6 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 321 (34.74%) Software Engineer
2 296 (32.03%) Developer
3 223 (24.13%) Senior
4 175 (18.94%) Lead
5 173 (18.72%) Java Developer
6 150 (16.23%) Java Engineer
7 105 (11.36%) Java Software Engineer
8 101 (10.93%) Lead Software Engineer
9 92 (9.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 61 (6.60%) Senior Developer
10 61 (6.60%) Software Developer
11 47 (5.09%) Graduate
11 47 (5.09%) Senior Java Engineer
12 45 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
13 42 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
14 41 (4.44%) Engineering Manager
15 40 (4.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 39 (4.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 35 (3.79%) Lead Developer
18 34 (3.68%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (19.48%) Spring
2 126 (13.64%) React
3 124 (13.42%) Spring Boot
4 111 (12.01%) REST
5 98 (10.61%) Node.js
6 88 (9.52%) Kafka
7 81 (8.77%) .NET
8 60 (6.49%) AngularJS
9 57 (6.17%) RESTful
10 42 (4.55%) CSS
11 37 (4.00%) GraphQL
12 32 (3.46%) Redux
13 31 (3.35%) jQuery
14 22 (2.38%) Vue
15 20 (2.16%) SOAP
15 20 (2.16%) Web Services
16 17 (1.84%) HTML
17 15 (1.62%) Playwright
17 15 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
18 14 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 155 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 127 (13.74%) Product Ownership
3 72 (7.79%) Public Cloud
4 66 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (3.90%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.46%) Blog
7 28 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 23 (2.49%) Virtual Team
9 20 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.73%) Equities
11 16 (1.73%) FPGA
12 14 (1.52%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.19%) e-Learning
13 11 (1.19%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.97%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.87%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 90 (9.74%) Linux
2 31 (3.35%) Unix
3 28 (3.03%) Windows
4 11 (1.19%) Android
4 11 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (47.08%) Software Engineering
2 380 (41.13%) Agile
3 348 (37.66%) CI/CD
4 243 (26.30%) Test Automation
5 234 (25.32%) Mentoring
6 211 (22.84%) DevOps
7 210 (22.73%) Microservices
8 161 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
9 155 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
10 153 (16.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 130 (14.07%) Clean Code
12 128 (13.85%) TDD
13 127 (13.74%) Coaching
14 126 (13.64%) Roadmaps
15 117 (12.66%) AI
16 115 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 97 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
18 89 (9.63%) Containerisation
19 78 (8.44%) Computer Science
20 73 (7.90%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 274 (29.65%) Python
2 201 (21.75%) SQL
3 193 (20.89%) JavaScript
4 127 (13.74%) C#
5 93 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 84 (9.09%) C++
7 83 (8.98%) Go
8 38 (4.11%) PHP
9 32 (3.46%) Bash
10 24 (2.60%) C
11 23 (2.49%) Kotlin
12 20 (2.16%) Scala
13 16 (1.73%) Ruby
14 15 (1.62%) Apex Code
14 15 (1.62%) Rust
15 12 (1.30%) PL/SQL
16 11 (1.19%) PowerShell
17 9 (0.97%) Groovy
18 5 (0.54%) Tcl
19 4 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 141 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 117 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 97 (10.50%) Degree
4 46 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.30%) OSCP
8 11 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.08%) PhD
10 9 (0.97%) DBS Check
10 9 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.43%) GPEN
14 4 (0.43%) GXPN
15 3 (0.32%) CCSAM
15 3 (0.32%) OSCE
16 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.58%) QA
2 38 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.76%) SOC 2
4 7 (0.76%) WCAG
5 6 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.11%) MiFID
8 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.11%) UCITS
System Software
1 117 (12.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 179 (19.37%) Kubernetes
2 144 (15.58%) Terraform
3 70 (7.58%) Grafana
4 29 (3.14%) Ansible
5 21 (2.27%) Argo
6 15 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.65%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.65%) Packer
8 5 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.43%) FTK
10 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (4.76%) Oracle
2 35 (3.79%) Microsoft
3 34 (3.68%) Google
4 17 (1.84%) Salesforce
5 15 (1.62%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.41%) MuleSoft
7 9 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 9 (0.97%) Splunk
8 8 (0.87%) Foundry
8 8 (0.87%) IBM
9 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.54%) Sybase
9 5 (0.54%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.43%) Cellebrite
10 4 (0.43%) Databricks
10 4 (0.43%) JDA
10 4 (0.43%) Palantir
11 3 (0.32%) Revolut
11 3 (0.32%) SAP
12 2 (0.22%) Cognos