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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 920 1,089 2,348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.18% 8.20% 7.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.30% 19.10% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 596 837 1,936
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 4,767 5,702 13,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.83% 42.94% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,471 4,512 11,506
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,657
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 £97,987
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 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 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.96%) JBoss
4 12 (1.30%) 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 (0.43%) 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 2 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 529 (57.50%) AWS
2 215 (23.37%) Azure
3 179 (19.46%) GCP
4 98 (10.65%) SaaS
5 87 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
6 81 (8.80%) GitHub
7 65 (7.07%) Serverless
8 41 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
11 25 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (2.72%) dbt
12 24 (2.61%) Pulumi
13 23 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
17 16 (1.74%) Power Platform
17 16 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.24%) Broadband
2 32 (3.48%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.61%) HTTP
4 6 (0.65%) BGP
4 6 (0.65%) VLAN
4 6 (0.65%) VPN
5 5 (0.54%) AMQP
5 5 (0.54%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.02%) NoSQL
2 82 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (5.87%) SQL Server
4 40 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 37 (4.02%) MySQL
6 34 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.17%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.07%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.85%) Tableau
12 16 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.20%) Flink
15 10 (1.09%) Power BI
16 9 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (0.98%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.98%) Looker
16 9 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (6.96%) Git
1 64 (6.96%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.09%) TeamCity
3 51 (5.54%) Selenium
4 44 (4.78%) JIRA
5 34 (3.70%) GitLab
6 31 (3.37%) Postman
7 28 (3.04%) SoapUI
8 25 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 24 (2.61%) WebDriver
10 19 (2.07%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.07%) Jaeger
11 16 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (1.63%) JMeter
12 15 (1.63%) JUnit
12 15 (1.63%) Maven
13 13 (1.41%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.09%) Claude Code
14 10 (1.09%) MLflow
15 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 336 (36.52%) Finance
2 217 (23.59%) Social Skills
3 171 (18.59%) Banking
4 142 (15.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 119 (12.93%) Law
6 103 (11.20%) Retail
7 76 (8.26%) Financial Institution
8 75 (8.15%) Public Sector
9 62 (6.74%) Back Office
10 51 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
10 51 (5.54%) Front Office
11 28 (3.04%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.28%) 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
1 297 (32.28%) Developer
2 271 (29.46%) Software Engineer
3 221 (24.02%) Senior
4 163 (17.72%) Lead
5 153 (16.63%) Java Developer
6 147 (15.98%) Java Engineer
7 99 (10.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 69 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 67 (7.28%) Lead Software Engineer
10 57 (6.20%) Software Developer
11 55 (5.98%) Senior Developer
12 53 (5.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (5.22%) Lead Developer
14 44 (4.78%) Graduate
15 43 (4.67%) Architect
15 43 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
16 38 (4.13%) Graduate Developer
16 38 (4.13%) Senior Java Engineer
17 37 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (18.70%) Spring
2 139 (15.11%) React
3 133 (14.46%) Spring Boot
4 109 (11.85%) REST
5 96 (10.43%) .NET
6 88 (9.57%) Node.js
7 85 (9.24%) Kafka
8 80 (8.70%) SOAP
9 62 (6.74%) RESTful
10 57 (6.20%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.89%) GraphQL
12 44 (4.78%) CSS
13 41 (4.46%) HTML
14 35 (3.80%) Web Services
15 34 (3.70%) Redux
16 32 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
16 32 (3.48%) jQuery
16 32 (3.48%) JSON
17 31 (3.37%) Middleware
17 31 (3.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 94 (10.22%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (4.89%) Public Cloud
5 41 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (4.35%) Fixed Income
7 33 (3.59%) Blog
8 22 (2.39%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.28%) FPGA
10 17 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.52%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.41%) e-Learning
13 13 (1.41%) Equities
14 12 (1.30%) DataPower
15 11 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.20%) Sports Betting
16 9 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.43%) Linux
2 38 (4.13%) Unix
3 19 (2.07%) Android
4 18 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.63%) Windows
6 5 (0.54%) 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
1 386 (41.96%) Agile
2 368 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 317 (34.46%) CI/CD
4 231 (25.11%) Mentoring
5 230 (25.00%) DevOps
6 204 (22.17%) Microservices
7 199 (21.63%) Test Automation
8 162 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 126 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
10 120 (13.04%) AI
10 120 (13.04%) Clean Code
11 115 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 113 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
13 110 (11.96%) Containerisation
14 108 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (11.63%) Computer Science
16 98 (10.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 92 (10.00%) Fintech
18 91 (9.89%) Coaching
19 77 (8.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 314 (34.13%) Python
2 228 (24.78%) SQL
3 179 (19.46%) JavaScript
4 141 (15.33%) C#
5 113 (12.28%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.52%) Go
7 75 (8.15%) C++
8 37 (4.02%) PHP
9 36 (3.91%) Bash
10 26 (2.83%) C
11 25 (2.72%) Kotlin
12 24 (2.61%) Scala
13 23 (2.50%) PL/SQL
14 20 (2.17%) Apex Code
15 19 (2.07%) Shell Script
16 11 (1.20%) Ruby
16 11 (1.20%) Rust
17 8 (0.87%) Delphi
17 8 (0.87%) Groovy
18 6 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 154 (16.74%) Degree
2 117 (12.72%) Security Cleared
3 99 (10.76%) SC Cleared
4 74 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 24 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.39%) ISTQB
8 20 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 19 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (1.96%) OSCP
11 17 (1.85%) CREST Certified
12 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.41%) DBS Check
14 11 (1.20%) PhD
15 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.76%) OSCE
17 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
17 4 (0.43%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.39%) QA
2 27 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.41%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.30%) SOC 2
5 9 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.87%) GDPR
7 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.65%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.54%) WCAG
10 4 (0.43%) 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 (15.76%) Docker
2 10 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 198 (21.52%) Kubernetes
2 169 (18.37%) Terraform
3 74 (8.04%) Grafana
4 44 (4.78%) Ansible
5 37 (4.02%) 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%) Packer
10 4 (0.43%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.43%) Kibana
11 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.11%) Icinga
13 1 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.76%) Oracle
3 43 (4.67%) Google
4 23 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.52%) Databricks
7 10 (1.09%) IBM
7 10 (1.09%) Palantir
8 8 (0.87%) Foundry
8 8 (0.87%) Okta
9 7 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.65%) Dell
11 5 (0.54%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.54%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.54%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.43%) SAP
12 4 (0.43%) Talend
12 4 (0.43%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.33%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.33%) Splunk