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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 899 1,035 2,377
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.22% 8.01% 7.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.12% 18.00% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 587 831 1,923
10th Percentile £38,850 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,698 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +2.73% -4.63%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -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 4,701 5,751 13,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.29% 44.49% 42.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,426 4,536 11,534
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 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 9 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 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.00%) JBoss
3 13 (1.45%) Apache
3 13 (1.45%) WebSphere
4 8 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.56%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.33%) Camunda
6 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) 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
Business Applications
1 16 (1.78%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.56%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Maximo
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 516 (57.40%) AWS
2 212 (23.58%) Azure
3 171 (19.02%) GCP
4 92 (10.23%) SaaS
5 85 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
6 78 (8.68%) GitHub
7 67 (7.45%) Serverless
8 41 (4.56%) Amazon S3
9 35 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (3.23%) dbt
11 29 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 24 (2.67%) Pulumi
13 22 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
17 16 (1.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.34%) Broadband
2 33 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.22%) HTTP
4 6 (0.67%) BGP
4 6 (0.67%) VLAN
4 6 (0.67%) VPN
5 5 (0.56%) AMQP
5 5 (0.56%) PuTTY
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
8 1 (0.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.23%) NoSQL
2 80 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 43 (4.78%) Relational Database
5 39 (4.34%) MySQL
6 28 (3.11%) MongoDB
7 25 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.22%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 18 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.89%) Tableau
12 16 (1.78%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
15 12 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.22%) Flink
17 10 (1.11%) Power BI
18 9 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (1.00%) Looker
18 9 (1.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (7.12%) Jenkins
2 63 (7.01%) Git
3 53 (5.90%) TeamCity
4 52 (5.78%) Selenium
5 43 (4.78%) JIRA
6 30 (3.34%) GitLab
6 30 (3.34%) Postman
7 27 (3.00%) SoapUI
8 26 (2.89%) WebDriver
9 24 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
10 19 (2.11%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.11%) Jaeger
11 17 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
12 16 (1.78%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.67%) JMeter
13 15 (1.67%) JUnit
14 14 (1.56%) Maven
15 10 (1.11%) Claude Code
15 10 (1.11%) MLflow
16 8 (0.89%) REST Assured
General
1 333 (37.04%) Finance
2 215 (23.92%) Social Skills
3 165 (18.35%) Banking
4 139 (15.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 118 (13.13%) Law
6 99 (11.01%) Retail
7 74 (8.23%) Financial Institution
8 73 (8.12%) Public Sector
9 58 (6.45%) Back Office
10 55 (6.12%) Front Office
11 50 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
12 33 (3.67%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.45%) Games
14 20 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.78%) Tech for Good
16 15 (1.67%) Health Technology
17 9 (1.00%) Legal
17 9 (1.00%) Marketing
18 6 (0.67%) Aviation
19 5 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 298 (33.15%) Developer
2 262 (29.14%) Software Engineer
3 218 (24.25%) Senior
4 157 (17.46%) Lead
5 152 (16.91%) Java Developer
6 142 (15.80%) Java Engineer
7 99 (11.01%) Java Software Engineer
8 69 (7.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 61 (6.79%) Lead Software Engineer
10 57 (6.34%) Senior Developer
11 55 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 55 (6.12%) Software Developer
12 49 (5.45%) Lead Developer
13 45 (5.01%) Architect
14 42 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
15 40 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
16 39 (4.34%) Graduate
16 39 (4.34%) Senior Java Engineer
17 36 (4.00%) Graduate Developer
18 34 (3.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (19.24%) Spring
2 138 (15.35%) React
3 136 (15.13%) Spring Boot
4 107 (11.90%) REST
5 95 (10.57%) .NET
6 86 (9.57%) Kafka
7 83 (9.23%) Node.js
8 81 (9.01%) SOAP
9 66 (7.34%) RESTful
10 55 (6.12%) AngularJS
11 46 (5.12%) GraphQL
12 45 (5.01%) CSS
13 40 (4.45%) HTML
14 35 (3.89%) Redux
15 34 (3.78%) Web Services
16 33 (3.67%) jQuery
16 33 (3.67%) JSON
16 33 (3.67%) XML
17 32 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
17 32 (3.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 161 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 83 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 63 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.78%) Fixed Income
5 42 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 33 (3.67%) Blog
8 22 (2.45%) FPGA
9 20 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.89%) Equities
10 17 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 15 (1.67%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.45%) DataPower
12 13 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.22%) Sports Betting
14 10 (1.11%) Derivative
14 10 (1.11%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.68%) Linux
2 37 (4.12%) Unix
3 17 (1.89%) Android
4 16 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.22%) Windows
6 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.33%) CentOS
7 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (43.49%) Agile
2 355 (39.49%) Software Engineering
3 306 (34.04%) CI/CD
4 229 (25.47%) DevOps
5 218 (24.25%) Mentoring
6 198 (22.02%) Microservices
7 190 (21.13%) Test Automation
8 158 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 122 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (13.24%) AI
11 116 (12.90%) Clean Code
12 111 (12.35%) Containerisation
13 109 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (11.79%) Roadmaps
15 105 (11.68%) Computer Science
16 104 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
17 95 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 86 (9.57%) Coaching
18 86 (9.57%) Fintech
19 76 (8.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 309 (34.37%) Python
2 228 (25.36%) SQL
3 182 (20.24%) JavaScript
4 136 (15.13%) C#
5 113 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.35%) Go
7 78 (8.68%) C++
8 36 (4.00%) Bash
9 33 (3.67%) PHP
10 27 (3.00%) C
11 24 (2.67%) PL/SQL
12 23 (2.56%) Kotlin
13 21 (2.34%) Scala
13 21 (2.34%) Shell Script
14 20 (2.22%) Apex Code
15 11 (1.22%) Ruby
15 11 (1.22%) Rust
16 8 (0.89%) Delphi
16 8 (0.89%) Groovy
17 6 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 150 (16.69%) Degree
2 116 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 98 (10.90%) SC Cleared
4 72 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.56%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.45%) ISTQB
8 21 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.22%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 20 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.78%) OSCP
12 15 (1.67%) CREST Certified
13 11 (1.22%) PhD
14 10 (1.11%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.78%) OSCE
16 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.44%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.23%) QA
2 28 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.11%) GDPR
6 9 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.56%) WCAG
10 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.33%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) ECSS
12 2 (0.22%) NCSC
12 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 147 (16.35%) Docker
2 10 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 193 (21.47%) Kubernetes
2 160 (17.80%) Terraform
3 71 (7.90%) Grafana
4 42 (4.67%) Ansible
5 33 (3.67%) Argo
6 24 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 19 (2.11%) Kustomize
8 17 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.56%) FTK
9 5 (0.56%) Kibana
9 5 (0.56%) Packer
10 4 (0.44%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
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
12 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (6.23%) Oracle
2 53 (5.90%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.78%) Google
4 25 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 20 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.56%) Databricks
7 13 (1.45%) IBM
8 10 (1.11%) Palantir
9 8 (0.89%) Dell
9 8 (0.89%) Foundry
9 8 (0.89%) Okta
10 7 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.67%) SAP
11 6 (0.67%) Talend
11 6 (0.67%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.56%) Epicor
12 5 (0.56%) Infor
12 5 (0.56%) Informatica
12 5 (0.56%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.56%) Software AG