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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,361 4,996 10,049
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.97% 12.36% 14.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.08% 25.12% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,935 3,227 5,167
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £99,375 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £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 13,825 19,886 41,500
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.83% 49.21% 59.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,389 14,624 23,773
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 £79,250 £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 18 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
1 279 (11.82%) Apache
2 276 (11.69%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.86%) Confluence
5 41 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 37 (1.57%) Tuxedo
7 26 (1.10%) OpenStack
8 19 (0.80%) 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%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.13%) SAS
14 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (1.61%) Simulink
2 7 (0.30%) 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 1,201 (50.87%) AWS
2 556 (23.55%) Azure
3 322 (13.64%) GCP
4 276 (11.69%) dbt
5 265 (11.22%) Snowflake
6 181 (7.67%) Serverless
7 162 (6.86%) SaaS
8 104 (4.40%) GitHub
9 86 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 78 (3.30%) Amazon S3
11 67 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
12 62 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
13 59 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
14 40 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (1.65%) Power Platform
16 36 (1.52%) 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
2 37 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.31%) DNS
4 18 (0.76%) Network Security
5 16 (0.68%) Internet
6 14 (0.59%) AMQP
7 12 (0.51%) Modbus
8 10 (0.42%) HTTP
9 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.25%) SSL
12 4 (0.17%) LAN
12 4 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
12 4 (0.17%) NAS
12 4 (0.17%) SAN
12 4 (0.17%) VPN
12 4 (0.17%) WAN
13 3 (0.13%) DHCP
13 3 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (12.16%) Data Lake
2 277 (11.73%) Amazon Athena
3 273 (11.56%) Dremio
4 271 (11.48%) Apache Arrow
5 233 (9.87%) Relational Database
6 225 (9.53%) PostgreSQL
7 224 (9.49%) Apache Ignite
8 171 (7.24%) NoSQL
9 155 (6.57%) MySQL
10 145 (6.14%) SQL Server
11 116 (4.91%) Big Data
12 106 (4.49%) RDBMS
13 95 (4.02%) MongoDB
14 63 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
15 59 (2.50%) Oracle Database
16 51 (2.16%) Redis
17 49 (2.08%) Hadoop
18 34 (1.44%) DynamoDB
19 33 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
20 25 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 259 (10.97%) Git
2 256 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 134 (5.68%) GitLab
4 102 (4.32%) Cucumber
5 100 (4.24%) JIRA
6 97 (4.11%) Selenium
7 69 (2.92%) Maven
8 63 (2.67%) Postman
9 58 (2.46%) JUnit
10 40 (1.69%) Visual Studio
11 36 (1.52%) JDeveloper
12 30 (1.27%) Cypress.io
13 25 (1.06%) JMeter
14 23 (0.97%) Subversion
15 22 (0.93%) Gradle
16 21 (0.89%) Bitbucket
16 21 (0.89%) Eclipse
17 20 (0.85%) TeamCity
18 19 (0.80%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.80%) Vagrant
General
1 636 (26.94%) Finance
2 422 (17.87%) Social Skills
3 396 (16.77%) Banking
4 281 (11.90%) Front Office
5 268 (11.35%) Investment Banking
6 138 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 128 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 122 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
9 78 (3.30%) Retail
10 70 (2.96%) Marketing
11 58 (2.46%) Games
12 57 (2.41%) Law
13 34 (1.44%) Tech for Good
14 30 (1.27%) Electronics
14 30 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.14%) Automotive
16 27 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.14%) Police
17 24 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 824 (34.90%) Developer
2 635 (26.90%) Software Engineer
3 587 (24.86%) Senior
4 382 (16.18%) Lead
5 380 (16.09%) Java Developer
6 298 (12.62%) Java Engineer
7 218 (9.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 204 (8.64%) Senior Developer
9 192 (8.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 177 (7.50%) Software Developer
11 165 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
12 156 (6.61%) Technical Leader
13 151 (6.40%) Senior Java Developer
14 146 (6.18%) Full Stack Developer
15 145 (6.14%) Architect
16 129 (5.46%) Senior Java Engineer
17 109 (4.62%) Lead Developer
18 89 (3.77%) Python Engineer
18 89 (3.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 86 (3.64%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (18.13%) Spring
2 346 (14.65%) React
3 282 (11.94%) Spring Boot
4 278 (11.77%) gRPC
5 272 (11.52%) Protocol Buffers
6 223 (9.45%) NumPy
6 223 (9.45%) Pandas
6 223 (9.45%) SciPy
7 214 (9.06%) Node.js
8 200 (8.47%) REST
9 189 (8.01%) RESTful
10 184 (7.79%) .NET
11 183 (7.75%) Kafka
12 182 (7.71%) AngularJS
13 163 (6.90%) HTML
14 144 (6.10%) CSS
15 112 (4.74%) Web Services
16 107 (4.53%) Hibernate
17 88 (3.73%) JSON
18 65 (2.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 275 (11.65%) Hedge funds
2 270 (11.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 255 (10.80%) Fixed Income
4 245 (10.38%) Equities
5 229 (9.70%) Derivative
6 98 (4.15%) Private Cloud
7 81 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 78 (3.30%) Algorithms
9 73 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
10 71 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
11 68 (2.88%) Cloud Native
12 54 (2.29%) Data Structures
13 49 (2.08%) Clustering
13 49 (2.08%) Product Ownership
14 43 (1.82%) Client/Server
15 42 (1.78%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.74%) Onboarding
16 41 (1.74%) Swaptions
17 33 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
18 30 (1.27%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 246 (10.42%) Linux
2 88 (3.73%) Windows
3 53 (2.24%) Android
4 39 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 33 (1.40%) Unix
7 30 (1.27%) CentOS
8 22 (0.93%) AIX
9 20 (0.85%) Windows Server
10 19 (0.80%) Ubuntu
11 16 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Solaris
15 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.085%) VMS
17 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
17 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,055 (44.68%) Agile
2 1,034 (43.80%) Software Engineering
3 517 (21.90%) DevOps
4 512 (21.69%) Microservices
5 446 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 389 (16.48%) CI/CD
7 339 (14.36%) Full Stack Development
8 302 (12.79%) Asset Management
9 293 (12.41%) Mentoring
10 281 (11.90%) TDD
11 280 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
12 274 (11.61%) Investment Management
13 242 (10.25%) BDD
14 227 (9.61%) Test Automation
15 205 (8.68%) Scrum
16 204 (8.64%) Code Quality
17 193 (8.17%) Containerisation
18 191 (8.09%) Computer Science
18 191 (8.09%) Open Source
19 185 (7.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 949 (40.19%) Python
2 831 (35.20%) JavaScript
3 469 (19.86%) SQL
4 464 (19.65%) TypeScript
5 279 (11.82%) C#
6 217 (9.19%) Go
7 167 (7.07%) Kotlin
7 167 (7.07%) Scala
8 164 (6.95%) C++
9 153 (6.48%) C
10 96 (4.07%) Ruby
11 95 (4.02%) Bash
12 58 (2.46%) Perl
13 57 (2.41%) 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 33 (1.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 343 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 273 (11.56%) Degree
3 228 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 136 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.78%) 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
1 154 (6.52%) QA
2 120 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.10%) 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
7 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.085%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.085%) PMO
9 1 (0.042%) AQAP
9 1 (0.042%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.042%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.042%) TickIT
9 1 (0.042%) WCAG
System Software
1 379 (16.05%) 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
1 485 (20.54%) Kubernetes
2 266 (11.27%) Terraform
3 179 (7.58%) Ansible
4 72 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 39 (1.65%) Grafana
6 38 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 36 (1.52%) Puppet
8 13 (0.55%) 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%) Nagios
14 3 (0.13%) Nessus
14 3 (0.13%) Nmap
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Statspack
15 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 231 (9.78%) Oracle
2 100 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 95 (4.02%) Google
4 45 (1.91%) Sybase
4 45 (1.91%) TIBCO
5 42 (1.78%) OpenLink
6 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus
6 37 (1.57%) Xilinx
7 26 (1.10%) WSO2
8 25 (1.06%) Dell
8 25 (1.06%) SAP
9 21 (0.89%) IBM
10 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 17 (0.72%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
13 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
14 10 (0.42%) Adobe
14 10 (0.42%) Facebook
14 10 (0.42%) New Relic
15 9 (0.38%) Twitter