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 27 December 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 554 508
Rank change year-on-year +64 -46 +232
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 33 20 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.053% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.057% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 13
10th Percentile £61,750 - £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £74,000 £68,750 £89,500
UK median annual salary £132,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +120.83% -20.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,560 35,159 29,652
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 93.37% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,516 17,556 22,392
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +31 17 £62,500 +4.17% 7
North of England - 11 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 7 £72,500 - 4
Midlands - 5 - - 2
West Midlands - 5 - - 2
North West - 4 £65,000 -
Scotland +6 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 27 December 2025, 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 29 (87.88%) Spring
4 28 (84.85%) Agile
4 28 (84.85%) REST
4 28 (84.85%) TDD
5 27 (81.82%) JavaScript
6 25 (75.76%) Docker
6 25 (75.76%) Kubernetes
6 25 (75.76%) Spring Boot
7 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
8 23 (69.70%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (69.70%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (69.70%) Jenkins
8 23 (69.70%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (69.70%) Serverless
9 21 (63.64%) Relational Database
10 19 (57.58%) JUnit
10 19 (57.58%) SDLC
10 19 (57.58%) Web Services
11 18 (54.55%) BDD
11 18 (54.55%) Mockito
12 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
13 16 (48.48%) Apache Camel
13 16 (48.48%) Process Management
13 16 (48.48%) Workflow
14 15 (45.45%) Hibernate
15 14 (42.42%) JSON

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 3 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (69.70%) Amazon ECS
2 23 (69.70%) Amazon EKS
2 23 (69.70%) Serverless
3 13 (39.39%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (24.24%) 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 23 (69.70%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (63.64%) Relational Database
3 13 (39.39%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (69.70%) Jenkins
2 19 (57.58%) JUnit
3 18 (54.55%) Mockito
4 13 (39.39%) JMeter
5 10 (30.30%) Git
6 5 (15.15%) Maven
General
1 20 (60.61%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (87.88%) Spring
2 28 (84.85%) REST
3 25 (75.76%) Spring Boot
4 19 (57.58%) Web Services
5 16 (48.48%) Apache Camel
6 15 (45.45%) Hibernate
7 14 (42.42%) JSON
7 14 (42.42%) XML
8 13 (39.39%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (39.39%) HTML
8 13 (39.39%) jQuery
8 13 (39.39%) WireMock
9 12 (36.36%) React
10 10 (30.30%) Node.js
11 7 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (18.18%) AngularJS
13 4 (12.12%) Kafka
13 4 (12.12%) Mustache
14 2 (6.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (60.61%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) 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 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
5 19 (57.58%) SDLC
6 18 (54.55%) BDD
7 16 (48.48%) Process Management
7 16 (48.48%) Workflow
8 13 (39.39%) Scrum
9 10 (30.30%) DevOps
10 6 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (15.15%) Kanban
11 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
12 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (9.09%) SOA
12 3 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
12 3 (9.09%) Unit Testing
13 2 (6.06%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (81.82%) JavaScript
3 13 (39.39%) Python
3 13 (39.39%) Shell Script
4 7 (21.21%) SQL
5 5 (15.15%) PL/SQL
6 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
7 3 (9.09%) Bash
8 2 (6.06%) Go
9 1 (3.03%) C
9 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 25 (75.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (75.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (39.39%) Kibana
3 7 (21.21%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Dynatrace
1 13 (39.39%) Splunk
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Pega
3 3 (9.09%) WSO2