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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 500 706
Rank change year-on-year -21 +206 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 63 29 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.10% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.11% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 39 13 19
10th Percentile £65,000 - £31,200
25th Percentile £66,875 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -19.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £69,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -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 63,248 25,718 68,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 89.02% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 42,275 13,687 49,780
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -16 42 £75,000 +7.14% 5
Yorkshire -26 22 £80,000 - 4
North West +19 20 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands -26 9 - -
Midlands -32 9 - -
South East -21 8 £72,500 -14.71% 2
Scotland +3 3 £72,500 -
South West -57 1 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Wales - 1 £70,000 - 2
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 30 May 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 63 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (53.97%) AWS
3 28 (44.44%) Agile
4 25 (39.68%) CI/CD
5 22 (34.92%) AngularJS
5 22 (34.92%) Docker
6 21 (33.33%) Microservices
6 21 (33.33%) Scrum
7 20 (31.75%) Spring
7 20 (31.75%) Spring Boot
8 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
8 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
9 18 (28.57%) JavaScript
10 17 (26.98%) SQL
10 17 (26.98%) TDD
11 16 (25.40%) Jenkins
11 16 (25.40%) Kubernetes
11 16 (25.40%) React
11 16 (25.40%) Serverless
12 15 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (23.81%) DevOps
12 15 (23.81%) SDLC
13 14 (22.22%) Bash
13 14 (22.22%) Maven
14 13 (20.63%) Azure
14 13 (20.63%) Git
14 13 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
15 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
15 12 (19.05%) Oracle

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 6 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.59%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.97%) AWS
2 16 (25.40%) Serverless
3 15 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (20.63%) Azure
5 10 (15.87%) Amazon S3
6 9 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (12.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (12.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (7.94%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (7.94%) Apigee
10 3 (4.76%) GCP
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.59%) ChatGPT
12 1 (1.59%) Datadog
12 1 (1.59%) GitHub
12 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 7 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.59%) DB2
5 1 (1.59%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.22%) Maven
3 13 (20.63%) Git
4 11 (17.46%) JUnit
4 11 (17.46%) Mockito
5 5 (7.94%) Cypress.io
5 5 (7.94%) GitLab
5 5 (7.94%) JIRA
5 5 (7.94%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.17%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.17%) IntelliJ
6 2 (3.17%) JMeter
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Aviation
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Advertising
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.92%) AngularJS
2 20 (31.75%) Spring
2 20 (31.75%) Spring Boot
3 16 (25.40%) React
4 12 (19.05%) REST
4 12 (19.05%) RESTful
5 8 (12.70%) HTML
6 7 (11.11%) Gherkin
6 7 (11.11%) Node.js
7 6 (9.52%) CSS
8 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (7.94%) Jest
8 5 (7.94%) Kafka
8 5 (7.94%) Mustache
9 4 (6.35%) Vue
9 4 (6.35%) Web Services
10 3 (4.76%) Apache Camel
10 3 (4.76%) Hibernate
11 2 (3.17%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (3.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (44.44%) Agile
3 25 (39.68%) CI/CD
4 21 (33.33%) Microservices
4 21 (33.33%) Scrum
5 17 (26.98%) TDD
6 15 (23.81%) DevOps
6 15 (23.81%) SDLC
7 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (15.87%) Unit Testing
10 9 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 9 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
12 7 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 6 (9.52%) AI
13 6 (9.52%) Emotional Intelligence
13 6 (9.52%) SOA
13 6 (9.52%) Time Management
14 5 (7.94%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 17 (26.98%) SQL
4 14 (22.22%) Bash
5 11 (17.46%) PL/SQL
6 8 (12.70%) Python
7 7 (11.11%) Groovy
7 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.35%) C
8 4 (6.35%) R
9 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
1 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (7.94%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
System Software
1 22 (34.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (25.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) HP Fortify
3 3 (4.76%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Kibana
5 1 (1.59%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (4.76%) Pega
3 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.17%) Splunk
4 1 (1.59%) WSO2