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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 863 1,082 2,402
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.15% 7.45% 8.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.25% 16.55% 18.91%
Number of salaries quoted 579 767 1,924
10th Percentile £45,852 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +2.73% +0.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £133,000 £138,750 £115,875
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%

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 4,482 6,537 12,702
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.76% 45.01% 44.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,282 4,413 11,060
10th Percentile £38,505 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 £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 6 March 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 27 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.09%) JBoss
4 16 (1.85%) Apache
5 14 (1.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (1.51%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.58%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.46%) Confluence
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) Camunda
10 2 (0.23%) nginx
10 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) FileNet
11 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Simulink
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 31 (3.59%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.58%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Maximo
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 496 (57.47%) AWS
2 212 (24.57%) Azure
3 160 (18.54%) GCP
4 89 (10.31%) GitHub
5 84 (9.73%) SaaS
6 83 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
7 72 (8.34%) Serverless
8 42 (4.87%) Amazon S3
9 39 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (3.59%) OCI
13 30 (3.48%) dbt
13 30 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
14 25 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (2.78%) Pulumi
16 20 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (2.32%) OpenShift
16 20 (2.32%) Power Platform
17 19 (2.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 31 (3.59%) Broadband
3 11 (1.27%) HTTP
4 6 (0.70%) BGP
4 6 (0.70%) VLAN
4 6 (0.70%) VPN
5 5 (0.58%) AMQP
5 5 (0.58%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.35%) Internet
6 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.23%) DHCP
7 2 (0.23%) DNS
7 2 (0.23%) DSL
7 2 (0.23%) LAN
7 2 (0.23%) NAS
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.23%) SNMP
7 2 (0.23%) SSH
7 2 (0.23%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.81%) NoSQL
3 43 (4.98%) Relational Database
4 37 (4.29%) MySQL
5 36 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.67%) Tableau
9 20 (2.32%) BigQuery
9 20 (2.32%) RDBMS
10 17 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.85%) DynamoDB
11 16 (1.85%) Power BI
12 15 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
13 13 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.16%) Flink
15 9 (1.04%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.04%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (9.15%) Jenkins
2 62 (7.18%) Git
3 61 (7.07%) Selenium
4 51 (5.91%) JIRA
5 48 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 33 (3.82%) Oracle Forms
6 33 (3.82%) Postman
6 33 (3.82%) WebDriver
7 30 (3.48%) SoapUI
8 26 (3.01%) GitLab
8 26 (3.01%) Team Foundation Server
9 19 (2.20%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.20%) Jaeger
10 18 (2.09%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.85%) JUnit
12 14 (1.62%) Maven
13 12 (1.39%) JMeter
14 10 (1.16%) MLflow
15 6 (0.70%) Claude Code
15 6 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 325 (37.66%) Finance
2 225 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 137 (15.87%) Banking
4 133 (15.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 115 (13.33%) Law
6 96 (11.12%) Retail
7 73 (8.46%) Financial Institution
8 69 (8.00%) Public Sector
9 62 (7.18%) Front Office
10 51 (5.91%) Back Office
11 41 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (3.94%) Games
13 30 (3.48%) Investment Banking
14 23 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.85%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.85%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.93%) Marketing
17 7 (0.81%) Billing
17 7 (0.81%) Legal
17 7 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 276 (31.98%) Developer
2 231 (26.77%) Software Engineer
3 218 (25.26%) Senior
4 145 (16.80%) Lead
5 140 (16.22%) Java Developer
6 129 (14.95%) Java Engineer
7 95 (11.01%) Java Software Engineer
8 62 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
9 56 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 51 (5.91%) Lead Software Engineer
11 50 (5.79%) Architect
11 50 (5.79%) Lead Developer
12 49 (5.68%) Senior Developer
13 44 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (4.87%) Senior Java Engineer
14 42 (4.87%) Software Developer
15 41 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
16 39 (4.52%) Applications Engineer
17 38 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
18 34 (3.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (19.12%) Spring
2 140 (16.22%) React
2 140 (16.22%) Spring Boot
3 104 (12.05%) Kafka
4 96 (11.12%) RESTful
4 96 (11.12%) SOAP
5 94 (10.89%) .NET
5 94 (10.89%) REST
6 81 (9.39%) Node.js
7 48 (5.56%) GraphQL
8 44 (5.10%) AngularJS
9 43 (4.98%) HTML
10 42 (4.87%) JSON
10 42 (4.87%) XML
11 38 (4.40%) Redux
12 34 (3.94%) Middleware
13 33 (3.82%) CSS
14 31 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (3.36%) Web Services
16 26 (3.01%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 177 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.42%) Enterprise Software
3 63 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (6.37%) Product Ownership
5 45 (5.21%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.71%) Blog
7 22 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.43%) FPGA
9 19 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (1.85%) Equities
12 15 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.74%) Derivative
12 15 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.51%) DataPower
14 12 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.04%) Data Centre
16 9 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 8 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.12%) Linux
2 38 (4.40%) Unix
3 16 (1.85%) Android
4 15 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.93%) Windows
6 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (45.42%) Agile
2 324 (37.54%) Software Engineering
3 316 (36.62%) CI/CD
4 244 (28.27%) DevOps
5 218 (25.26%) Mentoring
6 212 (24.57%) Microservices
7 184 (21.32%) Test Automation
8 158 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 122 (14.14%) AI
10 115 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (13.09%) Coaching
12 105 (12.17%) Computer Science
13 104 (12.05%) Clean Code
14 101 (11.70%) Containerisation
14 101 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 85 (9.85%) Fintech
16 81 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
17 78 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
18 77 (8.92%) Roadmaps
19 74 (8.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 314 (36.38%) Python
2 221 (25.61%) SQL
3 186 (21.55%) JavaScript
4 127 (14.72%) C#
5 123 (14.25%) TypeScript
6 98 (11.36%) Go
7 70 (8.11%) C++
8 39 (4.52%) PL/SQL
9 38 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 32 (3.71%) Bash
11 26 (3.01%) C
12 24 (2.78%) Kotlin
12 24 (2.78%) Scala
13 21 (2.43%) PHP
14 19 (2.20%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.93%) Delphi
15 8 (0.93%) Groovy
16 7 (0.81%) Ruby
17 6 (0.70%) R
17 6 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 155 (17.96%) Degree
2 120 (13.90%) Security Cleared
3 104 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 68 (7.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.33%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.48%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (3.01%) ISTQB
8 26 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (2.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 23 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.74%) DV Cleared
12 12 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.39%) OSCP
13 11 (1.27%) CREST Certified
14 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.16%) PhD
15 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.46%) OSCE
17 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.18%) QA
2 23 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.51%) PCI DSS
3 13 (1.51%) SOC 2
4 11 (1.27%) GDPR
5 10 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.81%) NIST
7 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.70%) NCSC
8 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.35%) WCAG
10 2 (0.23%) ECSS
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 149 (17.27%) Docker
2 21 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 193 (22.36%) Kubernetes
2 165 (19.12%) Terraform
3 65 (7.53%) Grafana
4 44 (5.10%) Ansible
5 33 (3.82%) Argo
6 32 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.78%) Prometheus
8 19 (2.20%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.81%) Kibana
10 5 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.58%) FTK
11 4 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.46%) Packer
11 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.23%) 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 70 (8.11%) Oracle
2 56 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.87%) Google
4 27 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 19 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 17 (1.97%) Okta
7 16 (1.85%) Databricks
8 12 (1.39%) IBM
9 11 (1.27%) Palantir
10 10 (1.16%) Dell
11 7 (0.81%) SAP
12 6 (0.70%) Foundry
12 6 (0.70%) Talend
12 6 (0.70%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.58%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.58%) Infor
13 5 (0.58%) Informatica
13 5 (0.58%) Jitterbit
13 5 (0.58%) Mercator
13 5 (0.58%) Software AG