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 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 583 533
Rank change year-on-year +100 -50 +243
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 38 24 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.051% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.054% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 14
10th Percentile - - £39,475
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.40% +0.77%
75th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £66,750 £70,000 £82,250
UK median annual salary £132,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +120.83% -14.29% -17.65%

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 33,555 44,293 28,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 94.16% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 21,188 23,688 21,360
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,100 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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
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 26 November 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 +52 18 £62,500 +4.17% 5
Scotland +17 9 - -
Midlands +52 7 £62,500 -
West Midlands - 7 £62,500 -
North of England - 5 £65,000 -
North West - 3 £65,000 -
Yorkshire - 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 26 November 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 38 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (97.37%) AWS
3 36 (94.74%) Spring
4 35 (92.11%) Agile
5 33 (86.84%) Microservices
6 31 (81.58%) CI/CD
6 31 (81.58%) REST
6 31 (81.58%) TDD
7 28 (73.68%) Kubernetes
7 28 (73.68%) Spring Boot
8 27 (71.05%) JavaScript
9 25 (65.79%) Docker
9 25 (65.79%) Jenkins
9 25 (65.79%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (65.79%) Relational Database
10 24 (63.16%) SDLC
11 22 (57.89%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (57.89%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (57.89%) Serverless
12 21 (55.26%) BDD
12 21 (55.26%) JUnit
12 21 (55.26%) Mockito
13 20 (52.63%) Apache Camel
13 20 (52.63%) Process Management
13 20 (52.63%) Web Services
13 20 (52.63%) Workflow
14 19 (50.00%) Hibernate
15 18 (47.37%) Security Cleared
16 17 (44.74%) ActiveMQ

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 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.89%) OpenStack
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 37 (97.37%) AWS
2 22 (57.89%) Amazon ECS
2 22 (57.89%) Amazon EKS
2 22 (57.89%) Serverless
3 17 (44.74%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (18.42%) Azure
5 5 (13.16%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (65.79%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (65.79%) Relational Database
2 17 (44.74%) RDBMS
3 4 (10.53%) Apache Hive
3 4 (10.53%) Big Data
3 4 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 4 (10.53%) HBase
Development Applications
1 25 (65.79%) Jenkins
2 21 (55.26%) JUnit
2 21 (55.26%) Mockito
3 17 (44.74%) JMeter
4 9 (23.68%) Maven
5 6 (15.79%) Git
6 4 (10.53%) Gradle
General
1 24 (63.16%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (18.42%) Law
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Marketing
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Private Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Health Technology
6 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (94.74%) Spring
2 31 (81.58%) REST
3 28 (73.68%) Spring Boot
4 20 (52.63%) Apache Camel
4 20 (52.63%) Web Services
5 19 (50.00%) Hibernate
6 17 (44.74%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (44.74%) HTML
6 17 (44.74%) jQuery
6 17 (44.74%) JSON
6 17 (44.74%) WireMock
6 17 (44.74%) XML
7 10 (26.32%) React
8 6 (15.79%) RESTful
9 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
9 5 (13.16%) Node.js
10 4 (10.53%) JPA
11 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (7.89%) Kafka
12 1 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (52.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Unix
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 35 (92.11%) Agile
3 33 (86.84%) Microservices
4 31 (81.58%) CI/CD
4 31 (81.58%) TDD
5 24 (63.16%) SDLC
6 21 (55.26%) BDD
7 20 (52.63%) Process Management
7 20 (52.63%) Workflow
8 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (23.68%) Scrum
9 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
10 7 (18.42%) Decision-Making
10 7 (18.42%) DevOps
10 7 (18.42%) Operational Stability
11 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
11 5 (13.16%) Sprint Planning
12 4 (10.53%) Kanban
12 4 (10.53%) Open Source
12 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (71.05%) JavaScript
3 17 (44.74%) Python
3 17 (44.74%) Shell Script
4 11 (28.95%) SQL
5 9 (23.68%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.26%) Bash
7 2 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 25 (65.79%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 17 (44.74%) Kibana
3 6 (15.79%) Terraform
4 5 (13.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Dynatrace
1 17 (44.74%) Splunk
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Cloudera
3 4 (10.53%) Databricks
4 3 (7.89%) Pega
4 3 (7.89%) WSO2