Full-Stack Java Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Java Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 623 752
Rank change year-on-year +6 +129 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 94 32 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.073% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.081% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 63 19 86
10th Percentile £65,000 £42,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £69,375 £44,375 £69,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -31.34% +19.64%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £133,500 £68,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +30.43% -16.36% -9.84%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 84,208 39,316 91,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 89.55% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,431 23,382 67,108
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Java Developer job vacancies in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England +18 90 £80,000 +39.13% 10
UK excluding London -37 53 £75,000 +30.43% 9
London +12 40 £87,500 +52.17% 3
North of England -12 40 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Work from Home +42 27 £70,000 +55.56% 5
North West +12 21 £70,000 - 1
Yorkshire -32 19 £100,000 - 3
South East -25 7 £72,500 +20.83% 2
West Midlands -19 6 - - 2
Midlands -34 6 - - 2
Scotland -3 3 £72,500 -

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 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 featuring Full-Stack Java Developer in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 94 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (36.17%) AWS
3 33 (35.11%) Agile
4 32 (34.04%) React
4 32 (34.04%) SC Cleared
4 32 (34.04%) Security Cleared
5 31 (32.98%) Docker
6 30 (31.91%) CI/CD
6 30 (31.91%) Microservices
6 30 (31.91%) Spring Boot
7 27 (28.72%) Spring
8 25 (26.60%) JavaScript
9 24 (25.53%) REST
10 23 (24.47%) DevOps
10 23 (24.47%) Jenkins
10 23 (24.47%) Kubernetes
10 23 (24.47%) Scrum
11 22 (23.40%) AngularJS
12 21 (22.34%) Git
12 21 (22.34%) TypeScript
13 19 (20.21%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (20.21%) SQL
14 18 (19.15%) SDLC
15 17 (18.09%) Serverless
16 15 (15.96%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (15.96%) RESTful
17 14 (14.89%) Maven
17 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
17 14 (14.89%) TDD

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (6.38%) OpenStack
2 5 (5.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (4.26%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.17%) AWS
2 17 (18.09%) Serverless
3 15 (15.96%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (11.70%) Amazon S3
5 10 (10.64%) Azure
6 9 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (7.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (6.38%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (6.38%) Apigee
10 3 (3.19%) Datadog
11 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.13%) GCP
11 2 (2.13%) GitHub
12 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.06%) ChatGPT
12 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.21%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.57%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.51%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.32%) DB2
6 4 (4.26%) MySQL
6 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.06%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (24.47%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.34%) Git
3 14 (14.89%) Maven
4 9 (9.57%) GitLab
4 9 (9.57%) JIRA
5 7 (7.45%) JUnit
6 6 (6.38%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.38%) Mockito
6 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.26%) Selenium
7 4 (4.26%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.13%) Eclipse
8 2 (2.13%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 23 (24.47%) Finance
2 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.09%) Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.38%) Aviation
6 5 (5.32%) Advertising
7 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.04%) React
2 30 (31.91%) Spring Boot
3 27 (28.72%) Spring
4 24 (25.53%) REST
5 22 (23.40%) AngularJS
6 15 (15.96%) RESTful
7 13 (13.83%) CSS
7 13 (13.83%) HTML
7 13 (13.83%) Node.js
8 10 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (10.64%) Gherkin
8 10 (10.64%) Kafka
9 7 (7.45%) WebSockets
10 6 (6.38%) Jest
10 6 (6.38%) Vue
11 5 (5.32%) Mustache
11 5 (5.32%) Web Services
12 3 (3.19%) Hibernate
12 3 (3.19%) HTML5
12 3 (3.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (35.11%) Agile
3 30 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 30 (31.91%) Microservices
4 23 (24.47%) DevOps
4 23 (24.47%) Scrum
5 18 (19.15%) SDLC
6 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
6 14 (14.89%) TDD
7 12 (12.77%) Unit Testing
8 10 (10.64%) Clean Code
8 10 (10.64%) Containerisation
8 10 (10.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 10 (10.64%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (9.57%) AI
9 9 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.45%) BDD
10 7 (7.45%) Front End Development
10 7 (7.45%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 94 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (26.60%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.34%) TypeScript
4 19 (20.21%) SQL
5 12 (12.77%) Bash
6 8 (8.51%) PL/SQL
7 6 (6.38%) Groovy
7 6 (6.38%) Python
8 4 (4.26%) C
8 4 (4.26%) R
9 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.06%) RPG
Qualifications
1 32 (34.04%) SC Cleared
1 32 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 6 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
System Software
1 31 (32.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.45%) Ansible
3 6 (6.38%) HP Fortify
3 6 (6.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Oracle
2 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.19%) Pega
3 2 (2.13%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.06%) IBM
4 1 (1.06%) WSO2