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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,373 4,403 11,132
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.76% 11.53% 14.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.71% 23.97% 24.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,978 3,159 5,307
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
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 £105,000 £97,328 £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 14,201 18,371 44,646
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.44% 48.11% 59.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,555 14,003 24,128
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,227 £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 £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 6 June 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
1 380 (16.01%) Apache Airflow
2 367 (15.47%) Apache
3 56 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 37 (1.56%) Tuxedo
6 27 (1.14%) Confluence
7 23 (0.97%) OpenStack
8 17 (0.72%) nginx
8 17 (0.72%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.55%) JBoss
10 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
11 6 (0.25%) IIS
12 5 (0.21%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.17%) CMS
13 4 (0.17%) Drupal
13 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.13%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 45 (1.90%) Simulink
2 7 (0.29%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CATIA
5 1 (0.042%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (1.64%) Endur
2 6 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.084%) Shopify
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
Cloud Services
1 1,274 (53.69%) AWS
2 557 (23.47%) Azure
3 380 (16.01%) dbt
4 361 (15.21%) Snowflake
5 336 (14.16%) GCP
6 143 (6.03%) SaaS
7 131 (5.52%) Serverless
8 93 (3.92%) GitHub
9 77 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
11 66 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
12 63 (2.65%) Amazon S3
13 52 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (1.64%) Power Platform
16 35 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (1.31%) OpenShift
19 29 (1.22%) Azure AKS
19 29 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.60%) Firewall
2 37 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 33 (1.39%) DNS
4 19 (0.80%) Network Security
5 13 (0.55%) Internet
6 12 (0.51%) AMQP
6 12 (0.51%) Modbus
7 10 (0.42%) HTTP
8 8 (0.34%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.25%) LAN
9 6 (0.25%) NAS
9 6 (0.25%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.25%) SAN
9 6 (0.25%) SSL
9 6 (0.25%) WAN
10 4 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
10 4 (0.17%) SNMP
10 4 (0.17%) VPN
11 3 (0.13%) DHCP
11 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (16.48%) Data Lake
2 381 (16.06%) Amazon Athena
3 377 (15.89%) Dremio
4 366 (15.42%) Apache Arrow
5 313 (13.19%) Apache Ignite
6 226 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
7 189 (7.96%) Relational Database
8 162 (6.83%) NoSQL
9 152 (6.41%) MySQL
10 147 (6.19%) SQL Server
11 106 (4.47%) Big Data
12 96 (4.05%) MongoDB
13 63 (2.65%) RDBMS
14 53 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
15 43 (1.81%) Redis
16 42 (1.77%) Hadoop
17 32 (1.35%) DynamoDB
18 31 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
19 20 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
19 20 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 212 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 203 (8.55%) Git
3 129 (5.44%) GitLab
4 87 (3.67%) Cucumber
5 82 (3.46%) Selenium
6 81 (3.41%) JIRA
7 60 (2.53%) JUnit
8 57 (2.40%) Maven
9 55 (2.32%) Postman
10 39 (1.64%) Visual Studio
11 32 (1.35%) Cypress.io
12 23 (0.97%) Vagrant
13 22 (0.93%) JMeter
13 22 (0.93%) Subversion
14 21 (0.88%) Gradle
15 20 (0.84%) Eclipse
16 19 (0.80%) REST Assured
16 19 (0.80%) TeamCity
17 18 (0.76%) Bitbucket
18 15 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 705 (29.71%) Finance
2 471 (19.85%) Banking
3 420 (17.70%) Social Skills
4 370 (15.59%) Front Office
5 355 (14.96%) Investment Banking
6 135 (5.69%) Public Sector
7 119 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 118 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
9 71 (2.99%) Retail
10 70 (2.95%) Marketing
11 55 (2.32%) Law
12 52 (2.19%) Games
13 32 (1.35%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.22%) Electronics
14 29 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.10%) Automotive
17 24 (1.01%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.01%) Publishing
18 22 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 817 (34.43%) Developer
2 644 (27.14%) Software Engineer
3 604 (25.45%) Senior
4 411 (17.32%) Lead
5 352 (14.83%) Java Developer
6 342 (14.41%) Java Engineer
7 257 (10.83%) Java Software Engineer
8 229 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 204 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
10 201 (8.47%) Software Developer
11 188 (7.92%) Senior Developer
12 175 (7.37%) Technical Leader
13 156 (6.57%) Architect
13 156 (6.57%) Senior Java Engineer
14 146 (6.15%) Full Stack Developer
15 134 (5.65%) Python Engineer
16 130 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
17 129 (5.44%) Lead Developer
18 127 (5.35%) AWS Software Engineer
19 119 (5.01%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (16.60%) Spring
2 372 (15.68%) gRPC
3 366 (15.42%) Protocol Buffers
4 321 (13.53%) NumPy
4 321 (13.53%) Pandas
4 321 (13.53%) SciPy
5 312 (13.15%) React
6 259 (10.91%) Spring Boot
7 185 (7.80%) .NET
8 182 (7.67%) REST
9 177 (7.46%) RESTful
10 176 (7.42%) Node.js
11 175 (7.37%) AngularJS
12 169 (7.12%) HTML
13 167 (7.04%) Kafka
14 150 (6.32%) CSS
15 110 (4.64%) Web Services
16 102 (4.30%) Hibernate
17 81 (3.41%) JSON
18 64 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 371 (15.63%) Hedge funds
2 358 (15.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 339 (14.29%) Fixed Income
4 331 (13.95%) Equities
5 318 (13.40%) Derivative
6 94 (3.96%) Private Cloud
7 75 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
8 72 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
9 71 (2.99%) Algorithms
10 66 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
11 64 (2.70%) Cloud Native
12 55 (2.32%) Clustering
13 48 (2.02%) Pricing Data
14 44 (1.85%) Data Structures
14 44 (1.85%) Product Ownership
15 43 (1.81%) Client/Server
16 40 (1.69%) Onboarding
17 38 (1.60%) Swaptions
18 33 (1.39%) Public Cloud
19 31 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 252 (10.62%) Linux
2 90 (3.79%) Windows
3 56 (2.36%) Android
4 40 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 34 (1.43%) CentOS
6 34 (1.43%) Unix
7 24 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.97%) AIX
9 21 (0.88%) Windows Server
10 20 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Solaris
14 3 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.042%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.042%) SUSE
15 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,120 (47.20%) Agile
2 1,095 (46.14%) Software Engineering
3 474 (19.97%) DevOps
4 452 (19.05%) Microservices
5 403 (16.98%) Asset Management
6 400 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
7 361 (15.21%) CI/CD
8 339 (14.29%) Investment Management
9 337 (14.20%) Full Stack Development
10 279 (11.76%) Mentoring
11 269 (11.34%) TDD
12 239 (10.07%) Continuous Integration
13 225 (9.48%) BDD
14 210 (8.85%) Test Automation
15 209 (8.81%) Computer Science
16 207 (8.72%) Scrum
17 185 (7.80%) SDLC
18 172 (7.25%) Code Quality
19 170 (7.16%) Fintech
20 166 (7.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (42.18%) Python
2 879 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 559 (23.56%) TypeScript
4 459 (19.34%) SQL
5 291 (12.26%) C#
6 176 (7.42%) C++
7 174 (7.33%) Go
8 165 (6.95%) Kotlin
9 162 (6.83%) Scala
10 155 (6.53%) C
11 56 (2.36%) Ruby
12 53 (2.23%) VB
13 46 (1.94%) Bash
14 42 (1.77%) PHP
15 38 (1.60%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.56%) COBOL
16 37 (1.56%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 37 (1.56%) T-SQL
17 34 (1.43%) Groovy
18 28 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 350 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 285 (12.01%) Degree
3 225 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 150 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 19 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.55%) PhD
11 11 (0.46%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.34%) 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
1 154 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.76%) QA
3 31 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.25%) GDPR
6 5 (0.21%) SEPA
6 5 (0.21%) SLA
7 3 (0.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.084%) 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
1 349 (14.71%) Docker
2 20 (0.84%) Hyper-V
3 19 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
4 15 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.084%) KVM
7 1 (0.042%) Firmware
7 1 (0.042%) GridGain
7 1 (0.042%) HDFS
7 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 451 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 268 (11.29%) Terraform
3 175 (7.37%) Ansible
4 79 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 39 (1.64%) Grafana
6 29 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 27 (1.14%) Puppet
8 11 (0.46%) Kibana
9 9 (0.38%) Packer
10 6 (0.25%) Salt
11 5 (0.21%) Argo
11 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.21%) logstash
11 5 (0.21%) Pingdom
11 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.17%) Nagios
13 3 (0.13%) Nessus
13 3 (0.13%) Nmap
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Statspack
14 2 (0.084%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 188 (7.92%) Oracle
2 102 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 79 (3.33%) Google
4 45 (1.90%) Xilinx
5 42 (1.77%) Sybase
6 40 (1.69%) TIBCO
7 39 (1.64%) OpenLink
8 37 (1.56%) Micro Focus
9 23 (0.97%) SAP
9 23 (0.97%) WSO2
10 20 (0.84%) ForgeRock
11 16 (0.67%) Dell
11 16 (0.67%) Sitecore
12 12 (0.51%) Adobe
12 12 (0.51%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.51%) Bloomberg
12 12 (0.51%) Reuters
12 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
13 11 (0.46%) IBM
13 11 (0.46%) Red Hat