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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 498 696
Rank change year-on-year -21 +198 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 63 28 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.096% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.11% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 37 15 18
10th Percentile £65,000 - £31,175
25th Percentile £66,250 £42,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.73% -6.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £69,000 £90,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +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 62,505 26,055 65,708
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 89.13% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 41,409 14,263 47,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,159 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,729 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +3.46% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +5 43 £75,000 +7.14% 9
Yorkshire -20 22 £80,000 - 7
North West +26 21 £70,000 - 2
South East -23 10 £72,500 +20.83% 2
Midlands -24 9 - - 1
West Midlands -33 9 - - 1
Scotland -3 3 £72,500 -
South West -60 1 £45,000 -25.00% 2
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 21 May 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 63 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (55.56%) AWS
3 30 (47.62%) Agile
4 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 24 (38.10%) Docker
5 24 (38.10%) Microservices
6 23 (36.51%) Scrum
6 23 (36.51%) Spring
6 23 (36.51%) Spring Boot
7 22 (34.92%) AngularJS
8 21 (33.33%) JavaScript
9 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
9 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
9 19 (30.16%) TDD
10 18 (28.57%) Jenkins
10 18 (28.57%) Kubernetes
10 18 (28.57%) React
10 18 (28.57%) Serverless
11 17 (26.98%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (26.98%) DevOps
11 17 (26.98%) SDLC
11 17 (26.98%) SQL
12 16 (25.40%) Git
12 16 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (23.81%) REST
14 14 (22.22%) Bash
14 14 (22.22%) Maven
15 13 (20.63%) Azure
15 13 (20.63%) Containerisation

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 (9.52%) OpenStack
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.59%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 35 (55.56%) AWS
2 18 (28.57%) Serverless
3 17 (26.98%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (20.63%) Azure
5 11 (17.46%) Amazon S3
6 10 (15.87%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (15.87%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (7.94%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (7.94%) Apigee
10 3 (4.76%) GCP
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.59%) ChatGPT
12 1 (1.59%) GitHub
12 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 7 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 6 (9.52%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.59%) DB2
6 1 (1.59%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 16 (25.40%) Git
3 14 (22.22%) Maven
4 12 (19.05%) JUnit
5 11 (17.46%) Mockito
6 5 (7.94%) Cypress.io
6 5 (7.94%) GitLab
6 5 (7.94%) JIRA
6 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.17%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.17%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.17%) JMeter
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Aviation
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Advertising
5 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (36.51%) Spring
1 23 (36.51%) Spring Boot
2 22 (34.92%) AngularJS
3 18 (28.57%) React
4 15 (23.81%) REST
5 12 (19.05%) RESTful
6 10 (15.87%) Node.js
7 8 (12.70%) HTML
8 7 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (11.11%) Kafka
8 7 (11.11%) Mustache
9 6 (9.52%) CSS
9 6 (9.52%) Gherkin
10 5 (7.94%) Jest
10 5 (7.94%) Web Services
11 4 (6.35%) Vue
12 3 (4.76%) Apache Camel
12 3 (4.76%) Hibernate
13 2 (3.17%) CSS3
13 2 (3.17%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (47.62%) Agile
3 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 24 (38.10%) Microservices
5 23 (36.51%) Scrum
6 19 (30.16%) TDD
7 17 (26.98%) DevOps
7 17 (26.98%) SDLC
8 13 (20.63%) Containerisation
9 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (15.87%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (15.87%) Unit Testing
11 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
11 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
12 7 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 6 (9.52%) AI
13 6 (9.52%) Emotional Intelligence
13 6 (9.52%) SOA
13 6 (9.52%) Time Management
14 5 (7.94%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 17 (26.98%) SQL
4 14 (22.22%) Bash
5 11 (17.46%) PL/SQL
6 8 (12.70%) Python
7 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 6 (9.52%) Groovy
9 4 (6.35%) C
9 4 (6.35%) R
10 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
1 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (7.94%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
System Software
1 24 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) HP Fortify
3 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Kibana
5 1 (1.59%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (4.76%) Pega
3 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.17%) Splunk
4 1 (1.59%) WSO2