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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 498 613
Rank change year-on-year -101 +115 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 74 36 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.12% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 41 11 14
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £44,375 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £100,000 - £74,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £70,250
% change year-on-year +29.17% -14.59% -6.33%

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 79,433 30,469 51,513
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.29% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 55,031 17,322 29,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -37 32 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Yorkshire - 27 £80,000 -
South West -70 11 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Midlands -43 10 - - 2
West Midlands -44 10 - - 1
Scotland +4 9 £72,500 - 4
South East -50 8 £65,000 - 1
North West -34 5 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Wales - 4 £70,000 -
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 22 September 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 74 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 74 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (55.41%) AWS
3 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
4 34 (45.95%) Docker
5 27 (36.49%) Agile
6 26 (35.14%) AngularJS
6 26 (35.14%) Spring
7 25 (33.78%) Jenkins
8 24 (32.43%) Microservices
8 24 (32.43%) Spring Boot
9 23 (31.08%) Kubernetes
10 22 (29.73%) Serverless
11 21 (28.38%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
13 19 (25.68%) Bash
13 19 (25.68%) Maven
13 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
14 18 (24.32%) Amazon S3
14 18 (24.32%) JavaScript
14 18 (24.32%) SDLC
15 17 (22.97%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (22.97%) JUnit
15 17 (22.97%) Python
15 17 (22.97%) React
16 16 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (21.62%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (21.62%) DevOps
16 16 (21.62%) REST
16 16 (21.62%) Software Engineering

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 (9.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 41 (55.41%) AWS
2 22 (29.73%) Serverless
3 21 (28.38%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (24.32%) Amazon S3
5 17 (22.97%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (21.62%) AWS Step Functions
7 13 (17.57%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (17.57%) Azure
8 9 (12.16%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (12.16%) Apigee
9 8 (10.81%) GitHub
10 6 (8.11%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (4.05%) GCP
14 2 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (2.70%) Datadog
14 2 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.86%) DynamoDB
2 8 (10.81%) MySQL
2 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (33.78%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.68%) Maven
3 17 (22.97%) JUnit
4 13 (17.57%) Mockito
5 11 (14.86%) Git
6 9 (12.16%) Cypress.io
6 9 (12.16%) GitLab
6 9 (12.16%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.41%) Eclipse
7 4 (5.41%) Subversion
8 3 (4.05%) JMeter
9 2 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 18 (24.32%) Finance
2 7 (9.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.41%) Aviation
4 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.70%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (35.14%) AngularJS
1 26 (35.14%) Spring
2 24 (32.43%) Spring Boot
3 17 (22.97%) React
4 16 (21.62%) REST
5 14 (18.92%) Gherkin
6 12 (16.22%) RESTful
7 11 (14.86%) Hibernate
8 9 (12.16%) Jest
9 8 (10.81%) JPA
10 7 (9.46%) Kafka
11 6 (8.11%) Web Services
12 4 (5.41%) HTML
12 4 (5.41%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (5.41%) Node.js
12 4 (5.41%) Struts
13 3 (4.05%) Apache Camel
13 3 (4.05%) jQuery
13 3 (4.05%) Mustache
13 3 (4.05%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.49%) Agile
4 24 (32.43%) Microservices
5 18 (24.32%) SDLC
6 16 (21.62%) DevOps
6 16 (21.62%) Software Engineering
7 15 (20.27%) Scrum
7 15 (20.27%) TDD
8 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
9 12 (16.22%) Mentoring
9 12 (16.22%) Technical Architecture
10 10 (13.51%) AI
10 10 (13.51%) LLM
10 10 (13.51%) Sprint Planning
11 9 (12.16%) ITIL
11 9 (12.16%) Secure Coding
11 9 (12.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 7 (9.46%) SOA
12 7 (9.46%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (25.68%) Bash
3 18 (24.32%) JavaScript
4 17 (22.97%) Python
5 15 (20.27%) SQL
6 14 (18.92%) Groovy
7 11 (14.86%) TypeScript
8 10 (13.51%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.70%) C++
10 2 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) AWS Certification
3 9 (12.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 34 (45.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (31.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.16%) HP Fortify
3 3 (4.05%) Kibana
4 1 (1.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.35%) Grafana
4 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Oracle
2 3 (4.05%) Dynatrace
2 3 (4.05%) Splunk