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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 539 612
Rank change year-on-year +57 +73 +124
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 41 20 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.060% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.065% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 13
10th Percentile £62,375 - £50,000
25th Percentile £65,313 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £74,375 £66,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £89,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +75.00% -27.27% +3.13%

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 42,162 30,817 47,172
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 91.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 26,077 14,965 36,726
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,220 £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 £65,000
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 8 February 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 8 February 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 17 £70,000 - 4
South East +7 15 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Yorkshire -20 10 £72,500 - 2
Midlands - 8 - - 1
West Midlands - 8 - -
North West - 7 £68,750 - 2
Scotland -9 3 - -
South West - 1 £65,000 - 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 8 February 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 41 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (85.37%) AWS
3 31 (75.61%) Agile
4 30 (73.17%) Microservices
5 27 (65.85%) Docker
5 27 (65.85%) REST
5 27 (65.85%) Spring
5 27 (65.85%) TDD
6 26 (63.41%) Spring Boot
7 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
7 24 (58.54%) JavaScript
7 24 (58.54%) Kubernetes
8 22 (53.66%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (53.66%) Jenkins
8 22 (53.66%) SDLC
8 22 (53.66%) Serverless
9 21 (51.22%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (46.34%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (43.90%) JUnit
11 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
12 17 (41.46%) Mockito
12 17 (41.46%) Relational Database
13 16 (39.02%) Scrum
14 15 (36.59%) Web Services
15 14 (34.15%) BDD
16 13 (31.71%) DevOps
16 13 (31.71%) React
17 12 (29.27%) Apache Camel
17 12 (29.27%) Process Management

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 (17.07%) OpenStack
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 35 (85.37%) AWS
2 22 (53.66%) Amazon ECS
2 22 (53.66%) Serverless
3 19 (46.34%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (26.83%) Azure
5 9 (21.95%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (7.32%) Apigee
7 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.88%) GitHub
8 2 (4.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (51.22%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (41.46%) Relational Database
3 9 (21.95%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (53.66%) Jenkins
2 18 (43.90%) JUnit
3 17 (41.46%) Mockito
4 11 (26.83%) Git
4 11 (26.83%) Maven
5 9 (21.95%) JMeter
6 3 (7.32%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.32%) GitLab
6 3 (7.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 16 (39.02%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.51%) Finance
3 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Aviation
5 2 (4.88%) Health Technology
5 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.44%) Advertising
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (65.85%) REST
1 27 (65.85%) Spring
2 26 (63.41%) Spring Boot
3 15 (36.59%) Web Services
4 13 (31.71%) React
5 12 (29.27%) Apache Camel
6 11 (26.83%) Hibernate
7 10 (24.39%) AngularJS
7 10 (24.39%) HTML
7 10 (24.39%) JSON
7 10 (24.39%) Node.js
7 10 (24.39%) XML
8 9 (21.95%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (21.95%) jQuery
8 9 (21.95%) WireMock
9 7 (17.07%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (9.76%) Kafka
10 4 (9.76%) Mustache
11 3 (7.32%) Gherkin
11 3 (7.32%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.63%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (9.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (75.61%) Agile
3 30 (73.17%) Microservices
4 27 (65.85%) TDD
5 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
6 22 (53.66%) SDLC
7 16 (39.02%) Scrum
8 14 (34.15%) BDD
9 13 (31.71%) DevOps
10 12 (29.27%) Process Management
10 12 (29.27%) Workflow
11 9 (21.95%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (17.07%) Unit Testing
14 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
14 6 (14.63%) SOA
15 5 (12.20%) Clean Code
15 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
15 5 (12.20%) Kanban
16 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (58.54%) JavaScript
3 11 (26.83%) SQL
4 9 (21.95%) Bash
4 9 (21.95%) Python
4 9 (21.95%) Shell Script
5 8 (19.51%) PL/SQL
6 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
7 4 (9.76%) C
7 4 (9.76%) R
8 3 (7.32%) Groovy
9 2 (4.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
System Software
1 27 (65.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.95%) Kibana
3 7 (17.07%) Ansible
4 3 (7.32%) HP Fortify
4 3 (7.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Dynatrace
1 9 (21.95%) Oracle
1 9 (21.95%) Splunk
2 3 (7.32%) Pega
2 3 (7.32%) WSO2