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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 466 674
Rank change year-on-year -31 +208 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 49 25 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.096% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.11% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 15
10th Percentile £65,000 £42,500 £31,100
25th Percentile £66,250 £45,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -9.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £64,375 £85,000
90th Percentile - £69,250 £89,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +39.13% -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 52,459 23,198 59,824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 89.41% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33,563 14,472 44,559
10th Percentile £28,320 £29,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,536 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -22 34 £70,000 - 6
North West - 21 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire -33 13 £75,000 - 2
South East -31 10 £80,000 +33.33% 1
Midlands -24 6 - -
West Midlands - 6 - -
Scotland -32 1 - - 1
South West -40 1 £65,000 +23.81%
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 31 March 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 49 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (65.31%) AWS
3 29 (59.18%) Agile
4 27 (55.10%) Spring Boot
5 26 (53.06%) Microservices
6 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
7 23 (46.94%) Docker
7 23 (46.94%) JavaScript
7 23 (46.94%) Spring
8 22 (44.90%) REST
8 22 (44.90%) TDD
9 21 (42.86%) Jenkins
9 21 (42.86%) Serverless
10 20 (40.82%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (40.82%) Scrum
11 19 (38.78%) DevOps
11 19 (38.78%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (36.73%) AngularJS
12 18 (36.73%) Git
12 18 (36.73%) Kubernetes
12 18 (36.73%) SDLC
13 15 (30.61%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (28.57%) React
14 14 (28.57%) Relational Database
14 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
15 13 (26.53%) Node.js
15 13 (26.53%) SQL
16 12 (24.49%) Azure
17 11 (22.45%) JUnit

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 8 (16.33%) OpenStack
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.04%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) AWS
2 21 (42.86%) Serverless
3 20 (40.82%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (30.61%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (24.49%) Azure
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
7 7 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (10.20%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (8.16%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (8.16%) Apigee
11 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.08%) GCP
12 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (2.04%) ChatGPT
12 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.78%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 6 (12.24%) NoSQL
4 5 (10.20%) DynamoDB
4 5 (10.20%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.12%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.04%) DB2
6 1 (2.04%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 21 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 18 (36.73%) Git
3 11 (22.45%) JUnit
4 10 (20.41%) Maven
4 10 (20.41%) Mockito
5 4 (8.16%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.16%) GitLab
5 4 (8.16%) JIRA
5 4 (8.16%) JMeter
5 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.08%) Eclipse
6 2 (4.08%) IntelliJ
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Advertising
6 2 (4.08%) Aviation
6 2 (4.08%) Health Technology
6 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (55.10%) Spring Boot
2 23 (46.94%) Spring
3 22 (44.90%) REST
4 18 (36.73%) AngularJS
5 14 (28.57%) React
6 13 (26.53%) Node.js
7 11 (22.45%) Web Services
8 10 (20.41%) HTML
9 8 (16.33%) Apache Camel
9 8 (16.33%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (12.24%) CSS
10 6 (12.24%) Kafka
10 6 (12.24%) RESTful
11 5 (10.20%) JSON
11 5 (10.20%) XML
12 4 (8.16%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (8.16%) Gherkin
12 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
12 4 (8.16%) jQuery
12 4 (8.16%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (59.18%) Agile
3 26 (53.06%) Microservices
4 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
5 22 (44.90%) TDD
6 20 (40.82%) Scrum
7 19 (38.78%) DevOps
8 18 (36.73%) SDLC
9 10 (20.41%) BDD
10 9 (18.37%) Workflow
11 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.33%) Process Management
12 7 (14.29%) Clean Code
12 7 (14.29%) Unit Testing
13 6 (12.24%) Kanban
13 6 (12.24%) Sprint Planning
14 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
14 5 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
14 5 (10.20%) SOA
15 4 (8.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (46.94%) JavaScript
3 13 (26.53%) SQL
4 9 (18.37%) Bash
5 8 (16.33%) PL/SQL
5 8 (16.33%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.20%) Python
7 4 (8.16%) C
7 4 (8.16%) Groovy
7 4 (8.16%) R
7 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.08%) Go
9 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.16%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
System Software
1 23 (46.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.33%) Ansible
3 4 (8.16%) HP Fortify
3 4 (8.16%) Kibana
3 4 (8.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Pega
3 4 (8.16%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.16%) Splunk
3 4 (8.16%) WSO2