Full-Stack Java Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Java Developer salary in the UK is £132,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 689 627
Rank change year-on-year +111 -62 +314
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 73 35 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.061% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.065% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 31 12 59
10th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £83,750 £53,438 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £132,500 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% -20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £136,250 £70,000 £91,250
90th Percentile - £80,800 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% -15.79% +9.62%

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 52,799 53,782 46,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 93.79% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,457 29,075 36,182
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Top 12 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 16 December 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
England +124 69 £132,500 +120.83% 9
London +78 52 £132,500 +89.29% 4
UK excluding London +66 33 £65,000 +8.33% 8
South East +36 18 £62,500 +4.17% 5
North of England - 11 £70,000 - 3
Work from Home +83 9 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Yorkshire - 7 £72,500 - 1
Midlands - 4 - -
North West - 4 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands - 4 - -
Scotland +4 2 - -
South West - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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 73 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 73 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (65.75%) AWS
2 48 (65.75%) REST
3 45 (61.64%) Spring
4 40 (54.79%) Microservices
5 37 (50.68%) JavaScript
5 37 (50.68%) React
6 36 (49.32%) Agile
6 36 (49.32%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (45.21%) Docker
7 33 (45.21%) Kubernetes
7 33 (45.21%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (45.21%) Relational Database
8 32 (43.84%) CI/CD
9 31 (42.47%) Jenkins
9 31 (42.47%) TDD
10 30 (41.10%) Spring Boot
11 26 (35.62%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (35.62%) Serverless
12 25 (34.25%) BDD
12 25 (34.25%) RDBMS
13 24 (32.88%) TypeScript
14 23 (31.51%) SDLC
15 22 (30.14%) Web Services
16 20 (27.40%) HTML
16 20 (27.40%) JUnit
17 19 (26.03%) Mockito
18 18 (24.66%) AngularJS
18 18 (24.66%) Apache Camel

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 8 (10.96%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (65.75%) AWS
2 36 (49.32%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (35.62%) Amazon ECS
3 26 (35.62%) Serverless
4 15 (20.55%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (10.96%) Azure
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.74%) GitHub
7 2 (2.74%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (45.21%) PostgreSQL
1 33 (45.21%) Relational Database
2 25 (34.25%) RDBMS
3 10 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.85%) DB2
4 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (42.47%) Jenkins
2 20 (27.40%) JUnit
3 19 (26.03%) Mockito
4 15 (20.55%) JMeter
5 13 (17.81%) Git
6 5 (6.85%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.85%) Selenium
6 5 (6.85%) TeamCity
7 4 (5.48%) Maven
8 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
8 3 (4.11%) JIRA
9 1 (1.37%) webpack
General
1 22 (30.14%) Banking
1 22 (30.14%) Public Sector
2 20 (27.40%) Finance
3 17 (23.29%) Investment Banking
3 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.07%) Front Office
6 2 (2.74%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.74%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (65.75%) REST
2 45 (61.64%) Spring
3 37 (50.68%) React
4 30 (41.10%) Spring Boot
5 22 (30.14%) Web Services
6 20 (27.40%) HTML
7 18 (24.66%) AngularJS
7 18 (24.66%) Apache Camel
7 18 (24.66%) Hibernate
8 17 (23.29%) JSON
8 17 (23.29%) WebSockets
8 17 (23.29%) XML
9 15 (20.55%) ActiveMQ
9 15 (20.55%) jQuery
9 15 (20.55%) Kafka
9 15 (20.55%) Node.js
9 15 (20.55%) WireMock
10 13 (17.81%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (15.07%) GraphQL
12 9 (12.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.51%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (20.55%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (13.70%) Hedge funds
3 10 (13.70%) Management Information System
3 10 (13.70%) Reference Data
4 5 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 40 (54.79%) Microservices
3 36 (49.32%) Agile
4 32 (43.84%) CI/CD
5 31 (42.47%) TDD
6 25 (34.25%) BDD
7 23 (31.51%) SDLC
8 18 (24.66%) Process Management
8 18 (24.66%) Workflow
9 16 (21.92%) Scrum
9 16 (21.92%) Test Automation
10 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (17.81%) DevOps
12 10 (13.70%) Customer Requirements
12 10 (13.70%) Storage Management
13 8 (10.96%) Kanban
14 7 (9.59%) Design Patterns
14 7 (9.59%) Sprint Planning
15 5 (6.85%) Dynamic Code Analysis
15 5 (6.85%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (50.68%) JavaScript
3 24 (32.88%) TypeScript
4 16 (21.92%) Python
5 15 (20.55%) Shell Script
6 12 (16.44%) SQL
7 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.74%) Bash
8 2 (2.74%) Go
9 1 (1.37%) C#
9 1 (1.37%) RPG
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 33 (45.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (45.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (20.55%) Kibana
3 8 (10.96%) Ansible
4 3 (4.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) Dynatrace
1 15 (20.55%) Splunk
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.11%) Pega
3 3 (4.11%) WSO2
4 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.37%) IBM