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 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 487 714
Rank change year-on-year -46 +227 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 72 36 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.12% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 46 14 16
10th Percentile £65,000 - £43,000
25th Percentile £69,063 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -13.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,500 £85,000
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 63,165 26,404 74,165
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 89.04% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 43,749 14,282 53,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,296 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +1 46 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Yorkshire -21 26 £80,000 - 2
North West +8 20 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands -15 9 - -
Midlands -20 9 - - 2
South East -28 7 £72,500 -14.71% 2
South West -50 5 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland +11 3 £72,500 -
Wales - 2 £70,000 - 1
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 14 June 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 72 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 72 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (54.17%) AWS
3 29 (40.28%) Agile
4 28 (38.89%) AngularJS
5 26 (36.11%) CI/CD
6 23 (31.94%) Docker
7 21 (29.17%) Spring Boot
8 20 (27.78%) Microservices
8 20 (27.78%) SC Cleared
8 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
9 19 (26.39%) Scrum
9 19 (26.39%) Serverless
9 19 (26.39%) Spring
10 18 (25.00%) Jenkins
10 18 (25.00%) SQL
11 17 (23.61%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (23.61%) DevOps
12 16 (22.22%) Bash
12 16 (22.22%) JavaScript
12 16 (22.22%) Maven
12 16 (22.22%) SDLC
13 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
13 15 (20.83%) React
13 15 (20.83%) TDD
14 14 (19.44%) Amazon S3
14 14 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (19.44%) Azure
14 14 (19.44%) RESTful
14 14 (19.44%) Software Engineering

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 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.39%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 39 (54.17%) AWS
2 19 (26.39%) Serverless
3 17 (23.61%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (19.44%) Amazon S3
4 14 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (19.44%) Azure
5 12 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (9.72%) Amazon ECR
6 7 (9.72%) Apigee
7 5 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.56%) GCP
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.39%) ChatGPT
11 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) Db2
5 1 (1.39%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (22.22%) Maven
3 13 (18.06%) Git
4 12 (16.67%) JUnit
5 11 (15.28%) Mockito
6 7 (9.72%) Cypress.io
6 7 (9.72%) GitLab
6 7 (9.72%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.94%) JIRA
8 3 (4.17%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.78%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.78%) JMeter
10 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 20 (27.78%) Finance
2 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Aviation
3 6 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Advertising
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (38.89%) AngularJS
2 21 (29.17%) Spring Boot
3 19 (26.39%) Spring
4 15 (20.83%) React
5 14 (19.44%) RESTful
6 11 (15.28%) Gherkin
7 10 (13.89%) REST
8 8 (11.11%) HTML
9 7 (9.72%) Jest
10 6 (8.33%) CSS
11 5 (6.94%) Node.js
12 4 (5.56%) Vue
13 3 (4.17%) Apache Camel
13 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (4.17%) Hibernate
13 3 (4.17%) J2EE
13 3 (4.17%) Kafka
13 3 (4.17%) Mustache
13 3 (4.17%) Web Services
14 2 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (40.28%) Agile
3 26 (36.11%) CI/CD
4 20 (27.78%) Microservices
5 19 (26.39%) Scrum
6 17 (23.61%) DevOps
7 16 (22.22%) SDLC
8 15 (20.83%) TDD
9 14 (19.44%) Software Engineering
10 12 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (13.89%) Clean Code
12 10 (13.89%) Unit Testing
13 9 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
14 7 (9.72%) ITIL
14 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
14 7 (9.72%) Secure Coding
14 7 (9.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 6 (8.33%) Computer Science
15 6 (8.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 72 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (25.00%) SQL
3 16 (22.22%) Bash
3 16 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.28%) Groovy
4 11 (15.28%) PL/SQL
5 9 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.11%) Python
7 4 (5.56%) C
7 4 (5.56%) R
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) AWS Certification
2 7 (9.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 7 (9.72%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) QA
System Software
1 23 (31.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.78%) Ansible
3 2 (2.78%) Kibana
4 1 (1.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (4.17%) Pega
3 2 (2.78%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (1.39%) WSO2