Full-Stack Java Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Java Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 588 524
Rank change year-on-year +103 -64 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 41 22 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.046% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.049% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -9.77% +2.31%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £74,063
90th Percentile £66,500 £70,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £132,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +89.29% - -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 32,650 45,026 29,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 94.81% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 19,956 24,181 21,901
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,350 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +39 18 £62,500 - 4
Scotland +4 11 - -
Midlands +60 8 £57,500 -4.17% 2
West Midlands - 8 £57,500 - 1
North of England - 5 £65,000 - 2
North West - 3 £65,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South West - 1 £65,000 -
Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, Full-Stack Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Full-Stack Java Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (95.12%) AWS
2 39 (95.12%) Spring
3 38 (92.68%) Agile
4 35 (85.37%) Microservices
5 33 (80.49%) CI/CD
5 33 (80.49%) REST
5 33 (80.49%) TDD
6 30 (73.17%) Kubernetes
7 29 (70.73%) Spring Boot
8 27 (65.85%) JavaScript
9 26 (63.41%) Jenkins
9 26 (63.41%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (63.41%) Relational Database
9 26 (63.41%) SDLC
10 25 (60.98%) Docker
11 22 (53.66%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (53.66%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (53.66%) Serverless
12 21 (51.22%) BDD
12 21 (51.22%) JUnit
12 21 (51.22%) Mockito
12 21 (51.22%) Web Services
13 20 (48.78%) Apache Camel
13 20 (48.78%) Hibernate
13 20 (48.78%) Process Management
13 20 (48.78%) Workflow
14 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
15 17 (41.46%) ActiveMQ

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 39 (95.12%) AWS
2 22 (53.66%) Amazon ECS
2 22 (53.66%) Amazon EKS
2 22 (53.66%) Serverless
3 17 (41.46%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (17.07%) Azure
5 6 (14.63%) GitHub
6 2 (4.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (63.41%) PostgreSQL
1 26 (63.41%) Relational Database
2 17 (41.46%) RDBMS
3 5 (12.20%) Apache Hive
3 5 (12.20%) Big Data
3 5 (12.20%) Hadoop
3 5 (12.20%) HBase
4 1 (2.44%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 26 (63.41%) Jenkins
2 21 (51.22%) JUnit
2 21 (51.22%) Mockito
3 17 (41.46%) JMeter
4 10 (24.39%) Maven
5 6 (14.63%) Git
6 5 (12.20%) Gradle
7 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 24 (58.54%) Public Sector
2 14 (34.15%) Finance
3 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (21.95%) Law
4 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Marketing
6 4 (9.76%) Banking
6 4 (9.76%) Private Banking
6 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Health Technology
7 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (95.12%) Spring
2 33 (80.49%) REST
3 29 (70.73%) Spring Boot
4 21 (51.22%) Web Services
5 20 (48.78%) Apache Camel
5 20 (48.78%) Hibernate
6 17 (41.46%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (41.46%) HTML
6 17 (41.46%) jQuery
6 17 (41.46%) JSON
6 17 (41.46%) WireMock
6 17 (41.46%) XML
7 11 (26.83%) React
8 7 (17.07%) RESTful
9 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
10 5 (12.20%) JPA
10 5 (12.20%) Node.js
11 4 (9.76%) Kafka
12 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (48.78%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.20%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.76%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Unix
2 2 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (92.68%) Agile
3 35 (85.37%) Microservices
4 33 (80.49%) CI/CD
4 33 (80.49%) TDD
5 26 (63.41%) SDLC
6 21 (51.22%) BDD
7 20 (48.78%) Process Management
7 20 (48.78%) Workflow
8 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
10 9 (21.95%) Decision-Making
10 9 (21.95%) Operational Stability
10 9 (21.95%) Scrum
11 8 (19.51%) DevOps
12 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
13 6 (14.63%) AI
14 5 (12.20%) Asset Management
14 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
14 5 (12.20%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (65.85%) JavaScript
3 17 (41.46%) Python
3 17 (41.46%) Shell Script
4 13 (31.71%) SQL
5 11 (26.83%) PL/SQL
6 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.88%) Bash
7 2 (4.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 25 (60.98%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (73.17%) Kubernetes
2 17 (41.46%) Kibana
3 7 (17.07%) Terraform
4 5 (12.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Dynatrace
1 17 (41.46%) Splunk
2 5 (12.20%) Cloudera
2 5 (12.20%) Databricks
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Pega
3 3 (7.32%) WSO2
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft