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 £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 624 564
Rank change year-on-year +110 -60 +237
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 39 27 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.049% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.051% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 13
10th Percentile - £60,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £61,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - £81,000 £73,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,250 £73,750
% change year-on-year -14.59% -4.75% +1.72%

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 30,620 52,611 32,782
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 95.19% 93.12%
Number of salaries quoted 17,340 30,810 24,526
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Java Developer 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +48 15 - - 6
Scotland +62 12 - - 2
Midlands +68 8 £46,250 -22.92%
South West - 5 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 5 £52,500 -
East Midlands +19 3 £45,000 -25.00%
North of England - 1 £70,000 -
North West - 1 £70,000 -
Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Full-Stack Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 39 (100.00%) Java
1 39 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (97.44%) Agile
3 35 (89.74%) Spring
4 32 (82.05%) AWS
5 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
6 26 (66.67%) Spring Boot
7 25 (64.10%) Microservices
8 22 (56.41%) Kubernetes
8 22 (56.41%) REST
8 22 (56.41%) TDD
9 21 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (51.28%) Relational Database
11 19 (48.72%) SDLC
11 19 (48.72%) Jenkins
11 19 (48.72%) Hibernate
12 18 (46.15%) JavaScript
13 17 (43.59%) Docker
14 16 (41.03%) Dynatrace
14 16 (41.03%) Splunk
14 16 (41.03%) BDD
14 16 (41.03%) Web Services
14 16 (41.03%) JUnit
14 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
14 16 (41.03%) Public Sector
15 15 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (38.46%) Serverless
15 15 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (38.46%) ActiveMQ

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (82.05%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
2 15 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (38.46%) Serverless
3 6 (15.38%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) Azure
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (51.28%) Relational Database
3 15 (38.46%) RDBMS
4 5 (12.82%) Apache Hive
4 5 (12.82%) Big Data
4 5 (12.82%) Hadoop
4 5 (12.82%) HBase
5 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.13%) MySQL
5 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.56%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) Jenkins
2 16 (41.03%) JUnit
3 15 (38.46%) JMeter
3 15 (38.46%) Mockito
4 6 (15.38%) Maven
5 5 (12.82%) Gradle
6 3 (7.69%) Git
7 1 (2.56%) GitLab
7 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 16 (41.03%) Public Sector
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (23.08%) Law
5 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (12.82%) Marketing
7 4 (10.26%) Banking
7 4 (10.26%) Private Banking
7 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (89.74%) Spring
2 26 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 22 (56.41%) REST
4 19 (48.72%) Hibernate
5 16 (41.03%) Web Services
6 15 (38.46%) ActiveMQ
6 15 (38.46%) Apache Camel
6 15 (38.46%) HTML
6 15 (38.46%) jQuery
6 15 (38.46%) JSON
6 15 (38.46%) React
6 15 (38.46%) WireMock
6 15 (38.46%) XML
7 8 (20.51%) RESTful
8 6 (15.38%) AngularJS
8 6 (15.38%) JPA
9 5 (12.82%) Kafka
9 5 (12.82%) Vue
10 1 (2.56%) CSS
10 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.26%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.13%) IoT
6 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.56%) Life Science
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (97.44%) Agile
3 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
4 25 (64.10%) Microservices
5 22 (56.41%) TDD
6 19 (48.72%) SDLC
7 16 (41.03%) BDD
7 16 (41.03%) Software Engineering
8 15 (38.46%) Process Management
8 15 (38.46%) Workflow
9 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (25.64%) Operational Stability
11 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
12 7 (17.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
13 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
13 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
14 5 (12.82%) Asset Management
14 5 (12.82%) Open Source
15 4 (10.26%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 15 (38.46%) Python
3 15 (38.46%) Shell Script
4 10 (25.64%) SQL
5 7 (17.95%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (56.41%) Kubernetes
2 15 (38.46%) Kibana
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Dynatrace
1 16 (41.03%) Splunk
2 5 (12.82%) Cloudera
2 5 (12.82%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle