Java Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Java Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Java Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 216 251
Rank change year-on-year -86 +35 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 346 593 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 1.58% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.65% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 311 418 623
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,938 £66,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £92,169 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +27.13% +7.41%
75th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £152,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Java Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
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 Engineer.

Java Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Java Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 346 (100.00%) Java
2 286 (82.66%) Software Engineering
3 263 (76.01%) AWS
4 228 (65.90%) Agile
5 161 (46.53%) JavaScript
6 159 (45.95%) Python
7 149 (43.06%) Finance
8 138 (39.88%) Banking
9 134 (38.73%) TypeScript
10 125 (36.13%) Microservices
11 124 (35.84%) Hedge funds
11 124 (35.84%) Apache Airflow
11 124 (35.84%) Amazon Athena
11 124 (35.84%) Asset Management
11 124 (35.84%) Fixed Income
11 124 (35.84%) Apache
11 124 (35.84%) dbt
12 122 (35.26%) Dremio
12 122 (35.26%) Apache Ignite
12 122 (35.26%) Apache Arrow
12 122 (35.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 122 (35.26%) Front Office
12 122 (35.26%) Equities
12 122 (35.26%) Investment Banking
12 122 (35.26%) Derivative
12 122 (35.26%) gRPC
12 122 (35.26%) SciPy
12 122 (35.26%) NumPy
12 122 (35.26%) Pandas
12 122 (35.26%) Protocol Buffers

Java Engineer Skill Set
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
1 124 (35.84%) Apache
1 124 (35.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.87%) Confluence
3 2 (0.58%) Drupal
3 2 (0.58%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 263 (76.01%) AWS
2 124 (35.84%) dbt
3 118 (34.10%) Snowflake
4 92 (26.59%) Azure
5 70 (20.23%) GCP
6 16 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (2.89%) GitHub
8 8 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.45%) Serverless
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.58%) Dagster
11 2 (0.58%) Prefect
11 2 (0.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.18%) Network Security
2 2 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (35.84%) Amazon Athena
2 122 (35.26%) Apache Arrow
2 122 (35.26%) Apache Ignite
2 122 (35.26%) Dremio
3 118 (34.10%) Data Lake
4 61 (17.63%) PostgreSQL
5 58 (16.76%) MySQL
6 40 (11.56%) NoSQL
7 35 (10.12%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.73%) CouchDB
11 4 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.87%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.58%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.58%) Metadata
14 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (6.07%) Git
2 12 (3.47%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.02%) GitLab
3 7 (2.02%) IntelliJ
3 7 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.02%) Subversion
4 6 (1.73%) Gradle
5 5 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.45%) Eclipse
5 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.16%) Maven
6 4 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.87%) JIRA
8 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.58%) Postman
8 2 (0.58%) Selenium
8 2 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.29%) JMeter
9 1 (0.29%) JUnit
General
1 149 (43.06%) Finance
2 138 (39.88%) Banking
3 122 (35.26%) Front Office
3 122 (35.26%) Investment Banking
4 41 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.96%) Social Skills
6 27 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.34%) Retail
8 13 (3.76%) Law
9 9 (2.60%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.73%) Wearables
11 5 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.16%) Games
12 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.87%) Aviation
13 3 (0.87%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.29%) Advertising
14 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.29%) Automotive
14 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (35.26%) gRPC
1 122 (35.26%) NumPy
1 122 (35.26%) Pandas
1 122 (35.26%) Protocol Buffers
1 122 (35.26%) SciPy
2 72 (20.81%) Spring
3 53 (15.32%) Spring Boot
4 44 (12.72%) RESTful
5 37 (10.69%) React
6 25 (7.23%) AngularJS
6 25 (7.23%) Kafka
7 24 (6.94%) Node.js
8 15 (4.34%) Hibernate
8 15 (4.34%) REST
9 14 (4.05%) JSON
10 12 (3.47%) SOAP
11 10 (2.89%) Vue
11 10 (2.89%) Web Services
12 7 (2.02%) CSS
12 7 (2.02%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (35.84%) Fixed Income
1 124 (35.84%) Hedge funds
2 122 (35.26%) Derivative
2 122 (35.26%) Equities
2 122 (35.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 48 (13.87%) Pricing Data
4 11 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.89%) Blog
5 10 (2.89%) Client/Server
6 6 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.73%) PropTech
6 6 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.29%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.49%) Linux
2 7 (2.02%) Windows
3 5 (1.45%) AIX
4 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (82.66%) Software Engineering
2 228 (65.90%) Agile
3 125 (36.13%) Microservices
4 124 (35.84%) Asset Management
5 110 (31.79%) Investment Management
6 63 (18.21%) Mentoring
7 61 (17.63%) TDD
8 60 (17.34%) Test Automation
9 42 (12.14%) Continuous Deployment
10 39 (11.27%) BDD
11 37 (10.69%) Coaching
12 36 (10.40%) Line Management
13 34 (9.83%) Greeks
13 34 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (6.65%) Scrum
15 20 (5.78%) CI/CD
15 20 (5.78%) DevOps
16 17 (4.91%) Clean Code
17 15 (4.34%) API Development
17 15 (4.34%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 346 (100.00%) Java
2 161 (46.53%) JavaScript
3 159 (45.95%) Python
4 134 (38.73%) TypeScript
5 62 (17.92%) SQL
6 24 (6.94%) Kotlin
7 15 (4.34%) C#
8 7 (2.02%) C
8 7 (2.02%) Scala
9 6 (1.73%) Ruby
10 5 (1.45%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.58%) Go
11 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (1.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.16%) Degree
4 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.60%) QA
3 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (13.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (15.90%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.09%) Terraform
3 20 (5.78%) Ansible
4 6 (1.73%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.31%) Oracle
2 6 (1.73%) Bloomberg
2 6 (1.73%) Reuters
3 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.58%) Solace
5 2 (0.58%) TIBCO