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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 33 17
Rank change year-on-year -20 -16 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 689 1,293 2,111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.50% 7.47% 10.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.61% 17.55% 22.96%
Number of salaries quoted 499 899 1,652
10th Percentile £35,150 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +13.35% +0.82%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +3.45%

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 4,149 7,369 9,195
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.12% 42.57% 46.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,174 4,739 7,775
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,951 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 21 December 2025.

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 51 (7.40%) Apache
2 49 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 16 (2.32%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.74%) JBoss
6 10 (1.45%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.73%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.44%) Confluence
8 3 (0.44%) Luigi
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.15%) FileNet
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (5.37%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.73%) Shopify
4 3 (0.44%) Maximo
5 2 (0.29%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 382 (55.44%) AWS
2 210 (30.48%) Azure
3 99 (14.37%) GCP
4 94 (13.64%) GitHub
5 51 (7.40%) Serverless
6 49 (7.11%) SaaS
7 48 (6.97%) dbt
8 47 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (6.53%) Snowflake
10 40 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (5.37%) OCI
12 31 (4.50%) Amazon S3
13 30 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
14 29 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (3.92%) Power Platform
16 21 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.90%) Entra ID
18 19 (2.76%) OpenShift
19 17 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.63%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.31%) HTTP
3 4 (0.58%) AMQP
3 4 (0.58%) Broadband
4 3 (0.44%) BGP
4 3 (0.44%) Internet
4 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.44%) PuTTY
4 3 (0.44%) VLAN
4 3 (0.44%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) LAN
5 2 (0.29%) NAS
5 2 (0.29%) SAN
5 2 (0.29%) SNMP
5 2 (0.29%) SSH
5 2 (0.29%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.56%) SQL Server
3 49 (7.11%) Data Lake
4 44 (6.39%) Apache Ignite
5 43 (6.24%) Apache Iceberg
6 41 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
6 41 (5.95%) Apache Arrow
6 41 (5.95%) Dremio
6 41 (5.95%) NoSQL
7 40 (5.81%) MySQL
8 26 (3.77%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.48%) Power BI
10 22 (3.19%) MongoDB
11 20 (2.90%) Tableau
12 17 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.45%) DynamoDB
14 10 (1.45%) Flink
15 9 (1.31%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.87%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 84 (12.19%) Jenkins
2 62 (9.00%) Selenium
3 57 (8.27%) Git
4 51 (7.40%) JIRA
5 39 (5.66%) Oracle Forms
6 37 (5.37%) WebDriver
7 33 (4.79%) Postman
8 31 (4.50%) SoapUI
9 30 (4.35%) GitLab
10 29 (4.21%) Team Foundation Server
11 23 (3.34%) Cypress.io
12 19 (2.76%) JUnit
13 17 (2.47%) TeamCity
14 16 (2.32%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.74%) Maven
16 8 (1.16%) JMeter
17 6 (0.87%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
18 4 (0.58%) Babel
18 4 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 310 (44.99%) Finance
2 198 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 127 (18.43%) Banking
4 87 (12.63%) Front Office
5 63 (9.14%) Investment Banking
6 56 (8.13%) Law
7 51 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (6.39%) Public Sector
8 44 (6.39%) Retail
9 42 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (5.66%) Financial Institution
11 35 (5.08%) Back Office
12 24 (3.48%) Games
13 20 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.18%) Billing
15 12 (1.74%) Legal
16 11 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.16%) Aviation
18 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
18 7 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 231 (33.53%) Developer
2 187 (27.14%) Senior
3 177 (25.69%) Software Engineer
4 104 (15.09%) Java Engineer
5 88 (12.77%) Lead
6 82 (11.90%) Java Software Engineer
7 80 (11.61%) Java Developer
8 73 (10.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 63 (9.14%) AWS Engineer
10 56 (8.13%) Senior Java Engineer
11 49 (7.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 48 (6.97%) Architect
12 48 (6.97%) Python Engineer
13 47 (6.82%) AWS Software Engineer
14 45 (6.53%) Applications Engineer
15 42 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
16 41 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
17 39 (5.66%) Graduate
18 36 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 36 (5.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (18.00%) Spring
2 110 (15.97%) Spring Boot
3 105 (15.24%) React
4 96 (13.93%) RESTful
5 94 (13.64%) .NET
6 83 (12.05%) SOAP
7 80 (11.61%) Kafka
8 64 (9.29%) REST
9 49 (7.11%) Node.js
10 48 (6.97%) CSS
11 44 (6.39%) HTML
12 42 (6.10%) gRPC
12 42 (6.10%) Protocol Buffers
13 41 (5.95%) NumPy
13 41 (5.95%) Pandas
13 41 (5.95%) SciPy
13 41 (5.95%) XML
14 34 (4.93%) jQuery
15 32 (4.64%) JSON
16 31 (4.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 128 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 64 (9.29%) Enterprise Software
3 63 (9.14%) Fixed Income
4 52 (7.55%) Derivative
5 48 (6.97%) Equities
6 45 (6.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 41 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (5.95%) Hedge funds
7 41 (5.95%) Pricing Data
8 25 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 25 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (3.19%) Algorithms
10 21 (3.05%) FPGA
11 17 (2.47%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.18%) NHS
13 14 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (2.03%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.74%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
15 10 (1.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.72%) Linux
2 12 (1.74%) Windows
3 10 (1.45%) Unix
4 5 (0.73%) Android
5 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) CentOS
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (53.70%) Agile
2 248 (35.99%) Software Engineering
3 226 (32.80%) CI/CD
4 176 (25.54%) DevOps
5 169 (24.53%) Microservices
6 161 (23.37%) Mentoring
7 127 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (18.14%) Test Automation
9 123 (17.85%) Computer Science
10 97 (14.08%) AI
11 95 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
12 93 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 85 (12.34%) Coaching
14 83 (12.05%) Asset Management
15 69 (10.01%) Clean Code
16 68 (9.87%) Investment Management
17 61 (8.85%) Scrum
18 60 (8.71%) API Integration
19 58 (8.42%) Migration
20 56 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 274 (39.77%) Python
2 190 (27.58%) SQL
3 163 (23.66%) JavaScript
4 158 (22.93%) C#
5 123 (17.85%) TypeScript
6 72 (10.45%) C++
7 47 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 44 (6.39%) PL/SQL
9 40 (5.81%) Go
10 35 (5.08%) C
10 35 (5.08%) PHP
11 24 (3.48%) Scala
12 19 (2.76%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.74%) Bash
14 10 (1.45%) R
15 8 (1.16%) Delphi
15 8 (1.16%) Groovy
16 7 (1.02%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.73%) Objective-C
17 5 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 159 (23.08%) Degree
2 95 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (12.05%) Security Cleared
4 74 (10.74%) SC Cleared
5 33 (4.79%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 30 (4.35%) ISTQB
7 27 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (3.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 22 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.87%) CREST Certified
13 6 (0.87%) OSCP
14 5 (0.73%) PhD
15 4 (0.58%) OSCE
16 3 (0.44%) IBM Certification
17 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.39%) QA
2 19 (2.76%) Accessibility
2 19 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.18%) GDPR
4 10 (1.45%) ISO 9001
4 10 (1.45%) NIST
5 7 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.87%) NCSC
6 6 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.29%) ECSS
9 2 (0.29%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 88 (12.77%) Docker
2 23 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 119 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 85 (12.34%) Terraform
3 37 (5.37%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (4.50%) Grafana
5 21 (3.05%) Ansible
6 15 (2.18%) Argo
7 7 (1.02%) Kibana
8 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.58%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.44%) Control-M
11 2 (0.29%) Puppet
11 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.15%) Icinga
12 1 (0.15%) Istio
12 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (9.58%) Oracle
2 63 (9.14%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.19%) Google
4 20 (2.90%) Okta
5 19 (2.76%) MuleSoft
6 13 (1.89%) Guidewire
7 11 (1.60%) IBM
8 10 (1.45%) Databricks
8 10 (1.45%) Dell
9 8 (1.16%) SAP
10 7 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.02%) Talend
11 6 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.87%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.73%) Epicor
12 5 (0.73%) IFS
12 5 (0.73%) Informatica
12 5 (0.73%) Jitterbit
12 5 (0.73%) Software AG
12 5 (0.73%) Workday
358 hybrid/remote Java jobs