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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 919 1,091 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.14% 8.16% 7.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.31% 19.18% 17.26%
Number of salaries quoted 602 842 1,906
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% +2.73% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 4,760 5,688 13,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 42.55% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,487 4,523 11,432
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,275
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 £97,500
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 22 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 (2.61%) 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%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
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%) 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 3 (0.33%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Maximo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 529 (57.56%) AWS
2 218 (23.72%) Azure
3 174 (18.93%) GCP
4 90 (9.79%) SaaS
5 81 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
5 81 (8.81%) GitHub
6 66 (7.18%) Serverless
7 41 (4.46%) Amazon S3
8 35 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (3.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 28 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.72%) dbt
13 24 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (2.61%) Pulumi
14 21 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (1.85%) Power Platform
17 16 (1.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.24%) Broadband
2 31 (3.37%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.61%) HTTP
4 5 (0.54%) AMQP
4 5 (0.54%) BGP
4 5 (0.54%) PuTTY
4 5 (0.54%) VLAN
4 5 (0.54%) VPN
5 3 (0.33%) Network Security
6 2 (0.22%) DHCP
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) DSL
6 2 (0.22%) LAN
6 2 (0.22%) NAS
6 2 (0.22%) SAN
6 2 (0.22%) SNMP
6 2 (0.22%) WAN
7 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (8.92%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 40 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 38 (4.13%) MongoDB
6 37 (4.03%) MySQL
7 24 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.18%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.07%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.85%) 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%) Power BI
15 9 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.98%) Delta Lake
15 9 (0.98%) Looker
15 9 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (6.96%) Git
1 64 (6.96%) Jenkins
2 51 (5.55%) Selenium
2 51 (5.55%) TeamCity
3 44 (4.79%) JIRA
4 38 (4.13%) GitLab
5 31 (3.37%) Postman
6 28 (3.05%) SoapUI
7 25 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
8 24 (2.61%) WebDriver
9 19 (2.07%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.96%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.74%) Maven
11 16 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (1.63%) JUnit
13 14 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.52%) JMeter
14 10 (1.09%) Claude Code
14 10 (1.09%) MLflow
15 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 331 (36.02%) Finance
2 211 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 162 (17.63%) Banking
4 134 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (11.86%) Law
6 94 (10.23%) Retail
7 76 (8.27%) Public Sector
8 67 (7.29%) Financial Institution
9 55 (5.98%) Back Office
10 51 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
10 51 (5.55%) Front Office
11 28 (3.05%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.29%) Games
14 17 (1.85%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.85%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.98%) Aviation
15 9 (0.98%) Marketing
16 7 (0.76%) Legal
17 5 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 300 (32.64%) Developer
2 272 (29.60%) Software Engineer
3 228 (24.81%) Senior
4 165 (17.95%) Lead
5 156 (16.97%) Java Developer
6 146 (15.89%) Java Engineer
7 99 (10.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 72 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
9 69 (7.51%) Lead Software Engineer
10 57 (6.20%) Senior Developer
10 57 (6.20%) Software Developer
11 53 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (5.22%) Lead Developer
13 45 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
14 44 (4.79%) Graduate
15 40 (4.35%) Architect
15 40 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
16 38 (4.13%) Graduate Developer
17 36 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (18.50%) Spring
2 140 (15.23%) React
3 133 (14.47%) Spring Boot
4 108 (11.75%) REST
5 98 (10.66%) .NET
6 94 (10.23%) Node.js
7 84 (9.14%) Kafka
8 78 (8.49%) SOAP
9 61 (6.64%) RESTful
10 60 (6.53%) AngularJS
11 44 (4.79%) CSS
11 44 (4.79%) GraphQL
12 41 (4.46%) HTML
13 37 (4.03%) Web Services
14 34 (3.70%) Redux
15 32 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
15 32 (3.48%) jQuery
15 32 (3.48%) JSON
16 31 (3.37%) XML
17 29 (3.16%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 159 (17.30%) Cloud Native
2 92 (10.01%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (4.90%) Public Cloud
5 40 (4.35%) Fixed Income
6 39 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
7 32 (3.48%) Blog
8 22 (2.39%) 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 10 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (0.87%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 98 (10.66%) Linux
2 41 (4.46%) Unix
3 19 (2.07%) Android
4 18 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.74%) Windows
6 3 (0.33%) CentOS
6 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
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%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (42.55%) Agile
2 365 (39.72%) Software Engineering
3 314 (34.17%) CI/CD
4 233 (25.35%) DevOps
5 232 (25.24%) Mentoring
6 199 (21.65%) Microservices
6 199 (21.65%) Test Automation
7 166 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 129 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (12.84%) AI
10 116 (12.62%) Clean Code
11 115 (12.51%) Roadmaps
12 113 (12.30%) Technical Leadership
13 111 (12.08%) Containerisation
14 108 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 106 (11.53%) Computer Science
16 96 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 91 (9.90%) Coaching
18 90 (9.79%) Fintech
19 79 (8.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 319 (34.71%) Python
2 227 (24.70%) SQL
3 181 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 142 (15.45%) C#
5 116 (12.62%) TypeScript
6 107 (11.64%) Go
7 75 (8.16%) C++
8 38 (4.13%) PHP
9 37 (4.03%) Bash
10 26 (2.83%) C
11 25 (2.72%) Scala
12 23 (2.50%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.50%) PL/SQL
13 19 (2.07%) Apex Code
13 19 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.41%) Rust
15 11 (1.20%) Ruby
16 9 (0.98%) Groovy
17 8 (0.87%) Delphi
18 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 151 (16.43%) Degree
2 117 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 72 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.39%) ISTQB
7 21 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 20 (2.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 19 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.74%) OSCP
12 15 (1.63%) CREST Certified
12 15 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.52%) DBS Check
14 11 (1.20%) PhD
15 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.54%) OSCE
17 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.44%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.62%) QA
2 27 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.65%) GDPR
5 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.54%) WCAG
7 2 (0.22%) ECSS
7 2 (0.22%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 147 (16.00%) Docker
2 10 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 195 (21.22%) Kubernetes
2 166 (18.06%) Terraform
3 68 (7.40%) Grafana
4 45 (4.90%) Ansible
5 40 (4.35%) Argo
6 24 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.07%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.54%) FTK
9 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.54%) Packer
10 3 (0.33%) Kibana
10 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Puppet
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
Vendors
1 54 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.77%) Oracle
3 43 (4.68%) Google
4 22 (2.39%) MuleSoft
5 19 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.52%) Databricks
7 10 (1.09%) Palantir
8 9 (0.98%) IBM
9 8 (0.87%) Foundry
9 8 (0.87%) Okta
9 8 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.65%) Dell
10 6 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.54%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.44%) SAP
12 4 (0.44%) Talend
12 4 (0.44%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.33%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.33%) Infor