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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 521 633
Rank change year-on-year -27 +112 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 85 38 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.11% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 52 13 18
10th Percentile £65,000 - £46,050
25th Percentile £68,125 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,000 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -28.13% +12.28%

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 71,020 30,795 56,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.61% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 49,062 17,779 38,279
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £38,250 £32,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +7 47 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire - 27 £80,000 -
North West +14 20 £70,000 - 1
South West -60 10 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Midlands -29 9 - -
West Midlands -33 9 - -
Scotland +3 8 £72,500 -
South East -31 7 £65,000 -
Wales - 4 £70,000 -
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 2 August 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 85 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 85 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (50.59%) AWS
3 39 (45.88%) CI/CD
4 33 (38.82%) Docker
5 32 (37.65%) AngularJS
6 31 (36.47%) Agile
7 29 (34.12%) Spring
8 28 (32.94%) Spring Boot
9 27 (31.76%) Jenkins
10 26 (30.59%) Microservices
11 23 (27.06%) Serverless
12 22 (25.88%) Kubernetes
13 21 (24.71%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (24.71%) JavaScript
14 20 (23.53%) DevOps
14 20 (23.53%) React
15 19 (22.35%) Scrum
15 19 (22.35%) SQL
16 18 (21.18%) Amazon S3
16 18 (21.18%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (21.18%) Bash
16 18 (21.18%) Maven
16 18 (21.18%) SC Cleared
16 18 (21.18%) SDLC
16 18 (21.18%) Security Cleared
16 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
17 16 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (18.82%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (18.82%) Git

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 6 (7.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.18%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 43 (50.59%) AWS
2 23 (27.06%) Serverless
3 21 (24.71%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (21.18%) Amazon S3
4 18 (21.18%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (18.82%) AWS Step Functions
6 15 (17.65%) Azure
7 13 (15.29%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (10.59%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (10.59%) Apigee
9 8 (9.41%) GitHub
10 6 (7.06%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.88%) GCP
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.35%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) DynamoDB
2 10 (11.76%) MySQL
2 10 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.24%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
4 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.18%) Db2
6 1 (1.18%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (31.76%) Jenkins
2 18 (21.18%) Maven
3 16 (18.82%) Git
4 14 (16.47%) JUnit
5 11 (12.94%) Mockito
6 9 (10.59%) Cypress.io
6 9 (10.59%) GitLab
6 9 (10.59%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.88%) Eclipse
7 5 (5.88%) JIRA
8 3 (3.53%) Subversion
9 2 (2.35%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.35%) JMeter
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 8 (9.41%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.06%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Advertising
5 4 (4.71%) Aviation
6 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (37.65%) AngularJS
2 29 (34.12%) Spring
3 28 (32.94%) Spring Boot
4 20 (23.53%) React
5 16 (18.82%) REST
5 16 (18.82%) RESTful
6 14 (16.47%) Gherkin
7 10 (11.76%) Hibernate
8 9 (10.59%) Jest
8 9 (10.59%) Kafka
9 8 (9.41%) HTML
9 8 (9.41%) JPA
10 6 (7.06%) CSS
10 6 (7.06%) Node.js
11 5 (5.88%) Jakarta EE
11 5 (5.88%) Web Services
12 4 (4.71%) Vue
13 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (3.53%) Mustache
13 3 (3.53%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 39 (45.88%) CI/CD
3 31 (36.47%) Agile
4 26 (30.59%) Microservices
5 20 (23.53%) DevOps
6 19 (22.35%) Scrum
7 18 (21.18%) SDLC
7 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
8 15 (17.65%) TDD
9 12 (14.12%) Containerisation
10 11 (12.94%) Mentoring
11 10 (11.76%) AI
11 10 (11.76%) Clean Code
11 10 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
12 9 (10.59%) ITIL
12 9 (10.59%) LLM
12 9 (10.59%) Secure Coding
12 9 (10.59%) Sprint Planning
12 9 (10.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 8 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 85 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (24.71%) JavaScript
3 19 (22.35%) SQL
4 18 (21.18%) Bash
5 15 (17.65%) Python
6 14 (16.47%) Groovy
7 12 (14.12%) TypeScript
8 11 (12.94%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) SC Cleared
1 18 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) AWS Certification
2 9 (10.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 9 (10.59%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 33 (38.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (25.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.59%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.35%) Ansible
3 2 (2.35%) Kibana
4 1 (1.18%) Grafana
4 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) Oracle
2 3 (3.53%) Pega
3 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.35%) Splunk
4 1 (1.18%) WSO2