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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 520 703
Rank change year-on-year -30 +183 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 83 36 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.11% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 53 13 18
10th Percentile £65,000 - £46,050
25th Percentile £68,750 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% -2.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,000 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -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 68,088 30,221 67,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.44% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 47,187 17,297 47,231
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,958 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
% change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -2 48 £75,000 +7.14% 3
Yorkshire - 28 £80,000 - 2
North West +20 20 £70,000 -
South East -25 9 £72,500 -
South West -54 9 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Scotland +8 7 £72,500 - 4
West Midlands -20 6 - - 1
Midlands -35 6 - - 1
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 18 July 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 83 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 83 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (49.40%) AWS
3 36 (43.37%) CI/CD
4 33 (39.76%) AngularJS
5 30 (36.14%) Docker
6 29 (34.94%) Agile
7 28 (33.73%) Spring Boot
8 27 (32.53%) Jenkins
9 25 (30.12%) Spring
10 24 (28.92%) Serverless
11 22 (26.51%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (26.51%) Microservices
12 21 (25.30%) DevOps
13 19 (22.89%) Amazon S3
13 19 (22.89%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (21.69%) Kubernetes
14 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
15 17 (20.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (20.48%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (20.48%) JavaScript
15 17 (20.48%) SC Cleared
15 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
16 16 (19.28%) Bash
16 16 (19.28%) Maven
16 16 (19.28%) React
16 16 (19.28%) Scrum
16 16 (19.28%) SDLC
16 16 (19.28%) SQL
17 15 (18.07%) Gherkin

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 3 (3.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.20%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 41 (49.40%) AWS
2 24 (28.92%) Serverless
3 22 (26.51%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (22.89%) Amazon S3
4 19 (22.89%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (20.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (20.48%) AWS Step Functions
6 14 (16.87%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (14.46%) Azure
8 10 (12.05%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (12.05%) Apigee
9 7 (8.43%) GitHub
10 5 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.02%) GCP
10 5 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.41%) Datadog
12 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) DynamoDB
2 10 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.84%) MySQL
4 7 (8.43%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.20%) Db2
8 1 (1.20%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.28%) Maven
3 15 (18.07%) Git
4 10 (12.05%) Cypress.io
4 10 (12.05%) GitLab
4 10 (12.05%) JUnit
4 10 (12.05%) SonarQube
5 8 (9.64%) Mockito
6 5 (6.02%) JIRA
7 4 (4.82%) Eclipse
8 2 (2.41%) IntelliJ
8 2 (2.41%) JMeter
8 2 (2.41%) Subversion
General
1 17 (20.48%) Finance
2 8 (9.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Aviation
3 6 (7.23%) Banking
4 5 (6.02%) Advertising
5 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.76%) AngularJS
2 28 (33.73%) Spring Boot
3 25 (30.12%) Spring
4 16 (19.28%) React
5 15 (18.07%) Gherkin
5 15 (18.07%) RESTful
6 12 (14.46%) REST
7 10 (12.05%) Jest
8 9 (10.84%) Hibernate
9 8 (9.64%) HTML
9 8 (9.64%) Kafka
10 7 (8.43%) JPA
11 6 (7.23%) CSS
11 6 (7.23%) Node.js
12 4 (4.82%) J2EE
12 4 (4.82%) Vue
12 4 (4.82%) Web Services
13 3 (3.61%) Apache Camel
13 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (3.61%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (43.37%) CI/CD
3 29 (34.94%) Agile
4 22 (26.51%) Microservices
5 21 (25.30%) DevOps
6 18 (21.69%) Software Engineering
7 16 (19.28%) Scrum
7 16 (19.28%) SDLC
8 12 (14.46%) Clean Code
8 12 (14.46%) TDD
9 10 (12.05%) ITIL
9 10 (12.05%) Secure Coding
9 10 (12.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 9 (10.84%) Containerisation
11 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
12 7 (8.43%) AI
12 7 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (8.43%) Prototyping
13 6 (7.23%) LLM
13 6 (7.23%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (20.48%) JavaScript
3 16 (19.28%) Bash
3 16 (19.28%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) Groovy
5 13 (15.66%) Python
5 13 (15.66%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.64%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) SC Cleared
1 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) AWS Certification
2 10 (12.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 10 (12.05%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 30 (36.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.69%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.05%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
4 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Oracle
2 3 (3.61%) Pega
3 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.41%) Splunk
4 1 (1.20%) WSO2