Java Jobs in Cardiff

Java
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 20 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 5 46 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.76% 6.97% 4.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.47% 19.91% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4 45 25
10th Percentile £39,285 - £38,100
25th Percentile £41,962 £42,750 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,174 £55,000 £52,991
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +3.79% +5.98%
75th Percentile £75,787 £66,250 £67,750
90th Percentile £76,815 £82,500 £72,500
South Wales median annual salary £47,307 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -13.99% -5.98% +17.00%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 231 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 32.60% 35.00% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 53 218 145
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,043 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £51,528 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.44% +3.06% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Cardiff

Java
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Java in Cardiff

Java
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Cardiff over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Cardiff

Java
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Appium
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) TestNG
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) BDD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform