Senior Java Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Java Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £130,000 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 321 485 545
Rank change year-on-year +164 +60 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Java Engineer 76 107 128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.33% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 73 98 97
10th Percentile £85,000 - £47,000
25th Percentile £105,000 £58,938 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £66,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +95.49% -21.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £140,000 £95,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £147,500 £148,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £72,500 £91,250
% change year-on-year +58.62% -20.55% +4.29%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Java Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Java Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Java Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (94.74%) Software Engineering
3 59 (77.63%) Agile
3 59 (77.63%) AWS
4 54 (71.05%) Finance
5 53 (69.74%) Python
5 53 (69.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 53 (69.74%) Banking
5 53 (69.74%) gRPC
6 52 (68.42%) Apache
7 51 (67.11%) Front Office
7 51 (67.11%) JavaScript
7 51 (67.11%) Asset Management
7 51 (67.11%) Fixed Income
7 51 (67.11%) Equities
7 51 (67.11%) Investment Banking
7 51 (67.11%) Hedge funds
7 51 (67.11%) SciPy
7 51 (67.11%) NumPy
7 51 (67.11%) Protocol Buffers
7 51 (67.11%) Derivative
7 51 (67.11%) Apache Airflow
7 51 (67.11%) Data Lake
7 51 (67.11%) TypeScript
7 51 (67.11%) Pandas
7 51 (67.11%) Apache Iceberg
7 51 (67.11%) Dremio
7 51 (67.11%) Apache Arrow
7 51 (67.11%) Amazon Athena
7 51 (67.11%) Apache Ignite

Senior Java Engineer 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 52 (68.42%) Apache
2 51 (67.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 59 (77.63%) AWS
2 51 (67.11%) dbt
2 51 (67.11%) Snowflake
3 14 (18.42%) GCP
4 13 (17.11%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (17.11%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (15.79%) Dagster
6 2 (2.63%) GitHub
6 2 (2.63%) SaaS
7 1 (1.32%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (67.11%) Amazon Athena
1 51 (67.11%) Apache Arrow
1 51 (67.11%) Apache Iceberg
1 51 (67.11%) Apache Ignite
1 51 (67.11%) Data Lake
1 51 (67.11%) Dremio
2 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.63%) Redis
4 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (71.05%) Finance
2 53 (69.74%) Banking
3 51 (67.11%) Front Office
3 51 (67.11%) Investment Banking
4 7 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (69.74%) gRPC
2 51 (67.11%) NumPy
2 51 (67.11%) Pandas
2 51 (67.11%) Protocol Buffers
2 51 (67.11%) SciPy
3 12 (15.79%) PySpark
4 7 (9.21%) Spring
5 4 (5.26%) .NET
5 4 (5.26%) Kafka
6 3 (3.95%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.63%) WebSockets
8 1 (1.32%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 53 (69.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 51 (67.11%) Derivative
2 51 (67.11%) Equities
2 51 (67.11%) Fixed Income
2 51 (67.11%) Hedge funds
3 39 (51.32%) Pricing Data
4 13 (17.11%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (94.74%) Software Engineering
2 59 (77.63%) Agile
3 51 (67.11%) Asset Management
4 39 (51.32%) Investment Management
5 13 (17.11%) Fintech
5 13 (17.11%) Garbage Collection
5 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
6 12 (15.79%) Extreme Programming
6 12 (15.79%) Memory Management
6 12 (15.79%) Migration
6 12 (15.79%) Pair Programming
7 6 (7.89%) Microservices
8 5 (6.58%) DevOps
8 5 (6.58%) SDLC
9 4 (5.26%) Low Latency
9 4 (5.26%) Mentoring
9 4 (5.26%) Multithreading
9 4 (5.26%) SOLID
10 3 (3.95%) Concurrent Programming
10 3 (3.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (69.74%) Python
3 51 (67.11%) JavaScript
3 51 (67.11%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.95%) Rust
5 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.32%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (1.32%) Google
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle
1 1 (1.32%) Splunk