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 £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 464 685
Rank change year-on-year -56 +221 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 50 30 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.11% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.12% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 30 15 19
10th Percentile £65,000 - £31,200
25th Percentile £66,563 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.09% -15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £66,500 £90,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £56,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +42.22% -31.82% +17.86%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 60,709 24,093 64,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 88.27% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 38,845 14,633 47,046
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 30 April 2026.

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 30 April 2026. 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
North of England -32 37 £73,750 - 3
North West - 20 £70,000 - 1
Yorkshire -48 17 £100,000 - 2
South East -37 7 £72,500 +20.83% 3
West Midlands -17 6 - - 2
Midlands -33 6 - - 2
Scotland -18 3 £72,500 -
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 30 April 2026, 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 50 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 50 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (46.00%) Agile
2 23 (46.00%) AWS
3 20 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 18 (36.00%) Spring Boot
5 17 (34.00%) Docker
5 17 (34.00%) Scrum
6 16 (32.00%) AngularJS
6 16 (32.00%) Microservices
7 15 (30.00%) SDLC
7 15 (30.00%) Spring
8 14 (28.00%) Git
8 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
8 14 (28.00%) SQL
9 13 (26.00%) DevOps
9 13 (26.00%) Jenkins
9 13 (26.00%) React
9 13 (26.00%) REST
9 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
9 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
9 13 (26.00%) Serverless
9 13 (26.00%) TDD
10 12 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
11 11 (22.00%) Maven
11 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (20.00%) Bash
13 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
13 9 (18.00%) Azure

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 (10.00%) OpenStack
1 5 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
2 13 (26.00%) Serverless
3 12 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (18.00%) Azure
5 8 (16.00%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (10.00%) Apigee
9 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.00%) GCP
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.00%) ChatGPT
10 1 (2.00%) Datadog
10 1 (2.00%) GitHub
10 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (12.00%) DynamoDB
4 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (8.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.00%) DB2
6 1 (2.00%) Hazelcast
6 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Git
2 13 (26.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (22.00%) Maven
4 7 (14.00%) JUnit
5 6 (12.00%) Mockito
6 5 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 5 (10.00%) GitLab
6 5 (10.00%) JIRA
6 5 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.00%) Eclipse
7 2 (4.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 15 (30.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Aviation
3 6 (12.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Advertising
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) Spring Boot
2 16 (32.00%) AngularJS
3 15 (30.00%) Spring
4 13 (26.00%) React
4 13 (26.00%) REST
5 8 (16.00%) Node.js
6 7 (14.00%) RESTful
7 6 (12.00%) CSS
7 6 (12.00%) HTML
7 6 (12.00%) Kafka
8 5 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (10.00%) Gherkin
8 5 (10.00%) Jest
9 4 (8.00%) Mustache
9 4 (8.00%) Vue
9 4 (8.00%) Web Services
10 2 (4.00%) CSS3
10 2 (4.00%) HTML5
10 2 (4.00%) J2EE
10 2 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 23 (46.00%) Agile
3 20 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (34.00%) Scrum
5 16 (32.00%) Microservices
6 15 (30.00%) SDLC
7 13 (26.00%) DevOps
7 13 (26.00%) TDD
8 9 (18.00%) Clean Code
9 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.00%) Unit Testing
10 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
11 6 (12.00%) Sprint Planning
12 5 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 5 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (10.00%) ITIL
12 5 (10.00%) Secure Coding
12 5 (10.00%) SOA
12 5 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (28.00%) SQL
3 10 (20.00%) Bash
4 9 (18.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (16.00%) PL/SQL
6 5 (10.00%) Groovy
6 5 (10.00%) Python
7 4 (8.00%) C
7 4 (8.00%) R
8 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 17 (34.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.00%) HP Fortify
3 3 (6.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.00%) Pega
3 1 (2.00%) WSO2