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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 35 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 855 1,009 2,358
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.08% 7.86% 7.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.92% 17.22% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 571 808 1,912
10th Percentile £43,953 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -2.65%
75th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,443
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 4,518 5,859 13,195
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.84% 45.67% 42.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 4,513 11,454
10th Percentile £39,469 £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 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 27 March 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 26 (3.04%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.11%) JBoss
4 13 (1.52%) Apache
4 13 (1.52%) WebSphere
5 9 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.58%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.47%) Confluence
8 3 (0.35%) Camunda
8 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) FileNet
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 19 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.58%) Shopify
3 2 (0.23%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 492 (57.54%) AWS
2 200 (23.39%) Azure
3 160 (18.71%) GCP
4 90 (10.53%) SaaS
5 81 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
6 76 (8.89%) GitHub
7 67 (7.84%) Serverless
8 40 (4.68%) Amazon S3
9 35 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (3.39%) dbt
12 26 (3.04%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (2.81%) Pulumi
14 23 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (2.22%) OCI
17 18 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (1.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 17 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.56%) Broadband
2 33 (3.86%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.52%) HTTP
4 6 (0.70%) BGP
4 6 (0.70%) VLAN
4 6 (0.70%) VPN
5 5 (0.58%) AMQP
5 5 (0.58%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.23%) DHCP
7 2 (0.23%) DNS
7 2 (0.23%) DSL
7 2 (0.23%) LAN
7 2 (0.23%) NAS
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.23%) SNMP
7 2 (0.23%) SSH
7 2 (0.23%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) Multicast
8 1 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.59%) NoSQL
2 80 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (4.91%) Relational Database
4 41 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 38 (4.44%) MySQL
6 28 (3.27%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.34%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.22%) BigQuery
10 18 (2.11%) Tableau
11 17 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.87%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
15 12 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.29%) Power BI
17 10 (1.17%) Flink
18 9 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (1.05%) Looker
18 9 (1.05%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 66 (7.72%) Jenkins
2 59 (6.90%) Git
3 55 (6.43%) Selenium
4 51 (5.96%) TeamCity
5 43 (5.03%) JIRA
6 30 (3.51%) Postman
7 29 (3.39%) GitLab
7 29 (3.39%) WebDriver
8 27 (3.16%) SoapUI
9 23 (2.69%) Team Foundation Server
10 20 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
11 19 (2.22%) Cucumber
11 19 (2.22%) Jaeger
12 18 (2.11%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.75%) JMeter
13 15 (1.75%) JUnit
14 14 (1.64%) Maven
15 10 (1.17%) Claude Code
15 10 (1.17%) MLflow
16 8 (0.94%) REST Assured
General
1 316 (36.96%) Finance
2 209 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 143 (16.73%) Banking
4 137 (16.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 116 (13.57%) Law
6 99 (11.58%) Retail
7 73 (8.54%) Financial Institution
8 70 (8.19%) Public Sector
9 57 (6.67%) Front Office
10 55 (6.43%) Back Office
11 43 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
12 34 (3.98%) Games
13 29 (3.39%) Investment Banking
14 19 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.87%) Health Technology
16 15 (1.75%) Tech for Good
17 9 (1.05%) Marketing
18 7 (0.82%) Legal
18 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 281 (32.87%) Developer
2 247 (28.89%) Software Engineer
3 218 (25.50%) Senior
4 156 (18.25%) Lead
5 146 (17.08%) Java Developer
6 134 (15.67%) Java Engineer
7 96 (11.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 70 (8.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 58 (6.78%) Lead Software Engineer
10 54 (6.32%) Senior Developer
11 51 (5.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 49 (5.73%) Software Developer
13 48 (5.61%) Lead Developer
14 45 (5.26%) Architect
14 45 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
15 42 (4.91%) Senior Java Engineer
16 36 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
17 34 (3.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 32 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
19 31 (3.63%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (18.60%) Spring
2 131 (15.32%) React
3 128 (14.97%) Spring Boot
4 94 (10.99%) REST
5 89 (10.41%) .NET
6 88 (10.29%) Kafka
7 83 (9.71%) Node.js
7 83 (9.71%) SOAP
8 81 (9.47%) RESTful
9 48 (5.61%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.38%) GraphQL
11 40 (4.68%) HTML
12 37 (4.33%) CSS
13 36 (4.21%) Redux
14 35 (4.09%) XML
15 34 (3.98%) JSON
16 31 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
16 31 (3.63%) Middleware
17 29 (3.39%) Web Services
18 25 (2.92%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 162 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 62 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (5.03%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.74%) Blog
7 26 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.46%) FPGA
9 17 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.75%) Equities
11 14 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.52%) DataPower
13 11 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.29%) Derivative
13 11 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.29%) Sports Betting
14 10 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.05%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.11%) Linux
2 38 (4.44%) Unix
3 16 (1.87%) Android
4 15 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.94%) Windows
6 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) CentOS
7 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (45.03%) Agile
2 333 (38.95%) Software Engineering
3 305 (35.67%) CI/CD
4 231 (27.02%) DevOps
5 214 (25.03%) Mentoring
6 192 (22.46%) Microservices
7 183 (21.40%) Test Automation
8 152 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 118 (13.80%) AI
10 111 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (12.75%) Clean Code
12 106 (12.40%) Containerisation
13 101 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (11.58%) Computer Science
15 94 (10.99%) Coaching
16 92 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
17 90 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
18 86 (10.06%) Roadmaps
19 84 (9.82%) Fintech
20 71 (8.30%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 294 (34.39%) Python
2 219 (25.61%) SQL
3 178 (20.82%) JavaScript
4 117 (13.68%) C#
5 111 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 100 (11.70%) Go
7 69 (8.07%) C++
8 33 (3.86%) Bash
9 26 (3.04%) PL/SQL
9 26 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.92%) Kotlin
10 25 (2.92%) PHP
11 24 (2.81%) C
12 23 (2.69%) Scala
13 20 (2.34%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.17%) Ruby
15 9 (1.05%) Rust
16 8 (0.94%) Delphi
16 8 (0.94%) Groovy
17 4 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 142 (16.61%) Degree
2 108 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 90 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 65 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.69%) ISTQB
8 22 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (2.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 21 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (2.22%) DV Cleared
11 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.52%) OSCP
13 12 (1.40%) CREST Certified
14 11 (1.29%) PhD
15 10 (1.17%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 5 (0.58%) OSCE
18 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.25%) QA
2 29 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.40%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.17%) GDPR
6 9 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.58%) NIST
8 5 (0.58%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.47%) NCSC
10 2 (0.23%) ECSS
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 148 (17.31%) Docker
2 14 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 190 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 159 (18.60%) Terraform
3 68 (7.95%) Grafana
4 41 (4.80%) Ansible
5 32 (3.74%) Argo
6 23 (2.69%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (2.22%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.58%) FTK
9 5 (0.58%) Kibana
10 4 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.47%) Packer
11 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 1 (0.12%) Icinga
12 1 (0.12%) Nagios
12 1 (0.12%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (6.55%) Oracle
2 48 (5.61%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.03%) Google
4 25 (2.92%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.64%) Databricks
7 12 (1.40%) IBM
8 10 (1.17%) Dell
8 10 (1.17%) Okta
8 10 (1.17%) Palantir
9 8 (0.94%) Foundry
10 6 (0.70%) SAP
10 6 (0.70%) Talend
10 6 (0.70%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.58%) Epicor
11 5 (0.58%) Informatica
11 5 (0.58%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.58%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.58%) Software AG