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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 915 1,090 2,314
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.11% 8.14% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.20% 19.19% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 603 839 1,925
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +2.73% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £132,500
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 4,765 5,681 13,365
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.61% 42.45% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,493 4,518 11,481
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £113,979 £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 23 April 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 24 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.86%) JBoss
4 11 (1.20%) WebSphere
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Confluence
8 3 (0.33%) Camunda
8 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
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 16 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Maximo
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 523 (57.16%) AWS
2 219 (23.93%) Azure
3 169 (18.47%) GCP
4 85 (9.29%) SaaS
5 80 (8.74%) GitHub
6 74 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (7.10%) Serverless
8 39 (4.26%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (3.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 32 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (2.73%) dbt
14 24 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.62%) Pulumi
15 20 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
17 17 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.86%) Power Platform
18 16 (1.75%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.26%) Broadband
2 30 (3.28%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.62%) 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
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (8.96%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 42 (4.59%) MongoDB
5 39 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.93%) MySQL
7 23 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.19%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.08%) BigQuery
10 18 (1.97%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.86%) Tableau
12 12 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.09%) Flink
13 10 (1.09%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.09%) Power BI
14 9 (0.98%) Looker
14 9 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (6.99%) Git
2 63 (6.89%) Jenkins
3 51 (5.57%) Selenium
4 47 (5.14%) TeamCity
5 44 (4.81%) JIRA
6 41 (4.48%) GitLab
7 31 (3.39%) Postman
8 28 (3.06%) SoapUI
9 25 (2.73%) Team Foundation Server
10 24 (2.62%) WebDriver
11 19 (2.08%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.97%) Cucumber
13 16 (1.75%) Maven
13 16 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (1.64%) JUnit
15 14 (1.53%) JMeter
16 13 (1.42%) Cypress.io
17 11 (1.20%) Claude Code
18 10 (1.09%) MLflow
19 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
General
1 324 (35.41%) Finance
2 207 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 155 (16.94%) Banking
4 126 (13.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (10.93%) Law
6 86 (9.40%) Retail
7 77 (8.42%) Public Sector
8 59 (6.45%) Financial Institution
9 51 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (5.46%) Front Office
11 49 (5.36%) Back Office
12 29 (3.17%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (2.30%) Games
15 17 (1.86%) Health Technology
15 17 (1.86%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.98%) Aviation
16 9 (0.98%) Marketing
17 6 (0.66%) Legal
18 5 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 301 (32.90%) Developer
2 268 (29.29%) Software Engineer
3 231 (25.25%) Senior
4 166 (18.14%) Lead
5 157 (17.16%) Java Developer
6 146 (15.96%) Java Engineer
7 98 (10.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 71 (7.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 70 (7.65%) Lead Software Engineer
10 59 (6.45%) Senior Developer
11 56 (6.12%) Software Developer
12 53 (5.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 48 (5.25%) Lead Developer
14 45 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (4.70%) Graduate
16 40 (4.37%) Senior Java Engineer
17 39 (4.26%) Architect
18 37 (4.04%) Graduate Developer
19 34 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
19 34 (3.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (18.47%) Spring
2 139 (15.19%) React
3 132 (14.43%) Spring Boot
4 108 (11.80%) REST
5 98 (10.71%) .NET
6 97 (10.60%) Node.js
7 82 (8.96%) Kafka
8 77 (8.42%) SOAP
9 60 (6.56%) AngularJS
10 57 (6.23%) RESTful
11 44 (4.81%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.70%) CSS
13 41 (4.48%) HTML
14 37 (4.04%) Web Services
15 33 (3.61%) Redux
16 32 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
17 31 (3.39%) jQuery
17 31 (3.39%) JSON
18 30 (3.28%) XML
19 29 (3.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 153 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.95%) Product Ownership
3 62 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 39 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (4.26%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.39%) Blog
7 23 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
8 21 (2.30%) FPGA
9 18 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.86%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.75%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.53%) e-Learning
12 14 (1.53%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.42%) Equities
14 12 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.20%) DataPower
15 11 (1.20%) Sports Betting
16 9 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.82%) Linux
2 43 (4.70%) Unix
3 19 (2.08%) Android
4 18 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.86%) Windows
6 3 (0.33%) CentOS
6 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (42.84%) Agile
2 357 (39.02%) Software Engineering
3 308 (33.66%) CI/CD
4 234 (25.57%) DevOps
4 234 (25.57%) Mentoring
5 199 (21.75%) Test Automation
6 195 (21.31%) Microservices
7 165 (18.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 126 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (12.79%) AI
10 115 (12.57%) Roadmaps
11 114 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
12 112 (12.24%) Clean Code
13 111 (12.13%) Containerisation
14 105 (11.48%) Computer Science
14 105 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 93 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 91 (9.95%) Coaching
17 87 (9.51%) Fintech
18 82 (8.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 317 (34.64%) Python
2 228 (24.92%) SQL
3 180 (19.67%) JavaScript
4 141 (15.41%) C#
5 114 (12.46%) TypeScript
6 106 (11.58%) Go
7 75 (8.20%) C++
8 37 (4.04%) Bash
8 37 (4.04%) PHP
9 27 (2.95%) C
10 25 (2.73%) Scala
11 23 (2.51%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.30%) Kotlin
13 19 (2.08%) Apex Code
14 18 (1.97%) Shell Script
15 13 (1.42%) Rust
16 11 (1.20%) Ruby
17 9 (0.98%) Groovy
18 8 (0.87%) Delphi
19 6 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 150 (16.39%) Degree
2 116 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 97 (10.60%) SC Cleared
4 71 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.37%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.40%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 19 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.53%) DBS Check
11 14 (1.53%) OSCP
12 13 (1.42%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.20%) PhD
14 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.44%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.65%) QA
2 27 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.55%) WCAG
7 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.33%) GDPR
7 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.22%) ECSS
8 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 147 (16.07%) Docker
2 10 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 189 (20.66%) Kubernetes
2 164 (17.92%) Terraform
3 64 (6.99%) Grafana
4 45 (4.92%) Ansible
5 42 (4.59%) Argo
6 24 (2.62%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.08%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.55%) FTK
9 5 (0.55%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.55%) Packer
10 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Puppet
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.11%) Icinga
12 1 (0.11%) Nagios
12 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 54 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.79%) Oracle
3 43 (4.70%) Google
4 21 (2.30%) MuleSoft
5 19 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.53%) Databricks
7 10 (1.09%) Palantir
8 9 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.87%) Foundry
9 8 (0.87%) IBM
9 8 (0.87%) Okta
10 7 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.55%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.55%) Dell
11 5 (0.55%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.44%) JDA
13 3 (0.33%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.33%) SAP
13 3 (0.33%) Talend
13 3 (0.33%) TIBCO