Developer Jobs in Cardiff

Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Developer salary in Cardiff is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 June 2025.

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

 6 months to
2 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 26 201 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.44% 26.45% 19.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.53% 28.07% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 22 182 75
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £44,063 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59,375 £68,750 £61,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
South Wales median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +15.79% -4.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 179 716 497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.44% 94.21% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 122 618 384
10th Percentile £23,614 £27,925 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,101 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,037 £50,000 £52,746
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -5.21% +0.47%
75th Percentile £63,438 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £42,500 £45,569 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% -4.07% -5.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Cardiff

Developer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Cardiff.

Salary trend for Developer in Cardiff

Developer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in Cardiff

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 2 June 2025, 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 across the Cardiff region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 17 (65.38%) HTML
1 17 (65.38%) JavaScript
2 15 (57.69%) Git
3 12 (46.15%) CMS
3 12 (46.15%) Vue
3 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 11 (42.31%) PHP
4 11 (42.31%) Agile
5 9 (34.62%) Symfony
5 9 (34.62%) MySQL
5 9 (34.62%) Sass
5 9 (34.62%) Mentoring
5 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (30.77%) Docker
6 8 (30.77%) webpack
6 8 (30.77%) Legacy Code
6 8 (30.77%) npm
6 8 (30.77%) CSS
7 7 (26.92%) Web Development
7 7 (26.92%) Microservices
8 6 (23.08%) Grunt
8 6 (23.08%) Serverless
8 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (23.08%) Azure
8 6 (23.08%) AWS
9 5 (19.23%) CakePHP
9 5 (19.23%) Node.js
9 5 (19.23%) TDD
9 5 (19.23%) B2B
9 5 (19.23%) CRM

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 12 (46.15%) CMS
2 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 3 (11.54%) Headless CMS
2 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) npm
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Serverless
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.54%) Contentful
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.54%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 15 (57.69%) Git
2 8 (30.77%) webpack
3 6 (23.08%) Grunt
4 4 (15.38%) JIRA
5 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.85%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Retail
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Games
5 1 (3.85%) iGaming
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) HTML
2 12 (46.15%) Vue
3 9 (34.62%) Sass
3 9 (34.62%) Symfony
4 8 (30.77%) CSS
5 5 (19.23%) CakePHP
5 5 (19.23%) Doctrine
5 5 (19.23%) Node.js
5 5 (19.23%) Pyjs
6 4 (15.38%) .NET
6 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
6 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
6 4 (15.38%) React
6 4 (15.38%) REST
7 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
7 3 (11.54%) Express.js
7 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
7 3 (11.54%) hapi
7 3 (11.54%) OpenLayers
7 3 (11.54%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Legacy Code
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (34.62%) Mentoring
3 7 (26.92%) Microservices
3 7 (26.92%) Web Development
4 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (19.23%) B2B
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) CRM
5 5 (19.23%) OO
5 5 (19.23%) OO PHP
5 5 (19.23%) TDD
6 4 (15.38%) Coaching
6 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Mobile Application Development
7 3 (11.54%) SOLID
7 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (11.54%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) JavaScript
2 11 (42.31%) PHP
3 5 (19.23%) C#
3 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Python
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Atlassian
2 3 (11.54%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
277 Developer jobs in Cardiff