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

 6 months to
16 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 828 1,147 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.11% 7.34% 8.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.68% 16.44% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 555 768 1,930
10th Percentile £42,781 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,109 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £92,750 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £121,500 £139,125 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 4,433 6,979 12,544
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.35% 44.64% 45.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,263 4,449 10,930
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,950 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 February 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 25 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.66%) Apache
4 17 (2.05%) JBoss
5 16 (1.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (1.57%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.48%) Confluence
9 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Camunda
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 35 (4.23%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.60%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 2 (0.24%) Adaptiv
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 471 (56.88%) AWS
2 216 (26.09%) Azure
3 149 (18.00%) GCP
4 90 (10.87%) GitHub
5 84 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
6 79 (9.54%) SaaS
7 67 (8.09%) Serverless
8 41 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 40 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
10 39 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (4.23%) OCI
12 34 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
14 27 (3.26%) dbt
15 24 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (2.90%) Power Platform
15 24 (2.90%) Pulumi
16 20 (2.42%) OpenShift
16 20 (2.42%) Snowflake
17 19 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.99%) TCP/IP
2 22 (2.66%) Broadband
3 11 (1.33%) HTTP
4 6 (0.72%) BGP
4 6 (0.72%) VLAN
4 6 (0.72%) VPN
5 5 (0.60%) AMQP
5 5 (0.60%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.36%) Internet
6 3 (0.36%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) DNS
7 2 (0.24%) DSL
7 2 (0.24%) LAN
7 2 (0.24%) NAS
7 2 (0.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.24%) SNMP
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 39 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.47%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.35%) MySQL
6 28 (3.38%) MongoDB
7 26 (3.14%) Tableau
8 23 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (2.42%) Power BI
9 20 (2.42%) RDBMS
10 19 (2.29%) Apache Iceberg
11 17 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.81%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.69%) DynamoDB
15 13 (1.57%) Apache Ignite
16 10 (1.21%) Apache Arrow
16 10 (1.21%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 83 (10.02%) Jenkins
2 64 (7.73%) Selenium
3 62 (7.49%) Git
4 54 (6.52%) JIRA
5 48 (5.80%) TeamCity
6 37 (4.47%) Oracle Forms
7 36 (4.35%) WebDriver
8 34 (4.11%) Postman
9 32 (3.86%) SoapUI
10 28 (3.38%) Team Foundation Server
11 27 (3.26%) GitLab
12 20 (2.42%) Cypress.io
13 19 (2.29%) Jaeger
13 19 (2.29%) JUnit
14 17 (2.05%) Cucumber
15 15 (1.81%) Maven
16 10 (1.21%) JMeter
16 10 (1.21%) MLflow
17 7 (0.85%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 317 (38.29%) Finance
2 234 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 142 (17.15%) Banking
4 129 (15.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (13.41%) Law
6 95 (11.47%) Retail
7 73 (8.82%) Financial Institution
8 65 (7.85%) Public Sector
9 51 (6.16%) Front Office
10 50 (6.04%) Back Office
11 39 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
12 32 (3.86%) Investment Banking
13 31 (3.74%) Games
14 23 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.93%) Health Technology
16 15 (1.81%) Tech for Good
17 9 (1.09%) Billing
17 9 (1.09%) Legal
18 7 (0.85%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 243 (29.35%) Developer
2 211 (25.48%) Software Engineer
3 201 (24.28%) Senior
4 131 (15.82%) Lead
5 124 (14.98%) Java Engineer
6 120 (14.49%) Java Developer
7 89 (10.75%) Java Software Engineer
8 60 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 51 (6.16%) Architect
10 49 (5.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 43 (5.19%) Applications Engineer
13 41 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
13 41 (4.95%) Lead Developer
13 41 (4.95%) Senior Java Engineer
14 37 (4.47%) Senior Developer
15 36 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
15 36 (4.35%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.99%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (3.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (18.96%) Spring
2 131 (15.82%) Spring Boot
3 123 (14.86%) React
4 101 (12.20%) RESTful
5 96 (11.59%) SOAP
6 95 (11.47%) .NET
7 88 (10.63%) REST
8 86 (10.39%) Kafka
9 60 (7.25%) Node.js
10 43 (5.19%) HTML
10 43 (5.19%) JSON
11 42 (5.07%) XML
12 37 (4.47%) AngularJS
13 32 (3.86%) GraphQL
14 31 (3.74%) CSS
14 31 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
14 31 (3.74%) Middleware
15 28 (3.38%) Web Services
16 26 (3.14%) Hibernate
17 23 (2.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 182 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.21%) Enterprise Software
3 60 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (6.64%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.86%) Blog
5 32 (3.86%) Fixed Income
6 23 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.54%) FPGA
8 20 (2.42%) Derivative
9 18 (2.17%) Equities
9 18 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.05%) Algorithms
10 17 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.57%) DataPower
13 11 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.21%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.21%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.59%) Linux
2 38 (4.59%) Unix
3 16 (1.93%) Android
4 15 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.09%) Windows
6 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.36%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.12%) AIX
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (44.93%) Agile
2 306 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 300 (36.23%) Software Engineering
4 237 (28.62%) DevOps
5 222 (26.81%) Mentoring
6 216 (26.09%) Microservices
7 181 (21.86%) Test Automation
8 138 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 115 (13.89%) AI
9 115 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
10 114 (13.77%) Coaching
11 110 (13.29%) Computer Science
12 108 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (11.84%) Clean Code
14 92 (11.11%) Containerisation
15 83 (10.02%) Fintech
16 75 (9.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 75 (9.06%) Roadmaps
17 72 (8.70%) Scrum
17 72 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 302 (36.47%) Python
2 209 (25.24%) SQL
3 164 (19.81%) JavaScript
4 128 (15.46%) C#
5 107 (12.92%) TypeScript
6 82 (9.90%) Go
7 64 (7.73%) C++
8 43 (5.19%) PL/SQL
9 42 (5.07%) Shell Script
10 33 (3.99%) Bash
11 26 (3.14%) C
12 23 (2.78%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.78%) Scala
13 21 (2.54%) PHP
14 16 (1.93%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.09%) Groovy
16 8 (0.97%) Delphi
16 8 (0.97%) R
17 7 (0.85%) Ruby
18 6 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 160 (19.32%) Degree
2 117 (14.13%) Security Cleared
3 100 (12.08%) SC Cleared
4 72 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.80%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.50%) ISTQB
8 28 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 27 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.81%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.45%) OSCP
13 11 (1.33%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.21%) PhD
15 7 (0.85%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.60%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.48%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.88%) QA
2 22 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.57%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.57%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.33%) GDPR
5 9 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.72%) NCSC
6 6 (0.72%) NIST
7 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.24%) ECSS
8 2 (0.24%) SEPA
8 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 140 (16.91%) Docker
2 22 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 191 (23.07%) Kubernetes
2 164 (19.81%) Terraform
3 63 (7.61%) Grafana
4 45 (5.43%) Ansible
5 36 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (3.99%) Argo
7 24 (2.90%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.29%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.85%) Kibana
10 5 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.60%) FTK
11 4 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.48%) Packer
11 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.12%) Icinga
13 1 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.12%) Nessus
13 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (8.70%) Oracle
2 55 (6.64%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.71%) Google
4 24 (2.90%) MuleSoft
5 19 (2.29%) Okta
6 17 (2.05%) Databricks
7 16 (1.93%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.45%) IBM
9 11 (1.33%) Palantir
10 10 (1.21%) Dell
11 7 (0.85%) Guidewire
11 7 (0.85%) SAP
12 6 (0.72%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.72%) Talend
12 6 (0.72%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.60%) Epicor
13 5 (0.60%) Infor
13 5 (0.60%) Informatica
13 5 (0.60%) Mercator
13 5 (0.60%) Software AG
414 hybrid/remote Java jobs