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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,343 5,045 9,710
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.93% 12.26% 14.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.97% 24.93% 23.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 3,281 5,122
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,296
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £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 13,803 20,236 40,502
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.84% 49.17% 58.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,421 14,902 23,779
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 £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 11 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
1 253 (10.80%) Apache
2 245 (10.46%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.92%) Confluence
5 37 (1.58%) Tuxedo
6 36 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (1.15%) OpenStack
8 20 (0.85%) Tomcat
9 17 (0.73%) nginx
10 16 (0.68%) JBoss
11 9 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
11 9 (0.38%) 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 (1.41%) 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 (0.043%) CATIA
6 1 (0.043%) Notion
Business Applications
1 37 (1.58%) 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 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.043%) Findur
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.043%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,176 (50.19%) AWS
2 549 (23.43%) Azure
3 318 (13.57%) GCP
4 245 (10.46%) dbt
5 233 (9.94%) Snowflake
6 183 (7.81%) Serverless
7 166 (7.08%) SaaS
8 107 (4.57%) GitHub
9 87 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
10 78 (3.33%) Amazon S3
11 68 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
13 60 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
14 41 (1.75%) Power Platform
15 39 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (1.41%) OpenShift
18 29 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
19 28 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.66%) Firewall
2 38 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 32 (1.37%) DNS
4 18 (0.77%) Network Security
5 17 (0.73%) Internet
6 14 (0.60%) AMQP
7 13 (0.55%) Modbus
8 10 (0.43%) HTTP
9 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.30%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.26%) 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
1 255 (10.88%) Data Lake
2 245 (10.46%) Amazon Athena
3 241 (10.29%) Dremio
4 239 (10.20%) Apache Arrow
5 230 (9.82%) Relational Database
6 225 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
7 198 (8.45%) Apache Ignite
8 166 (7.08%) NoSQL
9 155 (6.62%) MySQL
10 138 (5.89%) SQL Server
11 115 (4.91%) Big Data
12 102 (4.35%) RDBMS
13 96 (4.10%) MongoDB
14 64 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
15 63 (2.69%) Oracle Database
16 52 (2.22%) Redis
17 50 (2.13%) Hadoop
18 35 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
18 35 (1.49%) DynamoDB
19 25 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 261 (11.14%) Git
1 261 (11.14%) Jenkins
2 134 (5.72%) GitLab
3 108 (4.61%) Cucumber
4 105 (4.48%) JIRA
5 100 (4.27%) Selenium
6 75 (3.20%) Maven
7 64 (2.73%) Postman
8 60 (2.56%) JUnit
9 42 (1.79%) Visual Studio
10 36 (1.54%) JDeveloper
11 28 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 26 (1.11%) JMeter
13 23 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 23 (0.98%) Gradle
13 23 (0.98%) Subversion
14 21 (0.90%) Eclipse
15 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
16 18 (0.77%) REST Assured
General
1 616 (26.29%) Finance
2 421 (17.97%) Social Skills
3 375 (16.01%) Banking
4 262 (11.18%) Front Office
5 246 (10.50%) Investment Banking
6 137 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 135 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 127 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
9 77 (3.29%) Retail
10 63 (2.69%) Marketing
11 57 (2.43%) Law
12 53 (2.26%) Games
13 34 (1.45%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.24%) Electronics
14 29 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.15%) Automotive
16 27 (1.15%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.15%) Police
17 24 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 832 (35.51%) Developer
2 620 (26.46%) Software Engineer
3 581 (24.80%) Senior
4 390 (16.65%) Java Developer
5 371 (15.83%) Lead
6 289 (12.33%) Java Engineer
7 209 (8.92%) Java Software Engineer
7 209 (8.92%) Senior Developer
8 181 (7.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 172 (7.34%) Software Developer
10 155 (6.62%) Senior Java Developer
11 149 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
11 149 (6.36%) Technical Leader
12 147 (6.27%) Full Stack Developer
13 140 (5.98%) Architect
14 122 (5.21%) Senior Java Engineer
15 105 (4.48%) Lead Developer
16 82 (3.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 81 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
18 79 (3.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (18.57%) Spring
2 347 (14.81%) React
3 288 (12.29%) Spring Boot
4 246 (10.50%) gRPC
5 240 (10.24%) Protocol Buffers
6 215 (9.18%) Node.js
7 203 (8.66%) REST
8 197 (8.41%) NumPy
8 197 (8.41%) Pandas
8 197 (8.41%) SciPy
9 191 (8.15%) RESTful
10 186 (7.94%) Kafka
11 185 (7.90%) AngularJS
12 180 (7.68%) .NET
13 164 (7.00%) HTML
14 144 (6.15%) CSS
15 116 (4.95%) Web Services
16 109 (4.65%) Hibernate
17 88 (3.76%) JSON
18 68 (2.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 244 (10.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 243 (10.37%) Hedge funds
3 232 (9.90%) Fixed Income
4 219 (9.35%) Equities
5 203 (8.66%) Derivative
6 98 (4.18%) Private Cloud
7 83 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
8 80 (3.41%) Algorithms
9 74 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
10 70 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
11 66 (2.82%) Cloud Native
12 57 (2.43%) Data Structures
13 53 (2.26%) Product Ownership
14 44 (1.88%) Public Cloud
15 43 (1.84%) Client/Server
15 43 (1.84%) Clustering
16 40 (1.71%) Onboarding
17 36 (1.54%) Swaptions
18 34 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
19 28 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 247 (10.54%) Linux
2 88 (3.76%) Windows
3 49 (2.09%) Android
4 39 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 33 (1.41%) Unix
7 28 (1.20%) CentOS
8 22 (0.94%) AIX
9 20 (0.85%) Windows Server
10 17 (0.73%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) 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 (0.043%) FreeBSD
17 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (44.81%) Agile
2 1,008 (43.02%) Software Engineering
3 517 (22.07%) Microservices
4 510 (21.77%) DevOps
5 442 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
6 393 (16.77%) CI/CD
7 335 (14.30%) Full Stack Development
8 296 (12.63%) Mentoring
9 281 (11.99%) TDD
10 278 (11.87%) Continuous Integration
11 271 (11.57%) Asset Management
12 252 (10.76%) Investment Management
13 243 (10.37%) BDD
14 227 (9.69%) Test Automation
15 211 (9.01%) Scrum
16 201 (8.58%) Code Quality
17 194 (8.28%) Open Source
18 193 (8.24%) Containerisation
19 191 (8.15%) Fintech
20 184 (7.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 928 (39.61%) Python
2 797 (34.02%) JavaScript
3 469 (20.02%) SQL
4 439 (18.74%) TypeScript
5 278 (11.87%) C#
6 211 (9.01%) Go
7 171 (7.30%) Scala
8 165 (7.04%) Kotlin
9 160 (6.83%) C++
10 152 (6.49%) C
11 98 (4.18%) Bash
12 97 (4.14%) Ruby
13 59 (2.52%) Perl
14 52 (2.22%) VB
15 42 (1.79%) PHP
16 39 (1.66%) PowerShell
17 37 (1.58%) COBOL
17 37 (1.58%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 37 (1.58%) T-SQL
18 32 (1.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 337 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 266 (11.35%) Degree
3 224 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 130 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 33 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.90%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.47%) DBS Check
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%) OCP
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.13%) OSCE
12 3 (0.13%) OSCP
12 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.62%) QA
2 107 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.30%) SEPA
5 6 (0.26%) 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 (0.043%) AQAP
9 1 (0.043%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.043%) GMP
9 1 (0.043%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.043%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.043%) TickIT
9 1 (0.043%) WCAG
System Software
1 391 (16.69%) Docker
2 22 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
5 14 (0.60%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.043%) Firmware
7 1 (0.043%) GridGain
7 1 (0.043%) HDFS
7 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 492 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 260 (11.10%) Terraform
3 181 (7.73%) Ansible
4 65 (2.77%) Prometheus
5 40 (1.71%) Progress Chef
6 39 (1.66%) Grafana
6 39 (1.66%) Puppet
7 16 (0.68%) 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%) Nagios
14 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 229 (9.77%) Oracle
2 97 (4.14%) Microsoft
3 96 (4.10%) Google
4 40 (1.71%) Sybase
4 40 (1.71%) TIBCO
5 37 (1.58%) Micro Focus
5 37 (1.58%) OpenLink
6 32 (1.37%) Xilinx
7 28 (1.20%) WSO2
8 26 (1.11%) Dell
8 26 (1.11%) SAP
9 23 (0.98%) IBM
10 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 17 (0.73%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
13 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
14 10 (0.43%) Adobe
14 10 (0.43%) Facebook
14 10 (0.43%) New Relic
14 10 (0.43%) Salesforce