Full-Stack Java Developer Jobs

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Java Developer salary in the UK is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 659 760 894
Rank change year-on-year +101 +134 +110
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 33 136 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.14% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.15% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 18 90 87
10th Percentile £42,500 £57,250 £51,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £67,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £65,750 - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -16.13% +14.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

Full-Stack Java Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer.

Salary trend for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Top 13 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +192 30 £55,000 -15.38% 9
England +91 30 £56,250 -31.82% 10
South East +104 15 £60,000 -17.24% 2
London +25 13 £57,500 -36.11% 5
Work from Home +147 7 £45,000 -50.00% 11
South West +111 5 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Midlands +85 5 £45,000 +32.35% 2
East Midlands +52 4 £45,000 +32.35% 1
Scotland +113 3 - - 3
North of England +85 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +77 2 - -
East of England - 2 £55,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £47,500 - 1

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Java Developer 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 permanent job ads featuring Full-Stack Java Developer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Java
1 33 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (78.79%) Agile
3 25 (75.76%) AWS
4 22 (66.67%) Spring
5 17 (51.52%) React
6 16 (48.48%) Spring Boot
6 16 (48.48%) REST
7 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
7 14 (42.42%) Microservices
7 14 (42.42%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (42.42%) JavaScript
8 13 (39.39%) Git
8 13 (39.39%) Docker
9 12 (36.36%) TDD
9 12 (36.36%) Web Services
9 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
10 11 (33.33%) Azure
10 11 (33.33%) AngularJS
10 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
11 10 (30.30%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (27.27%) Serverless
12 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (27.27%) JUnit
13 8 (24.24%) HTML
13 8 (24.24%) Hibernate
13 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (24.24%) Relational Database
13 8 (24.24%) Vue
14 7 (21.21%) SDLC

Full-Stack Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
1 3 (9.09%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Azure
3 9 (27.27%) Serverless
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.09%) AWS KMS
8 2 (6.06%) GCP
8 2 (6.06%) SaaS
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (3.03%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (24.24%) Relational Database
3 5 (15.15%) MySQL
4 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.06%) MariaDB
6 2 (6.06%) Redis
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Git
2 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (27.27%) JUnit
4 7 (21.21%) Mockito
5 5 (15.15%) Maven
6 4 (12.12%) JIRA
6 4 (12.12%) JMeter
7 3 (9.09%) DbUnit
7 3 (9.09%) jMock
7 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (6.06%) Eclipse
8 2 (6.06%) GitLab
8 2 (6.06%) Gradle
8 2 (6.06%) Mocha
8 2 (6.06%) Selenium
8 2 (6.06%) Subversion
General
1 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (66.67%) Spring
2 17 (51.52%) React
3 16 (48.48%) REST
3 16 (48.48%) Spring Boot
4 12 (36.36%) Web Services
5 11 (33.33%) AngularJS
6 8 (24.24%) Hibernate
6 8 (24.24%) HTML
6 8 (24.24%) Vue
7 7 (21.21%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (21.21%) Node.js
7 7 (21.21%) SOAP
8 6 (18.18%) XML
9 5 (15.15%) CSS
9 5 (15.15%) Kafka
9 5 (15.15%) RESTful
10 4 (12.12%) Apache Camel
10 4 (12.12%) JPA
10 4 (12.12%) jQuery
10 4 (12.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (15.15%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Android
1 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (78.79%) Agile
3 14 (42.42%) Microservices
4 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 12 (36.36%) TDD
5 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.21%) BDD
6 7 (21.21%) SDLC
7 6 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 6 (18.18%) Scrum
8 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
9 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (12.12%) Fintech
9 4 (12.12%) Process Management
9 4 (12.12%) Web Development
9 4 (12.12%) Workflow
10 3 (9.09%) Biometrics
10 3 (9.09%) DevOps
10 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (42.42%) JavaScript
3 6 (18.18%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Kibana
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Dynatrace
1 5 (15.15%) Splunk
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle