Java Job Trends in Bridgend

Java
South Wales > Bridgend

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bridgend requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Bridgend 1.49% - 4.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% - 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.57%
75th Percentile £47,500 - £66,250
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £70,079 £46,154 £55,000
% change year-on-year +51.84% -16.08% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Bridgend

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bridgend.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8 2 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bridgend 11.94% 12.50% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 40
10th Percentile - £30,125 £35,195
25th Percentile - £30,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -27.50% +33.49%
75th Percentile £49,783 £42,813 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,091 £43,375 £58,375
South Wales median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +8.00% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Bridgend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bridgend.

Java job vacancy trend in Bridgend

Java
Salary Trend in Bridgend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bridgend citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bridgend 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes