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

 6 months to
28 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 27 23
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 940 1,252 1,814
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.80% 7.56% 7.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.20% 24.93% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 563 573 1,344
10th Percentile £41,100 £37,900 £43,825
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.92%

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 6,186 5,022 8,940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.00% 30.32% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,594 3,343 5,885
10th Percentile £39,818 £36,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 28 September 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 15 (1.60%) Apache
2 12 (1.28%) Confluence
3 9 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (0.96%) Camunda
4 8 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.21%) Hedera
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Documentum
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Moqups
2 4 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 543 (57.77%) AWS
2 230 (24.47%) Azure
3 193 (20.53%) GCP
4 107 (11.38%) SaaS
5 83 (8.83%) Amazon EKS
6 73 (7.77%) Serverless
7 53 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (4.36%) GitHub
9 33 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 27 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
13 19 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
14 18 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (1.49%) Azure AKS
17 14 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.40%) HTTP
2 12 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.06%) AMQP
3 10 (1.06%) SMS
4 5 (0.53%) Broadband
5 4 (0.43%) Firewall
6 3 (0.32%) BGP
6 3 (0.32%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.32%) VPN
7 2 (0.21%) Network Security
7 2 (0.21%) VLAN
8 1 (0.11%) ATM
8 1 (0.11%) DSL
8 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (5.96%) MongoDB
3 42 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 39 (4.15%) MySQL
5 37 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.40%) NoSQL
7 21 (2.23%) DynamoDB
8 20 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (1.81%) Spark SQL
10 16 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.85%) Metadata
14 7 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.74%) Parquet
15 6 (0.64%) Flink
15 6 (0.64%) Redis
16 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 83 (8.83%) TeamCity
2 82 (8.72%) Git
3 42 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.83%) JUnit
5 30 (3.19%) GitLab
6 29 (3.09%) JIRA
7 23 (2.45%) Selenium
8 22 (2.34%) Maven
9 21 (2.23%) Mockito
9 21 (2.23%) Postman
10 15 (1.60%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.85%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.74%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.74%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.43%) JMeter
15 4 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 312 (33.19%) Finance
2 222 (23.62%) Banking
3 181 (19.26%) Social Skills
4 149 (15.85%) Public Sector
5 130 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 107 (11.38%) Retail
7 106 (11.28%) Law
8 69 (7.34%) Back Office
9 65 (6.91%) Financial Institution
10 62 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
11 29 (3.09%) Tech for Good
12 26 (2.77%) Health Technology
13 17 (1.81%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.38%) Front Office
14 13 (1.38%) Legal
15 10 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.85%) Local Government
18 7 (0.74%) Aviation
19 6 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 325 (34.57%) Software Engineer
2 238 (25.32%) Senior
3 224 (23.83%) Developer
4 175 (18.62%) Java Engineer
5 146 (15.53%) Lead
6 135 (14.36%) Java Developer
7 86 (9.15%) Senior Software Engineer
8 83 (8.83%) Java Software Engineer
9 79 (8.40%) Lead Software Engineer
9 79 (8.40%) Senior Java Engineer
10 61 (6.49%) Senior Developer
11 43 (4.57%) Software Developer
12 42 (4.47%) Principal Engineer
13 38 (4.04%) Engineering Manager
13 38 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
14 36 (3.83%) Data Engineer
15 35 (3.72%) Principal Java Engineer
16 34 (3.62%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 33 (3.51%) Graduate
17 33 (3.51%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (21.17%) Spring
2 173 (18.40%) Terraform
3 144 (15.32%) Spring Boot
4 119 (12.66%) REST
5 115 (12.23%) React
6 90 (9.57%) .NET
7 76 (8.09%) Node.js
8 57 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 56 (5.96%) Kafka
10 48 (5.11%) RESTful
11 28 (2.98%) CSS
12 27 (2.87%) PySpark
12 27 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (1.70%) JPA
13 16 (1.70%) OAuth
13 16 (1.70%) Web Services
14 15 (1.60%) OAuth2
15 14 (1.49%) HTML
15 14 (1.49%) OpenAPI
15 14 (1.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 167 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 148 (15.74%) Product Ownership
3 72 (7.66%) Public Cloud
4 70 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (3.62%) Blog
6 27 (2.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 24 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.70%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.17%) Equities
12 10 (1.06%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 71 (7.55%) Linux
2 27 (2.87%) Windows
3 25 (2.66%) Unix
4 24 (2.55%) Android
5 20 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (49.36%) Software Engineering
2 392 (41.70%) CI/CD
3 324 (34.47%) Agile
4 255 (27.13%) Mentoring
5 236 (25.11%) Test Automation
6 235 (25.00%) Microservices
7 211 (22.45%) DevOps
8 186 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (16.91%) Technical Leadership
10 152 (16.17%) Coaching
10 152 (16.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 147 (15.64%) AI
12 135 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 130 (13.83%) Clean Code
14 118 (12.55%) Roadmaps
15 117 (12.45%) TDD
16 87 (9.26%) Containerisation
16 87 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (9.26%) SDLC
17 85 (9.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 247 (26.28%) Python
2 200 (21.28%) SQL
3 198 (21.06%) JavaScript
4 145 (15.43%) C#
5 95 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 83 (8.83%) C++
7 51 (5.43%) Go
8 35 (3.72%) Kotlin
9 32 (3.40%) Bash
10 25 (2.66%) PHP
11 23 (2.45%) C
12 19 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.81%) Ruby
13 17 (1.81%) Rust
14 16 (1.70%) Scala
15 9 (0.96%) Groovy
16 8 (0.85%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.74%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.64%) Ada
19 5 (0.53%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 170 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 139 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.09%) Degree
4 40 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.06%) OSCP
8 9 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.85%) CREST Certified
9 8 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.32%) OCP
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.45%) QA
2 39 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.28%) NIST
5 9 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.32%) MiFID
8 3 (0.32%) MIL-STD-1553
8 3 (0.32%) UCITS
9 2 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 132 (14.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 211 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 91 (9.68%) Grafana
3 38 (4.04%) Ansible
4 21 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.70%) Argo
6 8 (0.85%) Packer
7 5 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.11%) Cilium
10 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.11%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (4.79%) Oracle
2 31 (3.30%) Microsoft
3 28 (2.98%) Google
4 13 (1.38%) Splunk
5 12 (1.28%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 7 (0.74%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.64%) IBM
8 6 (0.64%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.53%) New Relic
9 5 (0.53%) Sybase
10 4 (0.43%) Sage
10 4 (0.43%) SAP
11 3 (0.32%) Apple
11 3 (0.32%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.32%) JDA
11 3 (0.32%) Perforce
11 3 (0.32%) Red Hat
1,194 hybrid/remote Java jobs