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 £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 587 553
Rank change year-on-year +91 -34 +216
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 37 20 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.041% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.043% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 14
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,500 £39,475
25th Percentile £61,250 - £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -9.77% +2.31%
75th Percentile £66,875 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,500 £77,625
UK median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +35.71% -3.45% -1.69%

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 30,552 46,802 30,972
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.64% 95.41% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,554 25,602 23,176
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +38 16 £62,500 -10.71% 5
Scotland +11 11 - - 1
Midlands +36 6 £57,500 -4.17%
West Midlands - 6 £57,500 -
North of England - 5 £67,500 - 4
North West - 3 £67,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
South West - 1 £65,000 - 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 19 October 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 37 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (94.59%) AWS
3 34 (91.89%) Agile
3 34 (91.89%) Spring
4 31 (83.78%) Microservices
5 30 (81.08%) CI/CD
5 30 (81.08%) TDD
6 28 (75.68%) REST
7 26 (70.27%) Kubernetes
7 26 (70.27%) Spring Boot
8 24 (64.86%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (62.16%) Jenkins
9 23 (62.16%) Relational Database
9 23 (62.16%) SDLC
10 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
11 21 (56.76%) Docker
12 20 (54.05%) BDD
13 19 (51.35%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (51.35%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (51.35%) Serverless
13 19 (51.35%) Web Services
14 18 (48.65%) Apache Camel
14 18 (48.65%) Hibernate
14 18 (48.65%) Process Management
14 18 (48.65%) Workflow
15 17 (45.95%) JUnit
15 17 (45.95%) Mockito
16 15 (40.54%) ActiveMQ
16 15 (40.54%) Amazon EC2

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 5 (13.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 35 (94.59%) AWS
2 19 (51.35%) Amazon ECS
2 19 (51.35%) Amazon EKS
2 19 (51.35%) Serverless
3 15 (40.54%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (16.22%) Azure
4 6 (16.22%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (64.86%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (62.16%) Relational Database
3 15 (40.54%) RDBMS
4 5 (13.51%) Apache Hive
4 5 (13.51%) Big Data
4 5 (13.51%) Hadoop
4 5 (13.51%) HBase
5 1 (2.70%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (62.16%) Jenkins
2 17 (45.95%) JUnit
2 17 (45.95%) Mockito
3 15 (40.54%) JMeter
4 8 (21.62%) Maven
5 5 (13.51%) Git
5 5 (13.51%) Gradle
6 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 21 (56.76%) Public Sector
2 12 (32.43%) Finance
3 9 (24.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (24.32%) Law
4 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.51%) Marketing
6 4 (10.81%) Banking
6 4 (10.81%) Private Banking
6 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Health Technology
7 2 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (91.89%) Spring
2 28 (75.68%) REST
3 26 (70.27%) Spring Boot
4 19 (51.35%) Web Services
5 18 (48.65%) Apache Camel
5 18 (48.65%) Hibernate
6 15 (40.54%) ActiveMQ
6 15 (40.54%) HTML
6 15 (40.54%) jQuery
6 15 (40.54%) JSON
6 15 (40.54%) WireMock
6 15 (40.54%) XML
7 9 (24.32%) React
8 8 (21.62%) RESTful
9 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
9 5 (13.51%) JPA
10 4 (10.81%) Kafka
10 4 (10.81%) Node.js
11 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (48.65%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (13.51%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (91.89%) Agile
3 31 (83.78%) Microservices
4 30 (81.08%) CI/CD
4 30 (81.08%) TDD
5 23 (62.16%) SDLC
6 20 (54.05%) BDD
7 18 (48.65%) Process Management
7 18 (48.65%) Workflow
8 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
10 9 (24.32%) Decision-Making
10 9 (24.32%) Operational Stability
11 7 (18.92%) Computer Science
11 7 (18.92%) DevOps
11 7 (18.92%) Scrum
12 6 (16.22%) AI
12 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
13 5 (13.51%) Asset Management
13 5 (13.51%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
3 15 (40.54%) Python
3 15 (40.54%) Shell Script
4 12 (32.43%) SQL
5 9 (24.32%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.41%) Go
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (70.27%) Kubernetes
2 15 (40.54%) Kibana
3 7 (18.92%) Terraform
4 4 (10.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Dynatrace
1 15 (40.54%) Splunk
2 5 (13.51%) Cloudera
2 5 (13.51%) Databricks
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) Pega
3 3 (8.11%) WSO2
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft