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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,358 5,030 9,984
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.99% 12.36% 14.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.10% 25.14% 24.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,932 3,245 5,175
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,809
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +7.14% +11.11%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £121,250 £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 13,791 20,006 41,338
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.88% 49.16% 59.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 14,704 23,824
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £105,000 £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 15 May 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
1 270 (11.45%) Apache
2 267 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.87%) Confluence
5 41 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 37 (1.57%) Tuxedo
7 26 (1.10%) OpenStack
8 19 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 17 (0.72%) nginx
10 14 (0.59%) JBoss
11 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
11 8 (0.34%) SharePoint
12 7 (0.30%) IIS
13 4 (0.17%) Drupal
14 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (1.40%) Simulink
2 8 (0.34%) 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 42 (1.78%) Endur
2 8 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.085%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.085%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.042%) Findur
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,195 (50.68%) AWS
2 551 (23.37%) Azure
3 324 (13.74%) GCP
4 267 (11.32%) dbt
5 255 (10.81%) Snowflake
6 181 (7.68%) Serverless
7 163 (6.91%) SaaS
8 105 (4.45%) GitHub
9 86 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
10 78 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 67 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
12 62 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
13 59 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
14 40 (1.70%) Power Platform
15 39 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.36%) OpenShift
18 29 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
19 28 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
19 28 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.61%) Firewall
1 38 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 31 (1.31%) DNS
3 18 (0.76%) Network Security
4 16 (0.68%) Internet
5 14 (0.59%) AMQP
6 13 (0.55%) Modbus
7 10 (0.42%) HTTP
8 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
9 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
10 6 (0.25%) SSL
11 4 (0.17%) LAN
11 4 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
11 4 (0.17%) NAS
11 4 (0.17%) SAN
11 4 (0.17%) VPN
11 4 (0.17%) WAN
12 3 (0.13%) DHCP
12 3 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (11.79%) Data Lake
2 267 (11.32%) Amazon Athena
3 263 (11.15%) Dremio
4 261 (11.07%) Apache Arrow
5 234 (9.92%) Relational Database
6 224 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
7 214 (9.08%) Apache Ignite
8 169 (7.17%) NoSQL
9 155 (6.57%) MySQL
10 144 (6.11%) SQL Server
11 119 (5.05%) Big Data
12 106 (4.50%) RDBMS
13 95 (4.03%) MongoDB
14 63 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
15 61 (2.59%) Oracle Database
16 51 (2.16%) Redis
17 50 (2.12%) Hadoop
18 35 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
19 34 (1.44%) DynamoDB
20 25 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 258 (10.94%) Git
2 257 (10.90%) Jenkins
3 133 (5.64%) GitLab
4 104 (4.41%) Cucumber
5 103 (4.37%) JIRA
6 97 (4.11%) Selenium
7 71 (3.01%) Maven
8 62 (2.63%) Postman
9 58 (2.46%) JUnit
10 41 (1.74%) Visual Studio
11 36 (1.53%) JDeveloper
12 29 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 26 (1.10%) JMeter
14 23 (0.98%) Subversion
15 22 (0.93%) Bitbucket
15 22 (0.93%) Gradle
16 21 (0.89%) Eclipse
17 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
18 18 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
18 18 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 632 (26.80%) Finance
2 420 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 391 (16.58%) Banking
4 275 (11.66%) Front Office
5 262 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 138 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 132 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 124 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
9 79 (3.35%) Retail
10 69 (2.93%) Marketing
11 58 (2.46%) Games
12 57 (2.42%) Law
13 34 (1.44%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.23%) Electronics
14 29 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.19%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.15%) Automotive
16 27 (1.15%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.15%) Police
17 24 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 829 (35.16%) Developer
2 625 (26.51%) Software Engineer
3 581 (24.64%) Senior
4 386 (16.37%) Java Developer
5 380 (16.12%) Lead
6 290 (12.30%) Java Engineer
7 210 (8.91%) Java Software Engineer
8 205 (8.69%) Senior Developer
9 184 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 175 (7.42%) Software Developer
11 158 (6.70%) AWS Engineer
12 154 (6.53%) Technical Leader
13 152 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
14 146 (6.19%) Full Stack Developer
15 145 (6.15%) Architect
16 122 (5.17%) Senior Java Engineer
17 109 (4.62%) Lead Developer
18 82 (3.48%) Python Engineer
18 82 (3.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 82 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (18.28%) Spring
2 345 (14.63%) React
3 288 (12.21%) Spring Boot
4 268 (11.37%) gRPC
5 262 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
6 213 (9.03%) Node.js
6 213 (9.03%) NumPy
6 213 (9.03%) Pandas
6 213 (9.03%) SciPy
7 200 (8.48%) REST
8 191 (8.10%) RESTful
9 185 (7.85%) Kafka
10 183 (7.76%) .NET
11 182 (7.72%) AngularJS
12 164 (6.96%) HTML
13 145 (6.15%) CSS
14 114 (4.83%) Web Services
15 108 (4.58%) Hibernate
16 87 (3.69%) JSON
17 66 (2.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 265 (11.24%) Hedge funds
2 260 (11.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 246 (10.43%) Fixed Income
4 235 (9.97%) Equities
5 219 (9.29%) Derivative
6 98 (4.16%) Private Cloud
7 82 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
8 80 (3.39%) Algorithms
9 74 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
10 71 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
11 68 (2.88%) Cloud Native
12 57 (2.42%) Data Structures
13 51 (2.16%) Product Ownership
14 49 (2.08%) Clustering
15 43 (1.82%) Client/Server
15 43 (1.82%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.74%) Onboarding
16 41 (1.74%) Swaptions
17 33 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
18 28 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 245 (10.39%) Linux
2 88 (3.73%) Windows
3 50 (2.12%) Android
4 38 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 38 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.40%) Unix
6 28 (1.19%) CentOS
7 22 (0.93%) AIX
8 20 (0.85%) Windows Server
9 17 (0.72%) Ubuntu
10 14 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
11 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Solaris
14 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.085%) VMS
16 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,058 (44.87%) Agile
2 1,026 (43.51%) Software Engineering
3 517 (21.93%) DevOps
4 512 (21.71%) Microservices
5 441 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
6 389 (16.50%) CI/CD
7 338 (14.33%) Full Stack Development
8 296 (12.55%) Mentoring
9 291 (12.34%) Asset Management
10 282 (11.96%) TDD
11 278 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
12 264 (11.20%) Investment Management
13 242 (10.26%) BDD
14 230 (9.75%) Test Automation
15 209 (8.86%) Scrum
16 201 (8.52%) Code Quality
17 193 (8.18%) Containerisation
17 193 (8.18%) Open Source
18 188 (7.97%) Fintech
19 184 (7.80%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 942 (39.95%) Python
2 817 (34.65%) JavaScript
3 466 (19.76%) SQL
4 454 (19.25%) TypeScript
5 280 (11.87%) C#
6 218 (9.25%) Go
7 171 (7.25%) Scala
8 166 (7.04%) Kotlin
9 160 (6.79%) C++
10 151 (6.40%) C
11 96 (4.07%) Bash
11 96 (4.07%) Ruby
12 58 (2.46%) Perl
13 57 (2.42%) VB
14 43 (1.82%) PHP
15 39 (1.65%) PowerShell
16 38 (1.61%) T-SQL
17 37 (1.57%) COBOL
17 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 32 (1.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 337 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 266 (11.28%) Degree
3 225 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 129 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 32 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.47%) PhD
11 7 (0.30%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.17%) CCNA
12 4 (0.17%) CCNP
12 4 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.13%) OCP
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.13%) OSCE
13 3 (0.13%) OSCP
13 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.49%) QA
2 116 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.30%) SEPA
5 6 (0.25%) GDPR
6 5 (0.21%) SLA
7 3 (0.13%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.085%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.085%) PMO
8 2 (0.085%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.042%) AQAP
9 1 (0.042%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.042%) GMP
9 1 (0.042%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.042%) TickIT
9 1 (0.042%) WCAG
System Software
1 384 (16.28%) Docker
2 22 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
5 14 (0.59%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.042%) Firmware
7 1 (0.042%) GridGain
7 1 (0.042%) HDFS
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 491 (20.82%) Kubernetes
2 265 (11.24%) Terraform
3 177 (7.51%) Ansible
4 71 (3.01%) Prometheus
5 39 (1.65%) Grafana
5 39 (1.65%) Progress Chef
6 37 (1.57%) Puppet
7 14 (0.59%) Salt
8 12 (0.51%) Packer
9 11 (0.47%) Kibana
10 8 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.30%) Argo
12 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.21%) logstash
12 5 (0.21%) Pingdom
13 3 (0.13%) Nessus
13 3 (0.13%) Nmap
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Statspack
14 2 (0.085%) Istio
14 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 233 (9.88%) Oracle
2 100 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 98 (4.16%) Google
4 45 (1.91%) Sybase
4 45 (1.91%) TIBCO
5 42 (1.78%) OpenLink
6 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus
7 32 (1.36%) Xilinx
8 27 (1.15%) WSO2
9 26 (1.10%) Dell
10 25 (1.06%) SAP
11 22 (0.93%) IBM
12 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
13 17 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
15 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
16 10 (0.42%) Adobe
16 10 (0.42%) Facebook
16 10 (0.42%) New Relic
17 9 (0.38%) Salesforce