Full-Stack Java Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Java Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 374 447
Rank change year-on-year +67 +73 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 29 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.12% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.13% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £389 £394 £453
25th Percentile £433 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £479 £477
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% +0.37% +1.54%
75th Percentile £563 £500 £503
90th Percentile £588 £579 £545
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £610
% change year-on-year +10.53% -22.07% +5.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +31 15 £550 +37.50% 1
North West - 10 £575 - 1
Yorkshire +11 6 £525 +31.25%
Scotland +6 6 £441 -10.55% 3
South West - 3 £441 - 1
South East +43 2 £465 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £364 -
East Midlands - 1 £402 - 1
Midlands - 1 £402 - 2
Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Full-Stack Java Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Java
1 29 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (55.17%) Spring
3 13 (44.83%) React
3 13 (44.83%) Microservices
4 12 (41.38%) Spring Boot
4 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
5 11 (37.93%) Node.js
6 10 (34.48%) AWS
7 9 (31.03%) Docker
8 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
8 8 (27.59%) Agile
9 7 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
9 7 (24.14%) Virgin Media
10 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
10 6 (20.69%) Azure
11 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
11 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
11 5 (17.24%) CSS
11 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
11 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
11 5 (17.24%) Camunda
11 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
11 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Programming
11 5 (17.24%) Terraform
12 4 (13.79%) Jest
12 4 (13.79%) Front End Development
12 4 (13.79%) Social Skills

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) Camunda
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.90%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) MySQL
4 2 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.90%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) Spring
2 13 (44.83%) React
3 12 (41.38%) Spring Boot
4 11 (37.93%) Node.js
5 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
6 5 (17.24%) CSS
7 4 (13.79%) Jest
7 4 (13.79%) RESTful
8 3 (10.34%) HTML
9 2 (6.90%) Apache Avro
9 2 (6.90%) Express.js
9 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
9 2 (6.90%) JSON
9 2 (6.90%) Kafka
9 2 (6.90%) OAuth
9 2 (6.90%) REST
9 2 (6.90%) SOAP
9 2 (6.90%) Web Services
9 2 (6.90%) XML
10 1 (3.45%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.90%) Derivative
1 2 (6.90%) Equities
1 2 (6.90%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (44.83%) Microservices
3 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
4 8 (27.59%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven
6 5 (17.24%) Event-Driven Programming
6 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
7 4 (13.79%) BDD
7 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (13.79%) Front End Development
7 4 (13.79%) SDLC
7 4 (13.79%) TDD
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.34%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 3 (10.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.90%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Virgin Media
2 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk