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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 506 649
Rank change year-on-year +3 +143 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 44 20 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.071% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.079% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 14
10th Percentile £63,750 £48,500 £31,075
25th Percentile £65,938 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.79% -6.56%
75th Percentile £77,188 £65,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,500 £89,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +39.13% -30.30% +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 47,997 25,462 54,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 90.43% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 30,316 14,202 41,970
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -8 25 £70,000 - 7
North West - 15 £70,000 - 6
South East -13 12 £80,000 +33.33%
Yorkshire -31 10 £72,500 - 1
Midlands -7 8 - -
West Midlands - 8 - -
Scotland -16 1 - - 1
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 11 March 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 44 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (75.00%) AWS
3 29 (65.91%) Agile
4 28 (63.64%) Microservices
5 25 (56.82%) REST
5 25 (56.82%) Spring Boot
5 25 (56.82%) TDD
6 24 (54.55%) Docker
6 24 (54.55%) JavaScript
6 24 (54.55%) Spring
7 23 (52.27%) CI/CD
8 21 (47.73%) Jenkins
8 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
9 20 (45.45%) SDLC
9 20 (45.45%) Serverless
10 19 (43.18%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (43.18%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (43.18%) Scrum
11 16 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (36.36%) DevOps
12 15 (34.09%) JUnit
12 15 (34.09%) Relational Database
12 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
13 14 (31.82%) Git
13 14 (31.82%) Mockito
13 14 (31.82%) React
14 13 (29.55%) AngularJS
14 13 (29.55%) Azure
15 12 (27.27%) SQL

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 (15.91%) OpenStack
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.27%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 33 (75.00%) AWS
2 20 (45.45%) Serverless
3 19 (43.18%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (29.55%) Azure
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (6.82%) Apigee
8 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.55%) GCP
10 1 (2.27%) ChatGPT
10 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (34.09%) Relational Database
3 7 (15.91%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.55%) MySQL
6 1 (2.27%) DB2
6 1 (2.27%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 21 (47.73%) Jenkins
2 15 (34.09%) JUnit
3 14 (31.82%) Git
3 14 (31.82%) Mockito
4 11 (25.00%) Maven
5 6 (13.64%) JMeter
6 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.82%) GitLab
6 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.55%) Eclipse
7 2 (4.55%) IntelliJ
7 2 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 13 (29.55%) Public Sector
2 12 (27.27%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Advertising
4 2 (4.55%) Aviation
4 2 (4.55%) Health Technology
4 2 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (56.82%) REST
1 25 (56.82%) Spring Boot
2 24 (54.55%) Spring
3 14 (31.82%) React
4 13 (29.55%) AngularJS
5 12 (27.27%) Web Services
6 11 (25.00%) Node.js
7 10 (22.73%) HTML
8 9 (20.45%) Apache Camel
9 7 (15.91%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (15.91%) JSON
9 7 (15.91%) XML
10 6 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (13.64%) Hibernate
10 6 (13.64%) jQuery
10 6 (13.64%) Kafka
10 6 (13.64%) WireMock
11 4 (9.09%) CSS
11 4 (9.09%) Mustache
11 4 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (65.91%) Agile
3 28 (63.64%) Microservices
4 25 (56.82%) TDD
5 23 (52.27%) CI/CD
6 20 (45.45%) SDLC
7 19 (43.18%) Scrum
8 16 (36.36%) DevOps
9 11 (25.00%) BDD
10 9 (20.45%) Process Management
10 9 (20.45%) Workflow
11 7 (15.91%) Clean Code
11 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.91%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (15.91%) Unit Testing
12 6 (13.64%) SOA
13 5 (11.36%) Containerisation
13 5 (11.36%) Kanban
14 4 (9.09%) Emotional Intelligence
14 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 12 (27.27%) SQL
4 10 (22.73%) PL/SQL
5 9 (20.45%) Bash
6 8 (18.18%) TypeScript
7 6 (13.64%) Python
7 6 (13.64%) Shell Script
8 4 (9.09%) C
8 4 (9.09%) R
9 3 (6.82%) Groovy
10 2 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 24 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Ansible
3 6 (13.64%) Kibana
4 3 (6.82%) HP Fortify
4 3 (6.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Oracle
2 6 (13.64%) Dynatrace
2 6 (13.64%) Splunk
3 5 (11.36%) Pega
4 3 (6.82%) WSO2