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Remote Java jobs in the UK

Live remote Java jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role is fully remote or work-from-home.

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256 Live vacancies
74 Employers hiring
£110,106 Median advertised
100% Remote
23 hours ago Last updated

We are currently tracking 256 live vacancies matching remote Java jobs in the UK, advertised by 74 different employers. 18 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Remotefriendly, Quantaleap, Pubmatic and Findweb3. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.

Of the 256 roles, 15 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £110,106. The middle half of the market sits between £110,000 and £124,750, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for remote Java jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.

On working pattern, 100% are fully remote and 1% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 60% at mid level and 29% at senior level. Filter by any of these on the left.

Employers hiring for Java in this slice most often ask for it alongside Python, React, C#, TypeScript, Machine Learning and C++. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.

256 live vacancies

Full Stack Architect

Amach · London · Remote
Remote
Python Java C# AWS Azure
First seen 23 hours ago

Developer Jobs

Startupplay · London · Remote
Remote
Java JavaScript
First seen 4 days ago

Software Engineer, Payments

Startupplay · London · Remote
Remote
Java JavaScript
First seen 4 days ago

Senior Full-Stack (Java/React) - Jobs Newfire Global Partners

Newfireglobal · Remote
Remote
Java TypeScript React PostgreSQL Scrum
First seen 4 days ago

Senior Fullstack Engineer (.NET/React)

Newfireglobal · Cambridge · Remote
Remote
Python Java C# React Scrum
First seen 4 days ago

Software Engineer (Java)

Forgepointcap · Remote
Remote
£73,800 – £123,000 a year
Python Java Machine Learning Generative AI
First seen 5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Forgepointcap · Remote
Remote
£73,800 – £123,000 a year
Python Java Machine Learning Generative AI
First seen 5 days ago

Java Developer (3 Openings)

Trdpnt · London · Remote
Remote
Python Java
First seen 5 days ago

Software Engineer, Rapid Response Assignment - UK

VulnCheck · Remote
Remote
Python Java AWS Generative AI
First seen 6 days ago

Senior Software Engineer (Cheltenham, UK)

VulnCheck · Remote
Remote
Python Java AWS Generative AI
First seen 6 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer

Monzo · London · Remote
Remote
£130,000 – £170,000 a year
Java React AWS Kubernetes Docker
First seen 6 days ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Monzo · London · Remote
Remote
£105,000 – £135,000 a year
Java React AWS Google Cloud Kubernetes
First seen 6 days ago

Backend Engineer III

Monzo · London · Remote
Remote
£85,000 – £110,000 a year
Java React AWS Google Cloud Kubernetes
First seen 6 days ago

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Lifeatspotify · London · Remote
Remote
Java TypeScript React Kubernetes PostgreSQL
First seen 6 days ago

Fullstack Engineer - Subscriptions

Lifeatspotify · London · Remote
Remote
Java TypeScript React PostgreSQL
First seen 6 days ago

Software Engineering Careers | Join Zenitech

Zenitech · Remote
Remote
Java C# JavaScript TypeScript
First seen 6 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs · Remote
Remote
£103,958 – £124,750 a year
Python Java C++ Rust Salesforce
First seen 6 days ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs · Remote
Remote
£91,755 – £110,106 a year
Python Java C++ Rust Kubernetes
First seen 6 days ago

Data Annotation Specialist, Software Engineering

Cohere · London · Remote
Remote
Python Java JavaScript SQL
First seen 1 week ago

Software Engineer - Backend Services - MPG - Fully remote from the UK or | Climax Studios

Climaxstudios · Remote
Remote
Java C# C++ Go AWS
First seen 1 week ago

Job titles employers are advertising

The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.

Questions about these roles

How many remote Java jobs in the UK are there right now?

We are tracking 256 live vacancies across 74 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.

What do remote Java jobs in the UK pay?

The median advertised ceiling is £110,106, based on the 15 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £110,000 to £124,750. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.

Are these contract or permanent roles?

1% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.

Which employers are hiring?

The most active right now are Remotefriendly, Quantaleap, Pubmatic, Findweb3 and Pacificconsultancyservices. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.

What other skills do these roles ask for?

Most often Python, React, C#, TypeScript and Machine Learning. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.

How much does a Java developer earn in the UK?

£110,106 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 100% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 241 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.

Are there entry-level or graduate Java developer jobs in the UK?

2 of the roles on this page read as graduate or junior level, which is 1% of what is live. Level is read from the job title, so a role advertised without one is counted as mid-level and may still be open to less experience.

What job titles are used for this role?

Employers on this page advertise it as Java Developer, Software Engineer, Software Developer, Full Stack Developer and Fullstack Developer. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.

How much experience do these roles need?

The largest group is mid level (60% of the page). Seniority is read from the job title, so a role that does not signal a level in its title is counted as mid-level.

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