Senior Java Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Java Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Java Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 427 448
Rank change year-on-year +78 +21 -91
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 48 169 238
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.50% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.52% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 30 132 231
10th Percentile £50,000 £59,550 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,375 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile £77,188 £105,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £114,375 £125,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% -2.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior Java Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Java Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Java Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Java Developer.

Senior Java Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Java Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior Java Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (54.17%) Spring
2 26 (54.17%) C++
3 21 (43.75%) SDLC
4 20 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 19 (39.58%) DevOps
6 18 (37.50%) Spring Boot
7 17 (35.42%) GitLab
7 17 (35.42%) AWS
8 16 (33.33%) Linux
8 16 (33.33%) Maven
8 16 (33.33%) Jenkins
9 15 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (31.25%) Git
10 14 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (29.17%) Amazon S3
10 14 (29.17%) Mockito
10 14 (29.17%) Cucumber
10 14 (29.17%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (29.17%) Credit Derivative
10 14 (29.17%) Finance
10 14 (29.17%) Management Information System
10 14 (29.17%) JMS
10 14 (29.17%) IntelliJ
10 14 (29.17%) IBM
10 14 (29.17%) JUnit
10 14 (29.17%) Ansible
10 14 (29.17%) Analytics
10 14 (29.17%) Datadog

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
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 2 (4.17%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (29.17%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (29.17%) Amazon S3
2 14 (29.17%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (29.17%) Datadog
2 14 (29.17%) Serverless
3 6 (12.50%) Azure
4 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.17%) GCP
5 2 (4.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.17%) CouchDB
3 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) GitLab
2 16 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 16 (33.33%) Maven
3 15 (31.25%) Git
4 14 (29.17%) Cucumber
4 14 (29.17%) IntelliJ
4 14 (29.17%) JUnit
4 14 (29.17%) Mockito
5 10 (20.83%) Visual Studio
6 3 (6.25%) Gradle
7 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.17%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Front Office
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
6 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (54.17%) Spring
2 18 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 14 (29.17%) ActiveMQ
3 14 (29.17%) JMS
4 9 (18.75%) React
4 9 (18.75%) RESTful
5 7 (14.58%) Kafka
5 7 (14.58%) MFC
6 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.42%) JSON
7 5 (10.42%) Node.js
7 5 (10.42%) Web Services
8 2 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
8 2 (4.17%) Middleware
8 2 (4.17%) REST
8 2 (4.17%) WebSockets
9 1 (2.08%) Bootstrap
9 1 (2.08%) jQuery
9 1 (2.08%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (29.17%) Credit Derivative
2 14 (29.17%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
4 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.08%) Life Science
7 1 (2.08%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Linux
2 10 (20.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) SDLC
2 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 20 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 19 (39.58%) DevOps
4 14 (29.17%) Analytics
4 14 (29.17%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.42%) Low Latency
7 5 (10.42%) User Experience
8 4 (8.33%) Agile
8 4 (8.33%) Case Management
8 4 (8.33%) CRM
8 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (8.33%) Microservices
8 4 (8.33%) Scrum
9 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
9 3 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (54.17%) C++
3 11 (22.92%) Python
4 9 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) SQL
7 2 (4.17%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) Ansible
1 14 (29.17%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) IBM
2 2 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.08%) Solace