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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Java 2,360 4,308 11,233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.69% 11.41% 14.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.62% 23.83% 25.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,967 3,110 5,311
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% +11.11%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £123,750 £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 14,199 18,075 44,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.25% 47.89% 59.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,529 13,842 24,058
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 £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 9 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 (16.10%) Apache Airflow
2 366 (15.51%) Apache
3 54 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (1.57%) Tuxedo
5 26 (1.10%) Confluence
6 22 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.72%) nginx
7 17 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 13 (0.55%) JBoss
9 7 (0.30%) IIS
9 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
10 5 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.21%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Drupal
11 4 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.13%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.13%) SAS
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (1.91%) Simulink
2 7 (0.30%) 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 37 (1.57%) Endur
2 6 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 3 (0.13%) Shopify
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
Cloud Services
1 1,272 (53.90%) AWS
2 552 (23.39%) Azure
3 380 (16.10%) dbt
4 361 (15.30%) Snowflake
5 330 (13.98%) GCP
6 139 (5.89%) SaaS
7 127 (5.38%) Serverless
8 91 (3.86%) GitHub
9 74 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
10 73 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
11 65 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
12 59 (2.50%) Amazon S3
13 51 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (1.65%) Power Platform
16 32 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.27%) OpenShift
18 29 (1.23%) Azure AKS
18 29 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.57%) Firewall
1 37 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 32 (1.36%) DNS
3 19 (0.81%) Network Security
4 13 (0.55%) 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
1 391 (16.57%) Data Lake
2 381 (16.14%) Amazon Athena
3 377 (15.97%) Dremio
4 366 (15.51%) Apache Arrow
5 313 (13.26%) Apache Ignite
6 223 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
7 189 (8.01%) Relational Database
8 158 (6.69%) NoSQL
9 152 (6.44%) MySQL
10 145 (6.14%) SQL Server
11 103 (4.36%) Big Data
12 97 (4.11%) MongoDB
13 61 (2.58%) RDBMS
14 51 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
15 42 (1.78%) Hadoop
15 42 (1.78%) Redis
16 32 (1.36%) DynamoDB
17 31 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
18 18 (0.76%) Oracle Database
19 17 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 209 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 201 (8.52%) Git
3 129 (5.47%) GitLab
4 85 (3.60%) Cucumber
5 82 (3.47%) Selenium
6 80 (3.39%) JIRA
7 60 (2.54%) JUnit
8 54 (2.29%) Postman
9 52 (2.20%) Maven
10 39 (1.65%) Visual Studio
11 32 (1.36%) Cypress.io
12 23 (0.97%) Vagrant
13 22 (0.93%) JMeter
14 21 (0.89%) Gradle
14 21 (0.89%) Subversion
15 20 (0.85%) Eclipse
15 20 (0.85%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.76%) REST Assured
17 17 (0.72%) Bitbucket
18 15 (0.64%) IntelliJ
General
1 699 (29.62%) Finance
2 464 (19.66%) Banking
3 413 (17.50%) Social Skills
4 370 (15.68%) Front Office
5 355 (15.04%) Investment Banking
6 134 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 119 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
7 119 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 69 (2.92%) Marketing
8 69 (2.92%) Retail
9 55 (2.33%) Law
10 51 (2.16%) Games
11 33 (1.40%) Tech for Good
12 29 (1.23%) Electronics
12 29 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.10%) Automotive
15 25 (1.06%) Publishing
16 24 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 22 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 815 (34.53%) Developer
2 644 (27.29%) Software Engineer
3 602 (25.51%) Senior
4 408 (17.29%) Lead
5 346 (14.66%) Java Developer
6 338 (14.32%) Java Engineer
7 256 (10.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 230 (9.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 203 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
10 201 (8.52%) Software Developer
11 188 (7.97%) Senior Developer
12 172 (7.29%) Technical Leader
13 155 (6.57%) Senior Java Engineer
14 152 (6.44%) Architect
15 148 (6.27%) Full Stack Developer
16 134 (5.68%) Python Engineer
17 130 (5.51%) Senior Java Developer
18 129 (5.47%) Lead Developer
19 127 (5.38%) AWS Software Engineer
20 119 (5.04%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (16.10%) Spring
2 372 (15.76%) gRPC
3 366 (15.51%) Protocol Buffers
4 321 (13.60%) NumPy
4 321 (13.60%) Pandas
4 321 (13.60%) SciPy
5 315 (13.35%) React
6 253 (10.72%) Spring Boot
7 184 (7.80%) .NET
8 178 (7.54%) REST
9 176 (7.46%) Node.js
10 175 (7.42%) AngularJS
10 175 (7.42%) RESTful
11 168 (7.12%) HTML
12 165 (6.99%) Kafka
13 149 (6.31%) CSS
14 106 (4.49%) Web Services
15 101 (4.28%) Hibernate
16 77 (3.26%) JSON
17 62 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 371 (15.72%) Hedge funds
2 358 (15.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 339 (14.36%) Fixed Income
4 331 (14.03%) Equities
5 318 (13.47%) Derivative
6 93 (3.94%) Private Cloud
7 73 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 71 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
9 70 (2.97%) Algorithms
10 65 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
11 61 (2.58%) Cloud Native
12 55 (2.33%) Clustering
13 48 (2.03%) Pricing Data
14 44 (1.86%) Product Ownership
15 43 (1.82%) Client/Server
16 42 (1.78%) Data Structures
17 40 (1.69%) Onboarding
18 36 (1.53%) Swaptions
19 32 (1.36%) Public Cloud
20 31 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 255 (10.81%) Linux
2 90 (3.81%) Windows
3 57 (2.42%) Android
4 41 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 34 (1.44%) CentOS
6 34 (1.44%) Unix
7 24 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.97%) AIX
9 21 (0.89%) Windows Server
10 20 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.30%) 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 1,108 (46.95%) Agile
2 1,096 (46.44%) Software Engineering
3 472 (20.00%) DevOps
4 441 (18.69%) Microservices
5 403 (17.08%) Asset Management
6 402 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
7 356 (15.08%) CI/CD
8 339 (14.36%) Investment Management
9 338 (14.32%) Full Stack Development
10 275 (11.65%) Mentoring
11 263 (11.14%) TDD
12 237 (10.04%) Continuous Integration
13 218 (9.24%) BDD
14 209 (8.86%) Computer Science
15 205 (8.69%) Test Automation
16 204 (8.64%) Scrum
17 183 (7.75%) SDLC
18 167 (7.08%) Code Quality
18 167 (7.08%) Fintech
19 166 (7.03%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 999 (42.33%) Python
2 877 (37.16%) JavaScript
3 560 (23.73%) TypeScript
4 451 (19.11%) SQL
5 294 (12.46%) C#
6 175 (7.42%) C++
7 173 (7.33%) Go
8 164 (6.95%) Kotlin
9 162 (6.86%) Scala
10 155 (6.57%) C
11 54 (2.29%) Ruby
12 51 (2.16%) VB
13 45 (1.91%) Bash
14 43 (1.82%) PHP
15 38 (1.61%) PowerShell
16 37 (1.57%) COBOL
16 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 37 (1.57%) T-SQL
17 34 (1.44%) Groovy
18 28 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 352 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 283 (11.99%) Degree
3 225 (9.53%) SC Cleared
4 150 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 18 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.55%) PhD
11 9 (0.38%) 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
1 153 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 113 (4.79%) QA
3 31 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (0.30%) 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 (0.085%) 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
1 344 (14.58%) Docker
2 19 (0.81%) Hyper-V
2 19 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
2 19 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
3 16 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.085%) KVM
6 1 (0.042%) Firmware
6 1 (0.042%) GridGain
6 1 (0.042%) HDFS
6 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 446 (18.90%) Kubernetes
2 266 (11.27%) Terraform
3 173 (7.33%) Ansible
4 80 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.61%) Grafana
6 28 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 26 (1.10%) Puppet
8 11 (0.47%) Kibana
9 8 (0.34%) Packer
10 5 (0.21%) Argo
10 5 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.21%) logstash
10 5 (0.21%) Nagios
10 5 (0.21%) Pingdom
10 5 (0.21%) Salt
10 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.13%) Nessus
11 3 (0.13%) Nmap
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Statspack
12 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 180 (7.63%) Oracle
2 101 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 78 (3.31%) Google
4 45 (1.91%) Xilinx
5 40 (1.69%) Sybase
6 38 (1.61%) TIBCO
7 37 (1.57%) Micro Focus
7 37 (1.57%) OpenLink
8 22 (0.93%) WSO2
9 21 (0.89%) SAP
10 20 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 16 (0.68%) Sitecore
12 15 (0.64%) Dell
13 13 (0.55%) Adobe
14 12 (0.51%) Bloomberg
14 12 (0.51%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.51%) Reuters
14 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
15 11 (0.47%) F5
15 11 (0.47%) IBM