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

 6 months to
13 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -40 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 899 1,281 1,855
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.76% 7.87% 7.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.69% 25.10% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 549 609 1,441
10th Percentile £37,500 £30,950 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,481 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% -19.44% +20.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £125,000
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% +5.89%

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 6,121 5,103 9,030
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.57% 31.34% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,573 3,455 6,308
10th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 13 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 13 (1.45%) Apache
2 11 (1.22%) Confluence
3 8 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.78%) Camunda
4 7 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Documentum
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Moqups
2 4 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 531 (59.07%) AWS
2 246 (27.36%) Azure
3 180 (20.02%) GCP
4 91 (10.12%) SaaS
5 72 (8.01%) Serverless
6 66 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (4.34%) GitHub
9 32 (3.56%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
12 20 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (1.56%) Azure AKS
17 13 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.89%) HTTP
2 13 (1.45%) Broadband
3 9 (1.00%) AMQP
3 9 (1.00%) SMS
3 9 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.33%) Firewall
4 3 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) ATM
5 1 (0.11%) DSL
5 1 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 51 (5.67%) SQL Server
4 40 (4.45%) MySQL
5 37 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 34 (3.78%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.45%) DynamoDB
8 21 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (1.89%) Spark SQL
10 10 (1.11%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.89%) Metadata
13 7 (0.78%) Parquet
14 6 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.56%) Redis
16 4 (0.44%) BigQuery
16 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 82 (9.12%) Git
2 67 (7.45%) TeamCity
3 42 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.67%) JUnit
5 29 (3.23%) GitLab
5 29 (3.23%) JIRA
6 22 (2.45%) Maven
6 22 (2.45%) Selenium
7 19 (2.11%) Mockito
7 19 (2.11%) Postman
8 13 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.78%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.78%) IntelliJ
12 6 (0.67%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.56%) JMeter
13 5 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.33%) Mercurial
General
1 306 (34.04%) Finance
2 196 (21.80%) Banking
3 171 (19.02%) Social Skills
4 143 (15.91%) Public Sector
5 111 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (9.57%) Law
7 84 (9.34%) Retail
8 65 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
9 57 (6.34%) Back Office
10 53 (5.90%) Financial Institution
11 25 (2.78%) Health Technology
11 25 (2.78%) Tech for Good
12 18 (2.00%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.33%) Legal
14 10 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.11%) Local Government
14 10 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.89%) Aviation
15 8 (0.89%) Front Office
16 6 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 311 (34.59%) Software Engineer
2 227 (25.25%) Developer
3 208 (23.14%) Senior
4 146 (16.24%) Lead
5 143 (15.91%) Java Engineer
6 137 (15.24%) Java Developer
7 82 (9.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 80 (8.90%) Lead Software Engineer
9 73 (8.12%) Java Software Engineer
10 59 (6.56%) Senior Developer
11 57 (6.34%) Senior Java Engineer
12 54 (6.01%) Software Developer
13 42 (4.67%) Engineering Manager
13 42 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 41 (4.56%) Graduate
15 37 (4.12%) Data Engineer
16 34 (3.78%) Development Engineer
16 34 (3.78%) Software Development Engineer
16 34 (3.78%) Software Engineering Manager
16 34 (3.78%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (21.58%) Spring
2 149 (16.57%) Terraform
3 136 (15.13%) Spring Boot
4 116 (12.90%) REST
5 108 (12.01%) React
6 89 (9.90%) .NET
7 73 (8.12%) Node.js
8 59 (6.56%) AngularJS
9 53 (5.90%) Kafka
10 44 (4.89%) RESTful
11 36 (4.00%) CSS
12 27 (3.00%) PySpark
13 24 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (2.56%) jQuery
15 17 (1.89%) Web Services
16 15 (1.67%) JPA
16 15 (1.67%) Vue
17 14 (1.56%) OpenAPI
18 13 (1.45%) HTML
18 13 (1.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 153 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 149 (16.57%) Product Ownership
3 79 (8.79%) Public Cloud
4 61 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (3.34%) Distributed Architecture
6 26 (2.89%) Blog
7 24 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.45%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.33%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.11%) e-Learning
12 10 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.00%) Equities
13 9 (1.00%) FPGA
13 9 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.23%) Linux
2 29 (3.23%) Windows
3 24 (2.67%) Unix
4 19 (2.11%) Android
5 16 (1.78%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (49.17%) Software Engineering
2 374 (41.60%) CI/CD
3 343 (38.15%) Agile
4 252 (28.03%) Mentoring
5 234 (26.03%) Test Automation
6 220 (24.47%) Microservices
7 206 (22.91%) DevOps
8 181 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (18.24%) Technical Leadership
10 144 (16.02%) Coaching
11 143 (15.91%) AI
12 141 (15.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 135 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 127 (14.13%) Clean Code
14 127 (14.13%) Roadmaps
15 118 (13.13%) TDD
16 86 (9.57%) OO
17 85 (9.45%) Containerisation
18 83 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
19 81 (9.01%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 249 (27.70%) Python
2 202 (22.47%) JavaScript
3 199 (22.14%) SQL
4 152 (16.91%) C#
5 92 (10.23%) C++
6 91 (10.12%) TypeScript
7 38 (4.23%) Go
8 33 (3.67%) Kotlin
8 33 (3.67%) PHP
9 31 (3.45%) Bash
10 25 (2.78%) C
11 20 (2.22%) Ruby
12 19 (2.11%) Rust
13 16 (1.78%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.45%) Scala
15 10 (1.11%) Groovy
15 10 (1.11%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.89%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.67%) Ada
18 5 (0.56%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 167 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 135 (15.02%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.01%) Degree
4 45 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.11%) OSCP
8 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.00%) CREST Certified
9 8 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.33%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.33%) GPEN
11 3 (0.33%) GXPN
11 3 (0.33%) OCP
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.33%) OSCE
12 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.79%) QA
2 42 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.00%) NIST
5 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.33%) MiFID
6 3 (0.33%) MIL-STD-1553
6 3 (0.33%) UCITS
6 3 (0.33%) WCAG
7 2 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
7 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 122 (13.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 179 (19.91%) Kubernetes
2 75 (8.34%) Grafana
3 37 (4.12%) Ansible
4 17 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.78%) Argo
6 6 (0.67%) Packer
7 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (5.01%) Oracle
2 37 (4.12%) Microsoft
3 28 (3.11%) Google
4 14 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 11 (1.22%) Salesforce
6 8 (0.89%) Splunk
7 7 (0.78%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.67%) IBM
8 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.67%) TIBCO
9 5 (0.56%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.56%) Sybase
10 4 (0.44%) JDA
10 4 (0.44%) Sage
10 4 (0.44%) SAP
11 3 (0.33%) Apple
11 3 (0.33%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.33%) Foundry
11 3 (0.33%) Perforce
11 3 (0.33%) Red Hat
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