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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 549 527
Rank change year-on-year +66 -22 +196
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 33 21 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.058% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.063% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile £61,750 - £50,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -15.79% +1.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £83,438
90th Percentile £74,000 £76,000 £89,250
UK median annual salary £112,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +87.50% -20.00% -11.76%

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 38,105 33,579 32,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 92.94% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23,220 16,417 24,649
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,760
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -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 10 January 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 10 January 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
South East +30 15 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North of England - 11 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands - 7 - -
Yorkshire - 7 £72,500 - 1
Midlands - 7 - -
North West - 4 £65,000 -
Scotland +4 2 - - 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 10 January 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 33 (100.00%) AWS
1 33 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (90.91%) Microservices
3 28 (84.85%) Agile
3 28 (84.85%) REST
3 28 (84.85%) TDD
4 27 (81.82%) Spring
5 25 (75.76%) Docker
5 25 (75.76%) JavaScript
5 25 (75.76%) Kubernetes
6 23 (69.70%) Spring Boot
7 22 (66.67%) CI/CD
8 21 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (63.64%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (63.64%) Jenkins
8 21 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (63.64%) Serverless
9 19 (57.58%) JUnit
9 19 (57.58%) Relational Database
9 19 (57.58%) SDLC
10 18 (54.55%) Mockito
11 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
11 17 (51.52%) Web Services
12 16 (48.48%) BDD
13 15 (45.45%) Scrum
14 14 (42.42%) Apache Camel
14 14 (42.42%) Process Management
14 14 (42.42%) Workflow
15 13 (39.39%) Hibernate

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 7 (21.21%) OpenStack
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
2 21 (63.64%) Amazon EKS
2 21 (63.64%) Serverless
3 11 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (30.30%) Azure
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (57.58%) Relational Database
3 11 (33.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 19 (57.58%) JUnit
3 18 (54.55%) Mockito
4 11 (33.33%) JMeter
5 10 (30.30%) Git
6 7 (21.21%) Maven
General
1 18 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (84.85%) REST
2 27 (81.82%) Spring
3 23 (69.70%) Spring Boot
4 17 (51.52%) Web Services
5 14 (42.42%) Apache Camel
6 13 (39.39%) Hibernate
7 12 (36.36%) JSON
7 12 (36.36%) React
7 12 (36.36%) XML
8 11 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
8 11 (33.33%) HTML
8 11 (33.33%) jQuery
8 11 (33.33%) WireMock
9 10 (30.30%) Node.js
10 7 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (18.18%) AngularJS
12 4 (12.12%) Kafka
12 4 (12.12%) Mustache
13 2 (6.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (54.55%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (90.91%) Microservices
3 28 (84.85%) Agile
3 28 (84.85%) TDD
4 22 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 19 (57.58%) SDLC
6 16 (48.48%) BDD
7 15 (45.45%) Scrum
8 14 (42.42%) Process Management
8 14 (42.42%) Workflow
9 10 (30.30%) DevOps
10 8 (24.24%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
12 5 (15.15%) Kanban
12 5 (15.15%) SOA
12 5 (15.15%) Unit Testing
13 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
14 3 (9.09%) Emotional Intelligence
14 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (75.76%) JavaScript
3 11 (33.33%) Python
3 11 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 9 (27.27%) SQL
5 7 (21.21%) PL/SQL
6 5 (15.15%) Bash
7 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
8 3 (9.09%) C
8 3 (9.09%) R
9 2 (6.06%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
System Software
1 25 (75.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (75.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (33.33%) Kibana
3 7 (21.21%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 11 (33.33%) Splunk
2 7 (21.21%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Pega
3 3 (9.09%) WSO2