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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 913 1,404 2,285
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.00% 9.87% 7.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.89% 24.08% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 588 830 1,922
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,039 £75,000 £73,805
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +1.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.68% +6.43% -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 4,834 5,830 13,322
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.49% 41.00% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 4,405 11,412
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £100,000
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 8 May 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 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.64%) JBoss
4 11 (1.20%) Apache
5 9 (0.99%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
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 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) 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 14 (1.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 515 (56.41%) AWS
2 211 (23.11%) Azure
3 168 (18.40%) GCP
4 85 (9.31%) SaaS
5 70 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
6 63 (6.90%) GitHub
7 62 (6.79%) Serverless
8 37 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 32 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
11 30 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (3.18%) GitHub Copilot
13 25 (2.74%) dbt
14 24 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.63%) Pulumi
15 18 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
16 17 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (1.75%) Vertex AI
18 15 (1.64%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.60%) Broadband
2 30 (3.29%) TCP/IP
3 28 (3.07%) HTTP
4 5 (0.55%) AMQP
4 5 (0.55%) PuTTY
5 4 (0.44%) BGP
5 4 (0.44%) VLAN
5 4 (0.44%) VPN
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.32%) NoSQL
3 48 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 43 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 36 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.50%) MySQL
7 20 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (2.08%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.08%) RDBMS
9 18 (1.97%) DynamoDB
10 16 (1.75%) Tableau
11 14 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.42%) Metadata
13 10 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.10%) Flink
13 10 (1.10%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.10%) Redis
14 9 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 56 (6.13%) Jenkins
2 50 (5.48%) Git
3 47 (5.15%) TeamCity
4 45 (4.93%) JIRA
5 43 (4.71%) Selenium
6 35 (3.83%) GitLab
7 31 (3.40%) Postman
8 28 (3.07%) SoapUI
9 25 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (2.63%) WebDriver
11 19 (2.08%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.97%) Maven
13 14 (1.53%) JMeter
13 14 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (1.42%) Claude Code
14 13 (1.42%) Cypress.io
15 10 (1.10%) Cucumber
15 10 (1.10%) MLflow
16 9 (0.99%) JUnit
17 8 (0.88%) REST Assured
General
1 320 (35.05%) Finance
2 193 (21.14%) Social Skills
3 163 (17.85%) Banking
4 126 (13.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (10.30%) Law
6 87 (9.53%) Retail
7 82 (8.98%) Public Sector
8 56 (6.13%) Financial Institution
9 50 (5.48%) Back Office
10 49 (5.37%) Front Office
11 48 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
12 31 (3.40%) Investment Banking
13 21 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.19%) Tech for Good
15 19 (2.08%) Health Technology
16 18 (1.97%) Games
17 9 (0.99%) Aviation
17 9 (0.99%) Marketing
18 6 (0.66%) Legal
19 5 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 295 (32.31%) Developer
2 270 (29.57%) Software Engineer
3 226 (24.75%) Senior
4 173 (18.95%) Lead
5 162 (17.74%) Java Developer
6 149 (16.32%) Java Engineer
7 102 (11.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 75 (8.21%) Lead Software Engineer
9 71 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 57 (6.24%) Senior Developer
11 53 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 53 (5.81%) Software Developer
12 45 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
13 44 (4.82%) Lead Developer
14 43 (4.71%) Graduate
15 40 (4.38%) Senior Java Engineer
16 37 (4.05%) Senior Java Developer
17 36 (3.94%) Graduate Developer
18 34 (3.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 33 (3.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (17.42%) Spring
2 137 (15.01%) React
3 123 (13.47%) Spring Boot
4 108 (11.83%) REST
5 99 (10.84%) Node.js
6 94 (10.30%) .NET
7 82 (8.98%) Kafka
8 70 (7.67%) SOAP
9 60 (6.57%) AngularJS
10 52 (5.70%) RESTful
11 44 (4.82%) CSS
12 43 (4.71%) HTML
13 42 (4.60%) GraphQL
14 33 (3.61%) Redux
14 33 (3.61%) Web Services
15 30 (3.29%) jQuery
16 29 (3.18%) JSON
17 27 (2.96%) Middleware
17 27 (2.96%) XML
18 26 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 148 (16.21%) Cloud Native
2 101 (11.06%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (5.59%) Public Cloud
5 37 (4.05%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.40%) Blog
7 30 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 21 (2.30%) FPGA
10 19 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.86%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.53%) e-Learning
12 14 (1.53%) Equities
12 14 (1.53%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.99%) DataPower
15 9 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.99%) Sports Betting
16 8 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 101 (11.06%) Linux
2 43 (4.71%) Unix
3 20 (2.19%) Windows
4 18 (1.97%) Android
4 18 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.33%) CentOS
5 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (41.95%) Agile
2 352 (38.55%) Software Engineering
3 298 (32.64%) CI/CD
4 235 (25.74%) Mentoring
5 228 (24.97%) DevOps
6 201 (22.02%) Test Automation
7 187 (20.48%) Microservices
8 164 (17.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 124 (13.58%) Roadmaps
10 119 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
11 118 (12.92%) Clean Code
12 115 (12.60%) AI
12 115 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
13 101 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
14 99 (10.84%) Computer Science
15 98 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 93 (10.19%) Containerisation
17 92 (10.08%) Coaching
18 85 (9.31%) Scrum
19 83 (9.09%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 308 (33.73%) Python
2 221 (24.21%) SQL
3 179 (19.61%) JavaScript
4 137 (15.01%) C#
5 109 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 107 (11.72%) Go
7 73 (8.00%) C++
8 40 (4.38%) Bash
9 36 (3.94%) PHP
10 27 (2.96%) C
11 26 (2.85%) Scala
12 23 (2.52%) Kotlin
12 23 (2.52%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.97%) Apex Code
14 14 (1.53%) Rust
14 14 (1.53%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.31%) Ruby
16 9 (0.99%) Groovy
17 6 (0.66%) Perl
18 5 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 141 (15.44%) Degree
2 122 (13.36%) Security Cleared
3 104 (11.39%) SC Cleared
4 64 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (4.27%) AWS Certification
6 23 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.41%) ISTQB
8 20 (2.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 15 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.53%) DBS Check
10 14 (1.53%) OSCP
10 14 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (1.42%) CREST Certified
12 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.20%) PhD
14 10 (1.10%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.44%) GPEN
16 4 (0.44%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.00%) QA
2 29 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.10%) SOC 2
5 9 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.66%) WCAG
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.11%) GDPR
9 1 (0.11%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 131 (14.35%) Docker
2 8 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 170 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 166 (18.18%) Terraform
3 55 (6.02%) Grafana
4 47 (5.15%) Ansible
5 43 (4.71%) Argo
6 23 (2.52%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.08%) Kustomize
8 15 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.77%) Packer
10 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.55%) FTK
10 5 (0.55%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Kibana
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 (5.91%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.82%) Oracle
3 43 (4.71%) Google
4 18 (1.97%) MuleSoft
4 18 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.53%) Databricks
6 10 (1.10%) Palantir
7 9 (0.99%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.88%) Foundry
9 7 (0.77%) IBM
9 7 (0.77%) Okta
9 7 (0.77%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.55%) Cellebrite
10 5 (0.55%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.44%) JDA
12 3 (0.33%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.33%) Revolut
13 2 (0.22%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.22%) iManage
13 2 (0.22%) Splunk