Java Jobs with Work from Home Options

Java
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,359 5,300 9,261
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.98% 12.26% 13.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 24.89% 23.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 3,416 5,139
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,425 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,969 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,764 21,297 39,199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.70% 49.25% 58.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,419 15,642 23,967
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,797 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

Java
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java.

Java salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 205 (8.69%) Apache
2 184 (7.80%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.95%) Confluence
5 39 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 37 (1.57%) Tuxedo
7 27 (1.14%) OpenStack
8 22 (0.93%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.68%) JBoss
10 15 (0.64%) nginx
11 13 (0.55%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.38%) IIS
12 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
13 3 (0.13%) Documentum
13 3 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.13%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.13%) NetWeaver
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (1.02%) Simulink
2 9 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.085%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.042%) CATIA
6 1 (0.042%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (1.65%) Endur
2 10 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
5 3 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.042%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.042%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,138 (48.24%) AWS
2 539 (22.85%) Azure
3 319 (13.52%) GCP
4 204 (8.65%) Serverless
5 184 (7.80%) dbt
6 172 (7.29%) SaaS
7 168 (7.12%) Snowflake
8 112 (4.75%) GitHub
9 87 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
10 75 (3.18%) Amazon S3
11 67 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
12 62 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
13 54 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
14 40 (1.70%) Power Platform
15 39 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
19 26 (1.10%) PowerApps
20 25 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.74%) Firewall
2 36 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.31%) DNS
4 18 (0.76%) Internet
5 17 (0.72%) Network Security
6 14 (0.59%) AMQP
7 13 (0.55%) Modbus
8 10 (0.42%) HTTP
9 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
11 5 (0.21%) SSL
12 4 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
12 4 (0.17%) VPN
13 3 (0.13%) LAN
13 3 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.13%) WAN
13 3 (0.13%) Wireless
14 2 (0.085%) Broadband
14 2 (0.085%) DHCP
14 2 (0.085%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (9.83%) Relational Database
2 217 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
3 190 (8.05%) Data Lake
4 186 (7.88%) Amazon Athena
5 182 (7.72%) Apache Arrow
5 182 (7.72%) Dremio
6 159 (6.74%) MySQL
6 159 (6.74%) NoSQL
7 153 (6.49%) Apache Ignite
8 139 (5.89%) SQL Server
9 111 (4.71%) Big Data
10 105 (4.45%) RDBMS
11 94 (3.98%) MongoDB
12 66 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
13 62 (2.63%) Oracle Database
14 51 (2.16%) Redis
15 49 (2.08%) Hadoop
16 35 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
16 35 (1.48%) DynamoDB
17 32 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 289 (12.25%) Jenkins
2 276 (11.70%) Git
3 139 (5.89%) GitLab
4 123 (5.21%) Cucumber
5 114 (4.83%) JIRA
5 114 (4.83%) Selenium
6 86 (3.65%) Maven
7 76 (3.22%) Postman
8 60 (2.54%) JUnit
9 42 (1.78%) Visual Studio
10 36 (1.53%) JDeveloper
11 30 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 29 (1.23%) JMeter
13 25 (1.06%) Bitbucket
13 25 (1.06%) Gradle
14 24 (1.02%) Eclipse
14 24 (1.02%) IntelliJ
15 20 (0.85%) TeamCity
16 19 (0.81%) REST Assured
16 19 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 601 (25.48%) Finance
2 419 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 363 (15.39%) Banking
4 220 (9.33%) Front Office
5 201 (8.52%) Investment Banking
6 141 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 133 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 128 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
9 81 (3.43%) Retail
10 64 (2.71%) Marketing
11 56 (2.37%) Games
12 54 (2.29%) Law
13 35 (1.48%) Tech for Good
14 32 (1.36%) Legal
15 29 (1.23%) Electronics
15 29 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.19%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.14%) Police
18 24 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 855 (36.24%) Developer
2 629 (26.66%) Software Engineer
3 578 (24.50%) Senior
4 418 (17.72%) Java Developer
5 359 (15.22%) Lead
6 284 (12.04%) Java Engineer
7 227 (9.62%) Senior Developer
8 212 (8.99%) Java Software Engineer
9 172 (7.29%) Senior Java Developer
10 169 (7.16%) Software Developer
11 157 (6.66%) Senior Software Engineer
12 152 (6.44%) Full Stack Developer
13 149 (6.32%) Architect
14 136 (5.77%) Technical Leader
15 124 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
16 106 (4.49%) Senior Java Engineer
17 103 (4.37%) Lead Developer
18 88 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
19 82 (3.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 66 (2.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (20.14%) Spring
2 384 (16.28%) React
3 311 (13.18%) Spring Boot
4 222 (9.41%) REST
5 218 (9.24%) Node.js
6 212 (8.99%) Kafka
7 204 (8.65%) AngularJS
8 198 (8.39%) RESTful
9 190 (8.05%) gRPC
10 183 (7.76%) Protocol Buffers
11 177 (7.50%) .NET
12 174 (7.38%) HTML
13 152 (6.44%) NumPy
13 152 (6.44%) Pandas
13 152 (6.44%) SciPy
14 142 (6.02%) CSS
15 121 (5.13%) Web Services
16 108 (4.58%) Hibernate
17 93 (3.94%) JSON
18 73 (3.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 188 (7.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 183 (7.76%) Fixed Income
3 180 (7.63%) Hedge funds
4 168 (7.12%) Equities
5 153 (6.49%) Derivative
6 99 (4.20%) Private Cloud
7 84 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
8 79 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
9 78 (3.31%) Algorithms
10 67 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
11 62 (2.63%) Cloud Native
12 59 (2.50%) Product Ownership
13 55 (2.33%) Data Structures
14 46 (1.95%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.82%) Client/Server
16 40 (1.70%) Onboarding
17 39 (1.65%) Swaptions
18 37 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
19 31 (1.31%) Clustering
20 29 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 250 (10.60%) Linux
2 86 (3.65%) Windows
3 47 (1.99%) Android
4 40 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 33 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (1.36%) Unix
7 22 (0.93%) AIX
8 21 (0.89%) CentOS
9 19 (0.81%) Windows Server
10 12 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Solaris
13 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.13%) VMS
15 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,035 (43.87%) Agile
2 1,004 (42.56%) Software Engineering
3 570 (24.16%) Microservices
4 491 (20.81%) DevOps
5 459 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
6 417 (17.68%) CI/CD
7 352 (14.92%) Full Stack Development
8 319 (13.52%) Mentoring
9 302 (12.80%) Continuous Integration
10 284 (12.04%) TDD
11 247 (10.47%) BDD
12 240 (10.17%) Test Automation
13 228 (9.67%) Containerisation
14 218 (9.24%) Code Quality
15 217 (9.20%) Scrum
16 212 (8.99%) Asset Management
17 201 (8.52%) Investment Management
18 200 (8.48%) SDLC
19 199 (8.44%) Fintech
20 190 (8.05%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 903 (38.28%) Python
2 760 (32.22%) JavaScript
3 466 (19.75%) SQL
4 402 (17.04%) TypeScript
5 302 (12.80%) C#
6 202 (8.56%) Go
7 173 (7.33%) Scala
8 153 (6.49%) Kotlin
9 151 (6.40%) C++
10 143 (6.06%) C
11 115 (4.87%) Ruby
12 102 (4.32%) Bash
13 61 (2.59%) Perl
14 55 (2.33%) VB
15 42 (1.78%) PowerShell
16 41 (1.74%) PHP
17 39 (1.65%) T-SQL
18 37 (1.57%) COBOL
18 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
19 31 (1.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 329 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 258 (10.94%) Degree
3 222 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 122 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.47%) OCP
10 11 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
10 11 (0.47%) PhD
11 4 (0.17%) CCNA
11 4 (0.17%) CCNP
11 4 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.17%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.13%) OSCE
12 3 (0.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (7.08%) QA
2 79 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 13 (0.55%) SEPA
5 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.25%) GDPR
7 5 (0.21%) SLA
8 4 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.085%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.085%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.085%) PMO
9 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.042%) AQAP
10 1 (0.042%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.042%) GMP
10 1 (0.042%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.042%) TickIT
10 1 (0.042%) WCAG
System Software
1 446 (18.91%) Docker
2 22 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 19 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 17 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.042%) Firmware
6 1 (0.042%) GridGain
6 1 (0.042%) HDFS
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 500 (21.20%) Kubernetes
2 235 (9.96%) Terraform
3 165 (6.99%) Ansible
4 50 (2.12%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.74%) Progress Chef
6 38 (1.61%) Puppet
7 36 (1.53%) Grafana
8 17 (0.72%) Salt
9 12 (0.51%) Packer
10 11 (0.47%) Kibana
11 8 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.30%) Argo
13 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.21%) logstash
13 5 (0.21%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.13%) Consul
14 3 (0.13%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.13%) Nessus
14 3 (0.13%) Nmap
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 235 (9.96%) Oracle
2 99 (4.20%) Google
3 98 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 46 (1.95%) TIBCO
5 43 (1.82%) Sybase
6 39 (1.65%) OpenLink
7 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus
8 30 (1.27%) IBM
8 30 (1.27%) SAP
9 29 (1.23%) WSO2
10 26 (1.10%) Dell
11 23 (0.97%) Xilinx
12 18 (0.76%) ForgeRock
13 15 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.59%) Sitecore
15 12 (0.51%) Adobe
15 12 (0.51%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
16 11 (0.47%) New Relic
17 10 (0.42%) Facebook