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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,353 5,000 10,357
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.93% 12.47% 14.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.97% 25.37% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,958 3,220 5,201
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 13,864 19,705 42,502
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.83% 49.13% 59.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,405 14,479 23,887
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 £79,600 £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 23 May 2024.

Java salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 311 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
2 305 (12.96%) Apache
3 65 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.57%) Tuxedo
6 31 (1.32%) Confluence
7 25 (1.06%) OpenStack
8 18 (0.76%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.68%) nginx
10 13 (0.55%) JBoss
11 7 (0.30%) IIS
11 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
11 7 (0.30%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
13 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.13%) SAS
13 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 39 (1.66%) 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 1,226 (52.10%) AWS
2 559 (23.76%) Azure
3 326 (13.85%) GCP
4 311 (13.22%) dbt
5 297 (12.62%) Snowflake
6 164 (6.97%) Serverless
7 156 (6.63%) SaaS
8 100 (4.25%) GitHub
9 83 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
10 73 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 66 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
12 58 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 39 (1.66%) Power Platform
14 36 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (1.36%) OpenShift
16 28 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (1.19%) PowerApps
17 27 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.66%) Firewall
1 39 (1.66%) TCP/IP
2 34 (1.44%) DNS
3 18 (0.76%) Network Security
4 15 (0.64%) Internet
5 12 (0.51%) AMQP
5 12 (0.51%) Modbus
6 10 (0.42%) HTTP
7 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
8 6 (0.25%) LAN
8 6 (0.25%) NAS
8 6 (0.25%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.25%) SAN
8 6 (0.25%) SSL
8 6 (0.25%) WAN
9 4 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
9 4 (0.17%) SNMP
9 4 (0.17%) VPN
10 3 (0.13%) DHCP
10 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (13.68%) Data Lake
2 312 (13.26%) Amazon Athena
3 308 (13.09%) Dremio
4 303 (12.88%) Apache Arrow
5 250 (10.62%) Apache Ignite
6 222 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
7 218 (9.26%) Relational Database
8 172 (7.31%) NoSQL
9 150 (6.37%) MySQL
10 143 (6.08%) SQL Server
11 117 (4.97%) Big Data
12 95 (4.04%) MongoDB
13 90 (3.82%) RDBMS
14 60 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
15 49 (2.08%) Redis
16 46 (1.95%) Hadoop
16 46 (1.95%) Oracle Database
17 33 (1.40%) DynamoDB
18 32 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
19 23 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 236 (10.03%) Jenkins
2 228 (9.69%) Git
3 132 (5.61%) GitLab
4 97 (4.12%) Cucumber
5 91 (3.87%) Selenium
6 86 (3.65%) JIRA
7 64 (2.72%) Maven
8 60 (2.55%) Postman
9 57 (2.42%) JUnit
10 39 (1.66%) Visual Studio
11 30 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 24 (1.02%) JDeveloper
12 24 (1.02%) JMeter
13 23 (0.98%) Subversion
14 21 (0.89%) Bitbucket
14 21 (0.89%) Gradle
15 20 (0.85%) Eclipse
16 19 (0.81%) REST Assured
16 19 (0.81%) TeamCity
16 19 (0.81%) Vagrant
General
1 661 (28.09%) Finance
2 419 (17.81%) Banking
3 415 (17.64%) Social Skills
4 308 (13.09%) Front Office
5 293 (12.45%) Investment Banking
6 136 (5.78%) Public Sector
7 123 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 118 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
9 77 (3.27%) Retail
10 68 (2.89%) Marketing
11 57 (2.42%) Law
12 55 (2.34%) Games
13 34 (1.44%) Tech for Good
14 30 (1.27%) Electronics
14 30 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.15%) Automotive
17 26 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.02%) Publishing
19 22 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 810 (34.42%) Developer
2 634 (26.94%) Software Engineer
3 580 (24.65%) Senior
4 390 (16.57%) Lead
5 362 (15.38%) Java Developer
6 308 (13.09%) Java Engineer
7 228 (9.69%) Java Software Engineer
8 203 (8.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 187 (7.95%) Senior Developer
10 182 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
10 182 (7.73%) Software Developer
11 162 (6.88%) Technical Leader
12 148 (6.29%) Architect
13 146 (6.20%) Full Stack Developer
14 137 (5.82%) Senior Java Engineer
15 134 (5.69%) Senior Java Developer
16 113 (4.80%) Lead Developer
17 103 (4.38%) Python Engineer
18 98 (4.16%) AWS Software Engineer
19 97 (4.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (17.30%) Spring
2 330 (14.02%) React
3 310 (13.17%) gRPC
4 304 (12.92%) Protocol Buffers
5 274 (11.64%) Spring Boot
6 252 (10.71%) NumPy
6 252 (10.71%) Pandas
6 252 (10.71%) SciPy
7 200 (8.50%) Node.js
8 196 (8.33%) REST
9 182 (7.73%) .NET
10 178 (7.56%) AngularJS
10 178 (7.56%) Kafka
11 175 (7.44%) RESTful
12 161 (6.84%) HTML
13 144 (6.12%) CSS
14 111 (4.72%) Web Services
15 105 (4.46%) Hibernate
16 86 (3.65%) JSON
17 64 (2.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 307 (13.05%) Hedge funds
2 295 (12.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 279 (11.86%) Fixed Income
4 270 (11.47%) Equities
5 255 (10.84%) Derivative
6 97 (4.12%) Private Cloud
7 80 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
8 75 (3.19%) Algorithms
9 71 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 71 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
10 69 (2.93%) Cloud Native
11 55 (2.34%) Clustering
12 51 (2.17%) Data Structures
13 47 (2.00%) Product Ownership
14 43 (1.83%) Client/Server
15 41 (1.74%) Onboarding
16 39 (1.66%) Public Cloud
17 38 (1.61%) Swaptions
18 36 (1.53%) Pricing Data
19 31 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 249 (10.58%) Linux
2 87 (3.70%) Windows
3 52 (2.21%) Android
4 40 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 34 (1.44%) Unix
7 31 (1.32%) CentOS
8 22 (0.93%) AIX
9 21 (0.89%) Windows Server
10 20 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 16 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
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 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.042%) VMS
16 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (45.60%) Agile
2 1,046 (44.45%) Software Engineering
3 508 (21.59%) DevOps
4 490 (20.82%) Microservices
5 420 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
6 385 (16.36%) CI/CD
7 339 (14.41%) Full Stack Development
8 336 (14.28%) Asset Management
9 300 (12.75%) Investment Management
10 286 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 279 (11.86%) TDD
12 265 (11.26%) Continuous Integration
13 237 (10.07%) BDD
14 221 (9.39%) Test Automation
15 208 (8.84%) Scrum
16 195 (8.29%) Computer Science
17 191 (8.12%) Code Quality
18 181 (7.69%) SDLC
19 180 (7.65%) Open Source
20 178 (7.56%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 971 (41.27%) Python
2 843 (35.83%) JavaScript
3 489 (20.78%) TypeScript
4 463 (19.68%) SQL
5 278 (11.81%) C#
6 208 (8.84%) Go
7 165 (7.01%) Scala
8 164 (6.97%) Kotlin
9 163 (6.93%) C++
10 152 (6.46%) C
11 84 (3.57%) Ruby
12 78 (3.31%) Bash
13 53 (2.25%) VB
14 48 (2.04%) Perl
15 41 (1.74%) PHP
16 39 (1.66%) PowerShell
17 38 (1.61%) T-SQL
18 37 (1.57%) COBOL
18 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
19 34 (1.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 335 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 276 (11.73%) Degree
3 218 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 137 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 33 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 21 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.51%) PhD
11 11 (0.47%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.17%) CCNA
13 4 (0.17%) CCNP
13 4 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.13%) OCP
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.13%) OSCE
14 3 (0.13%) OSCP
14 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.91%) QA
2 132 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 27 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.25%) GDPR
5 6 (0.25%) SEPA
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
1 367 (15.60%) Docker
2 23 (0.98%) Hyper-V
3 20 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 14 (0.59%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.042%) Firmware
7 1 (0.042%) GridGain
7 1 (0.042%) HDFS
7 1 (0.042%) KVM
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 476 (20.23%) Kubernetes
2 269 (11.43%) Terraform
3 178 (7.56%) Ansible
4 79 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 39 (1.66%) Grafana
6 36 (1.53%) Progress Chef
7 34 (1.44%) Puppet
8 12 (0.51%) Packer
8 12 (0.51%) Salt
9 11 (0.47%) Kibana
10 8 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.25%) Argo
12 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.21%) logstash
12 5 (0.21%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.17%) 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
1 214 (9.09%) Oracle
2 100 (4.25%) Microsoft
3 89 (3.78%) Google
4 42 (1.78%) Sybase
4 42 (1.78%) TIBCO
5 39 (1.66%) OpenLink
6 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus
6 37 (1.57%) Xilinx
7 25 (1.06%) WSO2
8 24 (1.02%) SAP
9 22 (0.93%) Dell
10 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 18 (0.76%) IBM
12 17 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
14 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
15 10 (0.42%) Adobe
15 10 (0.42%) F5
15 10 (0.42%) Facebook
15 10 (0.42%) New Relic