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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 503 730
Rank change year-on-year -11 +227 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 67 36 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.12% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 44 14 16
10th Percentile £65,375 - £43,000
25th Percentile £69,688 £42,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -13.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +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 62,756 26,244 73,201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 89.12% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 14,181 52,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,310 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,325
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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +9 42 £75,000 +7.14% 5
Yorkshire -22 22 £80,000 - 2
North West +27 20 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands -17 9 - -
Midlands -19 9 - - 2
South East -25 7 £72,500 -14.71% 2
South West -50 4 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland +6 3 £72,500 - 2
Wales - 2 £70,000 - 1
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 11 June 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 67 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (50.75%) AWS
3 26 (38.81%) Agile
4 24 (35.82%) AngularJS
5 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
6 20 (29.85%) Docker
7 19 (28.36%) Microservices
7 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
7 19 (28.36%) Scrum
7 19 (28.36%) Security Cleared
8 18 (26.87%) Spring
8 18 (26.87%) Spring Boot
9 17 (25.37%) SQL
10 16 (23.88%) JavaScript
11 15 (22.39%) Jenkins
11 15 (22.39%) Serverless
11 15 (22.39%) TDD
12 14 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (20.90%) Bash
12 14 (20.90%) DevOps
12 14 (20.90%) Kubernetes
12 14 (20.90%) Maven
12 14 (20.90%) React
12 14 (20.90%) SDLC
13 13 (19.40%) Azure
13 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
14 12 (17.91%) Containerisation
14 12 (17.91%) Oracle
14 12 (17.91%) RESTful

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 (8.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.99%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.49%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.75%) AWS
2 15 (22.39%) Serverless
3 14 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (19.40%) Azure
5 10 (14.93%) Amazon S3
5 10 (14.93%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (13.43%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (13.43%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (7.46%) Apigee
8 3 (4.48%) GCP
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.49%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.49%) GitHub
10 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.97%) MySQL
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.49%) Db2
4 1 (1.49%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.90%) Maven
3 11 (16.42%) Git
3 11 (16.42%) JUnit
3 11 (16.42%) Mockito
4 5 (7.46%) Cypress.io
4 5 (7.46%) GitLab
4 5 (7.46%) JIRA
4 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.99%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.99%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.99%) JMeter
General
1 19 (28.36%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Aviation
3 6 (8.96%) Banking
4 5 (7.46%) Advertising
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.82%) AngularJS
2 18 (26.87%) Spring
2 18 (26.87%) Spring Boot
3 14 (20.90%) React
4 12 (17.91%) RESTful
5 10 (14.93%) REST
6 8 (11.94%) Gherkin
6 8 (11.94%) HTML
7 6 (8.96%) CSS
8 5 (7.46%) Jest
8 5 (7.46%) Node.js
9 4 (5.97%) Vue
10 3 (4.48%) Apache Camel
10 3 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.48%) Kafka
10 3 (4.48%) Mustache
11 2 (2.99%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (2.99%) jQuery
11 2 (2.99%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (38.81%) Agile
3 23 (34.33%) CI/CD
4 19 (28.36%) Microservices
4 19 (28.36%) Scrum
5 15 (22.39%) TDD
6 14 (20.90%) DevOps
6 14 (20.90%) SDLC
7 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
8 12 (17.91%) Containerisation
9 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.93%) Unit Testing
11 9 (13.43%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (11.94%) Clean Code
13 7 (10.45%) Mentoring
14 6 (8.96%) AI
14 6 (8.96%) Emotional Intelligence
14 6 (8.96%) SOA
14 6 (8.96%) Time Management
15 5 (7.46%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (25.37%) SQL
3 16 (23.88%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.90%) Bash
5 11 (16.42%) PL/SQL
6 8 (11.94%) Groovy
6 8 (11.94%) Python
7 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.97%) C
8 4 (5.97%) R
9 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
1 19 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (7.46%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) QA
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Kibana
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Oracle
2 3 (4.48%) Pega
3 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.99%) Splunk
4 1 (1.49%) WSO2