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 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 488 702
Rank change year-on-year -40 +214 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 57 28 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.098% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.11% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 33 16 18
10th Percentile £65,250 - £31,175
25th Percentile £66,250 £42,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,750 £90,375
UK median annual salary £80,000 £56,250 £83,750
% change year-on-year +42.22% -32.84% +19.64%

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 61,391 25,484 64,972
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 89.06% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 40,427 14,344 47,359
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 14 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 14 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 +13 40 £75,000 +7.14% 6
North West +22 21 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire -45 19 £100,000 - 3
South East -17 10 £72,500 +20.83% 1
West Midlands -17 7 - - 2
Midlands -31 7 - - 2
Scotland -1 3 £72,500 -
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 14 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 57 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 57 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (50.88%) AWS
3 27 (47.37%) Agile
4 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
5 22 (38.60%) Spring Boot
6 21 (36.84%) Docker
6 21 (36.84%) Microservices
6 21 (36.84%) Scrum
7 20 (35.09%) Spring
8 19 (33.33%) JavaScript
9 18 (31.58%) AngularJS
10 17 (29.82%) Jenkins
10 17 (29.82%) SC Cleared
10 17 (29.82%) Security Cleared
10 17 (29.82%) Serverless
10 17 (29.82%) TDD
11 16 (28.07%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (28.07%) DevOps
11 16 (28.07%) Git
11 16 (28.07%) SDLC
12 15 (26.32%) Kubernetes
12 15 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (26.32%) React
12 15 (26.32%) SQL
13 14 (24.56%) REST
14 12 (21.05%) Bash
14 12 (21.05%) Maven
15 11 (19.30%) RESTful
16 10 (17.54%) Amazon EKS

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 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.75%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.88%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Serverless
3 16 (28.07%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (17.54%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (17.54%) Amazon S3
4 10 (17.54%) Azure
5 9 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (8.77%) Apigee
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.51%) GCP
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.75%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.75%) Datadog
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub
10 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.53%) DynamoDB
5 4 (7.02%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.75%) DB2
6 1 (1.75%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (29.82%) Jenkins
2 16 (28.07%) Git
3 12 (21.05%) Maven
4 10 (17.54%) JUnit
5 9 (15.79%) Mockito
6 5 (8.77%) Cypress.io
6 5 (8.77%) GitLab
6 5 (8.77%) JIRA
6 5 (8.77%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.51%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.51%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.51%) JMeter
General
1 16 (28.07%) Finance
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Aviation
3 6 (10.53%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Advertising
5 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (38.60%) Spring Boot
2 20 (35.09%) Spring
3 18 (31.58%) AngularJS
4 15 (26.32%) React
5 14 (24.56%) REST
6 11 (19.30%) RESTful
7 10 (17.54%) Node.js
8 8 (14.04%) HTML
9 7 (12.28%) Kafka
9 7 (12.28%) Mustache
10 6 (10.53%) CSS
10 6 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (8.77%) Gherkin
11 5 (8.77%) Jest
11 5 (8.77%) Web Services
12 4 (7.02%) Vue
13 3 (5.26%) Apache Camel
13 3 (5.26%) Hibernate
14 2 (3.51%) ActiveMQ
14 2 (3.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 27 (47.37%) Agile
3 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
4 21 (36.84%) Microservices
4 21 (36.84%) Scrum
5 17 (29.82%) TDD
6 16 (28.07%) DevOps
6 16 (28.07%) SDLC
7 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
8 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.79%) Unit Testing
9 8 (14.04%) Clean Code
9 8 (14.04%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
11 5 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.77%) Secure Coding
11 5 (8.77%) SOA
11 5 (8.77%) Time Management
11 5 (8.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 15 (26.32%) SQL
4 12 (21.05%) Bash
5 9 (15.79%) PL/SQL
6 8 (14.04%) Python
7 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
8 5 (8.77%) Groovy
9 4 (7.02%) C
9 4 (7.02%) R
10 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) SC Cleared
1 17 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) AWS Certification
2 5 (8.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (8.77%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
System Software
1 21 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) HP Fortify
3 4 (7.02%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Kibana
5 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (5.26%) Pega
3 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.51%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) WSO2